I use it to smooth out the lines that define the curvature of his muscles. To the right you can see what AA looks like as applied to our orc's upper arm. The longer the line segment, the longer the segment of AA we use to soften it.
The gray pixels soften the "breaks" in our line. Every time I introduce a new shade of color, I do some anti-aliasing also known as AA, which is a way to smooth out blocky pixels by putting "in-between" colors at the corners where two line segments meet.
By shading, you're not just adding color - you're sculpting out a form.Ī well-defined character has details that do not obscure the basic forms - if you squint, a few large clusters of light and dark should still emerge. It may help you to visualize your character without all of its details and pretend that it's made out of clay instead of pixels. Forms exist in a three-dimensional space and can have volume that fills up that space.īy shading, we're bringing out that volume. If you're having trouble with this part, you may need to practice thinking about drawings as forms with volume, instead of simply lines and color. We'll add our darker colors to the bottom and back of the orc. It's time to shade! The basic idea is that we're going to add darker colors called shades to the sprite to simulate shadow, thereby making the sprite look 3d instead of flat. In the lower-left, I've also introduced a familiar friend, The Ball, to give a quick look at what's going on in each step.
ASEPRITE ADD COLOR TO PALETTE SOFTWARE
With your Paint Bucket or some other fill tool, color your character in! A palette will make this part simpler, and if your paint software doesn't support palettes, you can always paste your palette into the image itself as I've done here and select colors using the Eye Dropper tool. The goal is simply to minimize them while expressing what you want to express.
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