This is the best one stop beginner concept art tutorial I’ve seen, I’ve seen plenty already and non explains better than this one, when I first learnt to do concept art I had to find like 100 or so videos to compete the collection, but this is perfect for beginners, thank you saul!
Wow, so glad you find it so helpful Cypekrown! There are a lot of amazing concept artists on RUclips, their work is really incredible so I can't really stand up to that right now, but I hope to share what I'm learning with you all and we can grow together
This is nuts because I’ve been trying to figure out how exactly I’m gonna do pixel concept art for my own game ideas and stuff and this is literally like exactly what I needed. I’d love to see a video on characters as well because I kinda suck at characters and animals still. Great freakin video man, super helpful.
Thanks Dyllan :D check out the other videos in this playlist, there's a basic one on creating characters and the process I use, even if it's a little old now it's still relevant :D Thanks for watching
dang, what a really underrated video the youtube algorithm gave me. lessons are extremely clear here also for people who can't make ideas: a good advice i got is this: if you don't feel inspired, you can experiment with already existing ideas and mush them into one you think sounds good. i get my raw ideas from role-playing with rpgs
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave some kind words about the video OnCreativeMedia :D Nice advice too, all ideas are basically just the summation or combination of previous ideas :) RP sounds like a great way to generate ideas!!
a few months ago, i decided to pursue art not just as a hobby, but hopefully a living. concept art is one of the various mediums of art i was always interested in, and i've searched far and wide for tutorials. this video was super in-depth and helpful! thank you so much!
Glad you think so! I’m sure there’s some things I’ve missed out and I’m not trying to say I’m even a good concept artist, there are much better out there, but I hope the process is useful regardless :)
Absolutely stellar work as always! You always manage to break things down in a way that's so fun and refreshing. I think I'm gonna give this challenge a swing, I already have an idea :D
Another great tutorial mate! There's stuff that I was automatically doing, but you showed me so much more helpful ideas and tips that'll go far in future. Hope ya been well maaaaate!
Paypercutts!!! You are a legend my friend, glad it could help a wee bit - I've been good man, thanks for asking, I hope you're doing well too, I saw you had a DJ gig or something recently?!!?! Or upcoming?!?!?! Man, that's a bucketlist to attend a paypercutts set down under. All love
@@saultoons I'm all good lately thanks maaan! Yeah I was a guest host on my local community radio station. Was a semi-regular thing pre-covid. The monday night hiphop show. If nasty, foul, over the top profanity laden, underground 90s and early 2000s hiphop is your thing, you can listen back if you up for some fist clenching headbanging hahahahaaa. You can find the radio stations website on my insta post. Awesome, beautiful piece too at the end by the way. I didn't get to finish the video yesterday as my missus came in half way through, demanding 100% attention to here hahaha
I've (finally) started trying out pixel art and your Donut tutorial was superr helpful. Love your Tutorials! I'm definitely on a binge watching them - love learning from you!
12:37 Thanks for saying that. I once posted some RPG portraits that I made from my O.C.s and I used a soft brush and small canvas to make it. It was mosaic/pixelated but at the same time had a soft look into it. I was proud cause I was going for a old realistic paints looking, but at the same time it had this video-game vibe on it. I don't remember the full critic but someone criticized it saying that for pixel art I should go for a solid less gradient look - and somehow I got sad about it and decided that I shouldn't do this anymore for my art. But hearing you say that, even if only for a small detail in your art, made me happy. I think I will try again this "painted pixel art" look - maybe not everyone will like it but now I got an email for them to send their complaints XD. Sorry for the extended comment. :x
Yeah the pixel art community is very passionate, and while there is a huge amount of support in it, I've also heard a lot of stories and seen many instances of gatekeeping. It's a shame really, because it can turn people off the medium, or become intimidated by it. I completely see the perspective that there are certain guidelines for the medium, and effective practises that have been established over a period of time which people recommend, and I do agree that learning these guidelines and practising them will help you understand their effectiveness and the outcome that they produce, so you can learn when you want to use them or not - this is the same in not just pixel art, but digital art, and other traditional mediums. But it's my belief that these are simply guidelines to achieving a particular look or style, and it's an artists right to decide what they want to make, how they want to make it look, and have full decision about what techniques, approaches, or workflows they want to use in achieving that look. If you're trying to achieve a particular look/style then perhaps its best to stick to some guidelines, but experimentation and doing what feels right to you is a very important part of art as well. I often see the question 'does this count as pixel art' when attached to an art piece that deviates from expected practises, and it's exhausting, I'll personally leave the classification of art to the historians, and just enjoy making things, I'm sorry you had that experience as well, I hope you continue to create art that means something to you and is done in the way that you want it to be done :) Don't worry about what other people say, keep doing your thing!
calling something Ultimate is always a bold claim. but this concept art tutorial really Is the ultimate one. now i know how to easily make concept art that is 10× better than any concept art i made before.
