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The aseprite documentation mentions it. But I made a video to help show how to do it. If you are using a touch display with stylus the action is a bit hidden. If you are using it with a mouse cursor input it is easier to see. Perhaps I should rename the video. Aseprite docs are good but they use animated gifs a lot and I thought a video would help explain.

​@@larsbarnabee yeah man, thank you so much for the more in depth explanation. Im using pentab and it gets confusing, so thanks!!

It is difficult to account for all of the different ways to use the program. Especially when the nib can cover the area up. My guess is the developers never accounted for pen users. Probably a bit of an edge case. I like aseprite but some areas are small even on a large drawing tablet.

@@larsbarnabee i suppose so. But regardless, its such a neat program and im liking it a lot so far :) thank you again for the tutorial

Compared to libresprite I like them both. Hard to account for every existing thing. Too many peripherals to check. I have experienced this myself. Dev life is a lot of work.

No problem!

No problem!

Let me look into this! I wonder if it just can’t modify the data structure where the colors are saved.

So it appears you may have your palette locked. If you click the icon it should enable you to edit the colors. Given you are on a selected color. This article talks about it more: community.aseprite.org/t/noob-question-how-to-edit-a-colour/2588/2 I haven’t had the chance to make a video yet.

The lock icon near the color palette I mean.

No problem!

Will try my best. A bit burned out at the moment. Haha. Still working towards game dev. That and I need to fix a few bugs in my previous apps. I will probably try to make more devlogs. I have been working on behavior trees for enemy ai. Funny thing I learned is that when you try to do it all, getting anything done takes forever. I have the vision but it takes so long just to see my vision in action. Lot to be said about working with a team. I think i am more of a programmer and music person. Art more physical, I like pixel art but I think I choose a way too high resolution. This ends up taking me a lot more time considering I add subtle animations. Maybe should have stuck to 16x16 as when I start I make drawings then struggle to translate. I think a good reason exists as to why some people stick to their one domain. Else you run out of time for everything else.

Thanks! Haha. Maybe one day I will. Do you have a name you prefer to go under?

@@larsbarnabee my username is fine lol

No problem!

No problem!

If you are truly that consistent, you can improve a LOT! However, drawing 5-6 hours a day is very tiring, and you will burn yourself out quickly doing that. But you could get decent pretty quickly if you practice often, but we all move at different paces, so don't be disappointed if you aren't where you want to be in a year.

@@thatdude8022 thx man i'll try my best

I am going to be brutally honest. It depends how much experience you already have. First off you can always achieve it. It is a bit of a marathon and not a race. I say go for it. But don’t burn yourself out. I believe people talk about 1-2 hours a day being a healthy amount. But if you are addicted to it, by all means do more. It also depends on what level of character design you want. Personally I don’t think I could work 5-6 hours a day. I think 2-3 is a bit more reasonable. But I also have an unrelated full time job. But burnout could loom. Also character design can go deep. Depending on the level. I would seek other resources for learning character design. Perhaps Brooke Eggleston character design forge on TH-cam. Or other books. Seek out your favorite character designer to learn from.

Good points. I didn’t get a chance to read your comment before posting mine.

@@larsbarnabee thx for everything i have marc brunet's art course I'll work from there

Sometimes I get a bit ahead of myself releasing informational videos. I probably need to make better thumbnails

I have TH-cam channel like yours please contact me.

Glad I could help. I love Aseprite but it can really make some shortcuts and commands confusing to use.

Thanks. My largest criticism for myself would be that I didn’t use an animation program to show it in action. I got too comfortable with paint tool sai.

Sure thing! May need a couple days or so to make it. I am in the drawabox discord but I rarely go on it. If you have any specific questions or a long list of them I can try to answer them via email? You can find my email in my channel description. Personally I don’t use any instant messaging & voice applications like discord. A bit short on time.

If you really want to talk still let me think of a way. I think probably the drawabox discord would be best. I am a little busy but I can try to time it better. I had always thought about making a TH-cam livestream to do an Q&A but I am not sure how well my computer can handle streaming. Haha. It’s a toaster but a good one.

coming tonight: th-cam.com/video/Tjx9n03GDFE/w-d-xo.html

Thanks! But I must say that I believe the drawabox course had an animated gif image of a box rotating in proper perspective. But sadly you can’t pause gif images without opening them in a program. It was briefly mentioned in the first lesson i believe. But I heard Uncomfortable changed some lesson material. So perhaps it is gone. I guess the only other tip I could give is if you want to figure out how to rotate anything in 3D space, keep in mind a rotating box. But study the thing you want to be able to rotate from as many angles as possible to learn. Hope this helps!

Oof! Sorry! I had thought about getting a clip on mic. I had thought TH-cam does that for me. Haha! Guess not. Some of my videos I tend to rant. I will have to think about organizing that. A lot of the videos I am releasing may suffer a similar issue. My apologies.

