I have mad respect for pixel art artists, I like drawing city scapes and anime but I’ve been wanting to learn how to draw pixel art, something about simplifying the form is so difficult for me to do-so this video helped a lot! I wasn’t even sure where to start drawing
I find graph paper to be the most fun way to do pixel art, im nowhere near steady with my mouse. I also really respect pixel artists, Street Fighter 3rd Strike still leaves me in complete awe every time I look at it
just realized that i actually used to make pixel art since i was a little cyberpotato making "minecraft" inspired pixel art, i think art flows in my veins
I'm surprised.When you said you goal was 100 likes I was stoned! Your video quality is basically professional! I've seen Big channels with over half a million subscribers with a video quality (Not talking about image resolution but editing and presentation) worse than yours! You deserve WAY more subs man! Congratulations you've got talent on this!
Ahhhh thank you sooo much David! Appreciate that big time. It's a slow, but stray growth though so don't worry, we will get that silver button one of these days 😉
I have been drawing digitally for about 5 years now, but I only started pixel art like last year. I gotta say, pixel art taught me so much. Mainly the fact that art is a lot more about creating the illusion of a form than actually drawing the form. Implied meaning, that kind of thing. Like a nose doesn’t have to look like a nose per se, it just has to give the illusion of a nose when in context (on the face in most cases). So that’s my advice for beginners: give implied meaning in art a chance. It’s a lot stronger of a tool than it might seem.
That self-taught callout hit, yeah, hit pretty hard. It's not that I want to be "self taught", it's that I've never really learned to put in efforts into the basics and figured out how to study. I'm trying to figure that out, but it's really difficult seeing as college is also about trying to figure out how to study. I want to be an artist and I want to be good at things, but I simply can't figure these things out or put in the focus on my own. Honestly, being smart as a kid sucked.
wanna b smart -> buy smart books (WITH EXERCISES, THATS IMPORTANT) -> read -> do some exercises -> read -> do some exercises -> read -> do some exercises -> ... -> congrats, ur smart
@@megahomyak Interesting. Trying to learn programming with books was really hard. Then again, C is so old that maybe you do not need to worry about the shifting information and versions of the language.
Update: Thanks so much for everyone's recent support and if you guys could wishlist my upcoming indie game that would honestly mean the world! store.steampowered.com/app/1515330/Monster_Tribe/
Thx so much for the tutorial, I'll definitely be doing pixel art more often thanks to this. Your combo of good explaining, humour, and beautiful editing has earned you 1 sub!
I bought Aseprite because of you. I want to make games and I love art and I had no idea where to start. Even if things don't take off, I love to create. Thank you for making this video.
16 x 16 is a good size but more easy at start is 32 x 32 but the words are totally true that if you start detailing 16 x 16 it requires much lesser detail than others also using palettes at start is good hue shift at start is difficult 😅 also you can do that outline easily a tip from me is use a black color with alpha around 75 on it and yeah you got it
I love that a lot of these tips are basically the same for tradicional/digital art, too. The way you make the illumation, shading, and even your tips about references. Once i heard ``you cant make a professional work if you dont base your work on one of a professional``. The new thing for me was that you decreased the saturation at shadings. For some anime drawings, specially with characters, we even make it higher, to make it sexier and easier to see in the shadows. Its new to me the concept to increase the saturation at illumination, too. Ill test it to see how it looks.
I have been working on pixel art for over 3 years (probably more like 5) and never really studying references, although occasionally being inspired by the art of others. One thing I definitely lacked was a skill like you described on making a raw sketch in pixel art. I always went into full detail. When I worked by hand instead of computer (I do not use drawing tablets), I would not do outlines of my drawings either, but in pixel art, I did not even have a clue what I would do. I would try making a purely one color outline and it did not work too bad but it felt unnatural. Perhaps the hardest thing about using a reference is that I am often most impressed by animation which I have done very little work in because it is a bit hard to grasp when I should animate my art. It took me a while to realize that smaller pixel art canvases were good, but I still never used them quite the way you show here. I rarely filled them completely with an image, like I was doing a sprite. I also never tried going as low as 8x8 ever or 16x16 in my non-game project work. Probably the most inspiring pixel art I have seen was Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, but it is animation based, in a size probably quite large and hyper-realistic detail. It was a game that only a company with a good budget could make, especially those animations. I do not see how looking at a 4x4 pixel square of it will tell me how to make the art. One last thing that held me back was my environment being terrible so I could not work on my art 90% of the time.
