My Full Pixel Art Process - Speedpaint

[@CurrieGOAT]

Reference sketching is a dope idea! can be hell without one

[@saultoons]

Yes!!! It really helps me out because I have no idea how to draw some things :'D Thanks CurrieGOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fbbinoire201]

@@saultoons how i can place that reference grid???

[@saultoons]

@@fbbinoire201 Just quickly make it as I show in another video - Isometric Tutorial :)

[@fbbinoire201]

@@saultoons Thank you again !

[@StartistMakesArt]

What an awesome look at your process :) As someone who’s been interested in getting into pixel art and game development, this is super insightful! Great work 👍

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much Startist, this is different from my usual thing so I'm glad it was useful or helpful in some way :'D

[@SereneSongsmith]

I love watching your process, this is incredibly helpful for someone who has no art skills, and is just trying to figure out where to start. Thank you for this video.

[@andrediego6131]

PLEASE make sped up videos of yourself making pixel art, it would be a very nice, satisfying video

[@saultoons]

You mean like a fast timelapse? :D

[@andrediego6131]

@@saultoons like a video of just the pixel art being made, but sped up to a 10 min video with muaic on the background, but detailed videos like this one are very cool too

[@StrawberryPockyQueen]

Hey, I found you by accident on Reddit, but now I'm here to stay; this was a really thorough breakdown of your process, and I feel like I learned a lot in a relatively short amount of time. Really awesome work, both in the video and the piece :)

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much Sonya! I'm glad the video could be useful, I was unsure if people wanted to see it, I gotta believe in myself more haha! :'D Appreciate you dropping in and leaving a comment

[@jasonplays4332]

I really appreciate the effort that went into this video. Probably one of my favorites. Seeing the sketch and exploration stage can be hard to find on youtube.

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much Jason, this was a different style for me than usual, I don't often share the full process with insights, I didn't know if it would do very well, but I'm glad you liked it and I appreciate the positive feedback

[@officialraylong]

This piece has so much character and atmosphere. Great work!

[@pigcatapult]

I’m not super advanced in my own pixel art, but I think the best advice I’ve ever heard for what scale to pixel at is that the smallest detail I want to represent is one pixel big. I’m bad at estimating measurements, so recently I’ve been starting with what I expect to be the smallest detail of the piece and then scale my sketch around that to find the canvas size.

[@saultoons]

That's super cool actually!

[@Dylan-tt3ic]

Your easy-going explanations give me hope. I love watching your tutorials. Thanks, Saultoons!

[@saultoons]

No worries Dylan thanks for watching

[@isit0r887]

This video was amazing I love the process !!

[@saultoons]

Isit0r let's goooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[@thetrueneo8172]

Wow this is absolutely amazing. I could never in my life do something like this. There are no words for me that can describe how amazing this is. Pro Pixel Artist right here!

[@saultoons]

You can do it!!!! Thanks for the love

[@aku_gastrovaskuler]

your videos and tutorials really helped me in making pixel art, love it, can't wait for to see another videos✨

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help Raga, best of luck with your pixel art :D

[@gartersnake3288]

Just finished actually watching the whole video, Your explanations are great and I love your process :) Thank you for the amazing content you make for us!

[@saultoons]

You’re a beast garterSnake thanks so much for the kind words, I wasn’t sure if people would enjoy this unfiltered process but glad to see some are getting some benefits from it :D

[@deloreanmail103]

Haven't watched, but can tell it's going to be a great video!