Hahah yes it’s a bold claim which is mainly for clickbait reasons to be honest, but I do try and put as much effort into the videos so it’s hopefully worthwhile for the viewers 😅 There are some fantastic concept art videos and creators on RUclips who I hope not to take anything away from, as all the information out there is highly valuable! I’m glad you find the video useful, I hope your art learning goes well :D I’d recommend checking out the RUclipsrs in the concept art space as well they’re fantastic 😄
Hey man, I used to watch your channel back in the early days but haven't watched for a while as I've taken a break from art. But wow, you've really come into your stride!! Super helpful tutorial and your art is lookin amazing✌
OtterTot, I remember! 5 years subbed that is super impressive thanks so much for sticking around all this time and for leaving a nice comment my friend. I hope you're doing well
Where was this video 2 months ago when I got into composition and perspective. I started with perspective first and by did my pantings look boring as hell. Then about 2 weeks ago I finally started looking up composition.... Now playing with it I came to the realization that composition comes first THEN perspective helps bind it to the 3D world. So it's best for me at least to create the composition of the art as it's less intensive to my brain. Then go in and create the perspective of such composition. I was trying to build perspective areas first....THEN populate that perspective with composition. What I realized is for me, this method doesn't work as I am bound by the perspective that I created to make the composition of the painting work. Composition is the most important thing that gets the person invested into the painting. When I was looking up composition I saw paintings captivate me with horrible perspective. This is when I realized my method was wrong. Of course, I only have YT and spare time with few guidance. It's a hit or miss.
Yeah both composition and perspective are important, I always do composition before perspective as well because I've found similar that no amount of clear perspective can fix a bad composition. Composition is hard too, I've found that watching films and seeing how cinematographers capture scenes has been very useful for that - and thumbnailing is vital to finding the right composition before committing to the piece, and it doesn't even take very much effort, which is nice. Keep at it Ratus, you got this! :D
Before watching this video, I thought I knew how to produce concept art, but I now have more ideas on how to go about planning and doing so, including some ideas I knew about but forgot! (4:18) I was reminded of a YT video from 'mewTripled' about having dedicated sketchbooks that didn't need to look pretty.
I just started watching this and I already love this video! Hmm how I generate ideas? I often get my illustration ideas by seeing other people's art what get me really inspired to make "that type of level of art" and sometimes even just randomly it just pops into my head in the morning, middle of the day or even as I am about to go to sleep. So in other words my brain coming up with illustration ideas can be really unpredictable since it can happen at any given point.
Thanks for sharing your insight! - I also get inspired by seeing other people's artwork, it's a fine balance between inspiration and comparing my own quality of work thinking that I suck all the time hahaha, but I love seeing what other artists are making :D
For the Generating Ideas section: If you can daydream٫ use that! As an FNF modder almost all of my lore comes from daydreaming since I can simply zone out in a few seconds allowing for quick and easy brain activity. I do have to admit however that even I need inspiration sometimes. Whether it be for mods or just straight up Gacha Club videos (just an example so please dont hate) daydreaming doesnt ALWAYS work out for me. 😇
Without getting philosophical, to make 3 slices of bread into a bread sandwich, you have to either ad condiments or use a different kind of bread in the middle.
Great tutorial, really enjoyed throughout! - just wondering how long the process took from first planning ideas to the final finished design, and what app you were using at the end?
Don't have the full time-frame but I work usually 3-4 hours a day for about a week on this, multiple sessions were streamed also, which is generally a lot slower in terms of productivity. App at the end? I use Clip Studio for this project if that's what you mean :D
Gear? Like equipment? Aseprite or Clip Studio Paint for software, a mouse for pixel art or a Wacom intuos medium for bigger pixel art or digital art :) thanks for watching
Silly question: you CAN make the same rays of light without using the brush, right? Like, you can manually adjust the colours and place the pixels with the pencil, and all the brush does is automatically adjust the colours on the edges, right? Another silly question: all (or at least most, up-to-date) software have the same colours, right? I don't know which software you're using, but does, say, Aseprite have the same colour range? Thanks!
