The aliased edge (6) is what we’re looking for when creating pixel art. This is made by adding an extra row of pixels closest to the aliased edge.Īs you can see in the example, the anti-aliased edge (7) has an automatic gradient of pixels to give the shape a smoother contour. Pixel art does not go along with automatic anti-aliasing.Īnti-aliasing is a useful algorithm that smooths edges of a shape. Set it to 100% and place in your workspace (5). To create a secondary view of your current canvas, go to Window > Canvas > New Window and open a new instance of the current canvas. (3) Ī good practice for working with pixel art is getting used to drawing zoomed while keeping an eye on the actual-size artwork (4) You can turn the grid on/off anytime using the Shift+G shortcut. Configure as the following so you can see a grid with every single pixel.While there’s great dedicated tools for making pixel art, you can use any drawing program to follow along. There’s no point to making pixel art where the pixels aren’t evident.įor this article, I’ll be using Clip Studio Paint. Start with a small (resolution) file size, so the pixel unit is visible.
The goal is to create an artwork that can be used used as a social media avatar. You can draw yourself, make a fanart or invent a character.
I want you to create a 64×64 pixel portrait. It’s beneficial to respect the fundamentals and the techniques of old-school digital artists – but it’s not obligatory to work like them.įor this article, we’ll work on an approachable challenge. The technical side of this art form is important, especially if you want to make an homage of a video game.īut remember that you don’t need to force yourself to create a 32×32 pixel size artwork with only 3 colors, if you don’t want to. In this article, I’ll highlight some characteristics, basic techniques and guidelines so you can start making your own pixel art.Īll the information here can be applied to any ‘style’ and any software. While no longer a necessary approach, forcing yourself to create in the boundaries of an old technology or set of techniques can help you as anīelow are some examples of my exploration with pixel art. I'm starting this list with a preset I use for sketching.Computer graphics and digital art as we know them today have a root, and that is pixel art.īack in the day, there wasn’t a ‘Pixel Art’ style because every art made on a computer needed to be pixel-by-pixel artwork.Īs computers evolved, the capability to render images became more advanced, enabling digital artists to create without the limitations of old hardware.Ĭreating art with these limitations in mind is the core of pixel art as an art form. The rendering is not realistic but I find the pressure curve and the way it build-up softly and slowly the lines very good. I used this pencil preset on the line-art of a lot of artworks over the last year. It has a subtle grain and a soft rendering that will reveal a bit more expression than my previous "Pencil 2" preset now default in Krita 4.x. This drawing tool has a very digital and plastic feeling. It is like drawing with the perfect pencil on a perfect smooth bristol paper. It's useful for reducing the noise in the crosshatching and almost get them replaced with thin gray. It eases the digital paint process on the top because the lines blends better with digital painting being smooth.ĭuring the storyboard of episode 30, I decided to use a large and heavily textured pencil to not dive into the details. It does wonder with a bright gray color selected. This presets was designed to ease my time painting over and smoothing and adding details.
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Probably the brush I used the most over the last year: it has a subtle way to produce glazing with low pass of opacity but can also goes expressive at full pressure. On episode 30 I wanted a rendering a little less smooth than the previous episode. I built this preset and I started to paint almost all the episode with it. It produces a subtle texture that reproduce a sort of gouache painting on paper.
This brush draws sharps silhouettes and very dynamic strokes while having rough edges here and there.Īnother brush to block big shapes while having another texture feeling.Ī dry and soft effect for this one, I use it to prototype shapes with weak edges like smoke. This preset has a gentle texture that will do wonders for coloring penciled artworks. It has a rendering totally less plastic than a digital rounded brush with opacity on pressure while having the same ease of usage. This is the brushes I designed recently to paint all my speedpaintings.
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