Pixel Art Class - Cloud Tutorial

Heya Pals! Long time no pixel art class, eh?

I took an afternoon to throw together this little tutorial for you. I hope you enjoy it (sorry about the sound issues! I'm still in Thailand until the end of the month, returning back to Australia in June so you can look forward to cleaner video soon)

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:36 - Art Reference Study
6:10 - Tutorial, Canvas & Palette
7:39 - Basic Cloud Shape
11:15 - Internal Shading
14:09 - Refining Details
16:30 - Expanding into the Sky
19:23 - Cloud Blanket with Perspective
20:33 - Final Thoughts & Project Updates
21:26 - Outro

Music:

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This video features clips from my stream. Catch it live: Weekdays 1-6pm (GMT+7).

Later, pals!

[raspymorten]

Clouds are like the one background thing I can draw even semi-competently.

*I'm about to reach a whole new level of cloud supremacy...*

[His-Games]

Are we glossing over that the pixel art master Saint11, who did Celeste, had just liked the stream?

[Timpers]

Probably the most important tutorial for pixel artists lol :D

[jamiebrownhill_]

Having it explained to me in this way has made it so much clearer in my head now. I feel like I can approach drawing clouds with a little more confidence now, thank you.

[NegaNova]

Hey Adam, I loved the tutorial! You have such a good way of explaining stuff, like you don't just start your videos with drawing, you always break it down as a lesson and I love that. A good teacher! Keep doing what you're doing, man! Making the world a more beautiful place to be in.

I don't know if you'd be able to do this with all your other projects on the go, but would you ever consider doing a tutorial on "implied texture"? - you taught this briefly in your architecture tutorial, where a blank space uses a few visual objects like a tile on the roof, and your mind assumes that all the blank space must also be those tiles. I find attempting this technique with textures or objects that are not wood (since wood is just alternating straight lines), I have trouble with it, like for example cobblestone that's being viewed from an angle so that more than one surface of the cobblestone is shown, I can't seem to wrap my head around that, it feels like the implied-texture technique ends up taking way more time to make it look right than if I had just drawn every single tile or stone on the wall, but I'm assuming this technique is meant to save time? If you ever did this, it would be AWESOME since there don't appear to be any tutorials on implied texture, or at least I haven't been able to find any.

[Teggidy]

Your pixel art tutorials are just so good 😭🌞

[patincomfaca]

Your pixel arts is so beatiful, i loved all

[TheXxsuperxxchickxx]

Thanks so much, I finally have time to learn pixel art and I can go back to your videos and relearn the basics

[GohOnLeeds]

Amazing - I was planning to learn how to draw clouds this week, and bingo, your video showed up in my feed Monday morning. The very definition of serendipity hehe

[derscalisma-jqtb]

thank you so much. this class is amazing. you're good at explaining. i'll watch every single video if i can

[Multi-Thrust]

I love these so much. I would definitely pay for a more in-depth beginner course if that's something you'd ever do post-release of your game. The foundations of art in general are so wide and I never really know what to work on over the other. It's weird.

[RADIOJUGHEAD]

Hello, thabk you for this series. I decided to teach myself and you have made such an informative and clearly written sessions. I couldn't ask for a better class. Thank you thank you.

[dPatrat]

This is soo much helping to me getting ideas to my pixal compatition of flipaclip

[Viperious_FX]

Welcome back to class, teach!
Love your tutorials, I wouldn't have progressed as quickly as I have (still new though) without them.

Is there anyway you could do a tutorial on the full day/night cycle? As in starting one animation in the morning, and showing it transition a full 24 hours.

A second request would be how to transition between biomes without a hard cut (i.e. tunnel). For instance farmland -> bazaar/market -> forest

[Apoc]

I was just fighting with some clouds and thought "I bet Adam has a video on this". This video was top of my recommendations as soon as I opened youtube. I'm going to go make a tinfoil hat now.

[EasyCartoonDrawingTutorials]

Clouds look so dope as pixel art, I don't know what it is.

[Nice_Tree]

I would like to see tutorial for using fonts. Which size will work good and how to awoid common mistakes

[maxpower]

My clouds really need some TLC thankyou! :D

[TranPhuc-ix]

I am learing on you so much, thank you teacher

[mothman]

you probably done a video about this already but in case,
have you ever thought about making a video about how to draw muscles(back muscles abs and such), on small sprited?
good video btw ^^.