Yes of course, you can do all of these things manually if you'd like, though it may take a while depending on the amount of steps you plan to put in. For your other question, this is an interesting one, I'm not 100% sure but I do know that some art software's use certain 'colour profiles' which can change the way things look for one piece if opened in another software. For example, I know in Photoshop it's possible to change your colour profile, which changes how colours are mapped/displayed. That's the extent of my knowledge though and I haven't looked too much into it other than that, I just use stock stuff :'D
Could you explain your process just a little bit more on how you start your pieces with value instead of color? I'm trying to improve the shapes of my pixel art and something I've started to do is just draw them entirely in black to start with to see how the silhouette comes out. I'd like to see how I can incorporate a bunch of grays in as well if you'd be able to help me out ^^
The process of starting with black for silhouette is very useful, I use that a lot too. For my value painting process it's fairly simple, I start the thumbnails in black/white only to focus on shapes/composition, then when adding value, I try to limit my values to 2/3 to start with, using only mid-tones, avoiding super light or dark values. For an environment piece like this, I usually break the piece up into planes, foreground, midground, background, and assign a value for each of these planes. The exact value structure depends on what you're going for, but a typical set up is the fg is the darkest, with bg the lightest. Once I'm happy with that, I begin to add more values, ensuring that the value ranges do not mix between planes. For example, I can have highlights + shadows in midground, but those values will not be darker or lighter than the other planes, this is just to continue to keep that fg/mg/bg separation and try to achieve depth. An important thing, is to try to gather reference for the particular set up and study the values as I did in this video, it really helps a lot, as in this piece, the midground had a different value structure than what I'm typically using :) Hope that can help, any other questions let me know. Our discord is full of people you can ask too, feel free to ping me anytime
@@saultoons first of all, thank you for getting back to me and so fast :D Second, I appreciate the advice. I like to keep things simple to going with about 3 values to start with will definitely help me out. Also, I never use mid-tones, I like to make sure shifts in value "matter", "are meaningful" if you know what I mean ^^;. I basically cover a large piece of the spectrum when choosing values, so what you said here is something I'll give a try. Finally, I'm not on discord, but now I'll read on it so I can join yours! Thanks again ^^
@@kwonsoon7048 Yeah that makes sense. I think my usage of mid-tones is more so that I have the most control over the contrast. When I use a lot of mid-tones to start with, avoiding the high/low values, it does look more muted to begin with, but if I can get a value structure that looks right with mid-tones, I can then start to play with value ranges and putting value contrast in the places that I want to stand out. Hope that makes sense :D
Hey Prince Pandey, for traditional sketching just a mechanical pencil haha, but digital tools I use a wacom intuos medium, I got it second hand for about £30 and it's awesome - Hope that answers your question
could you ask the some one guest artist (who cant' draw the 2D-traditional art/sketches) to do all the same? So If I want to "control the pixel" I have to pass full course how to draw the 2D and years of practice to step to pixel art? That wasn't true, it is?
Sorry, I'm not sure I fully understand your message, but you don't need to do 2D art to transition to pixel art, if that's what you mean. Everyone's path is different, art shares a lot of commonalities between each medium :D
@@saultoons yeah, you've got right, however, the good artists that I met can draw with own hands&pencil. So as I figure out, there're two ways, 1st they could draw before pixel art, 2nd way the translate their knowledge in pixel art to learn traditional draw. For those who can't draw at start, concept things are too difficult (and Jama Jurabaev courses are not very helpful). But I'll continue my tries...
This is Clip Studio Paint but most things shown in the video are also possible in Aseprite. Layer masking isn’t possible afaik, but the workaround is just to duplicate the layer you intend to edit so that you always have the original. Layer modes are possible in Aseprite. Correction layers don’t exist in aseprite but the same correction methods are possible in aseprite by using adjustments menu that will just be applied to all of the currently active layer :)
The five w's: Who What Why When Where If you're ever lost or don't know what you're doing, ask these questions and trying to answer then should give you at least enough thinking to get going somewhere!
hi Saultoons .. do you know the suikoden 1/2 background ? i mean the house, ground, etc .. im curious how to make them ? is it pure by pixel art or what ? because its look blurry .. (from my theory is we just drawing using brush & make it pixel looks by using tools in photoshop (blur > Pixelate > mosaic (about 4 cell size)) because i feel the background has different type of styles from the character sprites (pixel art) itself .. sorry if my english was bad .. i hope u know what i mean
Hi Hendy, from what I can see on Google images of Suikoden1/2, in some cases it actually looks like the background is a 3D render with pixel textures, or in some cases just higher res pixel art, whereas the characters are lower res/size pixel art. If you have any specific images you want me to look at, send them on Discord in our community, or direct on social media and I'll take a look
Game design can be difficult, but maybe start by asking what is unique about your character, and what abilities or game mechanics could be fun with that characters unique features. For example: you might have a character that is very bald, maybe the baldness is used as a reflective light to solve puzzles hahaha :'D Feel free to join the community on Discord, people can help you out there! :D
What did you use to collect your references together, like what app/ Online site? I've been using Pinterest but I dislike how hard it is to find the artists of work and how the pool of pictures is limited. Edit:Clarity
At 12:16 it would be funny if you cut away to the pixel art enthusiast pushing his glasses up with one finger.. glasses that are taped together, of course.
Are you going to give the challenges a go?!?!?!?!?!?!? Send them on social media or discord if you do, I'd love to see
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@@mokumokuren3748 hahahahah
@Sleeping YellowCreature LETS GOOOOO
@@saultoons Can you make a Video about Shovel Knight By Yacht club?
can you do a strictly black and white no grays 35 x 35 pixel challenge maybe like 3 or 5 per contestant?, I have a small idea for my own project.
