I've added this as an actual card in my shop!✌😊www.redbubble.com/i/postcard/Hot-Chocolate-Vending-Machine-by-BJGpixel/96487784.V7PMD (and also available as a greeting card and other products!)
This piece is so beautiful. Makes me feel nostalgic despite it being a futuristic machine! 😊 edit: you should definitely put this one in your store as a card so folks can use it for Christmas!
This is amazing! It turned out really great, all the little details and texture make it so believable! Thanks for sharing Brandon and happy holidays to you! :D Also... I hate drawing perspective lines so thought I'd share this cool tip: in Photoshop if you select the Polygon tool, click the little cog wheel for path options, and change the star ratio to 1% , then increase the number of sides (the little hash icon) to whatever you like (100 gives you the most perspective lines), you can then click and drag for a bunch of lines that shoot out from a centre point. You can rasterize and duplicate for 2 point perspective or 3 point or whatever, or draw a line through the middle for horizon line :D I don't know if this would work well for pixel art because of the smaller canvas sizes, but its really nice for digital art.
Thanks so much dude! I appreciate the tip as well; I'll have to give that a shot for creating a two-point drawing from scratch next time rather than extracting it from a rough sketch 😅 With a large enough canvas it should be quite readable and useful! And Happy Holidays to you too 🎄✨
this has got to be the best piece that brandon has ever made. I love the perspective, the style, and most of all I love the color. the colors feel incredibly welcoming and warm and I love it.
I really enjoy two-point perspective in pixel art! And really any kind of pixel art that manages to emulate something so ‘organic’ looking out of just tiny squares.
@@nwut I am not sure what you are trying to say with this. Are you saying higher resolution would lead it to be digital art? You do know that pixel art is a form of digital art, right?
@@nwut Well for one it would be more challenging to keep track of the details and ruleset that come with pixel art, 'regular' digital art or vector art has a different ruleset and guidelines. So really it comes down to 'do I want to do this?' and not 'will it be worth it/more challenging?', it definitely will be.
Thank you for these videos. They are inspiring and have prompted me to get back into pixel art after several years of hiatus. I’ve recently discovered your channel and quickly found myself eagerly looking forward to your new videos. Great content.
The penguin!!! 🥺 This was really cool to watch, it was especially neat to see how you dealt with some of the difficult lines. Really enjoyed the end-result there with the snow & lines through the sun ✨ Do you think this higher-rez style is something that you'll revisit more often? It could be really cool to get some tutorials in this style, just like your lower-rez ones! 🤩
Thanks so much!✌️🐧✨ Yeah I think I'll try to keep up with more of these every now and then; perhaps some full scenes, although I also really like the detailed look at a single object - it's neat to approach world-building through the finer details on an object :D
I just got back into pixel art, and I've been exploring larger canvases and more painterly styles of approaching it. I really like your method of overlaying you colors at different the opacity to create a varied color palette that has harmony.
Very cool (or maybe, hot?) idea about going deliberately out of line bounds and using desaturated colors - indeed it brings watercolors to mind :) I think it would look good also in sepia tones - like a sketched scheme from an old book :)
i dunno if it's just me, but i could totally see that vending machine being in a like, cyberpunk point-and-click game from the 90s. also i wanna say that it looks beautiful!
A cool thing to do when working with 2 point perspective is to not doing a symmetrical setup. You can actually move one of the vanishing points. In this piece you could move the right vanishing point to the left to get a more dynamic artwork, also more similar to your original sketch.
Jeez, man. The hi-res definitely suits your outside-the-lines, almost watercolor like coloring style. I'd love to see you dabble in some non-pixel art pieces sometime. :)
This is very different from your usual style in these videos and yet it still turned out great, very versatile artist. I would be happy to see more of these larger scale/resolution designs in the future.
i'm in love with your pixel art! it always looks so pleasing to look at and it inspires me to get back into pixel art too! i used to do some a couple of years ago on ms paint, but i quickly lost motivation since i didn't have a lot of patience back then. i'll try it out again! keep up the amazing work!
pixel art aside (and this is some really cool color work and use of "high res" pixel details!!!) your sketches already look so cool, you're very talented
AUGH this is so awsome! Ive always felt intimidated doing pixel art, but this insight has really allowed me to understand things I can expect. very cool!!
