Cyberpunk Apothecary | Pixel Art Timelapse

[@livanbard]

My first reaction upon the thumbnail is that the shop shape looks like a watering can. Specially with the flowers everywhere.

[@TheBearOfSpades]

Ngl I thought it was a botanist shop. I just didn't read the title.

[@a_puntato29]

holy shit, i just saw your game reveal, i am so happy i finally get to play something made by the guy who taught me like 80% of my pixel art knowledge

[@GeneralFatPug]

Yeah I came back to this video for a similar reason. Going to be great to play with his artwork

[@gewmmi]

These pixel art store fronts are always so fun and charming! All the little details really bring them to life. And as always I find it interesting to hear the process behind these pieces :]

[@Wimpiethe3]

Oh back to the roots! Really appriciate your content man!

[@yarikzhiga]

Wake up baby, new Brandon James Greer vid just dropped 🗣🔥

[@ShowWithNoName]

Nothing against you personally, but I'm sick of these comments.

[@ImCurrentlyNaked]

@@ShowWithNoName It's just a way of showing support to BJG, or any creator for that matter, without having to think of something specific to talk about. It's essentially small talk, in compliment form. Given how the youtube algorithm supposedly works, with comments apparently playing a big role in that, it's better to just let people comment however they want.

[@Nemesis0529]

​@@ShowWithNoName Internet isn't meant for just you, bud. Kind of irrelevant.

[@ShowWithNoName]

@@Nemesis0529 this is a comment section. People can make comments.

[@Nemesis0529]

@@ShowWithNoName right, that's what we all did. They commented and you felt the need inform them of your personal preference and I felt the need to inform you that the internet isn't meant to cater to only the things you enjoy. All of our comments equally pointless, to everyone but ourselves. Tldr: don't rain on their parade because you don't enjoy something. You could have said nothing ✌️

[@razvanradoiu]

Congrats on your new game!

[@CKTDanny]

My favourite series on this channel returns!! 🤩 Loved this breakdown of the individual pieces, I thought it was particularly neat how well-defined the wires & leaves are at the top with such limited colours there! Also, I like the sound of that jazz pixel art analogy 🎶😎

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! Yeah I was digging how those wires on their own were looking as texture; they got layered over a bit with the foliage but it's a interesting mix of organic and inorganic... of nature and machine coming together as one... biodigital jazz, man 😎

[@2005louisu]

So glad to see you back to this series! Take care and keep it SQUARE as always!!!

[@LeeChesnalavage]

So glad to see a return to your shop catalogue. 😍 You know I’m gonna keep pushing for a fabric shop, you know that right? 😂

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks dude! Haha yes keep pushing it, that's honestly a great and unique theme for the series - I'll have to actually do it one of these days 😅

[@Matoyak]

​@@BJGpixeldo eet, do eet :D

[@LeeChesnalavage]

@@BJGpixel Make sure the shopkeeper is a cyborg fox. 🦊 🤖

[@cuboembaralhado8294]

Those shop fronts are a lot of inspiration! I love those

[@BeatlesOasisFan]

Fun fact: in the Polish language, "pharmacy" is "apteka", which is very similar to "apothecary", since both are derived from Latin "apotheca".

[@tetsi0815]

As far as I'm aware, most germanic and slavic languages use a word derived from "apotheca" or the greek "ἀποθήκη". Not sure if the Norman conquest is to "blame" for the use of "pharmacy" in modern english.

[@nieGRAMotny]

@@tetsi0815 'drug store' sounds way worse :D

[@BeatlesOasisFan]

@@nieGRAMotny YEP xD

[@DontDoPhlog]

English also derived from a lot of Nordic languages

[@tetsi0815]

@@DontDoPhlog That is basically correct, but modern English has - and I'm not a linguist or historian, but as far as my understanding goes - ~2/3 of it's vocabulary derived from romance languages and not Germanic. That is mostly due to the Roman invasion and Norman conquest. Especially "upper class" words are often derived from Romance languages.

[@2admie]

I started following your channel mostly because of this type of videos where you draw big beautiful atmospheric scenes. Happy to see a new one, thank you!

[@peoplecallmepeechez]

Honestly love watching you create these store fronts, and I love hearing the process behind it. Keep up the good work

[@Goodbye_Pepper]

I love your shop series! It's always interesting to hear you talk about experimentation and composition.

[@Cryptozoology]

Glad you're continuing this series

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

You gotta appreciate how much detail you can really put into the pixel pieces. That little flower at the end of the store sign, just a few dots but....perfect.

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks for noticing that! :D

[@mynameisgryphon1007]

These are my favorite pieces that you do Brandon. I've watched every video in this series dozens of times. Keep it up!!

[@Frostbyte-Game-Studio]

i missed this series thanks brandon

[@brendenchee16]

Absolutely love this series!!

[@RoseArcade]

Always a blast seeing more in this series!

