Aseprite Tutorial - How to make a Pixel Art Stone Texture!

Today, we learn how to make a tileable stone texture in Aseprite!
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ABOUT TUTSBYKAI:
My name's Kai and I make tutorials and I occasionally post speed art videos! I hope I could teach you something today. If I did, please consider subscribing... so that you'll never miss another tutorial!

[@GwyndolinOwO]

i didn't even know Aseprite had a tile feature until now, thanks

[@TutsByKai]

Awesome! So glad I could help out! That tiled mode helps a billion and one times when creating tileable textures! :D

[@GwyndolinOwO]

also, how do you feel about people showing you what they made following your tutorial?

[@TutsByKai]

I'd love to see it! Shoot me a link and I'll take a look!

[@TutsByKai]

That is an awesome jelly bean tile, dude! I love jelly beans, not to mention pixel art jelly beans?! I'm in heaven :D

[@GwyndolinOwO]

TutsByKai thank you!

[@stavrosheisanam]

I'm not sure how but I watched this video once and all of a sudden I am drawing beautiful stones

[@Brian-uu7ki]

Great tutorial. Clean, concise and highly informational. thanks keep it up these are great!

[@TutsByKai]

Thank you a ton! I am so glad you like them! More soon :)

[@MarceloSantos-pt3hj]

Lovely tutorial! i never got into drawing of painting in terms of art but got pretty passionate about pixel art and am trying to learn! I always lived the style and your videos are incredibly helpful! i will be back many more times!

[@TutsByKai]

Well thank you very much! Yay! I'm glad that you enjoyed this so much! More is gonna be on the way soon! Always love diving into pixel art :)

[@RosenthalBros]

You are so talented at this! You should make a series of just making pixel art materials 😁

[@TutsByKai]

Haha! I am totally gonna do that!!! :D Sounds like a plan!

[@manicmillennial3287]

@@TutsByKai Please do!

[@O1NKery]

oh wow after I learned how to use shading ink, and seeing this, I'm having so much fun drawing patterns!

[@TutsByKai]

Yes! Saves a load of time :D

[@kevle3732]

Came here to learn tile set pixel art and also your background music is relaxing I keep visiting this video whenever I continue my practice :3

[@TutsByKai]

That's so awesome! Thank you so much! I'm glad you like the tutorial and the music! More pixel art coming soon! BTW I may just have a music tutorial or two coming soon too XD

[@DrBerryMC]

I subbed because this video was so helpful in so many ways, so I thank you!

[@alvarowwx]

I just can't belive how good this is. AWESOME WORK! Thanks for sharing. +1sub

[@TutsByKai]

Thank ya for the support! I really do appreciate that :)

[@szwedu1113]

Woah! This tutorial helped me a lot! :D

[@TutsByKai]

Very glad I could help out 😊

[@zevon9035]

Awesome Stuff Brother !!!

[@nerfexus6942]

awesome video dude! i'm trying to learn pixel art and this video shown me a lot of things!

[@TutsByKai]

Awesome! Glad I could help!!! :)

[@Nasiruify]

Been using this video to learn bout tile textures from rocks to bricks and to water

[@persona3chainsawman]

This helped alot! thank you!

[@TutsByKai]

Thank YOU so much! Very glad I could help! :)

[@renatoaraujo4601]

congratulations! very cool,

[@cocasurfboards]

Awesome!

[@TutsByKai]

Thanks! :)

[@ninopepino7969]

Great tutorial!

[@TutsByKai]

Thank you pepino! :D

[@barax9462]

Q1- When should i use dithering instead of solid-color shading ? Q2- How to know which color should i use, i mean u used purple to color a rock, how to know when should i use unexpected color? i saw some people using blue to color mountains and it strangely fit lol.

[@TutsByKai]

Excellent questions! Dithering is usually down to preference. There's not really a specific time you should use it! :) I'm going to make a tutorial on pixel art colors... so stay tuned for that! :D

[@thefacelessvillain172]

This was very interesting thanks.

[@TutsByKai]

No problem! :)

[@CDev5022]

wow thanks

[@Revolyze]

Unfortunately Pyxel edit hasn't gotten an update in over a year now despite it being in beta. I was hoping we'd see the program evolve and get more standard features like Replace Color that you'd expect in any image editing program :/ Aseprite on the other hand while still being more mature, it still is getting updated. If you only want to use the tile editor that Pyxel has, Tiled Map Editor is free and a dedicated tool for that kind of stuff and can be straight up imported into your game projects like Unity.

[@TutsByKai]

I haven't tried Pyxel Edit yet. Had planned on it awhile ago, but never got around to it. Tiled and Godot are gifts from above! Been using them both for almost a decade! :)

[@armadillogod1846]

great video, tyvm

[@TutsByKai]

No problem! Glad you enjoyed! :)

[@armadillogod1846]

By any chance are you working on a similar tutorial for grass tiles? Something similar to this would be perfect. I'd be more than happy to give your video a share, definitely one of the best on youtube rn.

[@TutsByKai]

Yeah sure! I'd be happy to do that!! :D Aww, thank you so much! Many more tuts coming your way! :)

[@1MantisPhoenix]

"Not that abnormal" Love it hahaha :D I also love the fact that this feature what just shown to us FX on anything/? :) interested

[@TutsByKai]

Haha! I am so glad you enjoyed :D Oooooo! I don't think I know about that Edit, FX tool! I'll have to check that out!! Thank you, friend! :)

[@1MantisPhoenix]

@@TutsByKai awesome :D well Im a subscriber :D will be looking forward to when you do take a look there! :D thanks again

[@clarkmulvey4876]

Lit. Subscribed

[@TutsByKai]

Thanks pal! :D

[@uncountednumber1805]

Thanks this video helped out a lot but now i need help making a grass tile match a separate tile. Example being a grass tile matching a different half grass half road tile.

