Pixel Art

jhonenfreak · Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

Anyone here like pixel art? I've seen a lot of people draw those sprites and dolls, but does anyone like isometric drawing? I've recently have gotten real into it, and I thought others might want to try their hand at it too. Here's a cool site called Isocity where you can draw a pixel house and have it linked to your webpage/gallery. Anybody want to add some more houses? Smile

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JediRevan20 · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

I'd be interested, If I knew how to do pixel art(and If I had photoshop, argh.) You got any tutorials on it or something?

jhonenfreak · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject:

You don't need photoshop. You can do it all on MS Paint if you like. (That's what I do all my pixel drawings on. Rolling eyes

) Here are some good tutorials:
The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art (basics)
So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? (I like this one)
PIXEL ART TUTORIAL (basics)
Zoggles (good for details)
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JediRevan20 · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks.

Lexar · Forum Stalker Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 1129

I made all the little pictures in the OS awards, like the one in my signature. I got better at it after some practice, so some are good and some are bad, but I got the hang of it fairly quickly. And all done in msPaint.

Rebus · Very bored Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 224

I had a bash at it last night... it's fun Smile

Thanks for those tutorial links Cool

jhonenfreak · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

Did you make your avatar? It looks like it's isometric. Smile

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Rebus · Very bored Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 224

Yep - I'm starting simple... B)

JediRevan20 · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:59 am Post subject:

What do you think of my avatar? I like it, considering its my first piece, but excuse the blue speckles, they came when I converted it to gif.

jhonenfreak · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject:

It's nice! Did you flood fill the background with a blue gradient? That's probably why it's speckled like that. All those dots combined to make the illusion of a single, middle shade out of a darker and lighter color is a process called dithering. It's a technique some pixel artists use when they want to use less colors. If you change the settings when you optimize your gif, you could save the original color count. What program are you using?
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JediRevan20 · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:

I'm using MSPaint, but I used an online GIF converter. And about the gradient, I did that manually using lines and fill.