HOME | DD
Piirustus β Pixel Icon Tutorial (2)
Published: 2014-08-03 17:00:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 10737; Favourites: 752; Downloads: 50
Redirect to original
Description
Finished Icon:Tutorials on Anti-aliasing:
fav.me/d3iwd6y
purloux.com/artwork/tutorials/β¦
Feel free to ask any questions!
Also, I'd love to see what you make with this tutorial <33
Other pixeling tutorial:
Related content
Comments: 40
i've never even attempted a pixel icon before but this tutorial helped me make something that turned out half-decent! it's super informative, thanks so much for taking the time to put this together!
π: 0 β©: 0
Question. How do you shrink a pixel like you did at the bottom without majorly making them blurry? ;;
π: 0 β©: 0
Whoever is going to read this comment prepare for a long and painful journey
SO. I've been making random pixels on and of for some time and every time I finished an icon, I wasn't happy with it. I knew SOMETHING was wrong with the icon, but I didn't know WHAT. Well, after looking at this tutorial I realized I was doing. . . literally everything wrong.Β
Firstly, I was just copying the exact colors from my regular sized digital pieces. The colors blended together and I didn't understand what was going wrong. It looked perfect in the digital image, so how come it didn't look right when I made it into a pixel? Well, I didn't understand that sometimes you have to change the colors a bit when making something as micro as a pixel. My fursona that I was trying to pixel had black markings on her. I didn't want the markings to look grey instead of black so I literally had the color for the markings like sliiiiightly lighter then the black outlining. Up close it looked fine, but when zooming out it didn't look good. After looking at this tutorial I realized that I was doing that wrong.Β
The second major thing I was messing up was shading. Before this tutorial I had NO idea what AA was and had never heard of it until now. Looked at the tutorial you linked in the description and that helped me understand what AA was. When I was shading I just used a darker color of the original, which I now realize was wrong. After doing what you said, making the colors actually more greenish ect., I realized that makes or breaks an icon. I also had no idea that you were supposed to shade the lines, I had never heard of that before.Β
SO after looking at this tutorial I realized I was doing a lot of things wrong. After several hours of crying blood while staring at my computer screen, I have created this miniature beast -----> Β
Its still not perfect of course but I'm pretty damn happy with the improvement and I feel pretty content with myself, and I have to say that I have you entirely to thank for that <: I was getting really discouraged and frustrated with the outcomes of my pixels before this, and I knew something was missing but didn't know what. But now you've shown me what I was missing and I just wanted to say that this tutorial was REALLY helpful to me. I just want to thank you so much for making this a thing. Sorry for the novel of a comment haha but I just really wanted to thank you because I was struggling a lot before seeing this LIFE SAVER.Β
I will worship this tutorial and make a shrine for it. A pixel shrine of course.Β
π: 0 β©: 0
i would assume they're using paint tool sai
π: 0 β©: 0
do you keep your canvas 100x100 the whole time until you're done?
or do you resize it to 50x50 right after you sketch it out?
π: 0 β©: 1
i assume resize to 50x50 after youre done with sketchy
π: 0 β©: 0
aa thankyou!! this is super helpful! i made this with itΒ
bro-tato.deviantart.com/art/tyβ¦
i probably shouldnt have used such a dark character haha
π: 0 β©: 0
Ooh, I've been thinking of improving both my AAing and 50 X 50s so thanks for this!
π: 0 β©: 0
IΒ attemptedΒ your tutorial :'D
Β thank you so much for this though it was so informative <3
π: 0 β©: 0
omg thank you for this
but how do you do the head shots like I cant pixel heads if my life counted on it
//trying this now
π: 0 β©: 1
<33
just chop off the body
and make the head bigger
and pixel that ;D
π: 0 β©: 1
:'D why did I never think of that
π: 0 β©: 0
well, i never tried doing it that way!
never thought ofit!
π: 0 β©: 1
what is it that you do differently?Β
π: 0 β©: 1
well, i draw in pixels from the startΒ
instead of doing it big from the begining! >^<
it must be easier the way you say xD
π: 0 β©: 1
You mean you skip the sketching step?Β
π: 0 β©: 1
yes
no wonder pixel art was soo dificult !!!!
π: 0 β©: 1
yeah, sketching really helps <33
π: 0 β©: 1
lol thanks!! i'll sketch first from now on
π: 0 β©: 0
dfhgDHG this tut looks amazing !! : Β ) tysm! <3
π: 0 β©: 1
thank you! i hope it can be helpful <33
π: 0 β©: 1
youre welcome ! : ) im sure it will beee <3
π: 0 β©: 0
<33 I hope it can be useful
π: 0 β©: 0
Thanks! :'D
(btw, you forgot the other : in bananamantis's username in your sig)
π: 0 β©: 1
OH snap! thanks for seeing xD
π: 0 β©: 0
<33 np!
I hope it can be useful
π: 0 β©: 0