This is the best one stop beginner concept art tutorial I’ve seen, I’ve seen plenty already and non explains better than this one, when I first learnt to do concept art I had to find like 100 or so videos to compete the collection, but this is perfect for beginners, thank you saul!
Wow, so glad you find it so helpful Cypekrown! There are a lot of amazing concept artists on RUclips, their work is really incredible so I can't really stand up to that right now, but I hope to share what I'm learning with you all and we can grow together
the third composition was very well done!! it frames the house perfectly
Thanks, it's always fun exploring compositions! :D
This is nuts because I’ve been trying to figure out how exactly I’m gonna do pixel concept art for my own game ideas and stuff and this is literally like exactly what I needed. I’d love to see a video on characters as well because I kinda suck at characters and animals still. Great freakin video man, super helpful.
Thanks Dyllan :D check out the other videos in this playlist, there's a basic one on creating characters and the process I use, even if it's a little old now it's still relevant :D Thanks for watching
dang, what a really underrated video the youtube algorithm gave me. lessons are extremely clear here
also for people who can't make ideas: a good advice i got is this: if you don't feel inspired, you can experiment with already existing ideas and mush them into one you think sounds good. i get my raw ideas from role-playing with rpgs
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave some kind words about the video OnCreativeMedia :D
Nice advice too, all ideas are basically just the summation or combination of previous ideas :) RP sounds like a great way to generate ideas!!
a few months ago, i decided to pursue art not just as a hobby, but hopefully a living. concept art is one of the various mediums of art i was always interested in, and i've searched far and wide for tutorials. this video was super in-depth and helpful! thank you so much!
Dope! Good luck with your art, I hope it goes well :D
One of the best, practical and fun overviews of the 12 principles. Liked and subscribed!
This really is the ultimate concept art tutorial
Glad you think so! I’m sure there’s some things I’ve missed out and I’m not trying to say I’m even a good concept artist, there are much better out there, but I hope the process is useful regardless :)
This is my most exciting video of the week! I'll give the challenge a go using the video techniques.
Yessss! Let's go Thomas :D Hope it goes well for you, share if you decide to give it a shot :)
Awesome video!! I especially enjoyed the bit about light rays. I've been trying to learn a good way to create them recently
Thanks for the love 30pixels I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Missed you a lot! Thanks for sharing amazing concepts and ideas ❤
Thanks so much for the love, I finally got another video out 🤣
Absolutely stellar work as always! You always manage to break things down in a way that's so fun and refreshing.
I think I'm gonna give this challenge a swing, I already have an idea :D
Aleiocus!!!! Thanks so much for the kind words friendo, I'm always amazed by your ability to do 1 million things at once :'D
Another great tutorial mate! There's stuff that I was automatically doing, but you showed me so much more helpful ideas and tips that'll go far in future. Hope ya been well maaaaate!
Paypercutts!!! You are a legend my friend, glad it could help a wee bit - I've been good man, thanks for asking, I hope you're doing well too, I saw you had a DJ gig or something recently?!!?! Or upcoming?!?!?! Man, that's a bucketlist to attend a paypercutts set down under. All love
@@saultoons I'm all good lately thanks maaan! Yeah I was a guest host on my local community radio station. Was a semi-regular thing pre-covid. The monday night hiphop show. If nasty, foul, over the top profanity laden, underground 90s and early 2000s hiphop is your thing, you can listen back if you up for some fist clenching headbanging hahahahaaa. You can find the radio stations website on my insta post. Awesome, beautiful piece too at the end by the way. I didn't get to finish the video yesterday as my missus came in half way through, demanding 100% attention to here hahaha
@@paypercutts That's sick man, I'll definitely go check that out today! Thanks for the love dude, always good to hear from ya
@@saultoons Cheers ears!! you too mate!
Yoo,Thanks dude this is really helping for me to start Concept Art for my project
No worries at all, best of luck with your project :D
You are the reason I got into pixelart. I love you
You are the reason I keep making videos, thanks for watching
olá, sou brasileiro e adoro seus vídeos, espero que continue produzindo, seu trabalho é incrível!!!
Olá Brasil!!! Muito obrigado por assistir os vídeos, fico feliz que tenha gostado. Grande amor ao Brasil
Will definitely be using this to step up my concept art game!!
Amazing art work btw!
Thanks a lot, best of luck with your art and game :D
you are the best tutorial maker in the world
i even watch your tutorials when i dont need them becuase they are fun
Thanks for the kind words Omar, I'm glad you like watching the videos :D 1 whole year of sub too, thanks for sticking around
Wow the end music has the vibes of Final Fantasy ❤️
Oooooo nice, it does have those vibes :D
I've (finally) started trying out pixel art and your Donut tutorial was superr helpful. Love your Tutorials! I'm definitely on a binge watching them - love learning from you!
