Constructing Lines and Curves in Pixel Art (Tutorial)

[@Orygiri]

Me: Constructing a circle Him: Take care and keep it square Me: *Got it.*

[@VirtuaVirtue]

wouldnt that be dot art

[@NitroNovaMusic]

For GIMP users, the line drawing feature in Aseprite is also present in this software, as well.

[@NitroNovaMusic]

If you get proficient with it, you can use the line drawing feature to draw all the curves and paths you want with single-pixel thickness.

[@BJGpixel]

@@NitroNovaMusic Ah so it is, very cool! Can you get it to plan out curvature of a line as well? Like using anchor points but with pixels?

[@NitroNovaMusic]

@@BJGpixel You can, as long as you're cool with doing the cleanup! Use the path tool to create multiple anchors as you would in Photoshop (and just like photoshop you can return to a path you created in the paths dockable dialog and keep making changes). Then, while you're editing your path, you can go to the Tool Options dialog and select the Stroke Path button. A new dialog will appear to configure how GIMP will paint this path. True, you can use the Stroke Line option and specify a 1.0 line width, but I figured out a way that vastly decreases the amount of doubles that odd curves produce. The best results I got were when I selected "Stroke with a Paint Tool." If you have your pencil tool set to a pixel brush, the software will place pixels exactly along the path you set. The only flaw with this is that you will undoubtedly create some jaggies. It's great for planning the *exact* curve or zig-zag or outline that you are visualizing, as long as you are okay with spending time on cleaning up the occasional double. You can also use this tool for fills or even selecting according to path (not that I actually use the paths tool for that lol).

[@BJGpixel]

@@NitroNovaMusic wow that's really cool, thanks for the detail! I might have to get back into GIMP and try this out, or dig deeper in Photoshop to experiment. I actually normally build by hand or use circle shapes sometimes so this could improve my workflow!

[@thatboredinternetwanderer140]

@@BJGpixel I wonder if there are bezier curves in gimp...

[@kekman2115]

I LOVE THAT FONT AAA should be on Google docs

[@hxgonic]

ash4raf what is it?

[@imamincraftboi7164]

Hxgonic it’s a app by google

[@phoenixsspark6150]

In my opinion it looks a bit like the duck game font

[@chillshobe8147]

@@imamincraftboi7164 I think they meant the font

[@hxgonic]

I’mA MincraftBoi yeah i didnt mean google docs i meant what the *font* is

[@dako5005]

I just recently got interested in pixel art myself to try something new, I'm at the stage of aquiring knowledge and I have to say, that from all the stuff on pixel art on KZbin, in my opinion your videos are the most informative, well made and fun. Keep up the good work, I hope this channel will grow fast.

[@BJGpixel]

Hey thanks so much, I appreciate the support and I'm glad you find the videos useful and fun! From your perspective as a beginner, are there any kinds of videos/topics you'd like to see that haven't been covered anywhere?

[@dako5005]

Yes, I would really like to know the most efficient way to animate a pixel art character. There is literally a couple of decent quality vidoes on that on YT but those are mostly very basic stuff like idle animations. I would love to see a step by step tutorial on a sword swing animation for example. How about using your Darth Vader sprite for this? :)

[@BJGpixel]

@@dako5005 Yes that's a great idea! I'll have to come up with some easy way to present that, thanks for the suggestion :D

[@norrickm1756]

As a programmer I've always dreaded doing the art for my work. These types of videos have made me dread the art portion of things a little less. Keep up the good content 😊

[@ilovemunchingpine]

Yeah

[@ahmadasfour6715]

Same. I have trouble making good sprites for my projects.

