Sorry about that.

Fixed it.

What I meant by distinct looking is, what about things that are not natural? Like say, a material that looks like grass but isn't. I suppose it would use the same elements of normal grass. But I know for a fact that sketching the actual thing is very different from pixel art. I know how to draw sprites properly now. I like minimal details like in hyper light drifter.


See that grass? It looks nice because of the colors, and the little details by the edges. I also like Secret of mana's grass tiles.


Where do pixel artists learn these techniques for landscape pixel art? I seem to have difficulty with the conceptualizing of what it should look like rather than colors. My character sprites have solid colors so the colors used in that arena tileset shouldn't overwhelm them I would think. I have yet to test it out.

Would you care to share a technique you know to draw out concept tiles , or do you have a particular style of drawing the typical grass, rock, water tilesets?

The game engine I'm using is Unity. It shouldn't have a problem with that kind of stuff. I guess it is kind of difficult to keep my character sprite the same size if I were to incorporate the sword slash effect with the sprite.