Pixelation

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Caergrim on May 10, 2009, 09:57:51 pm

Title: Making Pixel Line Art
Post by: Caergrim on May 10, 2009, 09:57:51 pm

What process do you follow when making pixel line art? Do you just use lines or do you begin with shapes and sculpt them into the figure you want?  ???

Title: Re: Making Pixel Line Art
Post by: Zombiechao on May 10, 2009, 11:57:26 pm

I do blobs and shapes

Title: Re: Making Pixel Line Art
Post by: Arne on May 11, 2009, 09:52:52 am

I rarely pixel large enough to need pixel line art. I mostly do place the pixels one by one when I do smaller (8-24 px) sprites. Excessive internal lines at that size can be harmful. you need to work more with contrast between color fields to suggest borders.

If I do larger stuff (hundreds of px) or stuff with many colors, I just paint big, scale down and clean up.

I'm not sure, but if I were to do medium sized stuff (24-96 px?) , I'd probably wouldn't do line art. I'd make masses of solid colors, then add clean outlines later. I think pixel line sketches at a medium size would probably be too jittery and noisy. It's difficult to get a feel of the masses if there's too much black and white noise.

Title: Re: Making Pixel Line Art
Post by: Caergrim on May 11, 2009, 01:37:12 pm

Thanks for the replies, guys. :)