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Comments The beginning...
aka how to start with pixel art
After I got a Daily Deviation for How to make a victorian house? I decided to make a tutorial series about pixel art. As always you have to start from the beginning and this is it, tutorial about how to start with pixel art. As some of you don't have a photoshop then I decided to make this tutorial about pixel art and MS Paint. I hope you enjoy it.
Contact If you think that you didn't understand this tutorial fully then you can always send me a note and I will answer to you.
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Vanmall Pixel Art Tutorial Series Guide 
Pixel Art Basics
How to start with pixel art Difference between isometric and non-isometric pixel art How to dither in pixel art How to make shadows and light sources in pixel art How to add textures to pixel art How to make a pixel transparency How to save pixel art How to make round objects in pixel art How to use reference in pixel art How to replace colors easily (MS Paint) Pixel Art Exterior How to make a victorian house? How to make a pixel tree How to make a pixel roof How to make a pixel house 1 How to make a pixel house 2 Pixel Art Interior How to make a pixel bed How to make a pixel chair How to make a pixel table How to make a pixel couch How to make a pixel tile How to make a pixel countertop How to make a pixel refrigerator How to make a pixel bar stool How to make a pixel stove How to make a pixel flowerpot How to make a pixel lamp How to make a pixel nightstand How to make a pixel aquarium How to make a pixel fireplace How to make a pixel cupboard How to make a pixel carpet How to make pixel curtains How to make a pixel kitchen How to make a pixel bedroom How to make a pixel living room Pixel Art Characters How to make a pixel eminem 1 How to make a pixel eminem 2 How to make a small pixel character/sprite Pixel Art Text How to make pixel text Pixel Art Objects How to make a pixel gemstone How to make a pixel flower Pixel Art Premium Basics of Pixel Art Pixel Art Tutorial Series is currently the most popular thing on my page. The idea behind this is to take suggestions from the community and try to make a tutorial out of these things, helping out fellow deviants along the way. You can also find my pixel art tutorials in groups like #TutorialsForYou , #TutorialsClub and #PixelCommunity .
Here is a list of tutorials in my Pixel Art Tutorial Series, tutorials which are underlined and bold are already ready tutorials that you can read, other tutorials without the underline are tutorials that will be posted in deviantART in near future.
You can also suggest new pixel art tutorial series by commenting on my profile page, on these tutorials or by sending me a note.
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Unfortunately since windows 7 it isn't that good anymore.
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Yea, It would be nice if you could zoom up more, and even some randomizing tools, to make Texturing easier. I mainly use MS paint, but sometimes I use Gale.
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I have windows 7 but I managed to get an older paint from somewhere, so I'm using this.
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Don't really remember. A lot of googling.
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Ok then, I might try and have a search for myself
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Very nice tutorial btw. I think this is best list of starting tutorials for pixel art. Want to go through all them. 
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Thank you. I'm already working on something new.
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Microsoft Paint, it's a program.
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Thanks for the tutorial, it really helps.Β
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Thanks for making this tutorial! Could not find a better start to pixel art!
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This is cool! I had a go - my cube's not as good as yours, but meh
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Awww, you think? Thanks 
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Yes, I really think so.
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I make a pixel cube and it came out pretty nice!Β Thanks!
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Thank you very much for this tut. I could finaly get started on pixel art.
I even made somethingΒ lonecheetah.deviantart.com/artβ¦
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Looks good. Keep on doing it and you will be awesome, I'm sure of it.
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thank you so much i've done thatΒ
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Thanks so much for these - relearning my old skills!
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my friends and i want to make a game. its a little awkward being the only girl in the group but anyways i guess im gonna be the pixel artist but i havnt much got a clue how to do it. i mean I've done a little of it but i need a site where i can create a game using pixels and i just cant seem to find one or one that does not cost money! Please help if possible!!!
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Unfortunately I can't really remember any free ones.
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Nice tutorialΒ
Though I have on problem though. I don't have the old ms paint, and I don't know what to do with the new one
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Yeah, the new one isn't that good. If you are interested in making pixel art then I would go with graphicsgale or photoshop.
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Now I can take my first step into pixel art! Thank you for posting this!
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Omg thank you soo much for this!! I really want to start learning pixel art, I just don't know where to begin, this really helped! Thank you~! <3
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nice tutorials, im loving following them so far.
one thing though, what is the best way to change the colour of a line?
i tried paint bucketing them but it only covers one pixel from the line as the line is made of separate pixel boxes due to its size.
i ended up re-drawing the lines entirely with the new colour but this is proving quite hard on later tutorials due to the amount of lines.
am i doing this right or is there and easier way im missing?
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Depends on what program you are using.
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well i was using paint but i switched to graphicsgale because it seemed to be more fitting for pixel art
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Unfortunately I haven't used graphicsgale much myself, so I don't really know. With older paint you could have just used an eraser trick to color only the parts that you want with one mouse sweep.
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how do you calculate the height? is it equal to the first green horizontal line or 3/4 of that line or 1/2? my brain doesn't seem to cooperate in this regard at the moment, so i thought i should probably just ask
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At this tutorial all sides should be equal, 26 pixels if I'm correct. That gives us the cube effect. Green horizontal lines are just to help you building this cube and therefor quite random. You can completely ignore them if you don't find them useful.
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What exactly didn't work?
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i zoomed out and it didnt really look like a pixel art....
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Interesting, maybe a screenshot to see?
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Thanks. This helped me a lot actually.
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