3 PixelArt Techniques/Common Mistakes (Doubles, Jaggies & Outline) (Tutorial for Beginners)

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That Toad scream startled me.

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*H A H H U H*

[@cbanczak]

You are a spectacular teacher. Seriously. I loved how you showed "examples" vs. "nonexamples" for each mistake. You took the time to explain why a pixel placement was "good" or "bad", and then followed up by applying that to Sonic! What an awesome video, Mort! Thank you!

[@matthewlewiscomposer]

I've gotten so much better at pixel art because of your videos (I made my profile picture. Not perfect, has some jaggies but looks better than before)

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Nature Whale? what do you think of my profile picture?

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Your profile picture looks great, bro :)

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what about mine?

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KZbin's recommended wants me to learn pixel art now... Alright!

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Yuup... I've been programming a game. Now I guess I have to make the art, too. Dangit, yt...

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Yeah me too

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Same

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PHaZter maze I’ve been doing the opposite lol, been making art for a game now I have to learn c#, ugh lol

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@@mehrykarae Voldemort literally means "Flight Of Death"

[@sweatybabypowderhands843]

Making this as a reminder for myself. - Avoid Doubles if you're unexperienced in pixel art. - Avoid jagged lines that come from not thinking more methodically about your lines. - Outlines can have a big impact on how people percieve your pixel art.

[@williamdrum9899]

There are times to use doubles for sure. One I can think of is at corners if you want to draw a rectangular object that's tilted at an angle.

[@beratertural6314]

The heuristics (number rule) you propose for curved lines is real gold! It actually makes a lot of sense, when you think about interpolating gradients of smooth lines at discrete points (if you would reason about it more mathematically.

[@FingerboarderZero]

5:09 MAKE THE NUMBERS GREAT AGAIN!

[@deddrz2549]

was about to type this when I scrolled down and saw someone beat me to it...

[@ke9n]

We need to build a wall without jaggies!

[@vasiliysmirnov3922]

I`m from Russia, and even I found that moment hilarious)

[@JohnDoe-mr6mq]

Thought thats a common sentence in english and if I'd try to make a joke of it then noone will laugh xd

[@stylextv]

I was about to write this xD

[@AgamYou]

It's wonderful to see you being active again. The live stream was great and this video is so helpful!

[@matthewmorrison3745]

Helpful guide, alot more useful than alot of other channels.

[@lincolnpepper816]

a lot more useful than a lot of other channels*

[@legendaryninetails7837]

bro the jaggies part helped me understand circles and curves in pixel art so much better. Thank you! I'm going through your tutorials preparing for my first game jam!

[@IZMAUS]

One of my favourite channels. Your teaching style, artwork and design sense are all amazing man. Hoping to make another pixel video of my own soon

[@CoolBeanSoup]

Thanks for the tutorial! It was very useful and helpful! When I'm trying to create pixel art, sometimes it would look off due to the jagged lines or the outline doesn't look right. So, I would have to re-work it. This tutorial will make things easier for me. Plus, this will be very useful when creating perler art as well! :)

[@AIAdev]

Very cool video. Thanks for breaking this down into super simple easy to understand graphics and examples.

[@MatthewCC0311]

After deciding on pixel art for my first video game, since I’ll be a solo developer, I really wanted to find some good resources on YT to help me. This video really helped me understand how to properly draw pixel art, and I couldn’t believe the detail that actually goes into this art form! Thanks for the video, and I look forward to seeing more!

[@sketchedsour6660]

Could you make a tutorial on how to make pixel art with animations in mind for it? Like say for a game and how sizes or colors would affect that?

[@dryx7865]

Personal Pulooka YES!

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Has he done one yet?

[@saulbadman5164]

CheesecakeLasagna He has done one about sprite animation

[@rarebeeph1783]

A tip for math nerds: If you want to draw some type of curve, such as an arc of a circle, that can be expressed as an equation, such as x²+y²=r², you can literally just plug in that equation with the x and y values of the pixels to make a mathematically perfect pixel representation of the curve. Just remember to fix any unwelcome emergent jaggies.

[@Oxmond]

Cool! Really great pixelart tutorial! 👍🤓🧡

[@shreksbirthcertificate6950]

I actually like using doubles (sometimes) as it can be a great bold outliner for certain sprits.

[@williamdrum9899]

They're handy at corners to emphasize a sharp angle

[@Oli414]

Great video! The curve technique is actually something I've been doing since forever when working with pixels or voxels. People often wonder how I'm able to make curves without guides :-P but this video perfectly explains it!

[@matthewlewiscomposer]

Oli414 same

[@derrickshowproductions3010]

Same

[@lumios3814]

Based on the example at 5:12 I sometimes did something like this: 4;3;2;3;2;5;8 to get edges on the surfaces and have some sort of rug-ish surface and I was wondering, is this the wrong way to draw rugged surfaces like this. Is there a better way to draw those surfaces?