[@marsoop]

I literally came into this video thinking about Apothecary Diaries 2:09

[@anzaca1]

4:28 Those tiny flowers would also make perfect small fans, in the right context.

[@foldupgames]

Great work! I love all the animated details. You could just stare at it and take it all in.

[@elone3997]

As always, it's fantastic! Those cats are brilliant too - always amazing what one pixel either way can do to a character pose. The hunched cat pose is so spot on 😉

[@Techrival]

I always start watching these videos with the intent to skim through to the end (due to my short attention span) but I always watch the entire video. Great work - as always. Cheers!

[@junebuggeryy]

I've been watching every video you put out for a few months now, and your optimism and creativity literally never fail to bring a smile to my face. Whenever I need to get excited about creating art, all I gotta do is pop on one of these. Thank you!

[@supermj767]

Barely even read the title. Why should I? It's Brandon James Greer. I know it's gonna be good.

[@blazeknight4120]

100%

[@ladygwene]

I love this series! I always feel super inspired to return to my own pixel art after watching. Looking forward to the next :)

[@MichaelFlambe]

Love your "Shop fronts"! Amazing piece!

[@IAmBael]

Pharmacy is just called "apotek" in Swedish, so to me the word is just completely ordinary and modern. 😅

[@masonprice4794]

I love this series so much, so glad to see another piece! Keep up the good work man!

[@urikora]

Man nice pixel art as usual!!

[@Dan_d00d]

Hello There! Prequel something something... This design was a total win. You have really mastered the niche of cyberpunk x pastel aesthetics. My one remark - cant recall if the palette bit count was same in all similar of this 'series', but would have loved to see 1 more color, of a cyan light blue, to use for accent. Especially to also differentiate the plant/vegetation vs wires/cables up on the roof.

[@BJGpixel]

General Dan! Thanks so much, glad you like the design! You've got a good eye, I usually do tend to use at least one more colour to balance out the pop of alternate colour, so a cyan would fit perfectly in that way. I've been interested in keeping things limited and reductive, so I started from that this time - but it'd be curious to add that in and do a recolour variant or something. 🤔☺️✨

[@PixelShade]

Pharmacy in Swedish is called "Apotek" :) Awesome art piece! :D

[@Fred-iv9dt]

Similar in German: Apotheke!

[@ZeASK]

Such a fun design! I really like the color palette

[@noahfreeman8115]

Another installment in my favorite series!

[@hazel1245]

Watching you make art is the most relaxing thing in the universe 😂

[@night8913]

You always surprise me with your colored pixels

[@feliperamedeiros]

is that a dealer of some sort? 😅 Great work, as always 👍

[@laurawadsworth873]

i was so excited for the next one of these cant believe i missed this when it came out :b

[@foxclower]

I love this storefront series

[@vivaille_]

I didn't even read the title of the video, I went like "yay, Brandon uploaded :)", followed by the apothecary part and I was so ready to recommend the anime only to hear you're already watching it. I know I'm subscribed to the right channel

[@craftminerCZ]

Look, I'm not claiming this is a logically sound argument, but hear me out: Flowers + Cyberpunk just equals Solarpunk

[@Gr8GooseYouTube]

Yes

[@AverageTeenageYoutuber]

Any tips for a beginner on how to emulate the storefront style? I love the aesthetic and wanted to do a piece like it

[@elicenyne]

20 views in 1 minute you rose up

[@ilikedogs4176]

Love the series! hope you continue to make more :-)

[@Tomisit0]

Banger of a piece as always!

[@irmaosmatos4026]

Hey! Love your vids, could you do a upper-body or full body portrait of a character? I'm finding it a really difficult task and I can draw well on paper, and do pixel art, but it seems I can't translate it.

[@pandoratheclay]

Actually started watching The Apothecary Diaries when I remembered you mentioned it in this video And also, the show slaps

[@Krosstheroad]

WOAHHH THATS SO COOL WHAT??

[@ВаняКарпович-л8г]

great job man ☻

[@OrangeChair]

My favourite youtuber strikes again

[@AlexandHuman]

I don't how you'd do it, but what if one day you made a piece lining them all up? It could be a good opportunity to create a scrolling animation gif of a character walking by all the store fronts, and as they walk passed them, little bits and bobs are happening between them. It'd also be satisfying to see them in a rainbow pattern, but also seeing them in a disordered pattern might set up and good moment for creativity.

[@BJGpixel]

That's a great idea! Would make an awesome music video with some chiptune music behind it 😎

[@AlexandHuman]

@@BJGpixel It would! It could also be a nice moment to give pointers on how to make chiptune music! I'm always interested in your process and your methods.

