Aseprite Tutorial For Beginners (Pixel Art)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- Easy Aseprite tutorial for beginners where you will learn aseprite pixel art tools, tips, and workflow for making pixelart for any project.
In this video learn how to use Aseprite for pixel art. First, we start with the basic pixelart tools that all aseprite pixel art beginners and game dev artists should know, before advancing onto editing and selection tools, which are vital for creating pixel art easily. We finish off with a workflow showcase of how to do pixel art using my daily methods as a professional artist. This aseprite tutorial for beginners can also be used by experienced pixel artists to brush up on your skills and attempt any of the challenges I set during the video. Hopefully, in this easy tutorial, you can learn some nice pixel art tips.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:30 File Set-Up
00:57 Overview
01:52 Shortcuts
02:28 Canvas Navigation
02:52 Basic Drawing Tools
07:02 Basic Layer Options
08:28 Canvas Settings
09:36 Advanced Drawing Tools
10:35 CHALLENGE 1
10:59 Selection & Transform Tools
13:20 CHALLENGE 2
13:48 Mass Editing Options
16:05 CHALLENGE 3
16:26 The Ultimate Donut
22:03 Exporting Your Work
22:56 DONUT MAN REVENGE! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
As a Blender user, I salute your choice of a donut as your first workpiece.
Hahah yes this was heavily inspired by blender gurus amazing tutorials :)
As a blender user and pixel art learner, i salute
I like the fact that blender tutorials are also usually made using a donut.
haha yes lots of inspiration from Blender Guru :D
36 years coding, but I look at pixel art and my brain goes to mush. This has helped a ton for my personal project I been developing, as I been using place holder circles and squares as pixel art due to having zero confidence. Shall be utilizing your channel a lot with all the good information you have on pixel art. Thanks for the TH-cams!
Glad it could help Tanvaras :D Keep going, it's one of those things that takes time to get used to I think, but you got this!!!
If I can, I'd also definitely recommend Brandon James Greer. Him and Saultoons are fantastic for learning, though Brandon is a bit looser when it comes to teaching, you have to know how to analyze stuff to get the full benefit.
do you code in scratch? like me?
@@saultoons but scratch has coding BLOCKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSS! what I'm saying is its reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly easy
btw I'm asking @tanvaras9961
If the symmetry options aren't showing for you like they are at 10:00, click 'View' then click 'Symmetry options'
Good tip!!
Lifesaver, thank you!
i was looking for that, thank you!
Thank you so much!
I was like... what symmetry tool!?!? 🤣
If your symmetry options aren't showing, go into the view menu to activate them.
Thank you!
thanks mate!
thank you!!
banana thank you very much! my deepest gratitude
THANK YOU SOO MUCH
I am a senior from Taiwan
Although I am not major in department of art, have no painting basic, but I really like pixel art so much and would like to try it
And recently I start to practice with Aseprite
Your tutorial video really helps me a lot, thanks so much!
Hey JWW, art and pixel art you can get into at any time in your life, it's great that you're learning and trying to share your experience through art :D Keep it up!
Can we get more pixel art tutorials for fresh beginners
Of course Rock It !! More to come :D
@@saultoons 😎😎tqs
really nice Tutorial :D
I like that you went into detail on how to navigate through this, oftentimes people just give you tips on how to draw well and not what all the shortcuts are
This was one of the best lessons for doing pixel art ever. As a newbie, I'd really like to see more of these types of learn how to do art and pixel from scratch for beginners. I'd contribute to a patreon for this type of content.
I'm glad I could help Tyler, will definitely be doing more tutorials in the future. I do have a Patreon, but it's really to support all my projects, some of which will be tutorials :)
This is an amazing tutorial! Super clear and interactive, what’s more to ask for? Thanks for creating this it’s super helpful for beginners like me who’d like to learn how to do better pixel art, will definitely be seeing more of your channel!
Thanks Marphy I'm glad you like the video
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. I'm being on and off with pixel art lately and your video is a perfect way to get back on track fast. Lots of love from Turkey.
I found you like a few minutes ago and I have to say, your tutorials already look veeeery helpful. So informative and also great video editing. I am for sure going to watch you more :)
I really love this type of videos/Tutorials.
You show the tools and a quick demo how it applies without 10 hours of boring theory.
Glad you liked the video Nikolay thanks for watching :)
This was a fantastic tutorial. Covered all of the basics, then gradually expanded into more complex ideas. Covered best practices, industry lingo, and common problems that people experience. All presented in a clean, clear, and fun donut-filled experience.