Great video, the stepping through of your thought process is really helpful for a beginner to understand what goes behind making a pixel art piece. Thank you!
This looks soo nice. I think you should do a holiday post card series and actually print them into real products. I would buy it, it looks much better than most ones I have seen so far.
This one's on me, but I was sitting the whole video wondering when he was going to turn the vending machine into a time-machine. But it was a "vending MACHINE TIME-lapse", and my mind auto-translated that into a "hot chocolate time-machine" for some reason. :P But as always, I love your content, and it was greatly executed! :D
Ah!! I've been wanting to see you draw in a large scale canvas and you really really nailed this one!! huhu you should definetely do a draw this in your style challenge! I would def join!!
This looks so good! Could the next one be about studying the style of pokemon sprites? I'm talking the ones that are 64x64 pixels that you see in the battles
I have a video idea. Make a sprite or scene at a resolution. Then upscale it so each pixel is now 2x2, and/or 3x3, and/or 4x4. Now you do one or both of fully updating the sprite to the new resolution (AKA smoothing out lines and such), or keeping the silhouette low resolution add “sub-pixel color”.
I've added this as an actual card in my shop!✌😊www.redbubble.com/i/postcard/Hot-Chocolate-Vending-Machine-by-BJGpixel/96487784.V7PMD
(and also available as a greeting card and other products!)
You are a genius
Seen you working in this piece, tells me that we work in a similar way, just amazing!
This piece is so beautiful. Makes me feel nostalgic despite it being a futuristic machine! 😊 edit: you should definitely put this one in your store as a card so folks can use it for Christmas!
really hope to see more large-scale canvases like this! really impressive stuff.
This is amazing! It turned out really great, all the little details and texture make it so believable! Thanks for sharing Brandon and happy holidays to you! :D
Also... I hate drawing perspective lines so thought I'd share this cool tip: in Photoshop if you select the Polygon tool, click the little cog wheel for path options, and change the star ratio to 1% , then increase the number of sides (the little hash icon) to whatever you like (100 gives you the most perspective lines), you can then click and drag for a bunch of lines that shoot out from a centre point. You can rasterize and duplicate for 2 point perspective or 3 point or whatever, or draw a line through the middle for horizon line :D I don't know if this would work well for pixel art because of the smaller canvas sizes, but its really nice for digital art.
Thanks so much dude! I appreciate the tip as well; I'll have to give that a shot for creating a two-point drawing from scratch next time rather than extracting it from a rough sketch 😅 With a large enough canvas it should be quite readable and useful! And Happy Holidays to you too 🎄✨
I love the vintage feel of the muted colour palette, it's like an illustration from an old magazine
Aaah the line-width gradient "sunset" in the snowglobe was the final touch, really brought it home!!
this has got to be the best piece that brandon has ever made. I love the perspective, the style, and most of all I love the color. the colors feel incredibly welcoming and warm and I love it.
I really enjoy two-point perspective in pixel art! And really any kind of pixel art that manages to emulate something so ‘organic’ looking out of just tiny squares.
Such a comfy feeling piece, you should definetly do more with this higher resolution / detail level
would be a waste of time considering it would prolly be digital instead of pixel
@@nwut I am not sure what you are trying to say with this. Are you saying higher resolution would lead it to be digital art? You do know that pixel art is a form of digital art, right?
@@kabbyrp no as in doing this in a higher res wouldn't expand on anything and take much longer if he didnt do regular digital instead
@@nwut Well for one it would be more challenging to keep track of the details and ruleset that come with pixel art, 'regular' digital art or vector art has a different ruleset and guidelines.
