Pixel Art Class - How To Use References Effectively
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Heya Pals,
New video comes early this week. This one's to help those of you starting out who want to learn by watching while still creating original work. I don't often talk about this part of the process so I hope you found it informative :)
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Using References
05:54 - Tree Structure
08:04 - Blocking Leaves
10:58 - Shading the Leaves
15:47 - Shading the Trunk
17:46 - Polishing the Silhouette
19:08 - Adding an Outline
20:41 - Adding Grass
22:41 - Outro
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Later, pals!
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From someone who hasn't taken any art classes, this was rather easy to follow along. You showed great examples of what was being discussed and made everything easy to understand. 10/10 does want to try art now..
Adam in the barber:
- Shows a pixel art he made of him with this new hair cut:
"Go like this, please"
Say no more
I... I used this lesson for my second pixel art in my life and the result is awesome. Thank you! This is insane. You know, this is one of the few lessons which does not make you just follow everything and you can just listen to steps and check references. In the end you get something unique, not just a copy of a youtuber's work. I am so happy! Thank you a lot!
I really appreciate the simplification. I agree that your classes tend to be a bit more advanced, and that does make it hard for me (as a beginner) to follow. At the same time, I feel like I learn so much. Thanks so much for this series!
Grass… my biggest enemy after plants, trees, and anything without a clear geometric shape
Great work, love watching your videos. I've come to the conclusion that you are the Bob Ross of pixel art. I was just waiting for you to call it a "happy little tree".
Hey Adam! Just wanted to say thanks for this info, *especially* the parts around abstracting out aspects of the reference. That really helps me understand how to be inspired by (and combine) concepts rather than wholesale copy entire pieces.
Would recommend this to anyone starting out
What is he using to make this please tell me
@@nicholasl850 asesprite
@@chinskii5583 thanks
I don't understand how he drew the stems of the tree so beautifully, because I got only some strange's sticks.
@@myp3ukgh646 drawing pad or very good control with mouse...also "pixel perfect" setting
Adam is the commander-in-chief of pixel art
I'm decent at other types of art, but I've been trying to get into pixel art for years and years and never quite been able to wrap my head around it. But all your lessons and videos make it seem so simple and approachable, particularly the isometric art, which happens to be my favorite video game reference style. So thank you so much for sharing your process with us! I really really appreciate it.
Thanks for all of your tutorials! I'm just getting into game dev from a musician's perspective, so the visual side of things is completely foreign to me. You're helping me develop an eye for things as well to understand the tools at my disposal to create whatever it is I'm trying to create!
Dude. This is the best pixelart channel on youtube. No doubt. I learned so much things from you.
watch Brandon James Greer also very nice
@@DemonSwrd i watch his videos too
Awe your profile pic is so cute! Well made my friend :)
Don't forget to donate a little
@@shanerpressley thanks
I used to try to NOT use reference imagery, that PURE artistic creation must come out of my head. (and of course my head was filled with reference imagery from my life, so that's already bad logic.) and this led to me creating art that was 1/5 as good but that took 5x as long to make. you're just reinforcing the inaccuracies in your mind in a feedback loop.
In the new Godzilla movies, different artists work on the scales for different parts of Godzilla's body. and when they bring their section to the art director, the director says 'SHOW ME YOUR REFERENCE PHOTOS'. he wants to ensure they are using reference photos and being somewhat faithful to them. hearing this, changed my view on reference photos. they just supercharge your creativity and actually make your brain better at doing things without reference imagery, too.
another good example of why to use reference photos, is a video where a bunch of people were asked to draw a bike from memory, and they were all wrong in a way that would make the bike not work in real life. you're doing that with everything, when you don't use references.
Since I saw the watercolor pixel art, the past week I've been thinking about trying out that style. Great minds.