[@crazeVR-7]

SOO GOOD

[@Vilavek]

Beautiful work as always! I'm kind of curious what your work would look like at a native 1:1 resolution on a CRT as opposed to scaled up? The nature of CRT's and their scanlines, the way the phosphor glows, and all that jazz was exploited to great effect back in the day by artists to achieve all sorts of awesome things like transparencies, the illusion of more colors, implied shapes, etc. Dang I might need to dig out my old Trinitron and look at some of your stuff on it lol ❤

[@bobsterhak714]

Awesome!

[@burnerist90]

hell yeah apothecary diaries appropriate to have black cats for maomao

[@Gadro1994]

Great as always! One video I have always wanted to see you make would be you aping (pun intended) the pre-rendered sprites seen in the SNES Donkey Kong Country trilogy. You came close during your 256 colour Mario sprite, but a deeper dive would be really interesting, and if there’s one person that could do it it’s you!

[@oootoogool]

babe wake up brandon james greer uploaded

[@Gr8GooseYouTube]

It looks soooo goooood!!!! 😮

[@rm709]

You are so talented!

[@anzaca1]

2:17 Poison tasting was a full-time job in many, many royal courts. Since poison was so easy to get into food, it was absolutely vital.If anything, the anime actually downplays it.

[@seanandernacht800]

I'd really like to see your take on a solarpunk world!!

[@prestoon_1]

cool art!

[@Ollie12418]

THE KING UPLOADED

[@alexandresousa12odno12]

lovely.

[@WMCandy_11]

New Brandon vid LETSGOOO

[@Elvis.D99]

Looking good man! Hoping to become as good as you someday

[@legionartwork]

More!!! We need More!!!!!

[@CushionSapp]

Flower Power must be hard to come by in a Cyberpunk setting.

[@eeee69]

Awesome

[@Beyond_The_Nexus]

Thx for the Anime recommendation, I was running out of things to watch!

[@bitspace1]

Fantastic video dude I hope celeste sprite analysis come

[@Spherius]

When bjg said "take care keep it square" I felt that

[@antoineswg]

what a timing lmao the apothecary diaries' mangaka just got charged with tax evasion upwards to $1.7M

[@jurgenwerner7001]

Hey, Fun Fact: In German pharmacies are called "Apotheke" so for a german viewer that word's not unusual at all xD Great work as always! I love it!

[@MichaelMurdockArt]

Question - do you do custom dither brushes in Photoshop or do you just draw the dithers in manually?

[@madmaster3d]

nice work

[@Wolforce]

Damn this is so good

[@Artistic_7x]

We need more store fronts🏪!!!!!!😊😊😊

[@MrSpacepauls]

So F-ing good.

[@mindelofortes12345]

i'd love to know how you set up your CRT time tv some day

[@hen4.0]

Hey Brandon, when you're rescaling parts of your pixel art in photoshop, how are you avoiding anti-aliasing and ugly stretches? Is your file in Indexed color mode?

[@cheerwhiner7829]

Have you ever done a video about animating hands before?

[@lurkinlittlesquares6691]

HELL YEAH

[@Gingerfied.]

well the good thing about the robo apothecary is that he could test poisons on himself and hopefully, probably, not die

[@happysumiiTV]

Can I suggest to you to make a piece Tamagotchi related??? You're style would suit it so muchhh!!

[@BJGpixel]

I'm actually working on a video for next week that has something along those lines - stay tuned!! ✌️😉🌸

[@happysumiiTV]

@@BJGpixel OMG I'm so excitedddd! ✨✨✨

[@ImusNoxa]

Apothecary Diaries! But no Maomao reference. How could you. Also this looks sick as always! I really enjoy your many cyberpunk store ideas

[@BJGpixel]

Thanks! Haha I know; I didn't mention this, but I like to think of the colour palette as being somewhat referential to MaoMao's look 💜💚

[@JohnSmith-tc7ti]

When I saw the word "Apothecary" and the rough sketch in the shape of a land raider, my tired brain was like "cool space marines in pixel art." Still impressive work, but I think this perspective could be used for such a theme, don't you think so?

[@connoisseur428]

The lospec discords awaiting your arrival

[@Alky64]

YAYAYAYAYA ONE OF THESE

[@dannyemory6261]

Oh, I bet Alfyn from Octopath 1's gonna have some competition. =w=;

[@MACH_SDQ]

Gooooood

[@konopeska]

daym

[@DudeBronkster]

6:12 Repetition legitimizes.

[@DudeBronkster]

6:12 Repetition legitimizes.

[@Tomisit0]

Metal slug inspired boss, metal slug inspired boss!!! metal slug inspired boss!1!!!

[@brandonmack111]

I wouldn't normally expect my apothecary to solve mysteries, just make me various medicines. Solving poisoning attempts must be something only really specialized apothecaries do 😉

[@Matthew_Lawless]

I was thinking Warhammer 40k when I saw the title.

[@PROMANIA-q3v]

Could you please make a video on how you post Animated Pixel Art too Social Media? Iam using Aseprite and really want too figure out how to post my Animated Pixel Art too Instagram.

[@DadVader]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