Yeah i've been experimenting with various sprite sizes too. The first one is 100 pixels tall, and 56 pixels wide. It's a rather large sprite tbh. for the game type i intend to make.
I would recommend you to check out PixelJoint.com and Wayofthepixel.net they're both really good places for learning and study pixel art. I've been member there some time now, and lurked for years, to learn. Having a color palette, can also make your life much easier, as not all colors are good together. Study color theory, and look at references.
Okay so i've chosen to sticky and rename this thread, as i think that having a "official" thread could spark some interest into the forum again. I hope it will encourage you all to become more active, and spread your love for Pyxel Edit by sharing your work or WIP stuff
I rarely have time to doodle but i had some sparetime, so here you go. Limited to three colors. Will probably animate at some point..
Just getting to know this program and pixel art. Really having a lot of fun here and happy to join this community. look forward to sharing my progression. and I recommend the full version over the beta. the Beta is really nice but the full version is worth the money.
Here are some of the things I have made using Pyxeledit
1st. This is from a tile set I put together as fast as I could just messing with the program and some ideas.
2nd. was not using tilesets. instead i painted using layers.
3rd. Everything in the picture is part of a tile for a tile set.
4th. I just painted on the canvas with this one as well just seeing what I could do with the program again. testing the waters :P
Thanks CandyFace I really like your stuff. and it looks like you have a good hand on pixel art in its strict color palette format. I have been watching videos trying to learn and figure it out because i tried to post the wave on pixeljoint and they want a revision because i have 6530 colors haha i had no idea how many colors i had i just painted. if i use opacity does that change the color or count as different color. I don't know but im trying to figure it all out. I want to be able to post stuff on there that i did with pyxeledit as well. I made a cabin in the woods last night trying to stick to only two colors. changing the colors lightness or darkness and thats it. And I made the canvas smaller as well so I was more limited in how i did things. Was more fun than i thought it would be. All of this is really. I'm addicted to pixel art now and its thanks to pyxeledit haha
Edit: added a animated bird i made a day or so ago. some of the colors came out different upon export. was only blue and white with some of the blue colors having a 40 for opacity. Still puzzled but I still like it. pretty neat was super easy using the animation tool.
Heh yeah being restricted to as few colors as possible can be a good exercise sometimes. I prefer to keep my stuff around 3-6 colours or so.
Whenever you pick shade or lightness, change opacity etc... it is still a colour and will be counted as so, this means that for example with your cabin, you in reality use 6 colours. I also noticed that you seem to have some colour corrupted in that image, have you checked that every pixel has a colour? I have discovered a bug occur when you have a transparent pixel left somewhere on the canvas. Some pixels will turn white'ish, which seems to happen to your background in your cabin art?
About the colors for the bird, because of the restrictions of the gif format and the way that PE handles the export, it might not be able to export exactly the colours you choose, because of its 256 colour restriction.
Thank you for the all the valuable input. I will check my cabins background to see if that is the case but i may have just thrown a few whit spots out there in the whim hahaha. :P
just worked on this one. again restricting myself on the colors i think I have 15 to 20 pretty close to that anyways..
Anyway this was my first ever attempt at an isometric/loop ever! I bought PyxelEdit specifically cause I wanted to teach myself pixel art >__< This is my second ever gif other than making a Draenei chibi a while ago. I am having so much fun and this is so addicting!
Very awesome stuff people have posted! I've seen willpowered's stuff on YouTube, very cool process. Samaramon, your stuff is great! I've been working on a couple of things (I'm a relative pixel noob still), so here's my stuff!
(Working on a Star Trek comic for my Instagram account under the same name)
Here's one i made recently @PenguinMaster, if you shade the left side of the coin even more, that will help illustrate the effect that the coin is turning around better. Think about the position of your light and shade everything else, preferably in a much darker color so it's distinctive. Right now you are using 5-6 colors? and only 2 of them are really noticeable. if you're afraid to mix colors that won't work, use the shading panel in the color window
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2p scale!
Anyway this was my first ever attempt at an isometric/loop ever! I bought PyxelEdit specifically cause I wanted to teach myself pixel art >__< This is my second ever gif other than making a Draenei chibi a while ago. I am having so much fun and this is so addicting!
@PenguinMaster, if you shade the left side of the coin even more, that will help illustrate the effect that the coin is turning around better. Think about the position of your light and shade everything else, preferably in a much darker color so it's distinctive. Right now you are using 5-6 colors? and only 2 of them are really noticeable. if you're afraid to mix colors that won't work, use the shading panel in the color window