Flame's Drawings

[Flame]

Didn't liked your Italian crap language and didn't knew you were a girl either, but thanks for sharing.

Lol. Fine. XD

[Flame]

Saturday live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlaAEs ... e=youtu.be
Today's chore: Pixel Art

I will share any hint i come up about pixel art.
Main language: Italian (feel free to use eng in chat, i read it often)

Even if it's a live mainly for italian users, anyone interested is welkome.

[lachlaan]

But did the little dude finally finish climbing the ladder? I'll jump on and have a look if i have time

[Flame]

Lol, no, he didnt! XD
I'm working on major projects and commission lately. I have a nuhc of stuff to do before i can go back to the little climbing dude. ;D

[Kandarim]

i'm going to try and keep an eye on that channel, hopefully next time I can catch it

I'm wondering: what kind of equipment do you use ? I tried my hand at pixel art a while back (not nearly as nice as yours!) but I ended up hating doing it with my mouse - i much prefer sketching in pencil.
Do you have one of those drawpads? They're not too expensive so I figured I'd try one of those. Any pointers on the choice?

[Flame]

I have a cintiq 13 now, but a few years ago i used this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... PC_edition)_(2006).jpg
What i really need is a screen under my pencil, since i suck with graphic tablets.

About pixel art, it depends. If the resolution is small (36x36 or 16x16), mouse is the best choice. A pen would create useless pixels everywhere and you would spend your time cleaning here and there too much.

But for a pixel art that big as the ones i'm working on, the mouse can be a bit boring. I use both. Depends on what i'm doing and how lazy I am. (sometime i find boring to grab the cintiq when not strictly needed).

An hint to control your mouse better (on photoshop) is to use the shift button. Click a point with the mouse, keep shift old and click another point. The shift will connect the two points. Play a bit with it to understand how it works, to avoid unwanted connected lines.
I use this to create straight lines that aren't strictly horizontal or vertical. It saves a lot of time in the long run and most of the shadows in my pixel art are from mouse + shift.

[Kandarim]

Well, that cintiq is somewhat out of my price range Thanks for the hints.

yeah i'm aware of the shift option.
I've been playing with aseprite recently (which is open source, even if their website doesn't seem to advertise it); it's a pretty nice program for pixel art and animation, even though I'm not really a fan of the pixelated interface. It makes it pretty darn easy to control/limit/change your palette while you're working.

[Flame]

Just 'cuz... why not? XD

[saltmummy]

Just 'cuz... why not? XD

I like the cricket.

[AngelOfSilence]

Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls