Hi there,

In these questions I'm interested:

1. Do you make it PixelByPixel (without any scratch)?
2. Do you create a scratch with your mouse before?
3. Do you create a scratch with your graphic tablet before?
4. Do you create a scratch with pen & paper and scan it before?

I don't know..., but if I make my art like method one, then I don't manage it to make bigger sprites. I have a scanner, but no imagine how I could do it. If I scan my scratch, it's too big, and after minimizing it looks like Pixel Chaos. lol

Hope you understand what I mean, and hope I'm right here for this sort of questions.


Edited by MechVisor - 03 January 2008 at 8:27pm

I don't have a tablet, so choice 3 is out.
I do have a scanner, but I've never used it for drawing. There goes option 4.

Sometimes I just do a bunch swiggles and doogles with the mouse. Sometimes I know exactly what it is that I'm going to draw from the start. It's a 50/50 there between 1 and 2.

Wow, I didn't know, that you two make all your lineart with your mouse at the beginning. I did it all by method one, but it's not good to conceptualizing. However, it's my thinking about method one. If you make little objects and so on I think method one will be a good choice.

Ok, I'm now going to sleep, later I'm anxious to read your replies.

I do alot with graphics tablet. I sketch for like 1 minute, than with mouse I place a pixel by pixel line over it, than remove the sketch, then refine the line and then its done :)

Well it depends on what it is - like your avatar would've been easily sketched because there's large open areas of color.   My avatar was sketched too, and it was fine.

Little icons like 16x16 might be pretty difficult to sketch out  XD


Edited by leel - 04 January 2008 at 8:42am

Me, I go to the future, take line art from my future self, and then return to the past and redraw it. But you could also use the pencil tool at 800x zoom, if you couldn't get to your time machine.

To start a pixel what i have started to do is sorta neatly scribbled (if there is such thing) what i want...then clean it up.

Edited by volcom - 04 January 2008 at 5:35pm

I usually pixel humanoids, so I take the same steps I use when I draw... well, pixelized obviously. XD

It took me a few hours to learn that ;p, but sometimes my mother wants to draw something (for example this years xmas card) and than I have to say every second: 'mom, watch the screen!'


But if you can work accurate with the mouse, thats awesome too.. I really cant draw with the mouse.. however I did do my avatar with a mouse sketch...

I create a scratch with the mouse, unrefined, to have an idea where things are going to be, then I use blocks of colors. Then I refine and add the actual lineart around the blocks. It's weird I know. I used to make all the lineart first, then color, but it's easier using blocks earlier.

:/ i do pixel by pixel. it gets hard

Bluwriter, this is weird but we have almost the same approach!