Hey Brandon, not sure if you read comments but I really wanted to thank you for the content you're outputting. Your videos on the matter of pixel art is always informative and has helped me improve my own art for a game I'm working on. So I wanted to thank you for your high level content and wanted to tell you that you're gonna make it big soon. ~random internet commentor
Hey thanks so much, I'm glad the vids have been helping improve your game art - that's exciting! Best of luck with your project and thanks for your support! :D
I've been looking into starting pixel art character drawings because I go hugely nuts over stuff like the GBA Fire Emblem games and I love doing character design, so finding your channel has been a godsend. Your videos dive into the technical details and translate it to understandable, human-logic explanations, and then you demonstrate your work step by step which gives fantastic ideas for just how to approach starting pixel art. If I ever end up finishing a work, it'll be because of you, and I'll be sure to find you on whatever social medium you're on to show you! Thanks for all the hard work and great content
Man, those character sheets look so good! Was a little sad about the backpack not making the cut but I think the sash ended up looking really good, in the end!
Love cutie patootie Hana! Also love that the character sheet is animated. It makes Hana come more to life and adds such a cute charm to the whole sheet :)
Pixel art seems like one of the best ways to get into learning art as a whole. It's easy and anyone can do it. Even on a computer with a mouse. Plus, you learn all the fundamentals pretty early. Reference uses, simplicity to understand the shapes, and it opens your brain up to a more creative process
Its more accessible in the early stages, but you soon hit a plateau if you can't draw traditionally. Pixel art is just like any other art form, you have to know the fundamentals of drawing to become good. If gameboy graphics are all you want, then you probably wont need to. But anything beyond that, you're going to need the fundamentals to get anywhere.
MAN! i am learning so much with you,i fall in love with pixel art after years liking and hating at the same time... So many great ideias there! i am making an survival rpg game on SGB and i am bad on 3d modeling for character but good on geometrics,so i thinked much and was unsure for many many months,these days i decided that i want to make 2d low poly art for my game. i spent 3-4 days seen your videos,thanks your ideas,your art are amazing! SGB= smile game builder
Thanks for these videos Brandon, I’m playing about with making a Point And Click Adventure game; so I’ve been using these videos to help me make the graphics
Hello! I just found your channel yesterday and I've got to say after watching a handful of videos that I'm in love with your work! Not only do you make beautiful pixel art, your video editing and formatting is top notch. Thanks for posting, I'm eager to watch and learn more.
This would make such a pleasing game, I would really like to see this as a game. Character functionality would be interesting - the blade form of her bannerscythe could obviously be used as a weapon, but I don't feel as if a character like her would be suited for combat sorts of things. And, well... Flags are essentially useless in real life so I'm unsure how it could be utilized as a mechanic. Perhaps linked to a sort of magic, or an indicator sort of thing? I'm not sure, just spewing ideas
Thank you, and I appreciate the brainstorming! I agree, I don't see her as a particularly violent character either, so attacking things with a bladed weapon doesn't feel quite right. I like the idea that maybe the Bannerscythe was bestowed upon her, but it doesn't quite suit who she wants to be. The blade could be used to cut through difficult terrain, while the flag mode could be a default "resting" state, with other environmental animations and actions associated with it, or with the staff (activating buttons, etc.). Just throwing out ideas as well lol :D
Now im imaging a mechanic where she is leading souls to the after life and has to fight enemies along the way. So in banner mode souls follow her but she can't attack and in scythe mode she can fight but the souls wont be able to move and they would be vulnerable.
@@pinkys6063 That's clever as hell (dear god no pun intended). Overall, a lot of these are great ideas and would be fun to play I think. I might do some mechanic mock-ups if I can figure out how to get my Python program working.
Awesome video explaining the whole process... I wanted to ask, is it possible to share ur character sheet as psd or atleast how you layout all of it into different layers... i've been having confusions on using the Layers properly.... i tend to make layers for everything... so any suggestions or pics or videos of how u work with Layers would be nice....
