Starting pixel art work procedure?
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 2:59pm
Topic: Starting pixel art work procedure?
Posted By: acronym
Subject: Starting pixel art work procedure?
Date Posted: 09 January 2011 at 10:28am
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I know there's no right or wrong way to way however, I wanted to see how so of you guys work?. Firstly I do a sketch in pencil which I clean up and then scan, then here's the bit I like to know. Do you guys go over the drawing with the pencil tool and then tidy it up. Or manually place pixel by pixel the outline of the doodle?. |
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 09 January 2011 at 3:30pm
how i usually work: no wrong way of course. lineart works too (this one was done from a cleaned-up scan I believe):  |
Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 09 January 2011 at 4:28pm
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Cheers, First one is a more painterly approach, was wondering with the lineart do you sketch it out using the pencil tool and then tune it up manually pixel by pixel?. |
Posted By: piiichan
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 8:55pm
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I do everything in the paint program, including sketching. I find it to be much faster than drawing by hand, then scanning, then resizing, etc...   Here are 2 WIP of mine where you can see the initial sketch, then I refine the lines and clean them progressively as I gain a better understanding of the forms and perspective of the subject. But if you're really good at drawing by hand, and your piece is large or complex, I guess scanning could be a faster solution. |