[@christiansanchez7448]

That tip about adding the one extra pixel for a sharp edge is fantastic!!! However, in the case of Sonic's shoes, I think the round edge fit the subject better

[@luiishu535]

Awesome stuff, man! I've never seen someone talk about outlines in-depth so much before.

[@vloxomire]

Buen video, bien explicado. Lo del outline me voló la cabeza, en el buen sentido

[@KryptechKnight]

Hey man! I just wanted to say thanks and good job on your videos. I find them really entertaining and helpful. I just started learning pixel art and you've helped me a great deal! I look forward to seeing more!

[@TealTreeKangaroo]

Thank you so much for these pixel art videos. I've always adored pixel art, but could never get the hang of it, yet your videos provide such great tips to use that I think I may give pixel art another try. Awesome work and thank you for the advice!=)

[@beepbeeplettuce2779]

4:48 A pixel is a pixel, you can't just say it's a half. -JT "Thomas" Bowser

[@andressagobbo5079]

you're amazing! i'm trying to learn how to make pixel art and your videos are being SO helpful, honestly, thank you.

[@JohnDoe-lp7ge]

These are so useful. Everything you do is very insightful! Thanks!

[@MahimStuff]

I wanted to practice pixel art while ago and I just didn't know where to start, it's like a whole new type of art!

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Subscribed. Recently got interested with pixel art and you have an awesome channel for a beginner like me.

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I can tell this is a good channel from this video itself

[@iamontda]

Awesome video! I've done pixel art before and these are definitely things that people do. I've never needed to outline anything before, but that's a great outlining tip.

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Your videos are awesome my dude! Excellent source of art and pixel art educational content!

[@HiJello64]

I knew about these techniques but this video is a great guide for people who want to make pixel art

[@Murdoom]

I wanna say that the song at the end is RoccoW - Electric Donkey Muscles (Revision 2016) Good video too!

[@dryx7865]

Just found your channel, and im learning how to do "professional" pixel art for my game! Im hoping by watching your videos I can learn to make pixel art better :)

[@LucaPassini]

Your tutorials are fantastic, I finally understood how to fix jagged lines!

[@rev3728]

I Love you mortmort You save my time for asperite learning Thks so much guys :)

[@CodeBoxDE]

i watched just 2 of your videos and improved so much

[@benpenph]

Nice Tips and Tricks on Jaggies now I can start on a clean slate

[@Dashyrre]

It'd be great if you made another one, for a bit more experienced artist ( Pillow shading, Banding And Gradient for example )

[@MrMinermation]

personally, I think doubles can work when trying to show the darkness of an area. If the whole piece uses doubles for a thick dark outline, that can look cool too - if that is your style.

[@Temulgeh]

Ive done the technique to avoid jaggies since i started pixel art

[@MandelVsFood]

Glad I found this channel. Very nice explained

[@benjipixel1438]

I miss these pixel art tutorials, though granted most of us watching this channel aren't beginners. Still, I find that I can learn from time lapses and observe techniques that artists use to do different things (shade skin tones, design tile graphics, workflows etc.)

[@RandomNameName]

That curve technique is one of the oldest tricks in the book, surprising you figured out by yourself. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@Minitomate]

Really interesting tutorial, this brought me some sort of curiosity and wanting to do some pixel art stuff.

[@lustree_]

Congrats on 100k!

[@creamycreamcreme]

Your guides are really great by the way

[@FinetalPies]

I just fuck around in mspaint and I already knew the first two tips just intuitively, right down to counting pixels and making sure there's a good sliding scale pattern.

[@farrokh_fk982]

You are amazing ! I gonna start pixel art and I think your videos will help me a lot ! Thanks from France !

[@Yoshimaster96smwc]

What if I have a quarter circle arc that spans, say, over 50 pixels? In those cases, removing jaggies creates an undesired "corner" where the absolute slope changes from 2 to 1, and again from 1 to 1/2.

[@SotoTechStudio]

What program or application do you recommend to those of us who are starting in the pixelart and do not have a desktop computer, we only have a tablet or phone with Android system?

[@aSameplayer]

your videos are always good prepared and well designed. Thank you for spending time one things like that

[@antopilo7418]

The presentation is perfect! Keep up the good work:)

[@nick9115]

thanks man you've made drawing decent looking sprites easier

[@abiduestafelu]

Do you see the outline as an extension of the image? I mean, those pixels to make it pointy sounds to me like if that extra pixel is having half information about the image and half information about the background, like if that image had double the definition that kind of detail would be inside of the image instead of in the outline, do you see it in the same way? Also, you add the point to Sonic's nose on top of it, how would have you done if it was a moving object? Would the pointy outline pixel change between being up and down?

[@makebritaingreatagain2613]

I am incredibly grateful for this. I wanted to learn this stuff in college, but the western education system is a joke now, and they taught me nothing. All they did was take my money, and my parents money, and waste my time. I remember one time 2 of the tutors just started screaming at me, one in each ear, for no discernible reason. I never did manage to find out what they were upset about. Probably got blamed for something I didn't do. Why would anyone put up with all of that when you can just find tutorials online and teach yourself. Watching this video cost me nothing, and I learned more from it than I did from several years of 'art' 'education'. And nobody screamed at me. If you make a SubscribeStar account I will start sending you money.

