Some Small Pouches I Made... I Didn't Have A Sewing Machine When I Made Those, But I Think They're Not

A sorta small tribute to Gabe...

I never met him, but his borking gave great joy to my life... he will definitely be remembered

You guys wanna know what I did this weekend? I participated in Ludum Dare, an online competition to create a game in 48 hours...

You guys know I love videogames and how badly I wanted to make one, but this took me by surprise, David (who made the first pic) called me to ask me if I had time to participate in a project and I said yes, I met the two programmers (who were insanely sweet dudes) via skype and we started working...

I was in charge of the characters pixel work (surprise surprise!) so I did the best I could to make decent animations with the time we had, I also designed one character, I feel like I was the weakest link in the chain, but w/e, we completed the game and it's alive! it's the first game I can call mine so I'm super proud...

Check it out!! (click on the windows/web link to go to the game) and if you participated please rate it and tell us what you think!

Since some people asked me to explain how do I do pixel art/show them the program I use, I decided to do both things...some basic info about the program, shortcuts and the explanation for the tools can be found under the cut.

Welcome to this tutorial for GraphicsGale (shortened Gale from now on) I'm sorry if some things don't make sense, english is not my first language, you're free to correct me if you want, I'll try my best to answer questions if you have them. Enjoy.

So, first things first, What is Gale? it's a graphics program by Human Balance co. focused on pixel art, it can be found on it's official site and there you can download it there too. I highly recomend buying it if you liked it, it's not expensive at all and it's awesome.

For this first part I'll just talk about very basic stuff like tools and such, so let's take a look at the program itself.

It doesn't look intimidating does it? I even broke up the menus in pretty colors, yay!

1.- (red) it's a normal menu, like any other program has. I'll be talking about specifics later on, while I explain how to do stuff.

2.- (orange) basic actions icons, it's basically a condensed menu; I'll list the icons, hover up on the words if you want more specific info. New file, Open file, Browse, Save | Undo, Redo |Cut, Copy, Paste | Paste as a new image | Zoom | Grid, Custom Grid, Grid snap | Onion Skin

3.- (yellow) Tools, again, I'll list the icons, hover for a more specific explanation on each icon. Magnifier, Image Mover, Rectangular Selection, Oval Selection, Lasso, Magic Wand, Color Selection, Pencil, Connect line, Spline Curve, Rectangle, Filled rectangle, Oval, Filled Oval, Flood fill, Color Replacer, Draw text | Antialias, Transparent, Paint mode

4.- (green) Layers menu; New Layer, Duplicate Current Layer, Delete Layer, Combine Layers | Previous Layer, Next Layer | Properties of the Current Layer (I don't think I need to explain any of these)

5.- (cyan?) Animation stuff; Add frame, duplicate frame, delete frame | previous frame, next frame | properties of current frame | cut frame, copy frame, paste frame | Play, Pause

6.- (blue) your current document window, here I have a gif with 4 frames opened. as you can see the document only shows me one frame at a time, but if you have the preview window open you can see the animation and you can find the frames in the Frame

7.- (purple) Extras! this is another important part of the program, this program has a lot of specific things that are meant for making your life easier at pixelling, you can call the extras in the menu view, and they are Frame, Layer, Palette, Preview and Loupe, I always have the first 4 opened at any given time as they are pretty useful, I don't really see the point in the loupe, but maybe you will...

Now, some important tips that you may be interested in.

You can dock windows so they're not floating around like I did with the frames window, simply go to the options (the arrow), select "dockable" and drag the window to whatever corner you want, you'll notice the outline changes when it's docked.

You can keep windows collapsed so they don't use space, like I did with the layers and palette, simply select auto hide in the options menu

You can save a lot of time with shortcuts and button mappings, this program comes with some stupid button mapping (for example, ctrl + or ctrl - aren't the default mapping for zooming in and out), so if you're used to another program, you can make them match. Simply go to File > Preferences and change them to your hearts content (or if you dont want to change anything, learn what the shortcuts are)

I hope you guys find this useful, I'll cover basic pixel drawing on the next tutorial...

My bb Amethyst ;v; I like her so so much...

I’m not a huge fan of this pokemon’s design as in, they look just like regular birds, but with longer hair, I did however have one in my team the first time I played because I wanted my team to be just like Ash’s, little did I know that he never won against the elite four

I love when villagers have the circle eyes looking to the side 👀

(I'm not sorry)

can you sleep in a golbat’s mouth

Aaand I guess this is the last post for a while... have some of the fkmt fanart I did last year... I love Kaiji, but Zero quickly gained a spot in my heart and I think I drew the most fanart of that manga... you can of course guess that my OTPs were IchijouxKaiji and ItakuraxZero

that's it I guess... I love you guys...  don't forget me in this time I'll be gone, ok?

I don't have much to say about this batch, this was a very odd week but I pixelled a lot

I’m glad vulpix got a resurgence thanks to its alolan form, but imho, this fire baby is as cute as the icey baby