[@saultoons]

LETS GOOOO! Love the enthusiasm, thanks for almost watching DeloreanMail

[@reelo7931]

Did u watch after 15 hrs

[@reelo7931]

@@deloreanmail103 mmmmm

[@pt.nil__]

babe wake up new saultoons video dropped😳

[@saultoons]

Hahaha set an alarm!!! 🤣

[@twippie5028]

your're animation tutorials and default pixel art tutorials have helped me alot keep on making more videos because they are really helping me on my pixel are journey

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help Tripp! Thanks for watching :D

[@aleiocus]

It's always nice to see the full, unfiltered process. Makes my art process feel normal. :'D

[@saultoons]

Thanks Alex, yeah it’s fun looking back on it too and realising how unclean and messy it can be and being ok with that 🤣 problem solving! Also everyone reading this check out Aleiocus 👀 awesome artist! 😄

[@aleiocus]

@@saultoons :')

[@HappyTarnage]

The final product looks VERY Realistic. I don't think i've seen pixel art this realistic. Good job. ☺

[@saultoons]

haha thanks, I think more stylised than realistic but I'm glad you like it

[@suleiman8610]

Great video. I learned a lot!

[@saultoons]

SULEIMAN!!! Lets gooo, thanks so much for watching :D

[@Jollyjollyjollyjolly]

I like your work flow and your love for your characters!

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much, workflow is a bit messy and always making mistakes, but I guess that's part of it, being ok with making mistakes :D Thanks for the love :)

[@gartersnake3288]

HYPE!!!

[@saultoons]

HYPE!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Garter for the hype

[@MarioDuarteMD19]

Well-spoken, charismatic, charming AND talented! I have no doubt that you'll become a huge success on this platform bro!

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much for the kind words Mario! :D

[@juanmaravilindo613]

you're so talented, it gives me so much inspiration

[@saultoons]

Thank you so much!!

[@ryanmartinson8405]

Awesome! I love seeing the workflow and the two types of references you pull from. The colour mock-ups were also a neat idea. Thanks for sharing!!

[@saultoons]

Thanks a lot Ryan I appreciate you checking out the video 😄

[@tomboywarrior3229]

Hey I want to thank you for your videos. I have finally make pixel art that I'm proud of and even animating them in gifs. One day if I make a discord or twitter again I will show them to you. Thank you man.

[@saultoons]

Hey, no worries at all! I'm glad you're making pixels and enjoying the process! If you ever do that, definitely send them my way, keep it up! :)

[@JangXVII]

Love you man. Love you.

[@saultoons]

hahah love you Giang Minh thanks for watching

[@thecubingbeast4965]

This is epic just getting into pixel art and game dev and this channel is a must have thanks for all your videos

[@saultoons]

Glad you're enjoying the channel, thanks for watching cubing beast :D

[@sethmobit]

It's very satisfying see your process to draw, and the tips is always awesome. Will you make a video with octobit's challenge draws? Hugs from Brazil

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much Seth, next video will be Septembit entries, I didn't take part in Octobit unfortunately but some of the work people made looked awesome :D

[@sethmobit]

@@saultoons oh yes. It's Septembit. I'm sorry, I got the wrong name. Thanks a lot

[@mokumokuren3748]

Awesome video Saul! Very informational and fun to watch! Overall 10 ducks / pond 👀

[@saultoons]

hahaha thanks so much Moku :D Can never have enough ducks haha!!!!!!!

[@aaryayt7747]

👀

[@funlabsdesignstudio]

♥️ the Lumbaverse Fan-tastic mate! Woot woot! 😁👌🏼

[@saultoons]

Oh yeah! One day I'll uncover more of the story haha

[@funlabsdesignstudio]

@@saultoons Nice! Definitely looking forward to actually playing this some day! Keep going cause it's 100% originally epic adventure worthy that's for sure! ✊🏼💪🏼👍🏼

[@lavbas2107]

yaaaaaasss finally I was following your original video about isometric and then the part where this piece came up I just took a shit cuz it was too fast lmao

[@saultoons]

Yeah it was a tad too fast but not the focus of that video so thought I would make a linger one I’m glad people wanted to see it as it’s different from my usual thing 🤣

[@lavbas2107]

@@saultoons thank you for doing these. I just started doing pixel and your channel has been the biggest growth factor so far. Please keep up the beautiful effort

[@waffleduck8991]

ive come from the twitchhhhh

[@saultoons]

HYPE!!! Thanks waffle duck

[@davefletch3063]

I love isometric drawing, cool stuff

[@gutoramosdepaula]

Thank you for share your process.

