Top 5 Pixel Art Tips for Beginners

Do you struggle to make pixel art that looks professional and cohesive? We've all been there. In this video, I'll give you my top 5 tips to improve your pixel art fast.

Credits:
Photo of Sigmund Freud retouched by badneko on DeviantArt
Painting titled "Stick With Me" by Pat Saunders White
Gameplay of Super Cat Tales 2 by Neutronized

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[kaishido]

One of the most overlooked tips: practice as often as possible. Your vision of your own art and even pixel art in general will shift into something totally different as you practice. You'll have way more patience when it comes to dealing with designing new sprites and you'll be able to correct your mistakes way faster than usual.

[kirsteinwandah]

I started game dev a few months ago but focusing on learning code but after that il start making actual games, so this is really helpful

[maxrdev]

This was really helpful thank you! For tip 4 I like adding bulkier corners on items you can interact with so players know that’s the focus of the schene

[mizpah_dev]

Im lovin how warm and cozy your art style is! Great video, looking forward for more :))

[Frost-cgsh]

I don't know how YouTube algo recommended this channel / video on my feed..
but I really need this kind of stuff on my other account (separate accounts for school / work / self-study (programming // design) / personal).
Thank you for the tips. It is really helpful for a beginner like me.

[DarkDream]

Thank you, I always loved pixel art, I lose interest and motivation because of a bad experience with an ex friend of mine, but maybe I should try it out again.

[jaerker]

My biggest struggle right now is making characters and animation to said characters. Been trying to understand through videos here but you might be better at explaining, who knows😉 good work on the video, allot of tips that I will start to use👍🙂

[ReeceGeofroy]

Awesome video Kiwii! Keep up the work and progress your art as far as you can take it! :D

[WatchingYoutubeVid]

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[davidvarga]

Before you start drawing. Look at pictures of either photos or other drawings of the thing you want to draw. Just to get some inspiration and get the proportions or anatomy of the thing. Then start to visualize and start with a simple single color silhouette. Then add base colors where needed. Then start shading. And don't forget to once in a while take a look at your drawing from a distance to see how it would look in the intended resolution. Add a background and even better.

[devalt]

Just finished my uni work, can't wait to get back into pixel art and game dev!

[Neutronized]

lovely pixel art and pro-tips - Keep up the good work

[microdavid]

epic vid.
My only extra tip is to try a bit of regular drawing and learn a bit of painting (you don't have to do it yourself) but it'll help a lot in knowing more how colors and shading work

[ScilexGuitar]

My tip is to actually not use a premade palette, I think its important to improve your color picking

[NeatGames]

Awesome tips! I'm making my 2nd pixel art game now :D Maybe make a video on shading/dithering someday~ keep it up!

[murraymon]

Something to note is these are conditional. Like the outline tip. I tend to outline important things such as characters, important items, and things the payer will collide with. Background details like those acorns, clouds, flowers etc, that aren’t going to be interacted with if you are playing a game or arn’t important to be in focus on in a overall scene don’t get an outline. This helps the important stuff obvious while keeping the less important things in the background. You can also use a color other than black for the outline that matches the colors used, (such as a dark yellow for the key, a grey for the bunny, or a dark green for the tree, ) this will make it a softer edge. Speaking of which if you want something to look manufactured or mechanical having those sharp corners help. This is also good for spikes. It’s all situational and you will learn when to apply these things and when not to the more you practice.

[dreamies.not_here]

this is actually really helpful, i am a beginner and making a game using pixel art so ive been looking for a good tutorial ^^ (btw you really remind me of goodgis and your art style is really cute :D)

[anthonytran]

Honestly, the main thing that I'm really struggling to grasp right now is shadows. I kind of get like lighting on an object and how to color that, but shadows are a huge struggle.

[wpshadow]

Awesome... That's exactly what I need! Go Go Go

[detailsman]

I am trying my best before I get completely blind thank you for your assist