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ClefairyKid β Pixel Tutorial: Beach Background
Published: 2012-07-09 10:06:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 18425; Favourites: 443; Downloads: 0
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THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR YOU TO LEARN FROM, NOT TO COPY OR TRACE OVER PIXEL BY PIXEL.Base of the doll featured at the end: JuliePM.deviantart.com/art/Heyβ¦
Base of surfboard is a QBee.com exclusive
This is a tutorial that shows how I made my beach background for my Beach Baby Doll. It's got a lot
of ideas that can be used for other beach and waterscape scenes, such as the kind of hues for the
water and the sky and when to dither and when to AA. It is NOT an explanation of colour picking,
dithering or AA themselves, but involves those things. Watch out for tutorials in the future for those
Β things specifically, I simply can't cover them all in one tutorial
Does require the user to have small, basic knowledge of terminology such as "dithering", "AA" and "hue". Therefore I would recommend this for intermediate difficulty and above.
Tools: PS CS4, Pjuk Hand Pixel Font , Pjuk Simple Pixel Font
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I'd suggest just keep having a go at large gradients, I did a lot of them before deciding on a process that seemed to work for me, it certainly wasn't overnight xD
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thanks for the advice! ^^//
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you're welcome c:
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Nice job, but it's hard for me using Gimp and Paint.
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Pixel art is the same no matter which program you use, they are all hand placed pixels.
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Oh, I can see it now.
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hey where's the background for this tutorial?It's perfect for this animation im making.
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Umm.. it's my artwork, it's not for you to go cutting up into pieces for your own art, it's actually a tutorial to learn to make backgrounds on your own. Please don't steal my work.
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oh ok.I was just wondering because i can't find any beach sprites at all.
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This is really good and I could never do it exactly like you haha! I used it to help me with this, just with my own style and spin on it: [link]
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Glad you liked it c: Nice work C:
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thanks for the great tutorial
backgrounds are a weak area of mine
but my first try isn't too bad [link]
thank youss
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Maybe try varying the angle of the ocean itself, since that same one isn't always right for every perspective, but I looove how the sky is going, awesome work C:
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Thank you~
Yeah the beach did look a little weird, thanks for the advice!
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Wow! It really takes a lot of patience to execute this properly, doesn't it? 
This really helped me with the background for [link] Thanks!
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It does, but it's worth it C:
Oh you mean in picking the colours?
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I meant the whole thing (doing the sky, the ocean, etc.)
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Oh I see, because I couldn't see dithering, so I wasn't sure if meant colour picking or if my eyes are really bugging out (which they do from strain sometimes haha )
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I just used the tut for the ocean/sand.
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Those waves look like PMD2 (when the Krabby blows the bubbles at the beach) lol..did you draw them?
Thanks, though the only thing I was interested to learn from was the dithering effect.
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Uh I don't rip sprites if that's what you mean? 
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ik i just said it looks like the waves from PMD2 when the krabby blows bubbles
Yeah I didn't know there was AA in Pixel art D:
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Manually placed, not autmatic yeah c:
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coool will have to give this a go. thanks hun
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Glad you like it, comment with a link to something if you do give it a try, I'd love to see c:
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This is SO MUCH helpful!^^ I actually used only the sky part, because in what I'm going to do does not... well, include sand and water. ._. the only term I don't understand is "AA". =_= If it's not hard to you, could you please clear it up?
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I know, that's why I wrote in the description "can be used for things with sand OR water OR sky" and why I wrote "It is NOT an explanation of colour picking, dithering or AA themselves, but involves those things. Watch out for tutorials in the future for those things specifically, I simply can't cover them all in one tutorial"
Please try and bare with me, I WILL do my best to write a tutorial for each aspect but at the time, it was easiest to make a beach/sky one because that's what I'd just worked on
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Oh, I don't need another tutorial, actually. This one was pretty much helpful itself.
Thanks to your tut, I made this: [link]
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WOWOWOWOW I LOVE IT!!!
That's awesome, I made a new folder so I can fav things people make with my tuts etc, 
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Wow, thank you!^^ And of course I will. 
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You don't have to, but you can if you like, it might help others who want to make a sky like that find out how to do so 
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I'll put a link in the description .u.
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Hehe that makes me really happy that it might have helped someone learn something new
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useful! I've always found beaches and so avoided drawing them. I might try now
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Aw that's great, I'm glad I made it seem less intimidating for you c: I don't know where the idea to do a beach scene came from, the only thing I actively avoid is human faces/figures and I'm trying to fix that a little with learning to doll
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yeah I know what you mean. I avoid furniture. the irony is practice makes perfect
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That is big helpful, I know how to draw beach by MS paint now
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Aw, I'm glad to hear it helped
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I have no idea, I've only ever made on tutorial before and it was for photo-editing
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I think this tutorial is nice - as I said before. Now I'm waiting for a dolling tutorial.
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Haha, who me? Miss only ever made two dolls ever?
We will see
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B-b-but your dithering style is awesome for a person who had ever dolling for twice.
Umm.....I'm waiting on it.
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