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I mostly used this for terraria art, but I do want to get into pixel art, so this looks really useful!
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Congratulations great job !! Sent you to add your work in my group, thank you: game-art-pixel.deviantart.com/
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Here's mine:
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Thanks for the tutorial!
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I love your tutorials! It helped me make thisΒ adryannegorden.deviantart.com/β¦
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Sweet, I hope you'll continue with making these tutorials it's very helpful.
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I definitely will make more of these.
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I can also make a cake with this tutorial!
Thank you for sharing!
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Circle tool? Decrease height? Duplicate and erase top of the copy. Done, much simpler? xD
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Yeah, also a way to do it.
But what if you don't have circle tool...
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Then you need to upgrade your software 
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Paint's circle tool makes wrong circles sometimes. Manually made, they're neater. Maybe some special pixel art software has this problem solved, I dunno.
Sorry for gravedigging an old comment
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Yes it does, even MS Paint from windows 95 had it.
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Some programs indeed have a circle tool but I wanted to make it a bit more general so that all could do it. Also circle tools I think won't let you make isometric circles.
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Oh, it looks great and easy when you know how to do it!
Thank you for taking my suggestion for this tutorial, it's very helpful.
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Thank you for your suggestion, I hope it helps a bit.
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It already did! Thank you so much, it was very helpful!
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Looking at the stats it seems that you weren't the only one who wanted to see this tutorial. So I thank you for a good suggestion.
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Hehe, you are very welcome! As a newbie I was having so much trouble managing to make it and I couldn't find a single tutorial that explained it! Since your tutorials are so great I thought it made sense xP
I'm glad it could also help more people!
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you can use some simple math to make sure the measurements are right. For example, in steps one and two, the vertical lines are 29 pixels but the diagonal lines are eyeballed. Using the pythagorean theorum we find that the horizontal and vertical distance of the diagonal lines should be twice the square root of the vertical lines. So in this case, if the vertical lines are 29, the square root of 29 is 5.38... and twice that is 10.77... this proves that the 11 pixel distance you picked is the closest to a perfect circle you can do within the limited pixel range selected.
You can also use a variation on steps 1 through 4 to find the isometric circle directly. in a true isometric projection (very little pixel art claiming to be isometric is actually true isometric) the x, y, and z axis should be drawn a perfect 120 degrees from each other (hence the name isometric, meaning equal measure.) this means that any flat symmetrical object (like a round table top) will have a vertical distance 58% of its horizontal distance (the actual ratio is 1 to 1 over the square root of 3.) So if we take your diagram in the first part of the tutorial and "squish" it vertically to 58% we will get an isometric circle.
So: the horizontal distances stay the same. the vertical line squishes from 29 to 17, and the diagonal lines will squish vertically from 11 to 6 (remember, the diagonal lines are still 11 horiontally) this will give you an isometric guide from which to draw your circle.
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Or we can simply multply the radius by 0,7 ( = Cosinus of 45Β°) ^^
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Yeah, it's a good way to measure things and never go wrong with it. It's actually quite simple if you think about it as it's just a circle and it is easy to find values for a circle. However, I think that most people don't think about it like this as it might be too complicated. In this tutorial I calculated the first lines to be 29 pixels and 11 pixels but everything else I just draw as I thought would be good. But I do feel that it's good enough for general pixel art because it's important that it would look somewhat right to the eye. It doesn't have to be pixel perfect.
But you have a good way to calculate circles.
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The circle tutorial is so simple and yet so perfect and helpful! I'd never have figured that out. Thank you!
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I'm glad you like it.
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Thank you so much! I have troubles with round objects and now it gets clearer and easier:33
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