Nice one Lemonn, I hope your pixel art learning goes well, I'm glad you like the videos :D
12:37 Thanks for saying that. I once posted some RPG portraits that I made from my O.C.s and I used a soft brush and small canvas to make it. It was mosaic/pixelated but at the same time had a soft look into it. I was proud cause I was going for a old realistic paints looking, but at the same time it had this video-game vibe on it.
I don't remember the full critic but someone criticized it saying that for pixel art I should go for a solid less gradient look - and somehow I got sad about it and decided that I shouldn't do this anymore for my art.
But hearing you say that, even if only for a small detail in your art, made me happy. I think I will try again this "painted pixel art" look - maybe not everyone will like it but now I got an email for them to send their complaints XD.
Sorry for the extended comment. :x
Yeah the pixel art community is very passionate, and while there is a huge amount of support in it, I've also heard a lot of stories and seen many instances of gatekeeping. It's a shame really, because it can turn people off the medium, or become intimidated by it.
I completely see the perspective that there are certain guidelines for the medium, and effective practises that have been established over a period of time which people recommend, and I do agree that learning these guidelines and practising them will help you understand their effectiveness and the outcome that they produce, so you can learn when you want to use them or not - this is the same in not just pixel art, but digital art, and other traditional mediums.
But it's my belief that these are simply guidelines to achieving a particular look or style, and it's an artists right to decide what they want to make, how they want to make it look, and have full decision about what techniques, approaches, or workflows they want to use in achieving that look. If you're trying to achieve a particular look/style then perhaps its best to stick to some guidelines, but experimentation and doing what feels right to you is a very important part of art as well.
I often see the question 'does this count as pixel art' when attached to an art piece that deviates from expected practises, and it's exhausting, I'll personally leave the classification of art to the historians, and just enjoy making things, I'm sorry you had that experience as well, I hope you continue to create art that means something to you and is done in the way that you want it to be done :) Don't worry about what other people say, keep doing your thing!
@@saultoons thank you for the kind and thoughtful response! Love your videos!
@@tomboywarrior3229 No problem at all, I appreciate you watching :D
calling something Ultimate is always a bold claim.
but this concept art tutorial really Is the ultimate one.
now i know how to easily make concept art that is 10× better than any concept art i made before.
Hahah yes it’s a bold claim which is mainly for clickbait reasons to be honest, but I do try and put as much effort into the videos so it’s hopefully worthwhile for the viewers 😅 There are some fantastic concept art videos and creators on RUclips who I hope not to take anything away from, as all the information out there is highly valuable! I’m glad you find the video useful, I hope your art learning goes well :D I’d recommend checking out the RUclipsrs in the concept art space as well they’re fantastic 😄
thank you for making this video both: entertaining and educational! so many cool tips I'm gonna use! gonna check more of your tutorials :D
Thanks so much for watching
really awesome video, funny as well. Can't wait till I can get back to my laptop that works with my tablet so I can draw some of these challenges 😃
Would be dope to see what you come up with Linux, thanks for the love
"first you need an idea"
*mission failed! We will get them next time*
hahahaha
Your work is incredible. And your explanations are on point. Thanks a lot for sharing with us.
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching Andres :D
Challenges!? Your previous two have helped me So much in practise. I'm In!
Now at some point I get the courage to share them, promise :)
Do your thing, whatever you're comfortable with! Thanks so much for watching :)
Hey Saul!, Great to have a video! I missed them! I hope you are doing great, i'll try to participate on this challenge.
Hey Reddmar, thanks my friend, good to see you
Hey man, I used to watch your channel back in the early days but haven't watched for a while as I've taken a break from art. But wow, you've really come into your stride!! Super helpful tutorial and your art is lookin amazing✌
OtterTot, I remember! 5 years subbed that is super impressive thanks so much for sticking around all this time and for leaving a nice comment my friend. I hope you're doing well
This was so helpful. Definitely gonna be giving this challenge a go.
Chillariiiiiiiiii, thanks for the kind words :D
Man, I really love yours videos, they are simply awesome and I learn immense :)
Happy to hear that Flavio, thanks so much for watching :D
@@saultoons I appreciate your dedication to your videos
I'm grateful for the amount of effort and information packed into this video. It really answered a lot of my questions. Thank you!
I'm grateful for you watching the video and taking the time to leave a nice comment, thanks a lot! :)
you make it look so easy! i've just started teaching myself art so give me 25 years and ill be able to do this :P
haha you can do it James, I believe in you!!!
this is a great rundown of concept art! love your style :)
Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it
Thank you for the tutorial, you are truly an amazing artist💯
Thanks for watching and leaving kind words skeletalb0ne I appreciate you
I'm starting to learn pixel characters because of your tutorials and stuff thankyou so much lovelots!