Thanks for the kind words Samuel :D
Just finding your videos, they're exactly what I need! Working on my own game in Godot and I've never done art before, so I'll be using this video and your animation tutorial to help get me there. Thanks!
Your videos and tutorials are soooooooooo good!
Your channel needs more attention.
Thanks so much Netherbrine! Appreciate the love. More videos on the way 😄
Why is no one talking about the donut boss?
He is pretty funny, and his voice has a really nice effect xD Really great addition to the tutorial, I hope we can see him again around xD
haha thanks Amodeus, the donut boss might make a return, who knows :'D
@@saultoons I'm doing a blender tutorial making donuts and with pixel art too xd
Hey! I really love your tutorials and your cartoonish style! Please keep it up :)
Hey! Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoy them. Are there any specific videos you'd like to see? :D
@@saultoons Please make a video about colored outlines, that's my weak point, by the way, I've posted my homeword on discord :D
Coloured outlines, yes! This will be as part of my pixel art style and techniques video I have planned for the future :D Thanks for the suggestion
Thank you!! This is one of the best 'art' tutorials I've ever watched. Clear, concise and with excellent info'. :)
Nice tutorials, i have a friend that is starting on this. I'm going to share it with him since the video is really easy to understand, plus the activities. Great work as usual!
Thanks so much Reddmar, for subbing for so long so far, and for sharing with your friend! I hope he finds it useful. Appreciate the support
@@saultoons it's always a pleasure! I know he will find it useful
This right here made me go and buy Aseprite. Thank you so much for this video, very informative and straight to the point! :)
Let's go Caleo!!!! Best of luck with your learning adventure, any questions please dont hesitate to ask :D
@@saultoons Thank you! I also have some questions that I hope you are able to answer if you don't mind :)
When I got to the part where I had to use the magic wand tool, I had created 2 groups like you did in the video and I flattened both, but when trying to select a color it instead select the whole square with the donut in it. I tried changing tolerance and contiguous but that didn't seem to do anything either. What am I doing wrong here?
Also, what would you recommend when making pixel art? Keeping as much as possible on one layer or seperating layers with color, lineart etc?
Cause I tried making lineart on one layer then making a new layer with color but when trying to use the paint bucket tool it just colors in the entire thing, is that because I need to make sure the lineart layer is the top layer? :)
@@CaleoGaming sad ending
This is an incredible intro to Aseprite, thank you so much. Informative, exceptional explainations. Looking forward to more vids!
No worries at all I'm glad it could help! :D
Really clear and easy to follow tutorial, editing and animation was fantastic too! Keep up the great work man!
Thanks kaithebox, I'm glad I could help! :D
This is one of the top three best art program tutorials I have ever encountered. You, sir, are an excellent teacher. The pace of the video and order of introduction of topics make it very easy to follow and learn the material. Thanks so much for this video.
You're welcome Wallis! It was definitely a big process figuring out what order to do things in, and figuring out what challenges to do along the way to reinforce the learning, so I'm glad it's appreciated! :) I'll definitely be making more tutorials in the future, I'm actually halfway through the next one, but as you can imagine they're a big undertaking, so I will probably get out some shorter/easier to produce videos in the meantime :D
Thank you so much for this! Made my life easier! I love the little challenges you added in the tutorial. Keeps it interesting! 😎👍
Also, this is completely unrelated, but your voice and accent kind of reminds me of Brackeys. He's one of my fave game dev channels here in TH-cam too. You're both great at teaching stuff! Keep up the good work! 😁👏
Hi Christine! Thanks for the kind words I'm glad the tutorial could help you out. The next episode in this series should be releasing... today? ;'D
Haha yes people have said that before, I think it's in the way we say things. I watched a lot of Brackeys tutorials, they're so good, so maybe that's where I picked it up from :D
THANK YOU! Your content is really positive and helpful.
I loved when you said "don't worry if this is too much, you've done so well already" and I know you were just saying it but it really felt nice.
Yeah I try to put a lot of info in my videos, and it's info I've learnt over a long time so it's crazy to try and absorb it all at once haha, keep doing you and putting the effort in and you'll get where you want to be, it's not a race either
This is without a doubt one of, if not, THE BEST tutorial video I've ever come across. No nonsense filler, or hand holding. Just quick and thorough explanation allowing the viewer to pause and jump back at their own pace. The density is so refreshing. Pls make a tutorial for everything in existence. Fantastic teaching style dude. Subbed.
haha not sure about making a tutorial for everything in existence, but I'm glad you enjoyed this one :D Perhaps more in the future? We shall see :D
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Have to agree. Very professional tutorial.
