Pixel Your Pixel Art!

A friendly place to share anyone's pixel art, Masters or Rookies anyone is allowed!

Because anyone is allowed I want to make rules minimal, so only one rule: No explicit art.

Have fun!

 

Here are 48 characters I have drawn for pixeljoint riot challenge 2 weeks ago.
I learned A LOT drawing them.

 

Impressive as always I must say.

Anyways, have you ever taken an anatomy class in your life? Unfortunately I missed the chance to do so during my high-school career and I hear it really helps you when trying to draw the human body. Your people in the picture look pretty good, that's why I'm asking haha.

 

Nope. I had to learn everything the hard way ((

 

So, the interwebz...

 

Nice

 

I've never done pixel art before but was interested in it so I made...a tree...



I'm currently using Illustrator and am wondering if that's an ideal tool for beginners to use. Also, what objects/characters could I start making that would be helpful in developing pixel art skills? Ultimately (and I'm faaaaaaar faaaaaar away from this goal) I'd like to be able to do what Dragonith does http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/dragoniths-sprites-n-stuff.16347/

All criticism and tips are welcome!

 

Pretty good for a first try. I'd read this tutorial: http://gas13.ru/v3/tutorials/sywtbapa_almighty_grass_tile.php it helped me a lot also heres a website full of good tutorials: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

 

That's all the art I've done in a week!

 

Thanks a bunch! Those are great resources. I'll see what I can cook up using those links and post it here

 

Parum pum pum...I give you a...sandwich haha. I plan to do something everyday to hone my pixel art skills. Food seems to be on my mind right now



EDIT: Anyone have any tips for tomatoes? Currently they look like red bike tires.

 

Holy crap man, nice job! and I think the tomatoes look okay... maybe give the bread a little more texture!

 

bread needs texture
tomatoes need blinks - they are composed of water and the water glitters.
cheese needs shadow
lettuce needs shadows and texture.

all those are not necessary except for tomatoes.

 

I always have trouble with two point perspectives... I think it involves like ratios and all that to make it perfectly proportional...

 

Thanks for that. Initially I didn't know what you meant by "blinks" but I assume they're the reflective, shiny parts. I don't fully understand how the light reflection should be depicted but I tried my best to get the impression across. Also, my tomatoes are no longer bike tires haha...I realised I was filling them in like they were oranges . Here's the final product:

 

Now I'm curious, what did you learn?

 

feet and hand positioning, shading, composition.
And the most important thing - that I'd better draw 12 good-looking chars in 4 days than 48 ugly chars in 3 days. Quantity over quality doesn't work..

 

Yeah If I only could draw 12 ugly chars in 12 days....

 

It's easy actually. You start slow, but then you get used to drawing them and finally you can draw one character in 20 minutes.


Oh. And here's mah current piece

 

Day 3: Milk Container