It kind of helped. I think it's because I'm not really an artist, but still I'd love to have pixel art in my games so I will keep trying to make it good until it's ready
This is the first short pixel art for beginners I've seen that is actually for true beginners - every other one I've seen just explains how to use aseprite, great video!
@@ReeceGeofroy No problem man you really deserve it and I am just so so so so surprised on how man subs you had if I had money I would be a patron or a monthly payment you really deserve it
yeah, that was actually a really good tip. i don't think i wouldve came across that idea if i was just doing it self taught for maybe a long time. this video was really helpful, wonderful guy
That creating shadows and highlight was more than helpfull, not many will realise it how powerfull asset it is and it can be used anywhere not only in pixel art....
I'm a pixel artist and a regular artist and in both of them, my only problem is it's really hard for me to draw any body part other than the head. When I drew the body for the main character of the game I was working on, it looked really unnatural and I knew I couldn't work with that. I was planning on switching to HD sprites after a while anyways but it was still really hard to do.
Teaching is actuelly an excellent way to learn and/or keep information at an easy reach when retreiving it through the long term memory. It forces an individual to vulgarise ou dive deep into the thechnicallity of any given subject. By doing so, it allows the person to instantly understand what part of the information is still to be worked on. This sudden realisation is due to a logical fallacy where humans lean towards believing they understand stuff far better than they actually do. This works for just about anything. Great stuff.
@@ReeceGeofroy Not directly, but this kind of content help me a lot for my art. Recently, I'm trying to do pixelart animation with 3d software (blender) and your advices about color, shading and light are really great.
@@poussky3534 I'm really glad to hear that! Join the discord server to share you art with us and get some tips!! Really appreciate everyone who watches and enjoys the content I put out! ❤️
@@ReeceGeofroy I don't use discord a lot, but you can see my art on my channel. I posted two Pixelart animation already, and I plan to work on 2 or 3 more in the futur days. Some criticism are really appreciate.
LMAO yeah this video is a little cringe, but I'm glad you enjoyed it hahaha I have a better one that I posted on my channel recently if you are looking to get some more advice!
@@ReeceGeofroy I surely do, my good sir you explained my whole 2 years of self-taught pixel art in 10 mins, except I started with a browser called Piskel.
This video really helped get me started with pixel art so thanks! I just have one issue. I have no idea what on earth i should actually create, are there any specific things that a dummie like me can draw because i honestly have no idea
@@ReeceGeofroy yeah your pixel art is actually better then a lot of games, but l understand on maxing your skills out to be the best, I mean art is arguably the thing that attracts the most.
this video really helped me get over this idea I have that using references or trying to replicate work from others is "cheating". Definitely got my like.
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300 likes? nah 22k
Lol
$95 usd?? Overpriced..
@@verifyjack733 42k actually
@@Way2go926 Nah if its a good corse then its fair priced
"So I'm approaching this as if you don't know crap."
I've never been so offended by something I 100 percent agree with.
Hope you didn't actually take offense to anything my idiotic past self said 😂😅 It's all love here 💜
@@ReeceGeofroy it's a meme incase you didn't know.
nice meme reference
So many emojis
I read this as he said it...
Cross-stitching is also technically pixel art. Grandmas are the og pixels artists
Hell yea!
"welcome dummies"
thanks :D i feel so welcomed
LMAO 😂
🤣
Me getting Strait A's: 🤗
"Welcome dummies"
Me: 😵
@@Midorix_ smh not even straight A+++ /s
lol same
I have mad respect for pixel art artists, I like drawing city scapes and anime but I’ve been wanting to learn how to draw pixel art, something about simplifying the form is so difficult for me to do-so this video helped a lot! I wasn’t even sure where to start drawing
I find graph paper to be the most fun way to do pixel art, im nowhere near steady with my mouse.
I also really respect pixel artists, Street Fighter 3rd Strike still leaves me in complete awe every time I look at it
This dummy learned a lot. thanks!
Daniel, my son and father.