That's awesome! Thanks for watching Jeypiix :D
I love the lightning
Very very inspiring
Thanks a lot Bat cat, I appreciate you watching
Aight Saul.... Now I'mma have to make a concept art for each area of my game now LUL love how this turned out.
hahaha you do what works for you my friend, excited to see how your game comes together
Where was this video 2 months ago when I got into composition and perspective. I started with perspective first and by did my pantings look boring as hell. Then about 2 weeks ago I finally started looking up composition....
Now playing with it I came to the realization that composition comes first THEN perspective helps bind it to the 3D world.
So it's best for me at least to create the composition of the art as it's less intensive to my brain. Then go in and create the perspective of such composition.
I was trying to build perspective areas first....THEN populate that perspective with composition. What I realized is for me, this method doesn't work as I am bound by the perspective that I created to make the composition of the painting work.
Composition is the most important thing that gets the person invested into the painting. When I was looking up composition I saw paintings captivate me with horrible perspective. This is when I realized my method was wrong.
Of course, I only have YT and spare time with few guidance. It's a hit or miss.
Yeah both composition and perspective are important, I always do composition before perspective as well because I've found similar that no amount of clear perspective can fix a bad composition.
Composition is hard too, I've found that watching films and seeing how cinematographers capture scenes has been very useful for that - and thumbnailing is vital to finding the right composition before committing to the piece, and it doesn't even take very much effort, which is nice.
Keep at it Ratus, you got this! :D
Awesome video dude, very informative!
Stotty the LEGEND, thanks mate
This is really fun to watch, and the finished piece is really good as well!
Thanks a lot Atari, I appreciate you watching
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Desculpe, o que é um brabo?
This is so well made! The tutorial is excellent but I really wanna commend you on the editing too! Thank you for your hard work
Thank you so much for the kind words Maria! :D
Before watching this video, I thought I knew how to produce concept art, but I now have more ideas on how to go about planning and doing so, including some ideas I knew about but forgot!
(4:18) I was reminded of a YT video from 'mewTripled' about having dedicated sketchbooks that didn't need to look pretty.
I'm sure there are some things I've overlooked as well, but thats the process I generally use for concept art, glad you found it useful
Its pleasing to watch this even if you never will be a real graphic art designer.
Thanks for the love
Always great Saul !
Thanks Skull, you are a legend :D
I just started watching this and I already love this video! Hmm how I generate ideas? I often get my illustration ideas by seeing other people's art what get me really inspired to make "that type of level of art" and sometimes even just randomly it just pops into my head in the morning, middle of the day or even as I am about to go to sleep. So in other words my brain coming up with illustration ideas can be really unpredictable since it can happen at any given point.
Thanks for sharing your insight! - I also get inspired by seeing other people's artwork, it's a fine balance between inspiration and comparing my own quality of work thinking that I suck all the time hahaha, but I love seeing what other artists are making :D
Damn, should watch your video 1st before I draw. Really helps to shape my concept of drawing. Really appreciate it.
Thanks for the kind words HyperBeaver, I appreciate you watching my friend :D
Awesome video.
Your editing is so good.
Thanks for the love Lancio :D
Thank you awesome video :-)
Thanks for the love
HYPE!!!
HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOKU IN THE CHAT LETS GOOOO
REALLY HELPFUL
Glad you found it useful :D
For the Generating Ideas section: If you can daydream٫ use that! As an FNF modder almost all of my lore comes from daydreaming since I can simply zone out in a few seconds allowing for quick and easy brain activity. I do have to admit however that even I need inspiration sometimes. Whether it be for mods or just straight up Gacha Club videos (just an example so please dont hate) daydreaming doesnt ALWAYS work out for me. 😇
Using the power of your BRAIN! That's cool, I would try it but my brain is smooth :D
@@saultoons Also just me being somewhat lazy lol. Plus I'm just used to it by now so why use it for FNF lore. 😇
Good channel & videos for pixel art. Thanks
Thank you for watching :D
straight to the point...😇😁
Glad you liked it! :D
For those who don't know, I sold my right kidney for this video!
I hope it was worth it :'D
@@saultoons of course
We thankyou for your service 🙏
wth this was actually a good tutorial
hahah why so surprised?
Without getting philosophical, to make 3 slices of bread into a bread sandwich, you have to either ad condiments or use a different kind of bread in the middle.
Yeah I suppose that is the right way, it has to be something other than the same bread for it to qualify as a sandwich
i thought you only did pixel art this looks great
Yeah I did digital art long before I tried out Pixel art, maybe I should make more digital art based videos or something if people are interested :D
I wish teachers in my school time were like you...
hahah well I appreciate it
Amazing. Do include it in the real game!. Probably at the start screen!
Thanks for the kind words, everything is changing in my game, but you'll have to wait and see the next video for that :D
Great tutorial, really enjoyed throughout! - just wondering how long the process took from first planning ideas to the final finished design, and what app you were using at the end?
