20 Tips for Making Better Pixel Art

[@MeniMenoHello]

Your pixel art is absolutely gorgeous!!! Thank you so much for enlightening us with your knowledge in such a well crafted video!

[@apoxfox]

@@MeniMenoHello thank you and likewise!!! Can’t wait to see more of your pixie tree 🧚🌳

[@RobinsonPixels]

100%. I love your design philosophy. The rules are important to learn, and great for focusing your craft, but at the end of the day the fun factor is vital

[@mistery8363]

8:59 protip: most old consoles had different palettes for backgrounds, platforms, player characters and non-player entities

[@apoxfox]

Great tip! That would be a perfect way to separate a scene

[@Road_to_Dawn]

4:14 I’ve got an example I want to share in connection with this. I’ve got a game I’m starting drawing characters for and I had an idea of what I wanted, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I want to fit the characters within generally 36x48 dimensions, but I also wanted them to be very expressive with the eyes as their most important feature, and to have an almost chibi style to them, but with longer arms and legs that look like they could fight. It seemed impossible to have both of those main points at the same time. I kept looking at a lot of other sources for inspiration. Iconoclasts is one of the biggest sources of inspiration for my game, but their eyes are two pixels tall. Momodora was closer, but still not quite detailed enough for me. And then I remembered Freedom Planet, and I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it sooner! I’m not making a Sonic-style game, and I don’t want to copy their style too closely, but just how they do Lilac’s eyes is exactly what I wanted. Big and expressive, but without sacrificing too much real estate so as to not be able to incorporate some detail into the rest of the body, or even the rest of the head. I still changed my character’s eyes a bit further from from Lilac’s as I didn’t want it to be too reminiscent of Sonic - just have decent sized eyes, thick eyelashes, and a distinction between sclera, pupil, and iris.

[@delite3401]

Coming back to this video Your insights were extremely helpful, good sir! Helped me made a lot of cool stuff^ I hope I make a game with a great artstyle soon

[@BigBossRazz]

Great tips! Thanks for sharing!

[@apoxfox]

Thanks for watching!

[@pxlwiz4u]

Super stuff, dude. Thanks.

[@Namilinamain]

great video! can i ask whats the game at 2:24 the animations of the girl with the red weapon look so good!

[@Shaiandra]

That's _Momodora: Moonlit Farewell_ .

[@Namilinamain]

@@Shaiandra tysm!

[@sixty5notch796]

Ok this is less with the actual creation and more how you implement it, kind of part of the consistancy rule but always scale your pixel art the same in engine!!! Pixel art should creaate the illusion that your looking into a world through a low res camera, and the individual pixels being different sizes shatters this illusion.

[@apoxfox]

This is a great tip!!!

[@sixty5notch796]

@@apoxfox thx! Ive seen it on other pixel art tip videos and ive seen how jank it can look, imo this is very important

[@pxlwiz4u]

I watch videos on pixel art daily and it’s difficult to wrap my head around shading.

[@OnlyPoison]

Hey! great video! when you were talking about layers, what software were you using? Is that Godot?

[@Road_to_Dawn]

That was a program called Aseprite, a free art program exclusively focusing on pixel art! I definitely recommend it, it’s pretty widely used among pixel artists and indie game devs.

[@DarkSimplu]

amazing video

[@BlackKatto]

Cool and useful Channel 👍

[@Dragonbytess]

What is the name of the color pallete that you use?

[@ElfabetExists]

7:21 bettep shading

[@Hosein_sunflower]

god bless you

[@banalsigmayouwishuwas]

can you please credit the guy who did the pixel art tarot cards? he has a very small following and i think it would be nice edit: his name is pixel den.

[@apoxfox]

@@banalsigmayouwishuwas lmao that’s my second channel, appreciate you pointing it out tho!

[@banalsigmayouwishuwas]

@@apoxfox oh my b

[@etnumgaws8491]

whats the game at 2:22?

[@OnlyPoison]

Momodora: Moonlit Farewell. that's the second game, first one is called momodora reverie under the moonlight

[@dailydoodle42]

Can I join the discord even if Im not a dev just a pixel artist

[@apoxfox]

Of course, everyone is welcome! Plenty of people in the discord are artists too, link is in the description :)

[@Dagan474]

I dont know if i should learn pixel art from 0 for my indie game, or maybe just pay a someone to do it

[@prestonharris7406]

learn yourself, it never works out paying someone else

[@leamalex-h7l]

thx o v

[@leamalex-h7l]

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