I loved this so much! Thank you! Can't wait for more ♥
Thanks Mibu, so glad it could help :)
Excellent video format! It's fun, you cover every important feature needed, you deliver solutions to problems right as they appear, you give an opportunity to practise with challenges... Thank you!! 😊
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching
Thanks for the basics. Got it compiled yesterday and now i have my first aseprite file! =)
you got an amazing channel, man! thanks for the tutorials!
pixel art is something that I love and I'm learning a lot from your videos!
Thanks Rick's I appreciate you
I just got Aseprite for a project I'm working on, but getting familiar with the UI can be difficult in some cases. This tutorial summed up basically everything I needed to get started with pixel art. Massive respect
No problem at all, thanks for watching Ties, good luck with your project :D
Such a good tutorial. Easy to follow, fun, and super useful! You got yourself a new subscriber.
Thanks for the kind words Marion :D Glad you found it fun and useful, appreciate you subbing
thank you so much for covering the file saving in this video!! i have watched numerous aseprite tutorials in the past two days and not a single one covered the work saving process. should've come to this video immediately because you explained everything so well and you are so encouraging 😭❤️ cannot wait to start working more on aseprite!! thankyou
You're very welcome, thanks for watching and sharing some kind words :D Best of luck with your work!
This is the best aesprite tutorial I've seen, nice work
Hi there! I've made it my new years resolution to try and learn Pixel Art, I've always loved it and wanted to try it so I thought it would be a fantastic time to try it out, your Tutorials are really helping me understand some of the basics so I just want to say thank you!
No problem at all, best of luck with your resolution, keep going!!!!
Hi, I just wanted to say how useful this tutorial is. I am new to pixel art and I am motivated to create art thanks to this video and I keep coming back to rewatch it multiple times since is so informative and is an amazing reference if there is something I want to do but forgot how to do it. You are of great help and I really appreciate it.
No worries at all, thanks for watching and best of luck with your art!
Fantastic tutorial. Can't believe this doesn't have more views! Thank you and keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot gosakurago :D I'm glad it was helpful
This is one of the best tutorials for anything I have ever seen. Appreciate you for putting it out there.
Thanks for the kind words Brian, best of luck with your learning
I never seen this helpful and clean tutorial. Thank you. By the way this software is so easy for beginners and cheap. I love the 8bit style of it.
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you found it useful
10 ish years using paint tool sai and i go to aesprite and it feels like I just started drawing. The pacing and little story you used to help teach made this SOOOO EASY. oml thanks so much for the tutorial!
No worries at all, glad I could help! The jump from digital art to pixel art can be a bit daunting, check out my Ultimate pixel art video for some insight into the common techniques used, could speed up your learning a little bit :D Best of luck :)
This is one of the best tutorials i've seen for any art related software, great job. It's very helpful for me as a beginner to Aseprite.
Glad it could help pinnacle thanks for watching!!!
great tutorial there are many youtube tutorials that use actual teaching techniques like giving us challenges to try before moving on it's actually refreshing
Thanks Invoke, yeah I learn better when there's exercises or challenges to complete so thought I'd include them in my tutorials! Can feel like watching a PowerPoint presentation otherwise I think :'D
This really helps me a lot as a beginner .Thanks man , I can't thank you enough.
No problem, glad I can help! :)
This tutorial is amazing! Even though I don't use aseprite (maybe I will one day,) this video is great to watch! I'm looking forward to your future content, keep it up dude!
Thanks so much ALEXII, the tools and tips are actually quite universal between art programmes, so there should be some overlapping knowledge in there if you watch the video. What software do you use? :D Appreciate all the love and support
These are in my opinion enough tools to "kind of" noob -> senior achievement in Aseprite. Great job, congratz!
Really well delivered and precise. No bull. One of the best tutorials I've seen.
You should do tutorials of more stuff. Anything.
Most likely will have some more tutorials in the future, got a little burnt on them last year so gonna be mixing it up with some fun videos too :)
Great tutorial, you've gained a subscriber 😊 keep going on Aseprite Tutorial, i hope you get more views and subscribers
Thanks Kang! There will definitely be more tutorials in the future :)
I am a game art major in my freshman year of college with no pixel art experience. I wanted aseprite to expand my art style and getting it was a bit overwhelming. Thank you so so so much for creating such a easy to follow tutorial. I will definitely be watching your other ones too 🥰
Glad I could help, best of luck with college :D
@dot EXE Not many but art colleges sometimes do. I go to Columbia College Chicago :)
Just picked up Aseprite so this was a great help, thank you!
