Stardew UwU

Here’s my Hilltop farm (”HillShire” Farm) in Stardew! Took this before i found out about the zoom-out mod RIP.

forget-me-not farm, summer 10, year 3 {high res}

*Yellog’s Wood buildings*

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Hi anon, thanks!

I make all of my digital art with photoshop. I use the pencil (binary) tool for pixel art. 

First thing I did was make a sketch on a 64x64 px canvas. I collected portraits of the villagers so I could match the style as closely as possible.

Then I added base colours, rough shading, a line art layer (yes it looks dumb), and got rid of the sketch layer. Note that there’s no pure black in the portraits. I used dark brown as my darkest colour.

everything else was me drawing on an “overpaint” layer on top of everything else and referencing the original portraits as closely as possible. I don’t have any tips here except to practice pixel art.

to get the frame, I booted up the game, took a screenshot of the dialogue window, and pasted the screenshot into photoshop. Then I erased the character already in the frame.

I took my portrait, scaled it up to exactly 500% (you should only scale pixel art by multiples of whole numbers, x2 x6 etc), and made sure the interpolation was set to “nearest neighbor” so photoshop won’t add anti-aliasing to the drawing when you scale it.

My original (bad) plan to get my farmer’s name was to walk around town screenshotting everyone’s name until I had all the letters I needed. Then Elliot said my name in a dialogue bubble and I screenshotted that instead.