[@georgebrown1407]

Minecraft has been teaching me the fundamentals of pixel art without me even knowing it

[@louis-we8du]

oh

[@Azealothe]

I legit have just recently got into pixel art and have been thinking now how would I build this in Minecraft 🤔

[@furupoweru1899]

Great vid, great channel, great art

[@sluggknight7130]

I'm gonna use this tips more for minecraft than pixel art

[@lightninjohn5651]

Minecraft is just 3D pixels

[@bobelpatron4280]

@@lightninjohn5651 Pixels 16x16

[@tl1882]

@@lightninjohn5651 so voxels

[@lav-kitty]

Minecraft IS pixelart depending on what you're doing

[@Minecraft101ToonLink]

As someone who used to work on textures in Minecraft resource packs, I can confirm that these tips are helpful. Sadly, I had to learn about all of this by myself since documentation on texture making in Minecraft wasn’t as prevalent back in 2012 as it is now. But it did help kickstart me into the world of graphic design, even if I’m never going to be an expert at it.

[@YaraVMori]

I love the way your videos are structured, really comprehensible and helpful!

[@Tutterzoid]

3:15 Love the Jet Car :)

[@cuboembaralhado8294]

5:33 yeah i agree, altough removing the spikey pixels fom it makes it looks like a octagon

[@vinzenzdeanson4946]

You know its funny when you're staring at a screen for hours making a pixel asset and then you go visit your nana only to find that she's 1000× better at sprite work because she's been doing cross stich for the past 50 odd years!😅

[@denesszendelbacher5405]

I feel like everyone who plays minecraft should already know this...

[@jackbudi]

I feel as someone who plays Minecraft I always fail at these

[@toncotrovac5541]

Exactly

[@classifiedinformation2388]

that's actually why i'm watching this video >>

[@LuisKar_01]

That's why I'm sharing this video with a friend

[@comit8077]

That’s... ...why I’m here -General Kenobi

[@canaldohector]

I like to use "regular jaggies" to achieve other line angles, for example: alternating 2 and 1 pixels to get a line between the 1 pixel line and 2 pixel line

[@Kingsbeak]

This man taught me more in this 1 video than any of my art teachers

[@durururururururu]

The effort put into this video is astonishing. I love the style. Great work :D

[@tristanwegner]

Man. Your visual teaching skill is great. Just the opening picture explains so much!

[@shsh4158]

i love and appreciate the effort and quality you put on a video! ;-; the pencil size, circle reference you used to identify the curve lines, it really helps! Training my muscle memory on pixel art here. So thank you for the tutorial! :DDD

[@mm3k224]

I love the way you lay out all (or most) things that were discussed in the video, helps in retaining all the info that was brought in. I just stumbled upon this channel, but I've been loving it so far, definitely gonna sub!

[@Oscarios000]

Thanks for not showing ads at the beginning

[@tristangovier4877]

The vibe of these videos is so good, the computer tabs, the arcade noises the atmosphere is so good and original. Thanks for making this channel :)

[@caslagerwaard9727]

just found your channel, been watching your videos straight for the past 2 days and i just noticited... HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE 100K SUBS???? you make such good quality videos :D imma share this with al my friends

[@monstai5632]

This made such a huge difference in my work. I'm a digital artist and I know my way around drawing, but pixel art has a bunch of things I had no clue about and I'm still learning. Thank you for the very informative and clear tutorial

[@flinggonza5688]

I would recommend Microsoft Paint as a starter software. It works surprisingly well.

[@greenstarlover1]

Definitely

[@CrusaderGabriel]

Thank you very much for this explanation

[@dpcquak]

I'm watching ALL your videos man. Such a great content. Also love your artstyle and technique. I've been doing pixelart for a few years now and it's kinda hard to find high-quality tutorials such as yours. Keep up the good work and thanks.

[@BJGpixel]

Hey thanks so much, glad you enjoy em, especially since you've been making pixel art yourself for a bit! Do you post your art online anywhere?

[@dpcquak]

@@BJGpixel got some on insta @instarteiro

[@BJGpixel]

@@dpcquak ah cool, oh hey I think I've seen your baby yoda post before! Anyway keep up the good work 👍

[@dpcquak]

Thanks! Gonna try to do some scenes inspired on your tutorials ;)

[@mujeexminiminer7653]

Literally the best guide to getting started with pixel art I found on YT!! Keep it up man! really appreciate all the hardwork!!