[@saultoons]

Thank you for watching Carlos :)

[@punity]

just found your channel and i really love your art! makes me want to try pixel art.

[@saultoons]

Do it!!!! Thanks for the love 😁

[@aaryayt7747]

Yo! The bald one, with another one! 😄

[@saultoons]

Aarya!!!! Thanks so much

[@cataend]

Amazing

[@saultoons]

Thanks! :)

[@olisaul1098]

Great vid as always

[@saultoons]

Thanks a lot Oli

[@fbbinoire201]

Im a begginer , thank you !

[@saultoons]

No problemo, thanks for watching

[@s.rhouseofart4057]

Very awesome and inspiring! Thanks for all the helping content :)Best of luck and wishes

[@saultoons]

No problem, thanks for watching :D

[@ouvio]

That's really cool!!! Really easy to follow along. I'm dealing with an art block at the moment, so this is a fun way to get past it.

[@saultoons]

Glad it could help, good luck with the art block OUVIO, I hate that!

[@zentheplayerrapper8504]

O.o wooow brutal espero lograr dibujar algo asi para mis juegos :D👌🙋 saludos

[@paypercutts]

A-W-E-S-O-M-E-!-!-! 🤩 so many great, helpful tips and lessons all the way through this vid

[@saultoons]

Paypercuttssssss!!! Thanks man! 😍

[@mohamedelhawy4124]

amazing forward.

[@saultoons]

Thanks a lot Mohamed, I appreciate you watching

[@mohamedelhawy4124]

@@saultoons me 2

[@AddinRoyale]

Amazing as always! :)

[@saultoons]

Thank you!

[@sandorjuhasz8215]

Put some hype in the chat! :D Really nice video and awesome picture!

[@saultoons]

hahaha yess! HYPE HYPE HYPE!!! :'D Thanks Sandor

[@abderrahmanehajja3680]

GREAT JOB

[@saultoons]

Thank you!!!

[@samantshamik]

Love ya man keep making such content. Sham ik out

[@saultoons]

Thanks a lot

[@AfraidPikunFlower]

wow

[@saultoons]

Thank you!!!

[@randon330]

Nice video

[@saultoons]

Thank you!

[@SmexyDevvi]

What do you use to get an isometric grid going? Do u draw it yourself? It looks really useful!

[@saultoons]

Thanks I did yeah I have an isometric tutorial on my channel which shows how to do it 😄

[@eboatwright_]

This is really cool :D

[@saultoons]

Ur really cool 😎

[@eboatwright_]

@@saultoons 😎 😎 😎 😎 thanks 😎 😎 😎 😎

[@acbwacfoi]

my dream is to become a pro pixelartist like ya ;-;

[@saultoons]

You got this, keep learning, keep making art :D

[@pipmolinsky]

Woah, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing your process. I'm time tracking my creative work and even tiny pieces take me hours. I wonder how long it took you to get this monster done. Do you have a rough estimate? Keep up the good work. I'm really digging it.

[@saultoons]

Yo Pip, no accurate time estimate unfortunately as I worked on this off and on, learnt isometric art from scratch while making the tutorial video, and worked sometimes on stream which slows the process down significantly. I would say it's possible for me to achieve something like this in ~6-8 hours though, but I could be well off also :'D In terms of speeding up workflow, I think it helps to refine your process as much as possible, have a set pipeline of working every time to reduce the possibilities of going off a tangent, and get a lot of finished pieces under your belt going through that process. Over time you will notice ways to speed up, or areas that generally take a little longer than expected :) Thanks for watching Pip!

[@jei9035]

Jus found this channel and really enjoyed your videos. It's really helpful for people like who started learning about pixel art. What software you usually use for pixel art?

