Love it that you present the finalized art on a CRT to get that genuine way pixel art used to be presented. I'd love your take on how CRT's actually shaped the way pixel art was conceived in the first place back in the day.
@@noahtinio9411 CRT stands for cathode ray tube. In the simplest terms, it's the way TVs and computer monitors used to work before we had LCD and LED displays.
Some really interesting and unique things in this one. The marker style coloring is so refreshing an approach, given that pixel art, by its very nature, is primarily about precision. The broken line thing you're going with recently fits the idea of perspective lines really well, too, since it gives you so many more options for angles that don't look terrible!
Thanks dude, yeah lots of experimentation here! Glad the broken lines thing could work, because it was the kind of thing I had to go ALL IN on throughout the piece, and I think it was probably the best option but also dictated a lot of the style/tone. Would be interesting to see what an alternative treatment would yield also!
YAY perspective! I always wanted to practice perspective but never knew how to make it look good. But now you posted a perspective video! :DDD I literally jumped when I saw that you uploaded a new video. Thanks for the videos I feel like I got a 100x better at pixel art just by watching your videos!
recently found your channel and i must say, i'm autistic and I struggle with multiple step processes -- what 'portfolio' I have is 95% sketches over 2.5 decades because I never learned how to plan. seeing and hearing you explain the steps YOU take PERSONALLY and WHY you take them is...probably the most inspiring, helpful thing i've seen in years!! and the music and editing is phenomenal...and your voice and manner of speech is so pleasant. you are so underrated, dude!! ❤
Daaaang. When I saw the title I was thinking that while not my cup of tea or a style I'm interested in trying yet, it was at least going to be super informative on perspective. The end coloring though really blew me away with how even in pixel art, the coloring can convey quite a different style by just how you play around with how you shape it. Your content has always been a treat in terms of information and inspiration but this was just a great surprise for me on how well getting these different elements can make something far greater than any expectation. Great work as always and thanks for the informative video~
woa, I think this is your most relaxing and calming video and piece of art I saw until now, it kinda remembered me a bit of the small good part of my childhood, thank you
Your art and sense of humor inspire me each video:) glad I started following you before you got real time big time famous;) hope things are well with you outside of TH-cam!
Darn! I don't have my Wii anymore, will I be able to do without the specialized tool? 😂 Man, that's a super unique look! I don't think I've seen such a style done in this pixel art format before but it really works here and the style reminds me of those colouring books we'd fill in as kids. Kinda nostalgic 😁✨
"Is it possible to learn this power?" 😂 Thanks dude! It'd actually be fun to make a colouring book with pixel art linework, then do the colouring with actual markers lol
I do some pixel art stuff, seeing your videos is so satisfying and inspiring, makes me want try out more simple shapes or try out what I see with your videos on the styles I used to, thanks for this, I really hope come back here and share more experiences I had thanks to you and your top notch quality content 😄
u got me nspired to trry out pixel art to take a break from "normal art(?)" and I have to say, the process of making pixel art is oddly relaxing...? much love :)
I’d love to see a mock-up of what one of your characters would look like in an early-90’s style FPS, like Doom or Wolfenstein! Your 1bit detective character would work perfectly, but maybe you could do a 3D interpretation of one of the colorful city scenes you’ve drawn your avatar in? It would be way difficult, so it’s just a fun suggestion. Love your work!
I remember for one of my art classes, I had to make an isometric drawing. I spent 4 hours on it. It was a city like this one. Making something similar or the same as the one I did but in pixel art, I feel would take half the time. Drawing can get crazy because of how much freedom you have. Meanwhile, pixel art challenges you with restrictions of canvas size, colour and shape.
Nice! I don’t know why, but lately I’m very much into perspective drawings. I want to practice with that myself and eventually I really want to make an equirectangular perspective drawing to turn it into a 360 panorama! In Photoshop you can paint in 3D panorama mode, maybe it’s a nice idea for you to make a 360 artwork in pixels! Just thinking. Have a nice day, greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
15:40: Imagine living in a city where they put their giant monster battles on the kitschy postcards they sell to tourists. Giant-monster-battle tourists.
