Quer_Skulll Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 This is my second tutorial on making pixel images or sigs make of it whatever you whant. however this time i have learned allot more about shapes and actually shading stuff and having a meaning to everything. tip: dont do pixel sigs if you cant draw, well you can but USUALLY it wont turn out to great, the key to solving this problem is practice. drawing is not something you learn overnight took me 4 years to get where i am now and i have learned allot in the past 6 months. ill explain in basic steps. note that i drew it all by hand and scanned it in, that explains why all the first steps are large in size. this tutorial is for both advanced and starters. STEP 1Brainstorm: think what you whant in it like recognisitions, appearance, color scheme, poetic meanings, scheme itself, background. STEP 2 Draw a stick figure, remember the lines across the face show where hes look at. keep it simple so you can alter the pose if you dont like. tho you should know some basic atanomy. STEP 3 do some basic shapes around him to see if his body structure is good. STEP 4 draw his muscle on him, knowledge for atanomy will help allot. buy a book if needed or look on the net. STEP 5 draw his armor/clothes and all accesoires on him STEP 6 Draw a background around him, i did it on another paper tho.. sometimes its better to do it on the same. STEP 7 resize it all to the canvas you whant.. the sizes for these forums are 300x150x30kb if you whant to make it in a sig. and clean up up your lines. STEP 8 put on base colors to check out your color scheme. STEP 9 Shade the main character try shading everything with shape, if it looks flat its bad. STEP 10 shade his enviroment again using shapes, if its flat its bad.(dont bother my grass i hate doing grass it turns me off) STEP 11 tweak your sky (if you have one) a bit. STEP 12 color the outlines if you like, it usually makes it look more 3D STEP 13 you might have noticed i colored some stuff way to soft, so thats step 13. make whatever changes to fit your liking a bit. o and make a border (helps allot it really does) STEP 14 put on the text. STEP 15 this might be one of the moste important steps ASK FOR C/C (Costructive Critisme) ask whatever has to be changed to look better or feel better and then change it if (will not help unless you listen and actually tweak some stuff this was my final result.. note how its much better after the c/c and actually listening to it.. {special thanks to TJ for some awesome c/c} more to come. i think. well comments appreciated, if i skipped something or made mistakes tell me.. feel free to zoom in to check how i shaded. all was done in a pixel by pixel ratus if it was note done pixel by pixel it would NOT be a pixel sig. [EDIT]it would be nice if tttia would give me permission to merge some of his tutorials in this one. :wink: [/EDIT] Pixel Programs: Paint: is a very good program for linework in pixel art yet its coloring system is a bit slow so it takes very long to make a sig in Ms Paint. Graphics Gale: THE best program for coloring pixel art basicly because of its quick color sample system, its color system itself is awesome to you can get some awesome color schemes its a sort of magic :P http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/ < click to download SHADING TUTORIAL first. You have to start with the high lights place them on whatever place you think his body shape and depth will react to the light second. you'll have to surround it with more colors to get depth in it, use contrast between color to mantain depth. third. the final "dark spots" these are essential to depth! supossed to be darker then the rest and will be good for 3D effect. try to give this one a high contrast depending on the light volume result. tadaa! not to hard yet a pretty good result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djthemaster Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 wow man this tutorial rules i am going to try it right now 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Jeppoz Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 The tutorial is very well constructed even if i'm not totaly sure the best way to pixel is to start from a freehand that you later resize...i think anything should be done directly in the 300x150 window you work on...but that's just me maybe. Surely will help a lot of ppl out there. Maybe this should be turned into a sticky :) Cheers :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01whitec2 Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 nice tutorial.. hopefully this will help alot of ppl including me.... 100+ Combat :: 100+ Members :: 107 Combat Average-{Click sig to join Heroes of the Future}- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DementedHero Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 The tutorial is very well constructed even if i'm not totaly sure the best way to pixel is to start from a freehand that you later resize...i think anything should be done directly in the 300x150 window you work on...but that's just me maybe. Surely will help a lot of ppl out there. Maybe this should be turned into a sticky :) Cheers :) Yes, thats what I do too :P I guess it doesnt really matter alot, if you prefer to draw big first, why not go ahead and do it? ;) Nice tutorial Quer. Im pretty sure this will help alot of people :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 thanks :D tho it all depends on how good you are at freehand in comparison to drawing on the computer not to mention if you have a scanner or not. this was when i still drew on the comp, see the difference in