How did you learn to do pixelling?
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Topic: How did you learn to do pixelling?
Posted By: Dithering
Subject: How did you learn to do pixelling?
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 5:22pm
| Drawing, pixelling, painting and so forth, anything like that. Did you get taught at a school, read a self teaching book, or just observe? |
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Posted By: OMGFossil
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 5:24pm
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self taught
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Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 5:49pm
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I dont think you can learn pixelart, it's more of a personal discovery, influence by pretty much every other artists and games. I Personally think that every art forms can be shown, but never taught, since everyone is so unique and theres no actual magic formula to how to draw, or how to create artistic composition. For my case i learn to draw by myself and some books, and peoples that gave me tips and then went into digital art, and got hooked on pixelart, deviantart was a big help for me, so did pixelerate and pixeljoint who is still a big help. As for arts in general, i'm now a student in college exploring different art forms and becoming slowly a full fledge proffesional artist. ------------- c==3 |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 6:23pm
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Inspiration from shmup sprites of the mid 90's. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 6:37pm
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I've been drawing forever, I didn't actually take any classes until this past year. The one in school taught me nothing I didn't already figure out myself, but this portrait class I took at a local University I learned a whole lot! And I agree with Di0, my teacher didn't teach me how to draw, he just gave me proportion guidelines and taught me to simplify the things I see and really see things instead of just assuming what may or may not be there. The pencil on paper bit we did by ourselves XD ------------- |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 24 July 2007 at 11:33pm
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw Inspiration from shmup sprites of the mid 90's. on the Genesis maybe?  ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 6:40am
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We are still learning ;)
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Posted By: Skull
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 7:07am
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Originally posted by jalonso We are still learning ;) Oh yeah, Jal busts in here with his Mr Miyagi crap.. :p I'm self taught. ------------- |
Posted By: OMGFossil
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 7:11am
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw I SAW THIS COMINGInspiration from shmup sprites of the mid 90's. ------------- no siggy |
Posted By: soda
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 7:41am
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Saw a bunch of pixel art on LoBD, and liked it so much. Started at the beginning of June.
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Posted By: BlingShyne2
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 8:17am
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I used to play this game called Tribes: Aerial Assault on PS2, and everyone had all these sigs and avatars on the forum using photoshop and I was way to poor for that fancy stuff so I started making my own stuff in MSPaint.
It was mostly scribbly stuff but back then it was pretty spiffy looking. I'm currently getting better slowly but surely.
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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 8:56am
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Practice. Just do it lots. :D -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: Kfuchoin
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 9:19am
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well i used to design in photoshop (Vecotrs, signage, logos,etc)and when i searched more in wikipedia i found pixel art =) i felt interested and tryed it =) acutally i learned by myself.. but i'm learning every day more watching at tohers people works... ------------- may the pixels be with you.. ~Kfuchoin eMo looking for people for an RPG info: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4903 |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 11:56am
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i tought myself how to pixel, for the chicks. it was worth it. ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 3:23pm
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Magic. But the level 2 spells cost way too much MP. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 4:07pm
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btw. i'll be writing a book about it...someday ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: klav
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 12:44pm
| i have spent far too many years playing videogames not to pixel. it just seemed like a natural evolution. |
Posted By: Squirrelsquid
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 4:07am
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I was always drawing, since I can remember. I actualy went to variouse schools/colleges that teach art and especialy game art. For pixeling itself, it was more a neccesarity in the beginning, since I was creating games with "Click & Play", and didn't want to use the premade graphics, so I had to do my own. That was about 10 years ago or something. Back then I didn't even know it was called Pixel-art, and most of it looked realy bad. Still, I was proud and I still have loving memories on my first trys as a gamedesigner and pixelartist... Wish I still had some old screenshots. |
Posted By: Blick
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 9:59pm
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Self motivated, Pixelation taught, PixelDev/Latent Medium/Punaji inspired. ------------- http://punaji.com/"> 
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Posted By: Rynen10K
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 9:02am
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Mario Paint and ye olde MSPainte. Oh, and Tsugumos' old tutorial. |
Posted By: Stickman
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 5:38pm
| Did many drawings at a young age and comic strips as well as animation on my amiga. Then went to animation college and got trained in 2D traditional (mainly do 3D now though...). Then started doing a comic book using pixel art, but not knowing that much about it. I then finished the pixel side of it and then found this community and though it would be a good way to get back into 2D again. |
Posted By: Platnium
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 9:34am
| I sorta self learn, and still am. |
Posted By: d-p
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 12:27pm
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behead better pixelers to gain power. ------------- http://iso.webmonk.de">  http://cc.webmonk.de">
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 12:28pm
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there can be only one
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 11:53pm
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Originally posted by Larwick
Practice.Just do it lots.:D IAWTC. 
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 22 September 2007 at 8:29pm
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Originally posted by Skull Originally posted by jalonso We are still learning ;) Oh yeah, Jal busts in here with his Mr Miyagi crap.. :p I'm self taught. A true master is an everlasting apprentice. Now then, wax on, wax off.  Originally posted by snader i tought myself how to pixel, for the chicks. it was worth it. Best reason I've heard so far.  As for me, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. Some of the stuff I learned from school, some of the stuff I learned from looking at my favorite comics, everything else just kind came to me in time. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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