I'm stuck at 3:30, when I do the grey colour thing, the pixels don't appear, I followed instructions precisely so I don't really know how to proceed, can you help me figure it out?
I've been doing graphic design for 11 years, and I was contacted by a client last week to do some pixel art work, and I literally had to create stuff then use the pixelate filter on Photoshop. This video of yours is a goldmine !!
@@lieutenantlouie Doing it yourself will ultimately give the better result, you have all the control of how it turns out which you don't have using a filter.
I'm a professional graphic designer and I've always wanted to get into using pixel art in my work but I couldn't find a workflow that I found simple enough to use efficiently so this is such a treasure.
Just use specialised programs, they make your life easier. Aseprite only cost 15$ and include both "colour palette" and animation tools so you're sure to meet the low colour-count limitations, while you can still use layers and oinion-skin method to animate. GraphicGale also include tools for tilesets, it's less beginner-friendly but should be no problem for a professional
Non graphic designers / illustrators won't understand the treasure this video actually is. Straight to the point, spot on, so efficient, so professional. It's the ultimate pixel art photoshop workflow
Good to remember that in traditional pixel art, it isn't just a matter of lower resolution, there usually a very limited color pallet to keep in mind as well. Older game consoles could only display so many colors and one had to be reserved as transparent.
And‽ they did it out of necessity not some artistic choice. Glad modern pixel games aren't listening to you so they actually have the opportunity to look good and modern.
@@bogdweller27 ...Wow that came out of nowhere. I mentioned that pixel count limitation, I was just adding that older games have a color palette limitation as well. That didn't mean he needed to confine himself to that, but some pixel artists do. Sometimes just for the style, sometimes because the software they're working with (some game maker engines) required it. I thought it with mention, since I sometimes use it as a hobbyist pixel artist myself. One of the key pieces of software I use- Aseprite -has various palette selections based on game consoles from the past, just you can achieve that "authentic" look. So I'm not sure why the hostility here?
@@bogdweller27 isn't the point of making pixel art because it's not supposed to look modern also limiting color doesn't make it look bad necessarily, granted that's more of an opinion based thing because a lot of my favorite games are on older consoles and the GBC
I got interested in pixel art after getting invitations of pixel art jobs and seeing lots of job search on it. I think I'm going to try this. This was the first video I saw and was very helpful!
Thank you for this! A teacher tried to teach us pixel art... and I say tried because he missed a lot of things, and it was quite weird to learn and, well, in the end, I basically worked extra to try to achieve a good look. This just makes it so muuuuch easier to understand and now I think "ok, I get it". Excited to try to draw something!
Thx a lot! That’s the first video that finally shows the settings. Most videos skip the first step of setting the canvas and directly show how to create good shapes and shading. You helped me a lot!
This would have been so useful for me a few years ago when I was in a band and had to make giant-sized poster files for gigs and the bands that gave me their logos to work with we're tiny as fuck.. Still super glad to know this though! Back then I used to just recreate their logos best I could, which got me familiarized with the software to some extent, but damn this would have been such a headache relief! xD
My Profs always said: In order to do good pixelart, you need to be able to draw the same thing realisticly and then abstract down from that. Pixelart is easy, good pixel art is hella hard.
Nice toturial and yyou got calm voice. Liked the thing in the end with the size. That was especially helpful. Thank you. Im using the method for creating embroidery patterns. I think it wil work :)
A really useful workflow tool for drawing pixel art is to open up a second window of your art from a different zoom. You can do that through Window>Arrange>New Window for "File Name"
7:00 you can convert the image to be a 'smart object', then you wouldnt lose the quality of the picture even if you zoom in and out repeatedly Right click on the layer preview on the right side, then, on the drop menu just click 'convert to smart object'
Like he said, pixel art wasnt an art style back in the day. The game designers didn't know they were doing something that nowadays is called pixel art. So back in the day, these images were not supposed to be seen from a small distance, because of the restriction of resolution to smoothly paint images. But yes, nowadays you can create these low res images as an intentional art style to be closely seen as such. There is still a difference in terms of technique and looks, i.e. bleeding from the tv screens back in the day vs now
i’ve been wanting to make pixel art for a long time and the average painting apps just wouldn’t work and i recently got an adobe photoshop account (for school) so i can’t wait to start making some pixel art! this tutorial helped so much so thank you so so much!
Thank you so much for this! i recently started doing pixel art in august and have been slowly getting pretty good at pixel art, this will very much ramp up my art skills!
I had a bit of trouble hearing ya using my natural comfortable listening volume... but aside from that, this was a great Vid. :) Is it possible to translate this info to use in GIMP, or are the two Programs too different to each other...?
Good tutorial ^^ the only advice i have is that when you use key Shortcuts or something similar you could blend in the keys :D I think it´s easier for beginner then :)
I'm a software developer who makes games in my free time (when I get any). I'm *far* from an artist -- in fact, lack of artistic ability is usually the reason my hobby projects get abandoned quickly. For a little while, I was trying to practice pixel art using this sort of tracing technique you showed here, but I always felt like that was sort of a cheat since I wasn't starting with the pixel art. It's very nice to know it's a valid, legitimate approach!
This is as much as a "cheat" as using a sketch before drawing the clean lineart on another layer is. It is literally the same thing. Where this shines the most is in animation, if you're more used to the flow of traditional drawings. Draw gestures, use them as a guide, then draw clothes and specific designs and details. Saves tons of headaches
@@torment4723 That's assuming you didn't draw the sketch you're using. You're converting your own design, looking at it for reference purpose just like traditional animators looks at the previous frame to draw the next.
For Games - Depends on what engine. I'm only familiar with Godot and Unity so for both of them you pretty much don't have to do anything besides messing with the image settings (Just look up how to import pixelart in your Game Engine).
if, when scaling with the "nearest neighbor" resampler, the scale is not a multiple of the original one, the "pixels" will be of different sizes, some a little narrower, some a little wider. It is better to either only scale in multiples of the original size, or to a size larger than the target with the "nearest neighbor", and then slightly reduce to the desired size with an anti-aliasing resampler.
Great tutorial! One little thing, please use a DeEsser in your audio since your S-sounds are very pronounced, they get harsh to the ear after a while, other than that, great production
No mention of techniques such as antialiasing, hueshifting or avoiding unintentional jaggies, pillowshading, and banding P bad beginner guide for leaving these techniques out tbh
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