@@BJGpixel Incredible! I've been obsessed with how fonts are done with low pixels forever and recently fell in love with this book called Arcade Game Typography. Was wondering if you were using something or if it was original. You should totally sell this original file somewhere like itch.io or something. I would totally buy it and I think a lot of people on the gamedev side would probably jump at it, especially if it's formatted in the friendly formats like GameMaker Studio 2's font_add_sprite or something.
Thanks! Haha you're totally right, it's too bad because I really liked the idea of that colour scheme for the logo...at least if I ever need a toucan logo I've got a nice start! 😅
I know this video is 4 years old. But what you say at 4:00 about someone needing to be "concerned" about seeing artwork in a sketchbook is really toxic. I think you make a joke of it. But it's not funny. And it is really passive-aggressive bullying whether you realized it or not. I just wanted to point that out to you. Your pixel artwork is amazing. But when you talk like that, you really push some other creators away who might be really beneficial to work with. Talking about death, making magical death characters, and things like that is not a sign of mental illness nor violent threatening behavior. It's not a fine joke to be like "Oh haha, are you mentally ill or some kind of murderer?".
Just a sidenote, hana means flower in Japanese, flower always goes hand in hand with death and heraldry
Ah wow that's really great, perfect bit of coincidental added meaning for it - thanks for sharing! :D
@@BJGpixel glad you appropriate it ;D keep up your good work
Hmm... , anime-esque .
where did you learn to make such beautiful pxiel art?
I guarantee you couldve made that up and no one would have known
Brandon: Hello there!
Me: GENERAL KENOBI
YOU ARE A BOLD ONE
Ruined the 69 likes lol
@@RayyanTheLad It's treason then...
Hey Brandon, not sure if you read comments but I really wanted to thank you for the content you're outputting. Your videos on the matter of pixel art is always informative and has helped me improve my own art for a game I'm working on. So I wanted to thank you for your high level content and wanted to tell you that you're gonna make it big soon.
~random internet commentor
Hey thanks so much, I'm glad the vids have been helping improve your game art - that's exciting! Best of luck with your project and thanks for your support! :D
Man, this is high quality content on low resolution art. Perfect!
I've been looking into starting pixel art character drawings because I go hugely nuts over stuff like the GBA Fire Emblem games and I love doing character design, so finding your channel has been a godsend. Your videos dive into the technical details and translate it to understandable, human-logic explanations, and then you demonstrate your work step by step which gives fantastic ideas for just how to approach starting pixel art. If I ever end up finishing a work, it'll be because of you, and I'll be sure to find you on whatever social medium you're on to show you! Thanks for all the hard work and great content
Man, those character sheets look so good!
Was a little sad about the backpack not making the cut but I think the sash ended up looking really good, in the end!
Thanks man, they're a lot of fun to put together! And yeah the backpack was a good look - wish I could have figured it out in this small sizing!
Love cutie patootie Hana! Also love that the character sheet is animated. It makes Hana come more to life and adds such a cute charm to the whole sheet :)
Thank you!! Yeah I think the animations really help sell the expressions! Gonna have to create a full artwork scene with her at some point 😊
@@BJGpixel Yay, looking forward to seeing more of Hana then :)
Please do more of these, they are really satisfying to watch and in my opinion the best style of video.
Awesome as always keep it cool!!
Pixel art seems like one of the best ways to get into learning art as a whole.
It's easy and anyone can do it. Even on a computer with a mouse.
Plus, you learn all the fundamentals pretty early. Reference uses, simplicity to understand the shapes, and it opens your brain up to a more creative process
Its more accessible in the early stages, but you soon hit a plateau if you can't draw traditionally. Pixel art is just like any other art form, you have to know the fundamentals of drawing to become good. If gameboy graphics are all you want, then you probably wont need to. But anything beyond that, you're going to need the fundamentals to get anywhere.
Wow, new fav channel! AFK, gotta binge all the videos now
I love your videos so much! I grew up editing Pokémon sprites and seeing love to sprites outside of Pokémon is so beautiful
You are helping me figure out this medium so much it's awesome
Found your channel less than two days ago and you had something like 17.5K subs and now you have 19K. You be explodin' dawg!