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Wow
@@ReeceGeofroy Reece, you are my father figure
just realized that i actually used to make pixel art since i was a little cyberpotato making "minecraft" inspired pixel art, i think art flows in my veins
Hahaha that's awesome man. Jeep going!
@@ReeceGeofroy j e e p
@@zefzaf.j902 j e e p
@@ReeceGeofroy J E E P
@@ReeceGeofroy *_J E E P_*
"No pixel should be randomly placed"
Me, who spams the noise tool: O-O
:P
LMAO
I.. abuse that thing
I'm surprised.When you said you goal was 100 likes I was stoned! Your video quality is basically professional! I've seen Big channels with over half a million subscribers with a video quality (Not talking about image resolution but editing and presentation) worse than yours! You deserve WAY more subs man! Congratulations you've got talent on this!
Ahhhh thank you sooo much David! Appreciate that big time. It's a slow, but stray growth though so don't worry, we will get that silver button one of these days 😉
@@ReeceGeofroy Just like pixel art. I'll slowly but steady improve my art until I get professional :D
@@davidtorazzi7650 love that 💜
@@ReeceGeofroy Gettin' closer to that silver mate
@@muchotexto4248 half wayyy
I have been drawing digitally for about 5 years now, but I only started pixel art like last year. I gotta say, pixel art taught me so much. Mainly the fact that art is a lot more about creating the illusion of a form than actually drawing the form. Implied meaning, that kind of thing. Like a nose doesn’t have to look like a nose per se, it just has to give the illusion of a nose when in context (on the face in most cases). So that’s my advice for beginners: give implied meaning in art a chance. It’s a lot stronger of a tool than it might seem.
Great insight! You are definitely on to something here 😁
Thank you for over 1K Subs Guys! Y'all are CRAZY! No sign of slowing down ;) Q&A Video Coming Next Week
YES
I've been doing pixelart for 3 years but I still enjoyed this video!
Awesome! Glad you liked it 🙃
I'm gonna sit back and watch how your editing has become better and better. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, sir! I appreciate thaaat!!!! :)
@@ReeceGeofroy *miss, I'm a girl
@@star-bj1wt WHHOOOOPS, MY BAD! Yes, ma'am!
@@ReeceGeofroy hehe
@@ReeceGeofroy That’s a yikes from me chief
I love pixel art and I never understand making it to now, I feel confident from this video, thank you!!!
AHHH that's awesome! Good luck on the progress!!!
I have some tutorials for you if you're interested. More simpler ones will come soon, so they might be ideal for you (:
i love how intuitive and easy pixel art is if you break everything and dont overwhelm yourself with detail
Glad you think that Gabriel! Take it one step at a time and keep practicing! 🙂
@@ReeceGeofroy yee
This video really came out at a time where 200 likes was big for him? I’m glad he has the attention that the effort in this video deserves.
Thanks Karrot! Means a lot :)
@@ReeceGeofroy I’d be happy with 10 likes 😊😂
That self-taught callout hit, yeah, hit pretty hard. It's not that I want to be "self taught", it's that I've never really learned to put in efforts into the basics and figured out how to study. I'm trying to figure that out, but it's really difficult seeing as college is also about trying to figure out how to study. I want to be an artist and I want to be good at things, but I simply can't figure these things out or put in the focus on my own. Honestly, being smart as a kid sucked.
wanna b smart -> buy smart books (WITH EXERCISES, THATS IMPORTANT) -> read -> do some exercises -> read -> do some exercises -> read -> do some exercises -> ... -> congrats, ur smart
@@megahomyak if only it was that simple
@@l_uminousss idk, when i was learning c, it was that simple
@@megahomyak good for you
@@megahomyak Interesting. Trying to learn programming with books was really hard. Then again, C is so old that maybe you do not need to worry about the shifting information and versions of the language.
5:55 Idc what you say, that's a purple turtle
LMAO!!!
With glasses, that is.
@@sven253 the glasses are the paws
@@goofyahhsergio paws... Bruh
@@goofyahhsergio paws....?
Update: Thanks so much for everyone's recent support and if you guys could wishlist my upcoming indie game that would honestly mean the world!
store.steampowered.com/app/1515330/Monster_Tribe/
Holy crap that's hilarious you just commented. I saved this vid for later and am now just watching it, good stuff so far dude!
