Pixel art thread

building and dragon with mountains

reading this article on pixel art which is very well written. How to start making pixel art #1. An absolute beginner’s guide | by Pedro Medeiros | Pixel Grimoire | Medium

This is heavily inspired by an image in that tutorial. I try to copy a bit just to understand the process.

I find shadows and light SO insanely difficult. Like how do you shade mountains? I’m not able to think it through in my head, so I guess my best bet is to learn from other images.

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moon and landscape

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The sky is dynamic. Cool image

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love this…the sky is really cool, I agree.

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Ty! I’m pretty happy with the colors in the last one. I went a bit too crazy in the first. Fun though.

In the first one, the sky and ground/castle has almost separate color schemes. Works by themselves, but looks too much together, looking at it now.

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trees and more trees

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Practising trees, it’s hard to get right.

tree practice

v2

tree practice

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Hey @magz what app do you use to do this I want to try it

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It’s called Aseprite! Costs 20 USD, but there are free alternatives. I think there are free alternatives mentioned in the guide in the first post.

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Please post if you make something, I would love to see.

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Yeah! I have no money right now I may look for a free alternative later. Haven’t worked on my laptop for ages

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really nice. v2 is really great.

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tree test

shading is hard…

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v2

tree test

full

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You are getting good. :ok_hand::ok_hand::ok_hand:

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That’s awesome lol

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those are all really cool =)
keep going at it =D

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@GrayBear @FreeLunch @lekkerhondje thanks for the encouragement.

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You should focus on one thing 3d or pixel art

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