[@chicodellosa1581]

This tutorial makes a lot of sense for those starting out with pixel art. By far this is one of the most concise and well explained how-to I've encountered. Been trying to create pixel art from scratch and this helps a lot. Keep up the amazing content!😀

[@MaryPerez-d7i]

I love how you make things so understandable!

[@devilofether6185]

it's also worth noting that with really big curves, sometimes you need to slightly break the decreasing segment length rule, or else, it will look like a geometric shape rather than a curve, for an example, you have a segment of 3 2-pixel lines, and 7 1-pixel dots; it will just look like a 26.525 degree slope, at the corner of this, you should alternate 1 and 2-pixel lines. this ~13 degree slope is also used in isometric art to create 45 degree slopes using the isometric projection

[@CammieRacing]

This is all so beautifully simple. Complexity from simplicity...

[@muna5816]

I just found your channel. I’ve been practicing with pixel art on and off but ever since booting up Aseprite two weeks ago, it’s been hard to stop. Thank you for the really informative and encouraging videos. This helps so much.

[@raphaelectrique]

It's fun that: this tuto about pixel art is fully made of pixel art

[@jeromearrington9604]

I’m a math major and a lot of this reminded me of calculus talking about increase and decrease. I feel validated 😂

[@hornek]

I just recently got into pixel art and your channel is the best, no wonder it was almost the only one showing in my recommendations before I subscribed :D

[@mausashimx]

Man, i love you content! please upload more on how to get into pixel art!!

[@CesarDraigcyfail]

Dude this is great, it's helping me draw inside Splatoon, thanks!

[@Toribell1928]

Wahhh thank you so much for this!! I couldn’t figure out why my pixel art looked so bulky until now

[@HeightAboveSeaLevel]

Very well put together video. Great job!

[@jonhatanlopez8622]

How is possible that I didn't find this channel before?! I kinda love it

[@TheMagicienWorld]

The course reminded me of my early Minecraft construction back when it was all about building still. Wrapping my head around circular edges to make houses lead me to understand how to make pixel curves lol

[@Lowmandavis]

I friggen love this, simple to understand and easy to follow. :)

[@Krebzonide]

Whenever I needed to make a curve of a specific shape in minecraft I would open up paint and use the ellipse tool to make it look good for me. Similar to what you do at 5:10.

[@dannylamb456]

I've been trying to draw curved rifle magazines and other bits and bobs for weaponry that requires curves. This helps a good bit. Thank you.

[@north4220]

as a beginner , i needed this so bad , Thank you a llot

[@Supersteffy]

Saving this for reference! Great video

[@fahtfakcarl7695]

Short and informative, thanks!

[@epsilonthedragon1249]

I love how you called the mace image "Windu.png"

[@kitty_foreststreamvods4116]

finally found someone who can teach me pixel art

[@hereisdann]

awesome ref ty

[@amara9226]

dude ur so underrated keep it up love the vids!

[@humadi2001]

This video is GOLD!

[@KrisBozo]

Get this man his nobel prize already

[@AtraxaApologist]

3:17 that car is so badass

[@joko49perez]

The pokeballs in gen 1 use that 10px circle. Although I remember it being 8px. Regardless, it has the same doubling and it looked fine on the gameboy and emulators.

[@cyber_hawk0925]

This helps me so much! Thanks a lot

[@menacingskull740]

amazing lines

[@moohy]

Love these tutorials! thank you so much ☺️

[@doublespoonco]

The pattern of pixels for bigger curvatures tend to alternate, e.g it can go 3,3,2,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,3,3 in the middle

[@Spaceimations]

recently came across your videos and remembered my computer graphics teacher made me watch this video as a tutorial once, lol!

[@turbidorc3182]

you are the best pixel art person

[@pancake9978]

damn the effort this video has, I'm subbing fam

[@disemq]

Thanks!! Nice videos!!

[@BJGpixel]

Thank You!

[@fluterdashwill1308]

Thanks to this video i was finally able to find a good pixel editor yay

[@whyamialive7252]

these things have NAMES? my mind has been blown

[@teabagNBG]

nice video! is there some kind of option "for pixel perfects" in photoshop? this is kind of annyoing lol

[@supstick-blaze]

Damm quality is top notch. I'm subbed

[@raph2550]

High quality content !!!