This was pretty awesome, concise, to the point but fun, great stuff!
thank you so much. doing pixel art for the first time and it came out great. Great tutorials even though i lack the creativity to make 5+ unique doughnuts just made 2 still very beginner friendly tutorial thank you
No problem Ricx, nice job making your donuts :D
Never thought i would be making my own game art. Thank you
YOU CAN DO IT COUCH POTATO!!! :D
completely new to pixel art, Asprite, and drawing really, and this tutorial has helped me a lot. explains everything in an easy to understand and process way as well as making sure we retain the information. definitely subscribing and checking out your other vids later. Keep up the great work
Sir! Excellent tutorial series. Im starting down the path to build a retro-style game inspired by my kid, and this was an excellent start to that journey! You have earned a Patreon sub!
Thanks Dan I appreciate it! I don’t post much to Patreon these days but I appreciate the support ❤️
This was really helpful!! Got my first job a while ago involving making pixel sprites for a game, and although I was confident in my drawing abilities, I had no experience in pixel drawing. This was such a clear video and made pixel art a whole lot less scary and daunting. Thank you so much :) ❤
No problemo! Congrats on the job :)
I love this humor, very good tutorial!
Thanks a lot Deniz, I appreciate you watching!
You are honestly the best art teacher since Art Attack
hahaha art attack was amazing, got nothing on Neil
This was truly an incredible tutorial, you dude deserve a bloody medal.
Thanks for this vid man. learned a lot. I dont know but seems I'm getting hooked into pixel art
You ask and you shall receive... Sometimes. Here's the Aseprite Tutorial! There's also some Challenges in there for more experienced pixel artists, check out the TIMESTAMPS!
I have also opened a Patreon if you want to support the channel please consider checking it out - www.patreon.com/saultoons 😀
Hope you enjoy the video and learn something new!
Really useful, thank you!
No problem, I'm glad it could help!
This is absolutely great. A lot of things that I didn't know is possible in Aseprite and I now understand them easily. Thank you for the video
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching
You are such a great teacher though< I'm new here and just getting into all of this but the simple way you explain things and the exercises you give to help us fully understand and practice the concept is so great. I feel like you're myt favorite youtube university lectrurer.
OOOOOOOOH THANK YOU MAN 😭😭
Any time! Hope it can help, what else would you like to see? :D
@@saultoons Certainly an Aseprite Animation Tutorial, what do you think?
Pass by pass, starting from complete 0
Please 🙏🥺
Of course yes, Aseprite is great for animation and will definitely do this :}
@@saultoons I'm waiting!!! Please do it!!! 😎😎😎
@@saultoons aseprite is getting updated soon to include tile set features. maybe do a video on that when its out??
Therapist: Elongated saul isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Elongated Saul: 1:12
It was all a ruse!!!
This is one of the greatest tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you for this :)
No problem at all Yalin, thanks for watching :)
I wish one could add pictures to the YT comments :D Then I could show you the ugly donuts I made alongside you with your tutorial which is great by the way! :)
That would be cool huh, adding pictures. Maybe they should add that :o Thanks for taking part in the tutorial Sera-chan :D
Just Such a good tutorial, it was just easy to get those tools going. ALSO, did you get the donut idea from the blender tutorials??
Yes I love Blender Guru and the donut is the perfect shape for the basics of pixel art also haha
That's what I was thinking too haha! Donut tutorials are always there to help us :'D
Amazing!! thank you for the start up!! I'll hope to become a great artist one day.
Actively getting through this tutorial. Super hype! Whenever I think there's a plot hole, he seems to answer it in the next portion! Superb! Thank you!
Plot holes 🤣🤣🤣 love it.
In Germany we say "Ehrenmann"
I googled it! Thank you :D
@@saultoons You inspired me to make pixelart
Awesome!!!! I hope it goes well 😄 feel free to join the discord and share your work if you like. Lots of people there to help out
@@saultoons ok
Kinda sound like 'honorary man' ;)
I have to get back into asprite, it's hard leaving Photoshop .
