Hello starting pixel artists and people who help them,

I am collecting and creating noobtorials, to make it easier to explain things to the newbies, witch are free to use, very simple, no extra information.

If you have ever made such a thing people can use for free, please post them here, and I will add them in the first post!
If you ever need to explain something that cannot be done with words only, take a look here, and if there is no noobtorial that can help you, create one and add it!

Noobtorial = Copymeright @ Jalonso  <<<jal edit: It wasn't me that came up with that, it was........???maybe MonkeyofDoom

On my personal list:

• Anti Allias
  
• Dithering
• Isometric projection
• Clean lines
• Shading
• Palettes
• Color ramps
• ...

Suggestions are welcome, but your own noobtorials even more!
Please reply if you find any mistakes in these noobtorials.

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1. LineArt
2. Ground paint
   
3. Removing black outlines
4. First highlight colors
   
5. Filling wheels and window
6. Using gray for shadows and glass
7. Highlight color
8. Even more highlight

  






Edited by jalonso - 28 September 2010 at 5:47am

Ok here is the shading and the ramp tutorial.
Both not perfect, because im no expert in both of them myself, but I think it can be of a help for the newbies.. Tell me what you think about them please :)



And don't forget to post them when people need them!

Agree. This page has excellent info on the subject.

Really? How would you shade/make it not look beveled?

The old version was arguably more stylish, but it was less accurate. Accuracy trumps style in a tutorial meant for the beginner.

maybe u should make an animation one??

Baccaman is THE authority on the walk animation, if you read pixelation. Search some of his posts there; they are an amazing resource.

These will help me out, since I'm relatively new to Pixel Art.

why this has not been turned into a sticky?

Edited by Metaru - 05 May 2008 at 9:48am

Cool. Finally.

But, no one really reads stickies D:

To link to, I suppose?

Hey guys, something I would really like to see, is an Anatomy Noobtorial. Could anyone make that? I guess it would be very useful. I can't make this myself because I'm no anatomy expert. But just a simple tutorial witch basic relations and such, would be great!
And maybe one extra for the face as well.

Hi All,

Maybe it is of use to someone:



Best regards from

M.E.

Hey, I came to the site after hearing about it in a video on youtube. Was looking for some tutorilas, or noobtorials as you like to call them. I just wanted to say that this should help me a lot, thanks.

Good question though.. why isn't it stickied?

A new noobtorial because you will all need it someday!

 I really don't understand these tutorials, Because really. how did you guys Draw the sprites etc, So good? It doesn't teach me how you drew it. If you didn't draw it what did you do?_popupControl();

learning to pixel is the same as learning to draw. It's just a different medium/style. Not having the ambition to be an artist of any level isn't going to allow you to become a better pixel artist at all. That's like saying "I command you, pencil! Draw me a magnificent beast!" and expecting it to do it for you. Practice makes perfect and only time can improve your work

A lot of people ask this.

DRAWING IS THE CENTRAL BASIS FOR ALL OTHER ARTS.

If you can draw well by hand, that skill translates over to the computer. Nearly all the skills learned with drawing by hand apply to pixelart and general CG as well.

Same goes for anatomy. I've suggested a number of times that an artist learn realistic human anatomy only to hear the rebuttal, "but I just want to make cartoon characters." No matter what you're making, it helps to have a thorough understanding of anatomy. Once you understand what's there, you can understand how to make it cartoony.

I am glad you do not.

I am adding this to the list:





Edited by Lollige - 20 February 2009 at 2:01am

Just a little something for everyone to know, to look, and to reflect upon.

This is an example of conserving colors I did as a reply here:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/43835.htm
Done quickly but shows how less colors does not sacrifice artistic vision. And it makes for better pixelart.


Although I did not do so here. As you remove colors and streamline your PA more and more PA techniques will be needed, AA/dithering/selout, etc. Additionally the less colors the more you'll need to indivially tweak a shade here and there.

The main thing is to pick colors that work with other color ramps in your piece.


Edited by jalonso - 13 June 2009 at 4:20pm

all an animation really is, is a bunch of pictures put together. so you need to figure out how the picture will look in each frame in order to get to the end outcome of your animation.

there isn't alot of tutorials because it isn't something you can really teach. there are some tutorials on how it should look such as walk cycles ect... but thats about as far as they go tutorial wise.

hmm...ah yes programs, well i use paint when i do animations i just draw each frame. but it often leaves you wondering as to how different the picture you are drawing is from the previous one. which is why alot of people use graphics gale instead of paint it has alot of useful features like that. see i think its called onion skinning or something but in graphics gale you can see what the previous frame looks like on the canvas or something and it allows you to make a more efficent anaimation.

as for were you should start, i recommmend starting out with simple animations like a lift door closing, or something like that, this way you can understand some of the basics before you move in to a harder level of animation.