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I learned how to program in html,css (kinda),c# and gdscript(the godot game engine's language) from tutorials and apps on my phone (I would suggest sololearn). I'm currently 12. And I help my sister (18 in college) with c++ Also what was the ending

[@emidaweirdo6674]

Weird coincidence, this was in my recommendations and let's say that below your video was a person playing piano using the Fibonacci Sequence!

[@maxhell4033]

Good video. In photoshop you can use paths and stroke path to make lines of 1 pixel

[@GarryDumblowski]

I have a confession to make. I actually kind of like the way the "jaggies" look? not like that 2-2-2-5 part but the 2-1-2 part, it works really well for making larger smooth curves- because if you go in the 1-2-3-4-5 pattern like the one that was illustrated here, it doesn't make the pattern of a circle, it makes a pattern more like a hyperbola. It looks fine at the size shown here but at larger sizes it would make a kind of... i suppose lumpy curve.

[@Taverna2D]

I needed to use the pattern 2, 1, ,2, 1, 2, 1 in an animation transition. Is this pattern considered a jaggie? And is it considered wrong too? or can i use it in a transition?

[@hishighnessjakeabiy2449]

whens your game gonna come out, so excited to see that kinda great pixel art in action

[@hugocoty1970]

thanks for putting so much effort in your vids

[@matic4175]

That really helped me! Thank you so much!

[@schwarzerritter5724]

This is useful. I am drawing Naruto and was looking for a way to make his hair spikier.

[@Anna03359]

This purple sleep bed ad actually had me hooked

[@luis96xd]

Excellent video! Thanks for the advices :D

[@lubnailajei]

i was trying to start learning pixel art and got confused halfway through because it looks kinda weird you know while thinking all of the mistakes must be at the beginner mistakes tips video and i'm right :') thanks for the info tho!

[@Nate-jb7xw]

Great job Mort!

[@mbmusic316]

How do I copy and paste a piece of the art onto another part. Or duplicate it

[@mfedorov]

Thanx for tut dude! Awesome tips! But have one question: why aseprite make jiggling curve tool line? Is there some option to make curve right pattern?

[@Hyp3rbor3an]

hmm, sometimes applying such approach to fixing the so called jagged line will cost you losing the proper bodily proportions.a jagged line might represent a better flexed muscle on a character for an instance than a fixed one. what should be done then?

[@williamsanford951]

How do you make the border? (like the window on the canvas)

[@Galko655e]

6:06 That curve is a formula of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,... x0=1;x1=1;x2=x0+x1;...;xn=x(n-2)+x(n-1)

[@forkdraws7297]

Thank you for the tutorial Mort!

[@tarquinnff3]

Wow, great video. I didn't even know I was looking for pixel art lessons. Sub.

[@axel.narvaez]

Great video! thank you so much, it really helped me better my pixel art :D

[@gdog8170]

Damn it you scared the crab out of me at 5:45

[@emila732]

whre you ever using for example graphi cs Gale ? in this program is easier to stop Jaggies. I was just wandering why so many people are using PS instead of other programs ?

[@christianr391]

This was really helpful! Thanks for sharing.

[@ravennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

Really helpful, keep up the good work :)

[@mohammadgavadhb4665]

Is there any software to auto turn the vector into a raster without the mistakes you mentioned?

[@devseb]

This is fantastic. Thank you.

[@anxietyebriety6553]

That jaggie knowledge was key bro

[@larryfrakous1332]

I love the pixel art vids so mouth thank you

[@timmytammy4297]

This is so helpful!!! Thank you!!!

[@XDarkEcho]

Good information here! Appreciate the video!

[@matthewdixon8665]

I wonder if some of this applies to the pixel art that is just enough pixels that you can't see the individual pixels, but you can still tell that it is pixel art.

[@tinajd187]

For an aspiring pixel artist, i am glad to discover this channel. sub.

[@uNine-qb8gt]

Does anyone know what AA means in the context of line thickness

[@Matt_Bird]

Anti-aliasing. From my slowly growing understanding mix it’s a process which computers use to smooth out the lines a little by slight shadowing

[@zoomspilo6798]

The way you came up with how to make a proper curve is actually it's own theorem! Just a random fun fact.

[@JuicePiler]

This man has good pixel theory.

[@moisesm9944]

You the real MVP. Thank you for sharing!

[@ESimplyJ]

Program?

[@CanalDojogames]

I got this amazing software yesterday, saw about pixel perfect but didnt knew about how ir works. Thank you. Im new on pixel art, i really want to know where can i find the variation of eyes,hair,etc.... For human characters. Thanks

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Thumbs up, subscribed! Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@LawlFrank]

Good tips! :) Nice video