Thank you for your lessons! You inspired me to start pixel art and improve myself! Looking forward to Insignia coming out :)
These lessons are incredibble. Thank you deeply from my hearth.
thank you this is exactly what I needed! I've been afraid to use references but it's hard not knowing how something looks lol
As a beginner I loved every second of this thank you so much this was exactly what I was looking for ♡
I hope all your efforts get you want you want! Thanks mate!
Can't wait to watch this one through 😍 Also, nice haircut Adam! LMAO
Thank you so much for these videos
love your videos, i have already learnt so much from all your videos
It took me a while to realize Indie Tales = in details, idk if it is on purpose but i like it
I love trees. Good style here. A striking image. Great content has earned a subscribe.
I really loved this tutorial! It was really easy to understand and helped me think about how pixel art can be more accessible to someone like me with no real art background or skill.
Best pixel art video tutorials IMO
Thank you Adam, you’re the best!
I like the way you described merging ideas and concepts, and adding your own creativity to it to make it your own. Another UA-cam channel, KNKL once described this concept using a face. Maybe you like the eyes of this painting, the mouth of this drawing, the nose of this person, etc, and you add to them and combine them to make your own face style.
Thanks! Very helpful and informative
Impressive as usual ! Tks for sharing this
keep up the good work man!
Thank you for another great video adam
Awesome video! Looking forward to watching more videos
If you are new to pixel art, this is exactly how you train yourself with reference. Great tutorial!
Hi! I've been enjoying working on my projects side by side with your videos and streams for the past few weeks, they're both entertaining and insightful, so thanks & keep up the great work!
I also enjoy the little brainstorms you show on that blue-purple animated background like in the beginning of this video, which program is that? Take care :)
As always,great tutorial and even better haircut!
This is very inspiring and makes me want to practise pixel art.
I love the way you teach and how you communicate, and I've improved greatly from this thank you. I was wandering what platform was used for this video it would be helpful to have a better pixel-art tool to work with.
Thanks bro! This tutorial help me so much!
Your videos are gold! Thank you!!
That helps a lot for a beginner in pixel art.
at the start "They came up a "Tree"t (treat)" I see what you did there
Thanks a lot for this lesson! Help me a lot.
Wow, animating a tree blowing in the wind must be painful! Thanks for the clear explanation :)
Great tutorial! If there is two things that i have a real difficulty trying to draw those things are trees and extracting information from reference. I would really love to see a tutorial or mindmap on how to draw a mountain. Not like a normal mountain as a background and so, but something more like if you were climbing a mountain and could see some of the sides of it, the rock texture, the sun reflection on it... I think this could be a good idea for a future video. Thanks!
Thank you! Great tutorial
Hi Adam! Love your work, that tree scene looks amazing, and you've obviously got the talent for pixelart! :) The words that everything is connected (in terms of originality) resonated with me a lot. Quick question - could you make a video on acquiring (creating) fonts for 2d pixel art games? Bc this can prove to be a bit of a hassle for most (myself included). Best, Thanks!
It's crazy you mention that, because I was tossing up between this and a font video this week. I actually did create a font during the week using www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/ so I was considering doing a recap. Or maybe next week I'll produce an original video about fonts. Either way, you can check out the VOD from wednesday on my stream at twitch.tv/adamcyounis
@@AdamCYounis Whoa! Amazing stuff, thank you!
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Thanks! This video was very helpful.
Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it
hey adam, just started bingewatching your pixelart tutorials and guides. ive been wondering what the program is you use to organize your references and take notes.
hello im a new subscriber here! i love ur works and just wanted to say thank you for this helpful video. hope u have a great weekend
man your videos are awesome 👏
This is really easy to follow and I can practice this. I can try it out and practice my skills so that I'll be ready when the create to earn feature of Faketown will go live.
thnkas for this video, help me so much!! :)
Im happy to found your channel! Great videos, keep it up!
Im a new artist in this kind of business, but also im a painter.
Thanks for a nice tutorial!
Good video, please keep making more. Thanks
I'd like to see more drawing like this thanks for the video
nice vid
You helped me alot in pixel art
thx
best toturial in pixel art trees， Hope to teach some topdown style tree tutorials，thanks Adam ！！！
Nice new hair cut,And content aswell!