@@larsbarnabee A clip on mic could help. But in the meantime, just whack the volume up in the video editor? :D

Will try! A bit of a struggle to have any free time these days. I will have to make an update video as I have been learning game dev as well. Trying to balance a lot at the moment. But it wouldn’t make sense for me to talk about game dev on this channel considering this one is for drawing and the artistic side of me.

@@larsbarnabee Game dev is artistic! Even ignoring the fact that it will inevitably contain your lovely hand-drawn bugs. I don't know much about TH-cam, but would having two channels be better than one?

Thanks! May go for pixel art actually. Although I tend to do drawings beforehand when experimenting with shape. I think I would probably make a second channel. Mostly because I may talk about devlogs as well as technical advice. I think I would continue to talk about the art side of game dev on this channel. As I can’t really separate the art from the game development. They are closely related. As of now I have been doing a ton of learning godot. I will share a prototype on that channel once I have something. I think I will call the channel larsgamedev which can be found in my channels here on TH-cam.

I don’t. My guess is TH-cam just places them on my videos anyways. I don’t benefit from them in anyway.

Apologies for this. This may have been a bit of an old video. I was more focused on attempting to show the overlapping issues. I drew the table which makes everything look out of wack. My line work is pretty bad here as well.

Looked again and yes the box sitting in 3D space does not look correct at all. I would say that it looks as if it is floating on the table and not resting on the table.

No problem. Quite possibly I suffered a bit more at the time due to time constraints. Drawing is one of those life long habits that gets easier the more you do it everyday. To be honest, I learned to ghost ellipses more on my own so I don't have to use the ellipse template. Possibly I should have bought a master ellipse set because I ended up buying a bunch of sets instead that never really had the right ellipse I needed. Wish I could have used digital because Lazy Nezumi works for technical, but free handing is what I enjoy more. The rougher time could have been from many factors as I had to balance a job with a lot of over time during the early 2020's. Thanks! I still draw everyday. Although due to time constraints I don't have enough time to make as much tutorials as I want to. Uncomfortable tends to do that a lot. It makes sense an iterative approach. I believe he has done that about two times already. He had to take burnout breaks as well. Which makes sense. I just hope he draws these days still. When I was giving a lot of critique, I got a bit burned out. I will have to check on the updated content Uncomfortable made. So I can keep up to date with practice. But I never stopped drawing boxes from time to time. It ended up kind of spilling into my other work. Haha. I tried to cover topics I learned from dab but possibly some of my stuff will be outdated based on his newer exercises. All in all, I think being able to freehand what I want was the greatest thing I developed overtime from dab. After completing it, I was a bit lost for an hour on what to do next. But I just kept practicing and drawing what I wanted to along the way. That appears to have worked for me.

What a great video showing your experiences with Drawabox I’m currently on lesson 6 🤟

Only downside is it taking a lot of time to go through books. Although absorbing the information is a lot more efficient that way. Being in a university or college makes it difficult. Considering time constraints of a semester.

I have some ideas! Just got to take some photos.

I try not to disturb nature. I think at first people thought they were going to devastate the plant life. But I don’t belief it ended up happening.

Yeah! I just need a day or two.

@@larsbarnabee Thank you!

I had a lot of energy today. I have the video here: th-cam.com/video/k-wF1l0vbl8/w-d-xo.html Hands maybe a bit shaky as I lifted many things today. Thanks to Rev coffee I can do anything.

Did you try jerrysartarama website? I got the bristol smooth paper: www.jerrysartarama.com/strathmore-paper-rolls other websites like dickblick sell it as well.

Thanks!

Thanks! If you are looking for more information regarding this, possibly hatching method in shade and shadow. Basically you use lines close together to draw shade or shadow. Although not every line maybe identical. Many will be, but they have to follow the same flow. Identical lines get easier with a ton of muscle memory. Like years and not days. So it can be a bit difficult to achieve. But possible. Mirroring lines is another topic. I will have to make a video on that.

Thanks! More to come!

Thanks! I should try to delve into more organic shapes in the future.

@@larsbarnabee ❤ Thanks for replying!

​@@larsbarnabee Love from Keonjhar, Odisha

Apologies, but if you have a question I can try to help answer it? The weird thing is that when drawing I sometimes feel as if I am not thinking like I normally would be. I can enter the flow state to an extent.

@@larsbarnabee you are going to make it, that's all

Haha! Thanks 🐝

More BUGS soon 🐛 🐞 🐜 and gotta show love to my arachnids as well 🕷️

I don’t use a video camera I use obs studio to record my screen. The software obs is free online. Be careful that you find the right one obsproject.com I also use a snowball microphone and a wacom 22 tablet. All of the tech I use is listed on my about page on TH-cam.

Sorry to tell you this, but I took it offline temporarily. I plan to put it online again once I find models.

It depends. Do you have an idea for something you want to draw? I can make an example video for you? Often I draw from a reference image. So you don’t always see the vanishing points and you may need to guesstimate a bit. Personally I have drawn a lot of boxes in 3 point perspective. That can help you orient objects. If you can fit it in a box, you can orient the thing you want to draw using proper vanishing points. I feel like it is more about the illusion and making a convincing rendering. If you ever deal with organic things, it helps to understand gesture drawing. I plan to make a massive series of these. It is more about the feeling. I think doing a lot of gesture drawing meaningful practice to the point that you can do it automatically is key. Although I am not a pro yet, I think I can make something to help others

@@larsbarnabee I will email you an image. It will be a challenge at least for me. All my understanding of what I know falls apart and very frustrating with actually things I view in real life.