Wait I use pixilart.com have you checked it out? (Currently I use it to make fakemon and basic scratch games cus I can’t code :p)
yes i subscribed to u
Done :)
Thx so much for the tutorial, I'll definitely be doing pixel art more often thanks to this. Your combo of good explaining, humour, and beautiful editing has earned you 1 sub!
AHHHH THANKS SO MUCH! Glad you enjoyed the video man!!!
4 years and this video came up first in the search engine, nice!
wanted to learn pixel art really quick and really enjoy the vibe. ive subbed before the tips and this is my first video. thanks for the effort!
Hope it helped!!! Good luck!
I bought Aseprite because of you. I want to make games and I love art and I had no idea where to start. Even if things don't take off, I love to create. Thank you for making this video.
For the size of the channel the quality is insane! You'd expect that at a channel with 1milion subs
Awee thanks so much man! However this tutorial is way outdated LOL I'll have to make a new, better one soon!
16 x 16 is a good size but more easy at start is 32 x 32 but the words are totally true that if you start detailing 16 x 16 it requires much lesser detail than others also using palettes at start is good hue shift at start is difficult 😅 also you can do that outline easily a tip from me is use a black color with alpha around 75 on it and yeah you got it
32x32 is not a good starting size
@@DeletedUserOfficial I think it is, makes me feel a lot less restricted even if you dont use it up that much
@@ValidT it’s opinionated
Soooo much important stuff in just 10 mins... Great Job Sir!!!
I love that a lot of these tips are basically the same for tradicional/digital art, too. The way you make the illumation, shading, and even your tips about references. Once i heard ``you cant make a professional work if you dont base your work on one of a professional``. The new thing for me was that you decreased the saturation at shadings. For some anime drawings, specially with characters, we even make it higher, to make it sexier and easier to see in the shadows. Its new to me the concept to increase the saturation at illumination, too. Ill test it to see how it looks.
Glad you found some use out of this!! Stay productive and keep learning :D
As a long-time pixel artist, these are really great tips for beginners! Even I learned some things!
thanks for including me in the title! :D
0:15 interesting fact, Dead Cells was actually animated using 3D models but then rendered down to pixels
Yeah, I saw that! It's actually really cool how it was made into pixel art AFTER being fully rendered in 3D!
I have been working on pixel art for over 3 years (probably more like 5) and never really studying references, although occasionally being inspired by the art of others. One thing I definitely lacked was a skill like you described on making a raw sketch in pixel art. I always went into full detail. When I worked by hand instead of computer (I do not use drawing tablets), I would not do outlines of my drawings either, but in pixel art, I did not even have a clue what I would do. I would try making a purely one color outline and it did not work too bad but it felt unnatural.
Perhaps the hardest thing about using a reference is that I am often most impressed by animation which I have done very little work in because it is a bit hard to grasp when I should animate my art. It took me a while to realize that smaller pixel art canvases were good, but I still never used them quite the way you show here. I rarely filled them completely with an image, like I was doing a sprite. I also never tried going as low as 8x8 ever or 16x16 in my non-game project work. Probably the most inspiring pixel art I have seen was Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, but it is animation based, in a size probably quite large and hyper-realistic detail. It was a game that only a company with a good budget could make, especially those animations. I do not see how looking at a 4x4 pixel square of it will tell me how to make the art.
One last thing that held me back was my environment being terrible so I could not work on my art 90% of the time.
HOW DID YOU EDIT THE COMMENT I WANT TO DO THAT PLS TELL ME HOW TO DO IT
@@kubikeel13 three button on top right, click edit
Dude. The fact you are actually asking for only 300 likes for such a well made video is honestly so humble for real
It kind of helped. I think it's because I'm not really an artist, but still I'd love to have pixel art in my games so I will keep trying to make it good until it's ready
This is actually really useful tips for Minecraft pixel artists. For example if you want to create custom item sprites. Thanks :)
This is the first short pixel art for beginners I've seen that is actually for true beginners - every other one I've seen just explains how to use aseprite, great video!
Man the way you edit and everything you do in your videos make me think you have over 100k
One day :D Seriously though, thank you. That means a lot man. Cheers!
