Pixel Art Character Design Tutorial - Step By Step!
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- In this video I share with you how I create pixel art characters and take you step by step on my pixel art character design process. Hopefully this pixel art tutorial will help you bring your own ideas to life! :o)
#pixelart #characterdesign #tutorial
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What is this?
Pixel art is super cool, quick, and easily accessible! If you're new to art or looking for new ways to create art in game development, definitely try making your own Pixel Art characters!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:31 Step 1: Reference
04:33 Step 2: Silhouette
06:32 Step 3: Style
09:43 Conclusion - Розваги
Knowledge + jokes + cute dog is definitely a good recipe! Thanks for this video, i learned (and laughed) a lot from it!
Thanks Joan I'm glad you liked it and found it useful :D
@Saultoons Plus you replied every single comments. Respect +
Thanks for watching Item 😄 I try my best haha
I found the perfect channel.
Full of info, fun, wholesome community and a cute dog (the cute dog is the most important thing ever)
Hahah yes Lady (the dog) is definitely very cute :D Thanks for the kind words
@@saultoons I have the same breed of dog
So cuuuuute! I want a ginger one 😂
@@saultoons mine is white and ruby
who says pixel art is easy, it's an art and art is difficult to learn !.
Yup, definitely takes some practise, just like any other art form. But it is more accessible because it doesn't require any fancy tools or drawing tablets :)
if i think its easy, it will feel easy
@@hisyam1664 MANIFEST
@@hisyam1664 Agreed! It's all perception.
I am on week 3 of learning this art form and my lord its been failure after failure, as a graphic designer I assumed it would be a grab and go project but man oh man was I dead wrong..... Still having fun though ;)
Even if the translation is not the best, I managed to watch your video with the subtitles on and your teaching is spectacular.
Whenever I wanted to create something, I felt like I didn't have the creativity so I never know where to start, I always copied something and kept trying to modulate it.
Your video was instrumental in making me see how I will try to create my arts from now on, and it made me learn to speak your language.
A hail from Brazil
Thanks for watching even though it's not in your language
WOW I followed the tutorial and made my character in under an hour
i thought i was bad at pixel art but i was surprised
thanks for the tutorial!!!
Great job! See it's ezpz :D Thanks for watching
I love the fact you show the different iterations. Sometimes I get hung up because I can’t seem to get a drawing right the first couple of tries.
Same thing happens to me Matthias, I tend to give up if it doesn't go right the first time, but have to remind myself to trust the process and keep going. It doesn't mean you're bad, just that it takes time to get it the way you want :D
Few tips to make a good character -
1. Make sure everything has a reason, make it so your character's backstory makes sense.
2. Don't be lazy, put enough effort into making the character until you like it.
3. Remember to try out new things from time to time. It might help you.
4. Be creative!
Nice tips! :)
@@saultoons :D
Be creative? No shit! xD
@@halobread ew cringe stan. dream cheated and his friends are only for the dough
5. Still cant draw a character? Murder people untill youre ready!
the first minute of watching, and I'm already in love with this channel
I'll stay tuned! :D
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you like it :)
Just wanted to say thanks for all these tutorials, started with your donut video and came here. You're an awesome teacher and i'm loving aesprite. As someone with no artistic flair aesprite makes me feel like I can do something awesome and you've helped foster that feeling. Thanks again :)
Hey no worries at all. Pixel art is super accessible and it’s a great place to start. Everyone can learn art and create things unique to them so it’s cool to see you picking that up! Thanks for watching :)
After a year, thank you so much for guiding me into the pixel art industry and inspired me from the first place
No problem at all, thanks for watching my videos and for all your support
why in the world does this man not have 10 million subscribers even if you dont draw pixel art this is some good ass quality content
hahaha thanks muhammad! I appreciate the support :D
Hey! You just earned a new subscriber! I've been trying to practice pixel art for months now using Aseprite and of all the tutorials that I've watched, I like yours better! It's simple, straightforward and very entertaining. I'll be watching some of your tutorials from now on :D
Hi Christine! Thanks for subscribing and for the kind words. I hope your learning journey goes well, if you have any questions then feel free to join the discord and I’ll do my best to help out!