Don't have the full time-frame but I work usually 3-4 hours a day for about a week on this, multiple sessions were streamed also, which is generally a lot slower in terms of productivity. App at the end? I use Clip Studio for this project if that's what you mean :D
0:42 I dream almost every night, and I remember most of my dreams when I wake up, I take it as a gift from God and a sorce of inspiration :)
That's pretty awesome, do you write down the ideas?
Became subscriber for the bread joke lol. Nice video ;)
haha thanks Leo, true question though, I'll never know the answer I think haha
Ive been watching this vid again again and again dir 3 months, and i still wonderin what gear you use?
Gear? Like equipment? Aseprite or Clip Studio Paint for software, a mouse for pixel art or a Wacom intuos medium for bigger pixel art or digital art :) thanks for watching
Saultoons our lord and saviour!
Waters, what a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Silly question: you CAN make the same rays of light without using the brush, right? Like, you can manually adjust the colours and place the pixels with the pencil, and all the brush does is automatically adjust the colours on the edges, right? Another silly question: all (or at least most, up-to-date) software have the same colours, right? I don't know which software you're using, but does, say, Aseprite have the same colour range? Thanks!
Yes of course, you can do all of these things manually if you'd like, though it may take a while depending on the amount of steps you plan to put in.
For your other question, this is an interesting one, I'm not 100% sure but I do know that some art software's use certain 'colour profiles' which can change the way things look for one piece if opened in another software. For example, I know in Photoshop it's possible to change your colour profile, which changes how colours are mapped/displayed. That's the extent of my knowledge though and I haven't looked too much into it other than that, I just use stock stuff :'D
@@saultoons Oh, ok. Thank you so much!
May I know what software/application you are using to create this amazing pixel art?
Clip studio paint, though any will do :D
It's FINALLY OUT! Now, work on the next one
The pain, the suffering :'D
:')
Could you explain your process just a little bit more on how you start your pieces with value instead of color?
I'm trying to improve the shapes of my pixel art and something I've started to do is just draw them entirely in black to start with to see how the silhouette comes out.
I'd like to see how I can incorporate a bunch of grays in as well if you'd be able to help me out ^^
The process of starting with black for silhouette is very useful, I use that a lot too.
For my value painting process it's fairly simple, I start the thumbnails in black/white only to focus on shapes/composition, then when adding value, I try to limit my values to 2/3 to start with, using only mid-tones, avoiding super light or dark values. For an environment piece like this, I usually break the piece up into planes, foreground, midground, background, and assign a value for each of these planes. The exact value structure depends on what you're going for, but a typical set up is the fg is the darkest, with bg the lightest. Once I'm happy with that, I begin to add more values, ensuring that the value ranges do not mix between planes. For example, I can have highlights + shadows in midground, but those values will not be darker or lighter than the other planes, this is just to continue to keep that fg/mg/bg separation and try to achieve depth. An important thing, is to try to gather reference for the particular set up and study the values as I did in this video, it really helps a lot, as in this piece, the midground had a different value structure than what I'm typically using :)
Hope that can help, any other questions let me know. Our discord is full of people you can ask too, feel free to ping me anytime
@@saultoons first of all, thank you for getting back to me and so fast :D
Second, I appreciate the advice. I like to keep things simple to going with about 3 values to start with will definitely help me out. Also, I never use mid-tones, I like to make sure shifts in value "matter", "are meaningful" if you know what I mean ^^;. I basically cover a large piece of the spectrum when choosing values, so what you said here is something I'll give a try.
Finally, I'm not on discord, but now I'll read on it so I can join yours! Thanks again ^^
@@kwonsoon7048 Yeah that makes sense.
I think my usage of mid-tones is more so that I have the most control over the contrast. When I use a lot of mid-tones to start with, avoiding the high/low values, it does look more muted to begin with, but if I can get a value structure that looks right with mid-tones, I can then start to play with value ranges and putting value contrast in the places that I want to stand out. Hope that makes sense :D
love Saultoons video :D
Thanks so much
Hey!what hardwares tools do you use for Sketching?
Hey Prince Pandey, for traditional sketching just a mechanical pencil haha, but digital tools I use a wacom intuos medium, I got it second hand for about £30 and it's awesome - Hope that answers your question
That get a life felt such a personal attack .😄😄
hahah it was more directed at myself :'D life brings us experience which brings us ideas
I can get my ideias when I tell what I think for someone or write down on somewhere
Nice Daniel! :D Thanks for sharing
1:35 We actually that last question
Is important
What software would you recommend?
could you ask the some one guest artist (who cant' draw the 2D-traditional art/sketches) to do all the same? So If I want to "control the pixel" I have to pass full course how to draw the 2D and years of practice to step to pixel art? That wasn't true, it is?