So awesome, thanks for sharing Brandon!
MAN! i am learning so much with you,i fall in love with pixel art after years liking and hating at the same time...
So many great ideias there!
i am making an survival rpg game on SGB and i am bad on 3d modeling for character but good on geometrics,so i thinked much and was unsure for many many months,these days i decided that i want to make 2d low poly art for my game. i spent 3-4 days seen your videos,thanks your ideas,your art are amazing!
SGB= smile game builder
I love how there is a story telling knit into the tutorials😍
This is amazing and gives tons of motivation
I love this! hana is so cute!
I'm just getting into pixel art and i think that your videos are pretty helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! Nice job converting to to pixels. Super clean.
Thanks dude! :D Felt quite small to work with at times but I think it suits the simple style
Brandon James Greer perfectly!
Great workflow! Keep it up!
Thanks for these videos Brandon, I’m playing about with making a Point And Click Adventure game; so I’ve been using these videos to help me make the graphics
Hello! I just found your channel yesterday and I've got to say after watching a handful of videos that I'm in love with your work! Not only do you make beautiful pixel art, your video editing and formatting is top notch. Thanks for posting, I'm eager to watch and learn more.
amazing work! thank you!
I love this character design! Hopefully more will come of it.
Love the work keep it up!
I just stumbled into your channel, I am super impressed and inspired with the work you create!
wtf your traditional art is also very good!!!!!
This would make such a pleasing game, I would really like to see this as a game.
Character functionality would be interesting - the blade form of her bannerscythe could obviously be used as a weapon, but I don't feel as if a character like her would be suited for combat sorts of things. And, well... Flags are essentially useless in real life so I'm unsure how it could be utilized as a mechanic. Perhaps linked to a sort of magic, or an indicator sort of thing? I'm not sure, just spewing ideas
Thank you, and I appreciate the brainstorming! I agree, I don't see her as a particularly violent character either, so attacking things with a bladed weapon doesn't feel quite right. I like the idea that maybe the Bannerscythe was bestowed upon her, but it doesn't quite suit who she wants to be. The blade could be used to cut through difficult terrain, while the flag mode could be a default "resting" state, with other environmental animations and actions associated with it, or with the staff (activating buttons, etc.). Just throwing out ideas as well lol :D
@@BJGpixel maybe Hana tries uses that flag to tame some monsters in hell
Now im imaging a mechanic where she is leading souls to the after life and has to fight enemies along the way. So in banner mode souls follow her but she can't attack and in scythe mode she can fight but the souls wont be able to move and they would be vulnerable.
@@pinkys6063 That's clever as hell (dear god no pun intended). Overall, a lot of these are great ideas and would be fun to play I think. I might do some mechanic mock-ups if I can figure out how to get my Python program working.
@@pinkys6063 oh wow great idea
The BannerScythe inspired *everything* .
Awesome stuff! Your style is definitely really appealing!
She looks like a paper mario character! I love it!
Bruh ur soo good at pixel art wow
Awesome video explaining the whole process... I wanted to ask, is it possible to share ur character sheet as psd or atleast how you layout all of it into different layers... i've been having confusions on using the Layers properly.... i tend to make layers for everything... so any suggestions or pics or videos of how u work with Layers would be nice....
Another excellent video!
This was really cool and I learned a lot! thanks for this, i just stumbled upon it in my recommendation. Subscribed!
Good job 👏👏
Is there a place where I can find the template for this amazing character sheet?
one of my fave!!! 😍😍😍
You inspired me so much! Definitivamente, Im going to try this later! Thank you! keep it up!
Your videos are very engaging!
this art is awesome
truly amazing
nice wow like the animation
I love your videos bro... I was wondering if same results can be achieved by GIMP? Thanks
Would love to see your approach to draw a monster, or non-humanoid character.
Do you use a specific font for the final character sheet? It looks great at that resolution!