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the kind words Jei! I typically use Clip Studio these days because it has an automatic record function which is useful for KZbin video creation, but I love Aseprite and still use it for animation or game dev

[@reelo7931]

maaan you really need to make a game on lumberverse!!!!!

[@saultoons]

Been working on a little one SLOWLY on stream, hopefully announce more on this channel soon :D

[@reelo7931]

@@saultoons woow cool il drop by today

[@gentez1]

0:45 crossy road lmao😂

[@saultoons]

hahaha true!

[@PixelBattles147]

Good video.

[@saultoons]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tomasbrodsky3449]

Wow, you have got some big imagination. I can't even devise a 1 % of your work. Good job!

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the love Tomás! You can do it I KNOW IT, don't skip the reference and idea sketching phase for me it's the most important!!!! :)

[@tomasbrodsky3449]

@@saultoons Thanks for kindly words. I'm trying to keep on my way to do my best about pixel art. Your videos are helping me a lot. :)

[@saultoons]

Glad I can help, keep it up 👍

[@justinkho5931]

wow that was awesome. Hi, bro. May i ask, what software did you use for sketching pixel illustrations? It is my first time to see a speedpaint of pixel art ^_^ That brush really awesome.

[@saultoons]

Hi Justin, thanks for the love! I use either Clip Studio Paint or Aseprite, for this I believe it was Clip Studio Paint :D

[@user-nz4mk1te7j]

Great work. Btw, can you make Pixel art Tutorial: landscape at different times of the day (Dawm, Morning, Afternoon, Sunset, Dusk, Evening, Night)?

[@saultoons]

This is a cool idea for a video perhaps I can do something like this in the future

[@mr.e5930]

When you get a chance can you do topdown style like in rpg maker ?

[@saultoons]

Already done a video on it Check my videos! :)

[@MasterOfMisc]

Loving your videos. Can I ask, how did you make that isometric grid to begin with in aseprite? I am new to the whole scene and I havent even figured that out yet!

[@saultoons]

Check out the Pixel Art Isometric Tutorial on my channel, I share ALL about isometric construction, grids, shapes, etc in that video

[@MasterOfMisc]

@@saultoons Thanks for the super quick reply. Your pixel art is AWESOME by the way.

[@saultoons]

@@MasterOfMisc No worries at all, thanks so much!!!

[@luisro7878]

how are you so good at sketching? ur stokes look so smooth but when i try theyre very wonky

[@saultoons]

Just dexterity built up over time, I've been drawing my whole life really. Wonky sketches are fine, it's just a sketch :D

[@dookcurruff9047]

interesting

[@saultoons]

ur interesting

[@dookcurruff9047]

@@saultoons thanks jack

[@kenchikkatcd9470]

wow, are these done in aseprite too?

[@saultoons]

This was done in clip studio just because it automatically records the process 🤣 can be done in aseprite easily too though :)

[@thegamingpro2335]

Does anybody know what program was used in this amazing pixel art?

[@saultoons]

YES, I do! Clip Studio Paint because it automatically records the process, though I love Aseprite too :D

[@thegamingpro2335]

@@saultoons Thank you so much for your answer. Really appreciate, that there are youtubers, who help people in comment sections. Keep it up, you're doing miracles! :))

[@tunahandogan3072]

What program did you draw with?Maybe you said it in the video but my English is not good

[@saultoons]

Clip studio paint for this :) but sometimes I use Aseprite

[@tunahandogan3072]

Thanks bro

[@rafaeloctaviopinedamosquer9281]

what is better, outline or no outline?

[@saultoons]

Completely subjective, whatever you prefer :)

[@geocrude1300]

I just wanted to ask if you have any tips for top down character like in pokemon or 2d zelda?

[@saultoons]

I have a top down tutorial, doesn’t go into character too much but what I’d say is perspective is key, you want to see less of their legs and more of their head and upper body. Gather plenty of reference, start with basic shapes if you struggle! :)

[@geocrude1300]

@@saultoons thanks for the tips

[@relaxationworld2249]

Hello sir , which quality of gif is used in dytopunks ??? If i want to make gif as same as dytopunks V2 , which width (px) and height( px) should i use ???? ( eg. 480×480) Please tell ????????

