Lovewin's Learning Pixel Art

For AC I made gameboy badges! I am always open for these, so feel free to hmu if you want one! These were for my buddies @jennyslither (thanks for the picture) @saintpanic, @redvedev @Rooibosart (thanks for the picture )@lydiarts  @nepetea @grind3h 

Here is one of the pixel artworks that I did for the gameboy badges featuring @jennyslither! I made a template for the card game myself and both were done fully in paint tool sai! It was a lot of fun and also relaxing to make!  The video features a portion of the art process. Feel free to check it out and as always thanks so much for checking out my work! I appreciate it!

Many thanks to @saintpanic for helping with the editing! You can catch me streaming Wednesday, Friday and Weekends via my picarto.tv page!

character sprites are hard! but here are some things i try to keep in mind

you don’t always have to draw the lines on the interior of a character’s sprite, but you also don’t have to leave them out entirely. you can use a darker shade of one of the touching colors to divide them, and then put one or two black pixels at the ends where it connects to the main outlines. the eye will interpret this as a line that thins out. you can see this on all of my sprites, but allison’s torso has several obvious instances of it

you could also try using a thicker outline, although this will often flatten the character

readability is more important than accurate details or perfect proportions on a small sprite. for instance, all the party members in slarpg have bigger heads and slightly stumpier limbs on their sprites just because it leaves more room for their faces

clear colors are also important. you don’t want your characters to blend into each other or their surroundings, and you want characters’ motions to be clear. shading can help with this sometimes, and also give your characters volume. even if you don’t want to use full shading, i generally think it’s a good idea to use darker colors on limbs that are further from the camera. legs especially. it really helps out with walking animations

another really important thing to consider is perspective. again, look at allison. the lines dividing her shirt from her pants and her pants from her shoes aren’t straight. because of the game’s perspective, it’s a curve

one of the most important things for perspective on sprites like these, though, is the feet. in an rpg like this with an aerial view, the foot that’s farther away should be higher up on the sprite. you can see this on melody’s sprites here