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Pixel Art Tutorial
Twitch's Pixel Art Tutorial
Here is a step-by-step process I follow when making sprites. This tutorial was originally posted to my WordPress blog, which has lots of other fakemon-related content. For this tutorial, I will be spriting an as-yet-unnamed fakemon who was designed in a previous journal entry.
Without further ado, let me show you how I make sprites.
I start with an 80x80 canvas on my pixel art program of choice, GraphicsGale. I actually work on a much larger canvas, 800x800 usually, and utilize the included grid feature to divide it into appropriately-sized squares. Why 80x80? That was the limit on sprite size in Diamond and Pea
If you're interested in getting into pixel art, try MS Paint, Paint dot net or another free art program! piskelapp.com is a browser-based pixel art tool if you don't want to download anything.
I just posted a topic on the original PMF. If anyone here is still active and remembers it, you should go check it out
In that thread I mention a way to contact me. I wanna leave this old dA account inactive other than this comment, since it feels otherwise like tarnishing an old historical artifact.