Hey, whatever works best for you :) I find them quite similar, apart from I prefer Aseprites animation tools
VERY NOICE TUTORIAL!!!!! I finished it in one go, Thank you very much for this.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching
Wow this is so useful! and thanks again for the raid on twitch man! and the lurk and follow! , glad you sorta sneaked in yourself there to promo this tutorial haha, this tutorial is super useful didn't even know most of these features existed. I will definitely save this tutorial to go back to check on when im am getting lost ^^
Thanks FrostSnail, and no worries at all, saw you were working on some pixel art so decided to send the community through! I'm glad the video could help :D
Huh I dont even use aseprite and this helps
Yeah there should be some overlapping knowledge for other software too because art software is so similar :D What do you use? :D Or just chopping wood for your Beaver dam?
I am actually on mobile which makes a lot of things harder,but ther eis this app that is very similar to aseprite called pixel studio
Yes I've used Pixel Studio it's great! I'd recommend Dotpict too on mobile if you can try it, it has a unique but nice drawing method :)
Cant see the symmetry button??
- First you have to make the symmetry controls visible going to View > Symmetry Options menu, and then you will see the symmetry buttons. Your welcome :3
YES!
Thank you! :)
thank you for this video!! I really like that you added challenges to your vid so i can also try it on my own :)
Have fun!
best tutorial I've ever watched on youtube hands down!
Thanks Vazzero 🥰
This was fantastic, thank you for the effort you put into this. I just purchased Aseprite after watching this. Good work!
Great to hear Brian, thanks for watching and best of luck with your learning!
Loved the tutorial, it was SUPER good. Thanks dude!
No problem, thanks for watching
I am re-watching this and to be honest, I've seen many youtubers on various things but YOU sir are my favorite! You're very good at explaining, you're hilarious at times, you make it very fun and easy to understand. I never understood pixel art and I started out at drawing anime in clip studio paint. I'm not that good and normally I follow a template or something but after watching your videos I feel more confident that I can accomplish my goals! Thank you for making such awesome tutorials and please please PLEASE don't stop doing it!
Thanks so much for the kind words J Mott! I enjoy teaching and I'm glad so many people can get some usefulness from it, my current goal is to finish the game I'm working on but I'm learning a bunch while doing that so hopefully I can pass that on as I go :D Best of luck with your pixels!
I wanted to use Aseprite in a casual way and wanted some good tutorial. I tried some but they were more intimidating and confusing than I wanted but you sir are the one that made me motivated into making some sprites. Your video was honestly very informative, straight to the point, and pleasant to watch!
Glad it could help AxHell, thanks for the kind words. Best of luck with your learning journey :D
so creative! i watched many tutorials but so far this is the best
Thanks Paulina! Glad you liked it :)
Just subscribed, your pixel art tutorials/videos and stuff are really good/helpful :D
Thanks so much, I'm glad you find them helpful :}
This was so so helpful ♥ I loved your channel!!
Thanks Keeza :D Glad it could help :D
Amazing tutorial, best ive found!
This is my fav tutorial! I'm new to aseprite but after 20 minutes, I'm used to it now! ty for this amazing tutorial!!
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching :D
Beautiful tut! Probably the best on you tube, thank you!
Glad you think so! Appreciate you watching and commenting :D
This is what I actually believe is Content Creator and not some weird stuff on the net..
Thank you, I actually started today doing Pixel Art research because of this video which appeared as one of the best for beginners!
Thank you again! :)
Thanks for the love Ignacio, best of luck with your art journey
Thank youuuu sooo muuuch for this tutorial, it really helped me a lot!
Glad it could help, thanks for watching!
Thank you for this awesome video! I've just decided to start creating pixel art and your vedio makes it easier! :D
Glad I could help! :)
That's really helpful!!! Great job!!
Thank you for this awesome tutorial with fun exercises !!! :)
Just getting started with pixel art, thanks for the great starter tutorial!
No problem good luck on your journey :)
These are awesome pointers some of them are going to improve my workflow, thank you for making this video
No problem! Best of luck :D
I just got Aseprite and this was super helpful, thank you so much! Now onto watch your animation tutorial :D
Have fun!
I love pixel everything, first time trying this. Thank you my man
Glad I could help! Good luck with your pixels :D
Ive been using aseprite without knowing much of how the tools work. your videos are very helpful. thank you so much.
No problem!
thank you so much dude, your tutorials are the reason I finally started to do the pixel art I needed, if I ever get to actually release a game you're gonna be on the credits
Thanks so much for the love