Me: *about to timeskip*
Saul: BORRRRRING!!!
I can read minds in the future :o
acesprite's contour tool is amazing, i literally was moving the mouse around in a cloak shape and completely by accident made an awesome wizard character, it looked like a little beanbag with stumpy legs, a red cloak and 2 eyes that were 2 pixel high lines
Dude, you're awesome. Best pixel art lessons one can find.
Thanks a lot
I love character design! Nice work!
Thanks Kerim, Appreciate you :D
Thank you Saultoons! Huge fan of your work, this video helped me to improve much!
No problemo! :D
First video of yours I've seen, love it! Also, the dog is an added bonus.
Glad you liked it! Yes Lady is cute 😁
Your dog is so funny and cute. Keep up the great work!
This video is more useful than every other 20min vids i watched. Thank so much man 👍
Well I'm glad it could help! Thanks for watching :)
I'm just speechless the quality of the video is fabulous
I’m glad you like it! :)
Seeing your creative process for the *forg* is incredibly refreshing for a newbie such as myself 🐸
FORG 🐸 hahah glad it could help Doc
dude I appreciate the humour almost as much as the tutorial, thanks for the great content!
No problem at all Pat, I'm glad you enjoyed the video :D
Wow, this very good.
Thanks a lot, glad you like it Mhanollo :D
Respect. You deserves a subscriber. Replies in single comment 👏👏. Thanks for this informational video.
Thanks FrozenBoy, I appreciate you watching :D
Such a great tutorial. Hope I'm gonna improve more on my design. Thanks a lot, Saul! Cheers.
No worries Kevin, good luck! :D
Thank you for teaching your creative workflow to us! So much more efficient than mine hahaha, gonna try this for my 2024 goals
*thank you so much
I subscribed your channel at first seconds, so funny and knowledgeable man!
Thanks for subscribing! I’m glad you like the videos 😄
best content ive seen for tut vids in this category by far..
Thanks Jiren! I’m glad you like the videos! More coming soon :)
Amazingly done amigo! :-D thank you very much!!!🙏🙏🙏
Gracias Daniel! Thanks for watching 😄
Thank god, i came through this channel. These vids are really useful
Glad you find the videos useful! Thanks for watching :)
I'm at that part in game development where most mechanics have been implemented, and now I just have to make the assets pretty.
That’s a nice place to be! Going to be so exciting seeing your game come together :)
That was great. Thanks for making the video!
No problem Nico, I'm glad it could help :)
I really enjoyed the video!! Great Job!
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
This video was awesome! Thank you!!
No problem, hope it could help!
Great tutorial! Also your dog is adorable~
Thanks so much, and Lady is the cutest, we need more of Lady in videos :D
I love your videos! They're fun and easy to follow. I just started trying pixel art and the frogs you made are awesome.
So glad you find the videos helpful and enjoyable Catherine! Best of luck with your pixel art learning journey, more videos to come... eventually haha :D
Thanks, what a great tutorial and great tips by the way, I'm just subscribing :D
Thanks for the kind words Guilherme! :D Appreciate the sub
Yay, I have found new favorite UA-cam Channel!
I appreciate you 🥰
teriffic!
thanks for making this excellent lecture.
I think it was such a good tip for beginner. 00:42
I'm a job-seeker(or just a old student) who wanted to work in motion graphic part.
my life had not been related to drawing things so far, but your video makes me pick up the pen.
maybe within a week, I can create a new logo file for me
see you again!
You got this, thanks for watching :D
thnx bro im currently entering my first game jam i didnt know how to make pixel art and this helped me so much thnx
Glad it could help, good luck on the game jam! Feel free to share your progress on the Discord, we'd love to see :D
@@saultoons i will
Awesome content. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for watching
Best tutorial in UA-cam!
love the comedy
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching Hristo :D
This is a really in defphthf video. Thanks Saultoons 😂
hahaha fu
I'm watching so many of your videos so I can work on sprites for hopefully my own game. Your videos are really awesome, and I'm not constantly confused. Thank you for this tutorial!!