So really it comes down to 'do I want to do this?' and not 'will it be worth it/more challenging?', it definitely will be.
@@j_r0w yeah I agree. I think I probably phrased my og reply wrongly though.
I love the style of this. So cozy. As a musician, I love the choice of music you added as well. Made it even more cozy.
That was so detailed I thought it was gonna be another picoCAD video! Nicely done!
Thank you for these videos. They are inspiring and have prompted me to get back into pixel art after several years of hiatus. I’ve recently discovered your channel and quickly found myself eagerly looking forward to your new videos. Great content.
Thanks so much, nice to hear it's helping you get back into it! Best of luck with your pixel art and thanks for the support! :D
You're unbelievably good at simply generating ideas, and your execution of the ideas is equally amazing
The penguin!!! 🥺
This was really cool to watch, it was especially neat to see how you dealt with some of the difficult lines. Really enjoyed the end-result there with the snow & lines through the sun ✨
Do you think this higher-rez style is something that you'll revisit more often? It could be really cool to get some tutorials in this style, just like your lower-rez ones! 🤩
Thanks so much!✌️🐧✨
Yeah I think I'll try to keep up with more of these every now and then; perhaps some full scenes, although I also really like the detailed look at a single object - it's neat to approach world-building through the finer details on an object :D
This channel is so comforting
I just got back into pixel art, and I've been exploring larger canvases and more painterly styles of approaching it. I really like your method of overlaying you colors at different the opacity to create a varied color palette that has harmony.
this higher res look is so cool!
Very cool (or maybe, hot?) idea about going deliberately out of line bounds and using desaturated colors - indeed it brings watercolors to mind :)
I think it would look good also in sepia tones - like a sketched scheme from an old book :)
Haha thanks!🔥 Yeah the sepia look would be cool - especially with additional callouts that make it more like a diagram/schematic :D
i dunno if it's just me, but i could totally see that vending machine being in a like, cyberpunk point-and-click game from the 90s. also i wanna say that it looks beautiful!
A cool thing to do when working with 2 point perspective is to not doing a symmetrical setup. You can actually move one of the vanishing points. In this piece you could move the right vanishing point to the left to get a more dynamic artwork, also more similar to your original sketch.
This looks so cold but cozy at the end. It's perfect
many that vending machine is cozy. Just so warm feeling. It makes me happy.
My favorite pixel art so far (regardless of the higher res). You've improved a lot since you've created this channel (as far as I can judge)
Really Like the pallet for this one. Awesome work Brandon
Jeez, man. The hi-res definitely suits your outside-the-lines, almost watercolor like coloring style. I'd love to see you dabble in some non-pixel art pieces sometime. :)
YO brandon always fire videos and workflow I love them man keep them coming, huge respect
This is very different from your usual style in these videos and yet it still turned out great, very versatile artist. I would be happy to see more of these larger scale/resolution designs in the future.
You are a godsend for learning pixel art. i download all your videos and hide them away for future generations in case you disappear from TH-cam
This makes my day. Honestly this is amazing and makes me wanna do some physical painting
i'm in love with your pixel art! it always looks so pleasing to look at and it inspires me to get back into pixel art too! i used to do some a couple of years ago on ms paint, but i quickly lost motivation since i didn't have a lot of patience back then. i'll try it out again! keep up the amazing work!
pixel art aside (and this is some really cool color work and use of "high res" pixel details!!!) your sketches already look so cool, you're very talented
This is like a pixelated water colour. Great work!
You are a star, Brandon, what a wealth of information! Thank you so much for taking the time to put it together x
AUGH this is so awsome! Ive always felt intimidated doing pixel art, but this insight has really allowed me to understand things I can expect. very cool!!
Wonderful clarity and linework. Probably your best piece yet.
I really, REALLY like this one
This is wonderful. So absolutely cool.
great artwork! looks like a ghibli style thing, but in pixel art!
Oh didn't really think of that but I could totally see it! Might have to pull some reference next time to lean into the Ghibli style ✨
Good lord this is just gorgeous work!