Sorry, I'm not sure I fully understand your message, but you don't need to do 2D art to transition to pixel art, if that's what you mean. Everyone's path is different, art shares a lot of commonalities between each medium :D
@@saultoons yeah, you've got right, however, the good artists that I met can draw with own hands&pencil. So as I figure out, there're two ways, 1st they could draw before pixel art, 2nd way the translate their knowledge in pixel art to learn traditional draw. For those who can't draw at start, concept things are too difficult (and Jama Jurabaev courses are not very helpful). But I'll continue my tries...
what a cool video. :)
Thanks! 😃Glad you liked it Daniel
Can you do this layer stuff in aseprite ? Or have you moved on to photoshop now ?
This is Clip Studio Paint but most things shown in the video are also possible in Aseprite.
Layer masking isn’t possible afaik, but the workaround is just to duplicate the layer you intend to edit so that you always have the original.
Layer modes are possible in Aseprite.
Correction layers don’t exist in aseprite but the same correction methods are possible in aseprite by using adjustments menu that will just be applied to all of the currently active layer :)
@@saultoons awesome thanks for the input ! Sorry I thought it was photoshop looks very similar if I’m not mistaken lol
@@thebutcher1412 Yes it's very similar haha, though it is £12931029312903812 cheaper :'D
@@saultoons yeah I immediately researched it after I saw how awesome this drawing was. I don’t think I’m at this level yet but hopefully one day soon
HOW HAVE I MISSED SO MANY UPLOADS
haha gotta turn on that notification bell ;D
OHMYGOD 1:19 🤣🤣🤣
What a weird fella in that hut
I hope Phil is an Easter egg in that game
haha that's a good idea!!! I'll do it :D
The five w's:
Who
What
Why
When
Where
If you're ever lost or don't know what you're doing, ask these questions and trying to answer then should give you at least enough thinking to get going somewhere!
Just like cluedo. It was mrs. peacock in the lounge with the pencil sharpener! :'D Nice tips, thanks for sharing
for the challenge does it have to be a pixel art?
NO! You can do whatever medium you want, I encourage some experimentation :)
@@saultoons ok!
"If you put a slice of bread between two 2 slices of bread is it a bread sandwich or 3 slices of bread?"
Thats actually a good question
Yeah for real I still don't know
@@saultoons lol
my fav baldy
Thanks :D
In one of the fonts you used in the video, the lowercase b looks more like a 6 to me
Maybe it is :o
What program are you using here? It’s not aseprite is it?
No I use Clip Studio Paint for this, it has automatic recording which is NOICE :D
It's always the bald dudes who are masters in their craft
We all train like Saitama from One Punch Man hahaha
Nah I appreciate your kind words but I'm far from master, still learning and growing always :D
hi Saultoons .. do you know the suikoden 1/2 background ? i mean the house, ground, etc .. im curious how to make them ? is it pure by pixel art or what ? because its look blurry .. (from my theory is we just drawing using brush & make it pixel looks by using tools in photoshop (blur > Pixelate > mosaic (about 4 cell size)) because i feel the background has different type of styles from the character sprites (pixel art) itself .. sorry if my english was bad .. i hope u know what i mean
Hi Hendy, from what I can see on Google images of Suikoden1/2, in some cases it actually looks like the background is a 3D render with pixel textures, or in some cases just higher res pixel art, whereas the characters are lower res/size pixel art. If you have any specific images you want me to look at, send them on Discord in our community, or direct on social media and I'll take a look
How can I get inspiration for making a game based on a character?
Game design can be difficult, but maybe start by asking what is unique about your character, and what abilities or game mechanics could be fun with that characters unique features. For example: you might have a character that is very bald, maybe the baldness is used as a reflective light to solve puzzles hahaha :'D Feel free to join the community on Discord, people can help you out there! :D
@@saultoons I have joined some :D
What’s a good website to get good reference pictures from? I always look for stuff like mushroom reference but can never find anything
I usually just use google images, pinterest, or tumblr.
1:27 i need answers!
One of lifes greatest mysteries
What did you use to collect your references together, like what app/ Online site? I've been using Pinterest but I dislike how hard it is to find the artists of work and how the pool of pictures is limited.
Edit:Clarity
I usually use Pinterest, Artstation, Tumblr, Instagram, Google images and put it together in pureref
Lol man beat me
You were close tho, thanks for your dedication
@@saultoons its fine its the least i can do your server help le a lot ony growth of poxel art
Pixel
Please try making a game or concept art in Dreams for PS4!!
I don't have it but that would be dope!
Awesome video, but where's Mr. Lumberjack?
Maybe chilling inside cooking some nice food
Dont you use Aseprite anymore?
Yeah but mainly for animation work, clip studio has in built Timelapse recording which is too useful for video making not to use
At 12:16 it would be funny if you cut away to the pixel art enthusiast pushing his glasses up with one finger.. glasses that are taped together, of course.
haha yeah true
Which software is this?
Clip Studio Paint, but possible in any art based software :D