This looks like it was made by a bored art major trying to pass four hours with nothing but a pen, a jumbo sketchbook, and three highlighters. 10/10 amazing art as always!
It turned out so good! I like that you didn't do solid lines, that would have been my inclination, but to see it "fade" away at the bottom and to create depth was very clever. I also love the colour palate.
Your brain is on another level with this one. This channel should be one of the top 10 most viewed channels on TH-cam (and probably will get there one day.) This content is amazing!
Y'know, from the pastels to the giant monkey in the background. It looks as if this could fit in most of the art pieces\game mockups with your mascot monkey character. Like, maybe the monkey's town got invaded by this giant cat creature and the monkey went to that frog inventor for help and this battle armor is the result. Don't know, it just looks like a cut scene from a game or something like that. Wonderful piece and I hope you do more like it.
I had the same no ruler thong happen about a year ago. I think I may have overcompensated, as now I have multiple floppy and solid rulers in every room of the house. I don't think there's a time I don't have a ruler. It's pretty nice.
This looks great - and the longer form videos are a treat - keep them in the mix! Might be first time I have a constructive critique - amidst the battle area , which is the focal point as per the sing point origin for perspective - though it would make a busy mess for clarity, would have liked to see the origin point used in background (a sun, horizon etc) to REALLY draw the point of the skyline leading to that point. Most of the building angles are soft (Under 45deg) so the force of single point is less pronounced. Keep it up, we are all fans.
PS - new vid idea. Would be remiss of you to live in Calgary and not end up including something of an old, CRT suitable WWF ring scene with the Hitman ! animated choreo. A big fan in Australia.
Thanks dude! Yeah I had considered something like that; was gonna have a sunset behind them, but with the colour count and the space it felt better to keep it clear for readability of the characters - great idea to keep in mind for this kind of thing though!
you are really good at pixel art, i love the pieces of art you do. please could you try doing something with the pico 8 colour palatte in a future video?
11:47 .....all I am saying about what he just said for those that haven't seen it.....you gotta see it. Also that "continue ?" At the end of the vid is sick.
i love watching pixel artists use limited colour palettes cause it makes them be more creative with shading and such its like how nes games had limited ways to make soundtracks yet they made such great songs because of those limitations they had to be creative and work around them
Any chance of getting these designs as an actual postcard set? I've been thinking of writing cards lately and your redbubble prints would be wonderful for that.
This is such awesome work, and has inspired me to give it a go! For future videos could you please mention how long each illustration took from start to finish? :D
Hey Brandon, how do you manage your layers? I always have problems with this and end up messing up most of the time. Is there any criteria you follow when sorting things out into layers or you just go with the flow? Great video and illustration by the way. Love it!!
Just draw a horizontal line, place a point somewhere on it and draw straight lines coming out of it towards the bottom. If you're interested in learning it I'd suggest you to search for "one point perspective" guides or examples.
Hey Brandon, I'm sort of a perspective noob so forgive me if the question is stupid, but on the buildings closest to the camera you made the windows "stretch out" as they get further, shouldn't it be the opposite? the closer to us, the bigger they are?
MAAAN i never would have thought to do a marker style coloring in pixel art. i've also never seen anything like it. Props for real.
I was thinking about this recently out of laziness
Love it that you present the finalized art on a CRT to get that genuine way pixel art used to be presented.
I'd love your take on how CRT's actually shaped the way pixel art was conceived in the first place back in the day.
Thanks! That'd be fun to explore, it's interesting to think about this medium being created out of those limitations
@@BJGpixel I would love to watch that!
Whats crt
@@noahtinio9411 CRT stands for cathode ray tube. In the simplest terms, it's the way TVs and computer monitors used to work before we had LCD and LED displays.
I love your video style! It's simple, but not lazy, polished, but still personal, calm, but not boring... Just perfectly balanced!