[@alonsorojas3829]

Useful and well designed.

[@JOELwindows7]

Pixel lines and curves This is your daily dose of Recommendation

[@echratus]

Thx for this, was using the pixel grimore on miniboss website but didn't understand the explanation. I mean I still don't get it but I think with practice i can do this easily

[@aozanyasar]

great tutorial dude!

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! :D

[@siin_07]

I love that Mace Windu reference.

[@ThatonePeep]

0:12 my life has been changed

[@bratdr]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@enzivixy]

I HAVE FINALLY FOUND YOUR CHANNEL AGAIN

[@CetteSara]

thank you for sharing !

[@h-Films]

The sad thing about a lot of circle sizes is they _require_ doubles.

[@uw_0760]

Thanks for the lesson i can start for the texture on a 8bit game im making

[@no1ofinterst]

Some common pixel circle tools ignore what you said at 4:00 What is your opinion on that?

[@guestkung]

Thank you for the tips!

[@CKTDanny]

WINDU.PNG !!! Another quality tutorial, thanks for posting!! I wish Photoshop on the iPad could do pixel art, but it looks like there's no nearest-neighbour algorithm yet haha. Sometimes, I just feel like making pixel art, when I'm bored in my lectures!

[@BJGpixel]

Haha thank you for catching that!! 😅 Oh that's really strange, I wonder what other features are missing if that isn't there?! I suppose you could resize within another app if that's possible. There's also that Pixaki app for iPad, don't know anything of it other than it's for pixel art

[@CKTDanny]

Oh, I'm sure there's plenty, it just came out not long ago, haha! I'll check out Pixaki then, thanks for the advice :D

[@litjellyfish]

In normal photoshop you do not need to think about near neighbor filtering you just use the pen tool that has no filtering at all. (Not vector pen) But maybe that tool is not present in the mobile version?

[@CKTDanny]

Stefan Holmqvist I'm not entirely sure, the only pen tool I see has anti-aliasing on all the brushes. I guess it's just a limitation of the mobile version for now, hopefully they bring some options for us soon!

[@artasky6093]

Ohhh so that "pixel perfect" mode in pixel stuido app mean!

[@thinksie]

Thankzzz

[@ivedoneverything]

Hey bro just starting pixel art would your recommend asprite over photoshop

[@ivedoneverything]

I’m gonna be using it for animation

[@ianmathews6588]

thank everything that is applicable that you exists.

[@Flo_ki__]

Thank you!

[@FarizDrawing]

Very good tutorial 👍👍👍

[@__Jp]

thanks to you i can now make curves and diagonals in minecraft

[@Medniex]

Can anyone tell me how to set up Photoshop' s eraser for pixel art? It affects close pixels even at 1PX size and max hardness so I use square marquee tool instead. But it' s painful most of the time.

[@Leartin]

The eraser works like a brush on default, but you can change it to square or pencil in the toolbar.

[@Medniex]

@@Leartin damn, I have to find that pencil, because I have tried to load square shaped brush previously and it didn't worked :D

[@RG-yz8mi]

Oh I've been doing doubles on purpose cause I thought it looked good in perspective. Is this something I should stop doing?

[@JoaoGuilherme-rr4ib]

If i make a sequence for a round object like 4 > 3 > 3 > 1 > 1 >< 1 < 1 < 3 < 3 < 4 (jumping the 2 in the sequence) will it still look's correct?

[@SnoFitzroy]

I think the 10px circle looks rounder *because of* the "corners" on it. Without them, it's just an Octagon...like the 7px circle

[@christofferhoward6568]

What is the song intro? I loved it very much

[@juliansafrudin1656]

Keep making this pls, and timelapse video too

[@slim5023]

your videos are amazing thank you!!

[@hosstam]

On the thumbnail the first monkey shows its palm or its midlefinger?

[@InfernoAssassin_Animations]

The thumbnail got me

[@greenbutter3190]

Stable video👍