Thanks! I hope they help and good luck with your game :)
@@saultoons Thank you!! :D
Same for me I’m just a kid but I’m determined to become a popular game dev 🤗
@@coco_canadian9011 Good luck! :D
“HAH! GOT-EEE!”😆😆😆 Great vid bro👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Appreciate it!!
Thanks for the inspiration man, wanting to make my own sprites but always lose my purpose along the way.
You got this! I struggle a LOT too when I make my work, a lot of making something is also about trusting the process, continue making decisions, continue pushing on with your work and you will get a result in the end :D
Thanks man! Im gonna be maing games in pico 8 & i have never done pixel art before. This is gonna help a ton :D (also nice beard)
Good luck! And thanks :D
This was awesome thanks
Thanks Morris!
Haha dude you have the BEST style of doing tutorials!
Thanks Aiden!!! :D
Your videos are really cool man! Happy that I found your channel and subscribed!
1-The question is in what format did you download the color pallet on lopsec?
2- How do you zoom in and zoom out if you are using Drawing Tablet?
Yo! Thanks for the kind words :D
To answer your questions
1 - I usually just take a png and manually create the colour palette in Aseprite with the colour picker, because sometimes I noticed it doesn't work well if I try to do it automatically or load the other files into Aseprite. There is probably a better way than this - I'd recommend asking on our community discord because someone might have a more efficient way to do it :D
2 - Use the zoom tool, z for shortcut and then just click and drag :)
Thank you this helped me a lot Nice frog
Thanks for watching
You’ve got yourself a new sub
Thanks Mr Dark :)
Good video!
Thank you for make this video 👍
No problem hope it can help!
Underrated channel
Thanks for the kind words!
love the vid man very funny very helpful
Thanks Chris!!!
Ceep making good content bro
Making tools are easy but characters are hard, very helpful.
Glad I could help Shady! Hope your development goes well :}
Lovely dog man! Love the vid.
Yesss!!! Thank you :D
A wonderful lesson for thanks
No worries :D
Nicely done.
Thanks!
You make very good content! :D
Thank you bread boy halo 😇
1 second into the video and I'm already subscribing
haha thanks for subbing :D Glad you like it
Keep it up bro, u got my attention, u got many attention , u do the best of you, good job, good content, good voice , so funny and happy when watch ur video LOL, don't forget to always upload ur video again, o yeah i have subcribed ur chanel
Thanks for subscribing and for the kind words! More videos coming soon :)
Hello there I came across your channel I was honor to watch your video you gave me hope to try pixel art for sure and have me laugh as well. I hope you keep making wonderful videos like this. Made me subscribe to your channel and like it as well. Thanks for this. Takecare ps: u reading this thanks for your time reading it appreciate it for sure thanks again bye.😊 keep up the work
Welcome aboard, thanks so much for the kind words
Just found this video and have now subscribed. I'm learning pixel art to make cross stitch patterns and your process and advice are excellent. Looking forward to more videos!
That sounds awesome! Thanks for the love. Feel free to share your work with us on the discord :D
Thank you! I like video!
Thanks Isa! :)
This is so very informative, can you show us the process of how you animate pixel arts? Im sure itll be very helpful too. :)
Hey! Yeah that sounds like a good video I can do :)
@@saultoons Oh yea, animated pixel arts would be good too. I love to learn it too so I can join the creative competition of Faketown.
Saludos desde Perú!!
Me encanta tu trabajo
Hola Perú, muchas gracias por el cariño!
a minute and 10 seconds in and I'm already laughing my ass off! Subscribed! XD
Glad you like it Jay :D Thanks for watching
great job!
Thank you!
This is what i looking for
Glad it could help
This is cool!
You’re cool
theres not much tutorial kinda videos for this and the vide is funny and the dog is just so CUTEE
Glad you like :D thanks for watching
That joke at the beginning made me genuinly giggle, take my sub
hahaha bad jokes are the best kind
Nice!