I agree exactly.
As all things should be
At first I wasn't so keen on the imperfect marker style because it challenged my perfectionism but I really like how it turned out!
Hahaha I'm with you, I had to surrender those same instincts for the sake of exploring the style 😅
@@BJGpixel which software you sing bro
@@ninjathegamer8212 he was using Photoshop CS6, it's name was literally on the top corner of the video
god of pixel
indeed Mr. Checkmark. indeed.
Some really interesting and unique things in this one. The marker style coloring is so refreshing an approach, given that pixel art, by its very nature, is primarily about precision. The broken line thing you're going with recently fits the idea of perspective lines really well, too, since it gives you so many more options for angles that don't look terrible!
Thanks dude, yeah lots of experimentation here! Glad the broken lines thing could work, because it was the kind of thing I had to go ALL IN on throughout the piece, and I think it was probably the best option but also dictated a lot of the style/tone. Would be interesting to see what an alternative treatment would yield also!
This is absolutely mind blowing art, but it looks like they are just having an argument, not a fight.
It looks amazing ! I think it's one of my favorite Pixel Art ever, really nice !
This is the third video of yours I've watched and 3/3 of them included cats. Amazing. Instant subscription.
YAY perspective! I always wanted to practice perspective but never knew how to make it look good. But now you posted a perspective video! :DDD I literally jumped when I saw that you uploaded a new video. Thanks for the videos I feel like I got a 100x better at pixel art just by watching your videos!
recently found your channel and i must say, i'm autistic and I struggle with multiple step processes -- what 'portfolio' I have is 95% sketches over 2.5 decades because I never learned how to plan. seeing and hearing you explain the steps YOU take PERSONALLY and WHY you take them is...probably the most inspiring, helpful thing i've seen in years!! and the music and editing is phenomenal...and your voice and manner of speech is so pleasant. you are so underrated, dude!! ❤
Daaaang. When I saw the title I was thinking that while not my cup of tea or a style I'm interested in trying yet, it was at least going to be super informative on perspective. The end coloring though really blew me away with how even in pixel art, the coloring can convey quite a different style by just how you play around with how you shape it. Your content has always been a treat in terms of information and inspiration but this was just a great surprise for me on how well getting these different elements can make something far greater than any expectation. Great work as always and thanks for the informative video~
I started to love and make pixel art because of you ... Thanks =D
Your videos are really cool, man.
Congratulations!
I have started doing pixel art as a way to relax and I fallen in love with it, because of you! Thank you 😊 ❤
These are some of the most well made digital art videos on TH-cam.
I remember doing this work back in elementary school. I was obsessed with perspective drawings. This was awesome, Brandon!
Awesome! Love the idea for marker style colouring. But... WHO WON THE FIGHT?! 🐱🐵
Thanks dude! Hahaha hmmm I hadn't considered that...
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@@BJGpixel hahah yes!!! I look forward to Monkey VS Cat 2: Rise Of The Kitten
THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW
You have no idea how much I love this intro
The coloring really brought this drawing to life. It looks so cool and cute too.
woa, I think this is your most relaxing and calming video and piece of art I saw until now, it kinda remembered me a bit of the small good part of my childhood, thank you
Your art and sense of humor inspire me each video:) glad I started following you before you got real time big time famous;) hope things are well with you outside of TH-cam!
amazing stylistic choices! so inspiring
I love this aquarelle style colors it work very well ❤
daaamn this video is pure gold for those people that want to make cutscenes in their pixel art games
I know this video is going to be amazing
Wow so many details! Love it 🤩
Same
Thank you! :D
@@BJGpixel it’s so satisfying to watch!!!!
I found this channel relatively recently (thanks GMTK!) and I love it so much. That cityscape is incredible.
The colors were great and it looks like a 7 year old colored in the city from a coloring book and it looks amazing
Awesome art Brendan! You really inspire me to do pixel art! btw will you be making a 100k special?