[@saultoons]

Looks to be around 24x24 or something like that, not sure for certain, but theyre quite small

[@fugosfork7907]

Do you use hexels? Or something else, the grid seems nice

[@saultoons]

Hexels? No, I use Clip Studio and just created the grid myself. I show how to do this in my Isometric tutorial, the video uploaded before this one :D

[@fugosfork7907]

@@saultoons ah I see. This video popped up when I searched for Hexels which is apparently a software you can use for pixel art and I've heard it has different grids, hence my confusion. Thanks for the info, will check out the video! Pixel art tutorials are amazing because they don't teach it in things like art class, your channel is very appreciated. Have a nice day/night😁

[@s7121n9s]

What program do you use? You may have said it and I could have missed it

[@saultoons]

Clip Studio Paint or Aseprite, I alternate depending on task

[@aaryayt7747]

There's 1 imposter amogus, who has the audacity to dislike 🤡

[@saultoons]

haha they hate us cos they aint bald!!!

[@aaryayt7747]

@@saultoons true dat

[@SlippyLegJones]

What program are you using for pixel art? I was using Piskel, but it severely lacks tools (eg. blob tool, or blending/blurring). I hear photoshop is common, but I want to know if that's what's being used here.

[@saultoons]

I like Aseprite and Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop is nice but really expensive monthly cost. I've heard great things about Piskel, I don't use Blob tool or blending/blurring so that wouldn't be an issue for me :)

[@SlippyLegJones]

@@saultoons thanks, and Idk if I used the right word for blob tool. I mean a tool that lets you paint large areas with a certain shaped brush. The only way to do it on Piskel is to draw a circle, copy it, and spam paste it (or use the default 4x4 square brush).

[@saultoons]

Oh really? That’s weird. Aseprite had a nice custom brush option for things like this

[@dookcurruff9047]

what engine do you use to code your projects if you make a game? I use gamemaker studio

[@saultoons]

I like Unity and Godot, most recently been using Godot the most and really really digging it :D

[@dookcurruff9047]

@@saultoons i want to become rich off indie game, and i know you do too

[@danyaalabbas]

What software do you use for pixel art?

[@saultoons]

I vary between Aseprite and Clip Studio Paint :)

[@MrDitano]

which program do you use?

[@saultoons]

Clip studio paint or aseprite, usually aseprite if I'm animating

[@oriayahysrayl449]

Hi Saultoons, can you please share how to export sprites in aseprite to individuals who do not have asesprite so that they can use the sprites in a game on a different platform?

[@saultoons]

How to export sprites in aseprite to people who don't have aseprite??? Not sure what you mean

[@oriayahysrayl449]

@@saultoons Are you familiar with Asperity?

[@oriayahysrayl449]

Ops Aseprite

[@nikkiofthevalley]

I assume you're not aware of the "save as" feature. You can just save as a PNG or basically any other format.

[@oriayahy6139]

Hi Saultoons I made a sprite in aseprite for a friend so he could use it in his game but he doesn't have aseprite.Could you show me how I would export the sprites/animations to him?

[@saultoons]

Export Sprite Sheet ma frend, ask in Discord someone can show you :D

[@kiddiffrence8255]

What software?

[@saultoons]

clip studio paint

[@jennysejinlee]

I like night time

[@saultoons]

Yeah it looks kinda cool huh

[@user-yt1hg2jl6s]

미쳤다

[@saultoons]

좋든 나쁘니? :'D

[@user-yt1hg2jl6s]

@@saultoons I love your art. The whole process of making it is beautiful, not to mention the finished work

[@saultoons]

Thanks so much!

[@reelo7931]

Who got a skill share add of some random women painting

[@saultoons]

hahah what were they painting?

[@reelo7931]

@@saultoons idk i skipped it 😎