Man you really nailed the high-res look. This looks fantastic
It would be great to see more work in this styling! Really great job
this is absolutely beautiful work, wow
I want to live in a universe with this aesthetic.
i’d love to see you try to recreate this in picocad! i think that would be really fun with all of the sharp angles and shapes!
Great video, the stepping through of your thought process is really helpful for a beginner to understand what goes behind making a pixel art piece. Thank you!
This is some of your most beautiful work to date dude. Hope to see more of this kinda style, absolutely amazing. You're such an inspiration.
HWAAA!~ Sooo cozy! Wormin my way up to higher res someday
It always feels like you are improving with your art skills. Every new work is impressive !👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is unreasonably wholesome 🥰
I've been watching you for a while and man you improve as such a quick rate! Keep up the amazing work!
This peice looks so good, I love the painterly feel it has. Great work!
Man, this one was surprisingly soothing. Love it.
This is too cute, kind of makes me want to cry
Thanks for sharing your workflow and inspiring many of us, hope to see more of your timelapse contents in the future.
Can you sell actual postcards with this? I'd fucking frame it if i could, too! It's beautiful!
i second this
I third this
Haha thanks! And yep, here it is! www.redbubble.com/i/postcard/Hot-Chocolate-Vending-Machine-by-BJGpixel/96487784.V7PMD
This may be my favorite piece you've done so far. Wonderful concept and execution. Bravo!
Thank you for providing this video!
This looks soo nice. I think you should do a holiday post card series and actually print them into real products. I would buy it, it looks much better than most ones I have seen so far.
This one's on me, but I was sitting the whole video wondering when he was going to turn the vending machine into a time-machine. But it was a "vending MACHINE TIME-lapse", and my mind auto-translated that into a "hot chocolate time-machine" for some reason. :P
But as always, I love your content, and it was greatly executed! :D
This was so cool to watch! It might just be your most interesting time lapse yet! I really dig the stylistic choices you went for.
I wanna see more of this! I love your pixel art process!
I may be because of the scale, but it's one of my favorite creation by you !
This came out so good! Would love to see you do a higher pixel count every so often.
Absolutely love your channel! I like to have these playing while I work on some of my own pixel art. Great stuff!
Absolutely beautiful work! So glad I found this channel
Ah!! I've been wanting to see you draw in a large scale canvas and you really really nailed this one!! huhu you should definetely do a draw this in your style challenge! I would def join!!
I would honestly love to have that thing printed on like a shirt or someshit. It looks soo cool
Loving this style and rendering detail!
That´s beautiful.
The coloring style really reminds me of Studio Ghibli's films, absolutely stunning!
I love the perspective on this!
This is a masterpiece Brandon!
This is fucking amazing. Its giving me if ghibli was pixel art
This looks so good! Could the next one be about studying the style of pokemon sprites? I'm talking the ones that are 64x64 pixels that you see in the battles
i love this kind of art.
You did a great job with the colors!
Excelente trabajo 👌
Interesting, nice and cool. Thank you for sharing.
very rad :) happy holidays
I love it, can you turn a photo of your friend into pixel art style? I really want to see that
Looks beautiful
AWESOME AS ALWAYS
Loved the colors
Doesn't look too bad! =) I would imagine if we had one of these machines in the future! =D
Absolute beauty 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This looks so good!
I have a video idea. Make a sprite or scene at a resolution. Then upscale it so each pixel is now 2x2, and/or 3x3, and/or 4x4. Now you do one or both of fully updating the sprite to the new resolution (AKA smoothing out lines and such), or keeping the silhouette low resolution add “sub-pixel color”.
this turned out great!!!
You are just too good. Love it, videos are awesome
Pretty neat doood
Very very beautiful.
The sketches look better than my final art 😉
So pretty
Wow you are very talented my guy
Awesome
man thats amazing
Beautiful
You know, from a distance, it looks a lot like normal digital art!
this is sick
cute as fuck concept