Seeking Mentor/How to best learn Pixel Art?
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12339
Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 5:18am
Topic: Seeking Mentor/How to best learn Pixel Art?
Posted By: Burnskagen
Subject: Seeking Mentor/How to best learn Pixel Art?
Date Posted: 13 June 2011 at 9:30am
I have decided to learn pixel art. I already done some basic stuff:
I've done more too. I want to learn how to make pokemon emerald/ruby/saphire style pixel art. If anyone is available and wants to learn me, that would be the very best. Otherwise, perhaps you've got some tips on how to learn it. Is the best to replicate existing sprites? |
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 13 June 2011 at 6:30pm
| check the tutorial stickied at the top of this forum, I think that's as good a place to start as any |
Posted By: aokage
Date Posted: 18 June 2011 at 6:03pm
| I'm looking for help, too.. |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 18 June 2011 at 8:01pm
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I assume EyeCraft won't mind me reposting this here. It's his response to similar inquires over at Pixelation: As for mentoring, I don't really have the time to offer myself up. But keep in mind the point of this forum; it's a place to get feedback and advice on your work. What's to stop you from working on something and showing it to the community where you can get feedback from everyone? This has a number of advantages: - It distributes the time demands over the community, instead of a single person - You gain advice from multiple perspectives, reducing the chance of something being missed/inaccurate - It makes the advice and process viewable by other people, so they may benefit as well Aside from that, I can give you some advice that is going to be useful no matter what you choose to do: - Build up your art fundamentals by reading art/drawing books and working in traditional media (pencil/paper). Pixel art is just another medium of art, and relies on art fundamentals just as much as any other media. If you have trouble drawing a pig, it makes sense to practice drawing. - For an excellent primer in pixel-art-specific considerations, http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?PHPSESSID=2aedccd1da4b30efddb4799dd3abc4f8&topic=8110.0 - read this . |