Thanks :D
Thank you for the video, dude! I want to animate with pixel art, however, I can't even think of where to start when making a pixel art character.
No worries at all! I hope this at least made it a little easier to approach
@@saultoons It made it waay easier! Thank you for the video!
Yeah, a frog wasn't really a good example to show how easy pixel art can be, you did a real good job though. The chubby cheek version you made at 8:32 was my favorite.
Haha yeah all spindly log leg n stuff 😂 pixel art so fast you can make millions of frogs tho
@@saultoons Yeah you right, that software probably makes it easier too, don't have to put each pixel in by hand. So in a case of a higher bit figure it would be less time consuming.
Bboyslaya yeah aseprite is great is definitely recommend
I can’t believe you don’t have more subs I love your channel I just found it
Thanks for the kind words! It's cool to see the community growing, I'm glad my videos have been helpful or entertaining for people :D Be sure to check out the discord there's a bunch of people there now hanging out haha
😁
Saultoons ok
I’ll check the dc
@@hmmmhmmm4736 awesome :D
You're talented!
I hope you get into the algorithm.
Thanks Man on the Moon, that would be nice eh! 🤣
@@saultoons Man, you got a patreon where I could support you on?
@@villain4307 Not yet, but this is something I will be setting up. Keep an eye out in Discord or on this channel I will advertise it :}
@@saultoons Great to know!
Nice!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
I found the best video for me waaaaaaa😆 I badly want to try Pixel Art just lately! I know it's kinda late for me, but I'm used to Charcoal Portrait, Pencils and sometimes Watercolour with the Realistic, and Anime before, but I've never tried Pixel Art and I love them so much since when I was a kid, I just don't know how to start and didn't even tried to research before 😂
Thanks so much for making this kind of video! I know this is not a easy tutorial for a beginner or no experience at all at digital art, but I've also done some digi art before (but no pro) so I can get your moves and words here. I just need to start now lol.
Thanks again! 👾🤖👾🤖👾
*Btw, if others out there want to check my Artworks, I don't put them here on my Channel, I just upload them on my FB.
You got this! I find pixel art to be very different from a lot of other mediums but it's so fun and relaxing. Best of luck with your journey :)
this is underrated channel
Thanks so much :D
First video I don't get bored watching! Excellently explained, thank you Sensei !
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
I use a mid grey for silhouettes and use white for highlights and a dark grey for shadows. Then add detail and then colourize.
Thats cool :D
I have a cavalier king charles spaniel as well nice to see others love them too
@@saultoons very true
@@saultoons also I’m making a game like an RPG 10 bit design and I need some help with backgrounds getting the shapes and character movement can you please help me I’ll make a video (more like a slideshow) on my channel showing them currently
Thanks!
No problem!
thanks for mindset, its more than showing how to draw pixel by pixel. preparation is most important. also, doge
Yes, preparation and allowing yourself to experiment, not trying to be perfect first time :D Fail faster and you will get to the nice art :} Doge
EXCELLENT!!!
Thanks Jimmy :D
rhank you i made my first sprite i wsa scared thank you i hvae a game jam to with on a few weeks you made it easier thanks
Awesome, hope the jam goes well :D
awsome 🧡🐹
Thanks a lot!
I love this stuff! Thank you for the lessons you make a lot, man.
No worries, hope it could help!
0:57 this joke made me subscribe.
thank you , subsribed 😉😉
Thanks for the sub! Good luck with your work!
Nice thanks
No problemo, thank you!
Your videos are amazing. Im working on a game right now and it is inspiring to watch these kind of tutorials.
Thanks a lot, good luck with your game :D
PERFECT
Thanks Joao! :D
Gostei, me ajudou muito a criar meus próprios personagens com essa ideia sabe e vai me ajudar muito na hora de ensinar no meu canal como eu uso as referências pra criar personagens. Canal nota 10 o seu
Obrigado por assistir!
You deserve a like surely
Thanks!