Learning to do Pixel Art

[Altourus]

I heard that the way to master a skill is to spend 10,000 hours doing it. I've decided to learn how to create pixel art so I can begin developing my own games ( already a skilled programmer ) . To do this I'm going to do a piece of pixel art everyday until I feel I've enough skill to do my game. I'm posting them at http://altouruspixelart.blogspot.ca/ if anyone is interested in checking out my progress

[Helm]

Good luck on your project. I would suggest you use the main pixel art critique forum here in Pixelation to get feedback on your work as you go. If you can balance daily work with digesting critique, you will progress faster than if you worked in solitude daily.

[YellowLime]

If you can balance daily work with digesting critique, you will progress faster than if you worked in solitude daily.

True dat

And more than that, later on you should try taking more than a day on a piece

Daily pieces are good to train composition skills, and shape rendering (like sketches in traditional drawing)...

But you won't be doing much fine-detail adjustments (like color tweaking, polishing and such) which are essential to pixelart

[Altourus]

Good luck on your project. I would suggest you use the main pixel art critique forum here in Pixelation to get feedback on your work as you go. If you can balance daily work with digesting critique, you will progress faster than if you worked in solitude daily.

Actually I have been doing that too just didn't want to flood the Pixel art forums with daily works, so I'll probably have one on the go in that forum at any given time

http://www.wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=15476.0 This is the thread incase you're interested

[Zintendo]

Good Luck, it's a good idea to make it a habit of practicing every day.  Humans are creatures of habit and repetitive behavior.

Before no time at all, it'll be common place that you get to your practice, and it'll feel out of place if you skip a day.  That's when you know you're on the right track.

[Hao]

Very cool idea , nice to see you're really up to it. I should try it too, at least if it's a small piece. I think challenging yourself is also a good idea, IE: I challenged myself last year to draw human bodies in different positions, first month was a pain in the ass, after a while it got much better.

Where do you drive your inspiration from?

[tcaud]

Good Luck, it's a good idea to make it a habit of practicing every day.  Humans are creatures of habit and repetitive behavior.

Before no time at all, it'll be common place that you get to your practice, and it'll feel out of place if you skip a day.  That's when you know you're on the right track.

That's funny... I'm human... and yet I'm not bound by habits....