@@ReeceGeofroy No problem man you really deserve it and I am just so so so so surprised on how man subs you had if I had money I would be a patron or a monthly payment you really deserve it
just saying, but the amount of subscribers doesn't correlate much with video quality
"Welcome dummies"
I feel so welcomed ^^
Thanks for the tutorial!
4:41 Very interesting detail regarding the HSV shifting alterating depending on if you're going darker or lighter and also the material too.
yeah, that was actually a really good tip. i don't think i wouldve came across that idea if i was just doing it self taught for maybe a long time. this video was really helpful, wonderful guy
Simple and informative. Epic video. Thanks!
Also the "Welcome dummies" made me feel like I was right where I belonged
just started learning how to draw from seeing all the wonderful fanart and getting a book about drawing pixel art. thanks for the video
Asprite is technically free if you build it yourself since the code is open source. There are tutorials online on how to do it
0:20 lmao that really reminds me of the Blackthornprod sound effect hahaha
Who knows? Maybe we use the same one? :P
Great vid as usual! Liked
THANK YOU Flickzy! GREATLY appreciate those who keep coming back to watch my videos!!!
I do hama beads and also crochet graphghans in crochet and use pixel art as my base (blocks basically work for crochet so easily!)
I'm a 13 year old kid trying to learn how to make pixel art for video games so this really helped me. Thanks for the vid man
Tysm, I’ve been struggling and this helped so much!
I love this guy, who's with me?
😆
Me!😍
Not gonna lie I was expecting more replies.🤣🤣🤣
That creating shadows and highlight was more than helpfull, not many will realise it how powerfull asset it is and it can be used anywhere not only in pixel art....
Your goal was 300 likes and I’m here 3 years later and you’re at 48k likes. You did it!
Did you just call me a dummy? 😠
Dummy sounds cute. :v
Your the one who clicked on the video 😭
Wait... I'm a dummy too, this will help
I am dumb
Yep
It smells like UNDERRATED IN HERE
Nice vid man gonna share this on a discord server
That would be amazing! I just released my updated 2021 version a few days ago 🤩💜
@@ReeceGeofroy oh Boy here I go Sharing again
"So please, it would mean the world to me if this video got 300 likes" that aged well
currently working on a game project as a birthday present for my little sister, thanks for the tips ! :D
Anytime! Good luck with it 🙂
I'm a pixel artist and a regular artist and in both of them, my only problem is it's really hard for me to draw any body part other than the head. When I drew the body for the main character of the game I was working on, it looked really unnatural and I knew I couldn't work with that. I was planning on switching to HD sprites after a while anyways but it was still really hard to do.
This was great! Thanks for all this information!
0:14 DEAD CELLS BRRRR
Great to see your progress and that it lift of someday for a real flight :))
Great stuff!
Thanks! Your devlog is well made man! Keep it up and you will grow quick! 😋
0:19 And cross-stitch embroidery!
ah yes 300 likes.
Getting there
Lol@@JosiahJames-h1c
53k :)
😅
54k
Great video! Im starting Unity which led me to wanting to make my own 2D pixel art and this was a great video to start with thank you.
Cool video dude!
Thank you man!! Appreciate it
Teaching is actuelly an excellent way to learn and/or keep information at an easy reach when retreiving it through the long term memory.
It forces an individual to vulgarise ou dive deep into the thechnicallity of any given subject.
By doing so, it allows the person to instantly understand what part of the information is still to be worked on.
This sudden realisation is due to a logical fallacy where humans lean towards believing they understand stuff far better than they actually do.
This works for just about anything.
Great stuff.
Fast forward 3 years later - this video has 39K likes and 0.5 million views!
Let's get this man to 300 likes!
Great vid ! Thank you.
Hope it helped !! 🙂
@@ReeceGeofroy Not directly, but this kind of content help me a lot for my art. Recently, I'm trying to do pixelart animation with 3d software (blender) and your advices about color, shading and light are really great.
@@poussky3534 I'm really glad to hear that! Join the discord server to share you art with us and get some tips!! Really appreciate everyone who watches and enjoys the content I put out! ❤️
@@ReeceGeofroy I don't use discord a lot, but you can see my art on my channel. I posted two Pixelart animation already, and I plan to work on 2 or 3 more in the futur days. Some criticism are really appreciate.