No worries. I will try to break it down for you. It may take a couple of days for me to make the video.

@@guitarsandsuchetc Good news about the images. The photos you shared fall under industrial design. The things were designed with people in mind. You can think of them as complex rounded boxes like the fan. And a bike has wheels. Basically ellipses that are balloon like. I will break down them in a video. I may need 2 - 3 days or so to make the video.

Thanks for the sub! Please let me know if you ever want me to expand upon a topic? I feel like I could expand upon line weight more. Heck they write entire books on this stuff. I should probably talk about the dangers of line weight! You jogged my mind! Thank you!

Yes! That is exactly it! That is just due to perspective and the box actually being closer to you! The viewer based on perspective. I guess you could call it perspective distortion. In reality. The box is the same. Just like a person is larger up front and smaller farther away. This varies a lot with the viewing angle, just to keep in mind. Glad to help!

So in the video I winged it. But if you like draw a circle to encapsulate the rotation of the box, it could help. So you would try to encapsulate the top and bottom of the box into a rotation. Like a cylinder form.

@@larsbarnabeeThanks for writing back. I guess this a very tricky procedure because the information thus far from research on the internet is very hard to understand other than maybe that plainly simple rotate cube channel where he depicts those ellipse method. but I am having of a hard time trying to properly describe to anyone that I am trying to draw a sequence or animate a cube of front view turning horizontally on its center. Its very difficult to describe it, like a box positioned center on a lazy Susan spinning.

No problem! You have the right idea with the lazy susan. Basically it is just a cylinder that would encapsulate the box perfectly. Have you tried drawing a perfect circle centered on the axis of rotation on the top of the cylinder and the bottom of the cylinder? If you are attempting to get it perfect, possibly using some type of cad software then using that as a drawing reference from that can help. Although I mostly focus on logical free handing. Focusing on this like for near 100% accuracy is best left to a cad program. Some cad programs allow one to do animations like you are describing. And focus on the axis of rotation. I can see how it is difficult to visualize. I should make a video on that….

@@larsbarnabee I am a bit confused about a perfect circle since the cube is face straight on. But I tried very narrow ellipse for top and bottom. trying to get the hang of it being its alot of thinking and gets messy. I had a feeling that maybe to be as accurate as possible would require a computer program. Just seeing if those exercise that those artists provide on those sites suggest that the process is meant to be free hand or if there is even a more technical approach to facilitate near perfection or at least realism. anyway thank you again for your time.

Oh, so think of the cylinder that encapsulates the box. The top of the cylinder has a perfect circle and the bottom of the cylinder has a perfect circle. Now the top circle depending on your perspective is a bit distorted. If the box sits centered on the vanishing point, then you wouldn’t be able to see the top plane of the box or the bottom plane of the box. So the cylinder that encapsulates the box you would not be able to see the top of the cylinder nor the bottom of the cylinder. Just like a box still has 6 sides, a cylinder has two circles. Even though you can’t see them based on the perspective. Make sense? If you email me, I could draw a few pictures to describe it better. As it is a bit difficult with words. To be honest, it is better shown with drawings.

Oh thanks! It is sometimes the obvious ones that help the most. We like all have a phone addiction these days. The clearing my desk part I stole like an artist from proko. Meaning he had a video that talked about creating an art space. Like nothing but that space for art. I will have to make a video going in depth of making one. Although not always possible based on the room people have. I plan to make more videos, but I live in a noisy environment. Once I get my own place, I should be able to make meaningful videos more often.

No problem Cacahuete! So a while from now, I will be coming out with a new version. I have been fixing a lot of bugs as well.

It was really hard for me because I had no idea what to draw when I couldn’t draw. Like I was doing drawabox to learn to draw. It’s kind of like needing experience to get a job, but needing a job to get experience. 😕Haha. What helped me was trying out like online drawing multiplayer games. Draw with friends. I forget the name of the website, but I have it bookmarked. Whatever gets drawing in is my thought on the 50% rule.

Glad it helped. Having the determination to stick to it in the long run was the hardest for me.

Thanks! I should let you know that I have updated Drawesome. Minor changes to the user interface and bug fixes.

I wanted to tell you, I am actually making an website called drawesome.app that has both. Meaning you can use your own images or use the ones I plan to add to it. I want to give artists like yourself a place to find both reference or use your own images.

@@larsbarnabee Thanks a lot, I'll be checking it out and spreading the word with my artist friends!

Thanks for spreading the word for me! I appreciate it. I also have another free desktop app called Thumbtastic for specifically viewing reference images easier. If you have a digital tablet, it helps a whole lot. From your comment, it appears you were looking for a way to view reference images as well. Thought I would mention it.