pinkuboa: My blog may be dead but my love of pixel art isn’t! For Beginners! a small introduct

pinkuboa:

My blog may be dead but my love of pixel art isn’t!

For Beginners!

• a small introduction to pixel art
• a good beginner’s pixel art tutorial (pictured)
• Derek Yu’s (creator ofSplunkey)crash course on pixel art and his follow up tips on improving
• easy steps to improving your sprite work
• three more tips on improving your spritework: 
• a few more quick tips!

Collections

• Studio Miniboss has a TON of tutorials and I highly suggest them - they’re the people behind Celeste &Towerfall!
• LoSpec,a site that collects tutorials and pixel art palettes for anyone to use (pictured)
• RHL experiments with colors a lot and gives some great tree and other scenery advice
• MortMort’s video tutorials - he’s been doing it for a while and has tons to look at
• Pixel Pete’s Video Tutorials - cover the basics well
• Brandon James Greer’s Youtube Tutorials - He does some really rad sprite analysis and Challenge Videos too
• some water tile tutorials I found a while back

RPG Maker/Game Oriented

• nice tutorial about making a character in the standard rpg/three-fourths perspective
• a nice series of pixel art tutorials focused on top down/three forths  perspective games like RPGs and 2D Zelda-likes (pictured)
• my tips on spriting charactersets for RPG Maker 2003
• a quick tip on character walk cycles
• metatiles: what are they, and how to make them

More Advanced

• tiny introduction to clusters
• a great talk on banding, clusters, and dithering, and how to correct common mistakes
• interesting way to create a palette
• cyangmou’s stuff is absolute gold and has a lot of analyses, check out his stuff on perspective! (pictured)
• a deep look at pixel art in general
• this guy’s nice dense talk on pixel art, including deconstructing good rpg tilesets & varying your tiles for video games. 
• slynerd’s stuff is rad and comprehensive

Good luck!