In the age of AI this video explains why AI images aren't stealing. When you examine what the AI does, transformations, you realize it cannot be stealing it's exactly the definition of what is (or was previously) accepted.
Thanks for the video. A great watch during work as always.
With trees do you ever put leaf shapes behind the branches? I could see that giving opportunity to showcase more of the structure without having too many "holes" in the overall silhouette.
Hey, great video. You give a lot of great insights. Could you do another about references, but more focused on characters?
how about animating it, I can't even imagine animating the leaf's with that kind of style
this video helped me so much, u have no idea
Awesome!
Thanks!
I love how you effectively described mood boards in a way 8 different professors and 3 years of art college have been unable to.
So I've been following you a long time and obviously you are supremely talented. I just wondered if you were always naturally good at art? Or did it take you years of practice to get here. I say this because you can literally give yourself any challenge and then complete it to a production level standard and it doesn't seem to be much of a challenge for you from what I can see. I'm just curious to hear your perspective on how much of it is natural talent vs practicing the pixel art craft? You are clearly very comfortable working in this discipline at this point. Such an inspiration dude.
I've always loved art, drawing sketching etc. I think at a young age I had an interest that was greater than average... I'd sometimes take a sketch book to school and draw at lunch time etc. I wasn't naturally better than anyone else, I just put more time into it. And by now it's been like 20 years of that, so I've had a lot of practice.
@@AdamCYounis Okay thanks Adam. Interesting to hear that. You have a follower for life here. You completely changed the way I think about my pixel art.
I like that birch tree ref you have there. Im stucked on enviroment because i didn't realized how do some trees, thanks to your video i know now how to solve this issue.
You really gave me an idea, i have this style 48x64 (my avatar on youtube) and i was making something more fft visual,but i got stucked because i don't know how i lost interesting on doing it... and this 48x64 i did a bunch of characters, maybe exhausted for a week of doing or maybe i like more this style i did...so.. maybe i need to find an "between" both, try to make an fusion of both...
Thanks! 😉
Thanks!!
Why is this so underated
Your hair is on point, my dude
Excellent
I like watching your videos and your hair 😂
Gotta love his hair
really need to try and learn to draw pixelart on asprite as I am currently drawing on Clip studio and transferring the layers to asprite for animation haha! But for me Asprite always felt so hard to draw in, but you make it seem to smooth so do wanna try and learn the program more.
this was amazing. thanks
Do you know what he was using
how do you get those lighter and darker shades of the colour on the top when you select
green in 10:58 - Shading the Leaves
That was very impressive.
amazing
congrats
hey adam! I hope you've heard of the 2D pixel-perfect camera that can be used with the URP! It's really great and I think it would improve your pixel art a lot without having to draw out so many small details!
Great pixel art class! Anyway, what the graphic tablet do you use, if any?
Amazing
Forget Pixel Art, that's straight up a really painting class.
collllll, missin animation vods
nice video
Great video! Do you have a video or a link explaining how to use the shading brush in Aseprite?
I gotta get back into Pixel Art
Awesome bro!
I made a "thing" using you like inspiration!!! I will send here the link
Do it
You make it looks so easy hahaha
Great work. What's the program that you're using?
imagine beeing a talented pixelartist but meanwhile restoring faith in humanity
Great guide! Can you share the color palette on this video? :) That's very useful for me literally every color shifting that i need
Awesome... this really helps me to get started with preparing the asset sprites. but, could you show how to generate Idea to draw a character sprites which is 3 tiles from the game.
Hey, thanks first for the great video! Through you I could already learn a lot in the pixel area.
But I still have a question, which graphics tablet do you actually use? 😃
I'm currently using the Wacom Intuos (small).
Could we get a video on retro console limitations, and how to plan a drawing around them? I often draw something only to realize later that it doesn't conform to the palette restrictions of the NES, for example
Woah, the tree looked easy to make.