I wasn't expecting to like the rough marker look, but I ended up really digging it. Would love to see this catch on as a trend in pixel art.
the way these turn out, makes me want to work on some pixel art so badly
Darn! I don't have my Wii anymore, will I be able to do without the specialized tool? 😂
Man, that's a super unique look! I don't think I've seen such a style done in this pixel art format before but it really works here and the style reminds me of those colouring books we'd fill in as kids. Kinda nostalgic 😁✨
"Is it possible to learn this power?" 😂
Thanks dude! It'd actually be fun to make a colouring book with pixel art linework, then do the colouring with actual markers lol
@@BJGpixel that would be AMAZING!!! Would totally buy XD
@@pinkajou656 Ikr! That'd be such a cool project 😱
Awesome! C,M,Y,K... one of my favorite palettes. The finished watercolor styling turned out really well!
I do some pixel art stuff, seeing your videos is so satisfying and inspiring, makes me want try out more simple shapes or try out what I see with your videos on the styles I used to, thanks for this, I really hope come back here and share more experiences I had thanks to you and your top notch quality content 😄
love this!
also congrats on 100k !!
oh wow i love this the colors the style everything AAAAAAAAA
u got me nspired to trry out pixel art to take a break from "normal art(?)" and I have to say, the process of making pixel art is oddly relaxing...?
much love :)
I’d love to see a mock-up of what one of your characters would look like in an early-90’s style FPS, like Doom or Wolfenstein! Your 1bit detective character would work perfectly, but maybe you could do a 3D interpretation of one of the colorful city scenes you’ve drawn your avatar in? It would be way difficult, so it’s just a fun suggestion. Love your work!
I remember for one of my art classes, I had to make an isometric drawing. I spent 4 hours on it. It was a city like this one. Making something similar or the same as the one I did but in pixel art, I feel would take half the time. Drawing can get crazy because of how much freedom you have. Meanwhile, pixel art challenges you with restrictions of canvas size, colour and shape.
this man is an absolute LEGEND
It looks amazing man
My viscomm class just finished our perspective art work! You should do a 2-point to go with it :)
Nice! I don’t know why, but lately I’m very much into perspective drawings. I want to practice with that myself and eventually I really want to make an equirectangular perspective drawing to turn it into a 360 panorama!
In Photoshop you can paint in 3D panorama mode, maybe it’s a nice idea for you to make a 360 artwork in pixels! Just thinking. Have a nice day, greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
I started doing pixel art because of you. Thanks
I loved the imperfect style you chose for colour.
15:40: Imagine living in a city where they put their giant monster battles on the kitschy postcards they sell to tourists. Giant-monster-battle tourists.
This looks like it was made by a bored art major trying to pass four hours with nothing but a pen, a jumbo sketchbook, and three highlighters. 10/10 amazing art as always!
It turned out so good! I like that you didn't do solid lines, that would have been my inclination, but to see it "fade" away at the bottom and to create depth was very clever. I also love the colour palate.
My goodness, that looks brilliant!
Fantastic work, as always
Agreed!
I think I just fell in love with this channel
Your brain is on another level with this one. This channel should be one of the top 10 most viewed channels on TH-cam (and probably will get there one day.) This content is amazing!
Y'know, from the pastels to the giant monkey in the background. It looks as if this could fit in most of the art pieces\game mockups with your mascot monkey character.
Like, maybe the monkey's town got invaded by this giant cat creature and the monkey went to that frog inventor for help and this battle armor is the result.
Don't know, it just looks like a cut scene from a game or something like that.
Wonderful piece and I hope you do more like it.
I had the same no ruler thong happen about a year ago. I think I may have overcompensated, as now I have multiple floppy and solid rulers in every room of the house. I don't think there's a time I don't have a ruler. It's pretty nice.
so amazing to do the marker style! you are doing some really cool things i haven't seen with pixels :)
Man, how cool is It
This looks great - and the longer form videos are a treat - keep them in the mix!