Dude, thanks for the multiple shout outs!
For some reason I'm good at drawing objects, items, etc., but when it comes to drawing something alive it always looks terrible. Idk why... xD
Me too, I can draw good for example a room, but when I draw dog then it's just do bad
Aight, I was sceptical at first but the bs part got me standing. Nice work man 👌🏾
LMAO yeah this video is a little cringe, but I'm glad you enjoyed it hahaha I have a better one that I posted on my channel recently if you are looking to get some more advice!
As a pixel artist myself I can approve everything he said without negligence or denial, this is infact how pixel art works.
Ahhhh awesome! I feel like I have learnt a lot since this video, but I'm glad you agree with it still!!!
@@ReeceGeofroy I surely do, my good sir you explained my whole 2 years of self-taught pixel art in 10 mins, except I started with a browser called Piskel.
@@ActualSpectra would love to see your work. If you have a discord you can connect with me on my server 🙃
I approve that tutorial
8:27 man that's the twitter art community these days
lol
They really love to "fix" other people art
I don't know any art😅 just bought aseprite to try and make assets for my game and I'm glad I found you.
This video really helped get me started with pixel art so thanks! I just have one issue. I have no idea what on earth i should actually create, are there any specific things that a dummie like me can draw because i honestly have no idea
this proves how far he has come
"If you get me 300 likes..."
8k,take it or leave it
LEAVE IT, LETS GO FOR 9! 🔥🔥🔥 (seriously though, thank you so much guys 😅💜)
Now it's ×2
@@تفاحةالماسية07 +1k
Thank you. This had some very helpful things to help me make my cross stitch patterns cooler.
"can we get to 300 likes??"
uh, i think you might be able to, but thats just a hunch
Oh god I have to save this before it (incase) gets deleted.
Glad you found this useful!! 🥳🎂
👍
I need names *OR ELSE*
Good tips 👍
"Can you guys drop 300 likes on this video please?"
Sees like count
>.>
Hahaha yeah, we went a little overboard on that one 😅💜
I respect anyone who does pixel art. But u teach people how. So u earn ULTRA YES RESPECT
Hahaha thanks Person 🙂
Teehee the premiere ended 69 seconds a go
Thanks for watching live, brother ;)
Nice
ahhaha funi numbar
Im such a dummy i needed to watch it 57 times to understand the first part 😮😮😮😮
And i can say it is very good and i learned how to pixel art
I use pixilart to make my art and even my profile picture
This is exactly the video I needed! Earned my sub thank you!
AHHH awesome! Good luck 👌
Me too. I've been searching for a video this descriptive. I'm so glad I found this channel.
Legends say Reece Geofroy will reply to this comment
The legends never lie...🤠🔥
@@ReeceGeofroy eeeeeeeeeeeee I'm so happy rn
Great tutorial bro, God bless.
Can you make a ebook on pixel art, I'll buy.
Wow thats freaking so nice of you mannn!!! Maybe when I get a bit of a bigger following and get my skills up to par.. 😂❤️
@@ReeceGeofroy yeah your pixel art is actually better then a lot of games, but l understand on maxing your skills out to be the best, I mean art is arguably the thing that attracts the most.
❤
Id buy it 🥲
I’m learning this to create an nft collection you are a true pioneer thank you🙏
Don’t steal my idea
He: ''I want just 300 Likes.''
Literally everyone watching his video: ''No.''
People who watching : 300 Likes? All we can do is 21k likes
Exactly what I was looking for, liked and subscribed, thanks dude!! ✌️😸🧡
"If you guys can drop 300 likes on this video..."
*Checks likes*
*OH*
Thank you for the help. I look forward to the future help
"If you guys can drop 300 likes"
gets 17,000 likes
I think we did it :D
@@ReeceGeofroy thank you for this video, it helped me a lot
this video really helped me get over this idea I have that using references or trying to replicate work from others is "cheating". Definitely got my like.
he got 300 likes
Love
I love being called a dummy right before I learn something new lol
LMAO Hope you don't take this to heart. Completely a joke 😅💜
@@ReeceGeofroy Lol of course!
Thanks for Tutorials :)