Basic 🌱 Energy

(32x32 pixel art, originally created 15.3.24 for Pixel Dailies theme "basic")

An apple a day~

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What's your approach to your scenes? How do you pick out colours and make it obvious what's what? As a pixelartist myself who's fairly weak at scenes, I'd appreciate the help!

Hi!

With almost all of my pixel art, I start out with just 3 or 4 colours - for landscapes, I figure out the rough shapes for the background, foreground and sky. After that, it's honestly just a lot of trial-and-error; I generally work from the "back" of a scene, and use more saturated colours as I come "forward". I'll pick colours as I need them, then try and reduce the palette down once I'm almost done. I'd guess my average palette size on a finished piece is maybe 12-14 colours? (Unless I'm using a pre-made palette; then I'll try and stick to hardware restrictions; 3 colours+black for a NES sprite, for example) As for making things obvious, I think the context is key; a cluster of grey pixels reads clearly as a shield if the rest of the piece looks like a knight! The resolution I work as doesn't leave room for too many details, so the best I can to is allude to things, and hope that your brain fills in the blanks. Contrast in colour and shape can go a long way in this regard as well.

I kinda suck at explaining things, but I hope you gleaned something useful all the same!

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