Might be first time I have a constructive critique - amidst the battle area , which is the focal point as per the sing point origin for perspective - though it would make a busy mess for clarity, would have liked to see the origin point used in background (a sun, horizon etc) to REALLY draw the point of the skyline leading to that point. Most of the building angles are soft (Under 45deg) so the force of single point is less pronounced. Keep it up, we are all fans.
PS - new vid idea. Would be remiss of you to live in Calgary and not end up including something of an old, CRT suitable WWF ring scene with the Hitman ! animated choreo.
A big fan in Australia.
Thanks dude! Yeah I had considered something like that; was gonna have a sunset behind them, but with the colour count and the space it felt better to keep it clear for readability of the characters - great idea to keep in mind for this kind of thing though!
Hahaha true, never followed that too closely but perhaps I should rep the hometown! 😅
you are really good at pixel art, i love the pieces of art you do. please could you try doing something with the pico 8 colour palatte in a future video?
blown away again! great work man!
Dope
agreed
@@KubickQ yea
how did u do the face
@@NovacootSnapshots : awesome : without the space
This Shift trick is accualy 5Head nice video
We all starter with cities with vanishing point I guess. I remember practicing this way in high school. Nice video. The coloring is amazing
Nice illustration man! Thank you for the video!
Amazing!
I love your art, you are my inspiration
I love everything about this
I love it it looks very comic book/ coloring book! Also might have to try to make a 1-point sci-fi battle now...
Brilliant! Couldn't help but be reminded of Samurai Pizza Cats.
yyooooo congrats on 100k!!
11:47 .....all I am saying about what he just said for those that haven't seen it.....you gotta see it.
Also that "continue ?" At the end of the vid is sick.
This is amazing; I love it!
i love watching pixel artists use limited colour palettes cause it makes them be more creative with shading and such its like how nes games had limited ways to make soundtracks yet they made such great songs because of those limitations they had to be creative and work around them
I have learned many things from your videos! Thank you for amazing contents
his was beautiful, thank you chief!
Any chance of getting these designs as an actual postcard set? I've been thinking of writing cards lately and your redbubble prints would be wonderful for that.
i love these videos! so relaxing.
Giant nano is all I need in life
This is such awesome work, and has inspired me to give it a go! For future videos could you please mention how long each illustration took from start to finish? :D
This is so cool 🤩
Hey man your channel is 🔥 . Keep it up and the subs will come pouring in 👍
Gorgeous aesthetic. I love this sloppy watercolor comic book look.
HAPPY 100K SUBS!
10:16 looks like he is casually leaning over the building making small talk XD
Hey Brandon, how do you manage your layers? I always have problems with this and end up messing up most of the time. Is there any criteria you follow when sorting things out into layers or you just go with the flow?
Great video and illustration by the way. Love it!!
What alternative is there do get a similar result in 80 lines if im not using photoshop?
Just draw a horizontal line, place a point somewhere on it and draw straight lines coming out of it towards the bottom. If you're interested in learning it I'd suggest you to search for "one point perspective" guides or examples.
@@geoCorpse Thank u kind person
Amazing job!
That is awesome! I subscribed!
This is so great 😄
How long did that take in real time? Very much love your videos, just started pixel work myself!
really cool!
Hi Brandon, Will you do a pixel art font tutorial? Thanks for Reading my comment.
So is there a way to make the prespective lines in asesprite?I am new to pixel art and i am not familiar with what my software can do.
I made a pixel-art perspective grid with perfect angle lines, so that I have crisp lines as many times as possible.
Ooh you should try making pixel rat with hamma/pearler beads, that would be cool :D
Hey Brandon, I'm sort of a perspective noob so forgive me if the question is stupid, but on the buildings closest to the camera you made the windows "stretch out" as they get further, shouldn't it be the opposite? the closer to us, the bigger they are?
Very good man!
So good
I think I'm done with pixel art and then you post another video and my passions are relit
It does!
Do you make pixel art for video games? You’re extremely talented! 💕