[@uncountednumber1805]

I'm making 32x32 terrain tiles. So would i start with a 64x64 and make individual 32 tiles on the 64 frame to help line them up.

[@TutsByKai]

Once you have the grass and path tiles. You could move the grass tile over the path tile, and erase the pixels of the grass tile... which will show the path tile underneath! Did that make sense :D

[@uncountednumber1805]

Kinda lol. I have finally figured out how to do such since then. Thanks for the help!

[@TutsByKai]

Awesome! Anytime :)

[@igrackoz588]

cooooooool!!!!

[@TutsByKai]

Thaaaannnnkkksss!!

[@thetechyboi]

Great tutorial! didn't work though for my art style as If I had epilepsy I would have had a seizure due to the speed of my character lmao

[@venogear3159]

Hello, one question always walk in my mind, how many color i should use?

[@TutsByKai]

There isn't a limit! Go crazy! My only advise would be... that if you use too many different colors, and over use shading... depending on the style you're going for - things may turn into an overshaded / over colored mess! For instance, I wouldn't recommend over coloring or shading a 8x8 pixel game or even a 16x16 or 32x32... but you can get away with a lot in resolutions like 128x128 :)

[@venogear3159]

​@@TutsByKai kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqurZ2tvqq16gMk Here is my last platformer tileset for unity, what you think? Any video what help me lvl up? Thx :)

[@TutsByKai]

This looks GREAT! Love it all! Though personally, I wouldn't have shaded the rocks as much as they are here - but that's just a silly art style preference of mine :D What are you worrying for?! You're a great pixel artist! :)

[@JayRondon]

how do you undo the very last thing u just did like that with the blue box?

[@TutsByKai]

I'm sorry, I don't know exactly what you're referring to :/ Last thing with the blue box?

[@RowingGameDev]

press "Ctrl + Z" that will undo your last action, "Ctrl + Y" will redo what you undid.

[@barax9462]

can do tutorial on water pixel art

[@TutsByKai]

Totally!

[@UB04_narezO4ki]

Little bit... Little BIT... LITTLE BIT! LIIITTLE BIIIIIT! :O

[@UB04_narezO4ki]

btw, thx for tutorial.

[@TutsByKai]

Hahaha glad you enjoyed it :)

[@jorjoy1210]

uhhh so whenever i draw, a line follows my mouse grid by grid until i let go off it, how can i turn this off to draw like you or dot by dot rather

[@TutsByKai]

The regular brush shouldn't do this. You must be on the line tool.

[@slima11NG]

This is looks like a back ground 🤔

[@JayRondon]

4:11 i dont think he realized that he didnt explain how to make it so our color pallet is like his where its one color. the default is the rgb or rainbow color from left to right. edit: for anyone wondering as well if you go to color spectrum its where he has his color when doing the tiling

[@TutsByKai]

Nothing changed at 4:11. I realize that I didn't explain how to change it to the color spectrum - this is because I didn't change it to the color spectrum, since it was still set to color spectrum from the last video :D This is not the default color mode, but what type of color picker you use does not matter, color is color - you can use anything to make your art :D

[@cocasurfboards]

Do you work in the games industry? ❤🎮

[@TutsByKai]

Haha! I wish! Dusting off my Java programming skills soon though ;D

[@cyruis20k18]

how to download asesprite?

[@TutsByKai]

Link in description.

[@ca5958]

why no anti anialisng tho

[@TutsByKai]

Anti-aliasing? There was, just not overkill ;D

[@ca5958]

i guess im someone who uses way to much aa. btw thank you for the vid it helped me a lot creating my texture pack Like a lot of aa

[@TutsByKai]

Haha! Can't blame ya! :D A Minecraft texture pack?! I love MC!

[@mityakarma]

No offense, bro. But to use both dithering and such a number of shades doesn't it seem too eclectic to you?

[@TutsByKai]

Nope. I was going for eclectic :D

[@JayRondon]

im assuming this video isnt for people who arent educated in art cuzz like anyone i got lost at 6:33 so i just started doing my own thing

[@TutsByKai]

What did you get stuck on? Changing colors with the 'replace color' feature? I'd love to help out :)

[@JayRondon]

@@TutsByKai yeah it was the "replace color part" i dont understand what any of those grids do when u where changing them around so i just half assed it and tried for a darker color but i was changing the color instead of making the original color darker etc

[@JayRondon]

@@TutsByKai also it would really be helpful if you did a video on making sprite sheets for games and then organizing running animations/idle/jumping animations instead of opening different files each time u want to make sprite sheets for one specific character. Thank you

[@TutsByKai]

Sprite sheets are fairly easy to do in Libresprite / Aseprite... I'll definitely add that too the list ;) I've been planning a FULL pixel art character anim / game asset creation series for awhile now... so stay tuned for that :)

[@doctorzoidberg3000]

When you make it looks easier...XD

[@TutsByKai]

It gets easier with practice :)

[@uhitsethan]

this guy deadass uses oprah

[@TutsByKai]

You get one and you get one and you get one.

[@bloodbitt]

It's a stone, Luigi, you didn't make it

[@dopplegangerdavid]

This guy sounds stoned.

[@TutsByKai]

I don't smoke :)