result? not to mention this was long ago.. after a few style changes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grath Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 I like your tutorial, and I want to learn to make pixel art. My only problem is that I can't draw very well, so it makes it almost impossible. Anyways, keep up the good work, I enjoyed this tut! ~Grath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran_Shadow2 Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 very good tutorial, although that shark fishing idea has really been overused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 grath try using reference images, copy a pose of someone from a photograph or something like that draw his stick figure like that. then continue trying adding muscles to it and clothing do this numerous amount of times practice a little shading on it and you will see that your results will get better each time. ran it was for a competition of smellysocks back in the days there were about 14 contestants so it was overused after 1 competition :lol: unfortunately for me it looks to much alike the one Blazer made.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran_Shadow2 Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 oh yea i remember that, pardon me hope to see more tutorials from you in future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neanderslave Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Nice tutorial i used your last one and loved it using the search button aswell this one is the same lay out but even better as ran said i hope to see more tutorials from you aswell and as TJ said this should be made into a sticky although every time people say that it never happens although this will be a helpful sig thanks again! Neanderslave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 thanks ran, but i think this is the last one.. well i think.. im going to expand this one further and further with new details instead of making a new one thanks neander i remember that i would pm it to you but i forgot :oops: and i dont think it will be sticky'd but if it could be linked in the "image faq for the new artist - by peter" then i would already be a happy man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neanderslave Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 thanks ran, but i think this is the last one.. well i think.. im going to expand this one further and further with new details instead of making a new one thanks neander i remember that i would pm it to you but i forgot :oops: and i dont think it will be sticky'd but if it could be linked in the "image faq for the new artist - by peter" then i would already be a happy man. Lol thats ok i forgot about you pming it to me aswell :oops: anyway it would had been awkward pming to all the people who ask whereas you can just post for public use! Definately better than your other one and the more you add the better it will get and the more likely it is that it gets linked or stickied! Neanderslave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toad Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 quer you should do a shading tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 i will smelly if i got time.. right now ive got a test tomorow the day after tomor i've got a PTA, then ive got 4 pages report i have to make.. within the next 2 days.. so im busy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Maras Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 nice nice.... i'll have to try doing some.... why not tell the secret of that shading thing you use... that thing is totally smokin' sweet.... http://www.rampid.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalybobjr Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 what program do u use? if its in there and i didnt see it sry for the spam but im jw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevepole Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 im sure he used paint or something like graphic gale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djthemaster Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 I have one question how can i make from a scanned dwaring nice lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 djthemaster play around with your LineWork settings on your scanner program. i use Graphics Gale for coloring. i hope to make a shading tutorial in the future.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 12, 2005 Author Share Posted March 12, 2005 b00mp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 and i dont think it will be sticky'd but if it could be linked in the "image faq for the new artist - by peter" then i would already be a happy man. Yours and any others I could find have been added to the sticky, look at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilertay Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 awesome tutorial quert! bravo! [Admin Edit: Religious text Not permitted]~108 combat~5.9k dusties killed / dragon chain :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 and i dont think it will be sticky'd but if it could be linked in the "image faq for the new artist - by peter" then i would already be a happy man. Yours and any others I could find have been added to the sticky, look at the bottom. thanks :D thanks oiler :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quer_Skulll Posted March 23, 2005 Author Share Posted March 23, 2005 added a shading tutorial! the tutorial competition is getting to hot here :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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