Thanks, they're my own letter designs that are drawn as well! :D
@@BJGpixel Incredible! I've been obsessed with how fonts are done with low pixels forever and recently fell in love with this book called Arcade Game Typography. Was wondering if you were using something or if it was original. You should totally sell this original file somewhere like itch.io or something. I would totally buy it and I think a lot of people on the gamedev side would probably jump at it, especially if it's formatted in the friendly formats like GameMaker Studio 2's font_add_sprite or something.
@@HuyTran Ah cool I've got that book too, I love it! Thanks, I hadn't even thought of that but I'll have to consider the itch.io option
this helped me a ton with a thing
If I was to Hand draw sprites on paper then scan them to photoshop is there a way to pixel over it.
So freakin cool.
awesome
man, i subbed from this video
Awesome work!
About the bannerscythe on the logo, I think the problem was the color choice, it was looking like a toucan beak lol
Thanks! Haha you're totally right, it's too bad because I really liked the idea of that colour scheme for the logo...at least if I ever need a toucan logo I've got a nice start! 😅
Nice work! You definately need a better CRT to get some nice crispy scanlines on your artwork. I would love to see that so get yourself a Sony PVM :)
Where can i get the character sheet?
Hmm, I've been working in a game whose protagonist is almost exactly like Hana...
Guess I'll need to redo him
Oh Yeah this happens :/
Are you going to make a games with these characters you make with different emotes and play styles
You are fucking awesome !
Aw i love if this was a game
And if you also know if you remove A and T in Thanatos it says thanos
Satchel could have been a good replacement for the back pack and works into that sash
U earned yourself a sub :)
What do you use to make them
"Thanatos is the god of death"
R. I. P Hades
Hades is the god of Hades - the world of the dead
Thanatos is the god of death
it's a huge difference
@@JamieDNGN yeah I know I was joking
I WANT TO SEE SCYTHE TO BANNER ANIMATION!
Question,Can u actually do the sprite sheet on aseprite?
How can I download the empty character sheet?
App? Can you get it on iPhone?
Ironically there's a comic about a reaper and his daughter named Hannah
What do you use for pixel art?
hey just to know in greek thanatos means death ( i loved the video)
What app is he using
damn you're good
It`s funny, there already is comic about reaper girl Hanna by @heubobguy :)
I have thought the exact same thing
You should try Aseprite ^^
i thought he did use aesprite, he mentioned it once but i don't know what aespreite looks like.
Hana The Spooky Chess Pawn
i literally had to stop myself from smiling hes not even saying hannah
r u using a tablet?
可愛い！❣
Does this go into a game
please make a video on making pixel art sprite sheet for game like pokemon red and blue.love from india
I don’t know what this video is but I just subbed :/
Looks like a protagonist from a game
I need to learn how to make games now
Thanatos... PERSONA 3 FLASHBACKS
thats the ghost of hana montana when she was nomal
THANatOS
Than(at)os
I have a friend in school named hana
This should be a undertale character or deltarune
t(hana)tos :)
Я просто похлораю
0:30 Смерть с косой Хана
(Кто понял тот понял)
for me hana is a japanese resturaunt
In greek mythology hades is the god of the underworld......
Sure, and Thanatos (god of death) hangs out in the Underworld too! :P
@@BJGpixel oh yeah thanatos is the god of death and hades is the god of the underworld. Sorry! 😂
@@jacobbellet401 All good, a lot of my design is definitely not 'canon' to the mythology lol 😂
THANatOS, eh?
I know this video is 4 years old. But what you say at 4:00 about someone needing to be "concerned" about seeing artwork in a sketchbook is really toxic.
I think you make a joke of it. But it's not funny. And it is really passive-aggressive bullying whether you realized it or not.
I just wanted to point that out to you.
Your pixel artwork is amazing.
But when you talk like that, you really push some other creators away who might be really beneficial to work with.
Talking about death, making magical death characters, and things like that is not a sign of mental illness nor violent threatening behavior.
It's not a fine joke to be like "Oh haha, are you mentally ill or some kind of murderer?".
this is old why am i commenting on this?
Its pronounced jif, homie
no, the g is silent