You can also use the bezier/pen tools in photoshop or any other software package. Here are a couple recently gathered tutorial pages on creating pixel art. You want to make sure the tablet you get has at least 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity or it might feel a little laggy or touchy. I've heard other tablets are alright also. I have an old trusty intous 2 which is totally 'old' and out dated, but it works and I'm good with it so that's all that matters. But check it out the next day and you should be impressed with the quality of the work compared to your previous drawings with a mouse and the brush tool.Īs soon as you can - invest in a tablet. Don't get frustrated, it's easy to think your not making progress when you only get half a face done in 1-2 hours. The speed you create drawings at first - is pretty slow, but within a weeks time 1-2 hours per day you will see noticeable increase in speed and quality. Initially it's a pretty tedious process, but the results are far better than I could have done freehand with a mouse at the time. Click with the pencil tool, don't click and drag. Make sure you are zoomed in and draw at the pixel level. Use the pencil tool, with a square pixel brush, size 1. The second instance is the document you draw in. Open 2 instance windows of the same document, the first instance is at 100% zoom level - the second instance is zoomed to the level you are comfortable drawing at, usually 400-800%. The process I used at the time was in photoshop.
I drew a lot of pixel art with a mouse before Santa brought me a wacom for Christmas several years ago. Gimp may also work similar (I haven't used it in years so I can't confirm it does) - but it's free to use and there are some awesome artists who use it.
You didn't mention what your budget is or which tools you have already tried, but I have a specific process for creating pixel art like you provided above using photoshop. Several on the forum here have said inkscape is pretty nice. I'm kind of a a resource junkie, when I see a good link I'll save it, so I can't attest to the two tools below because I've never used them, but they might be helpful. Hey Boris - didn't you link to that cool smooth draw tool a couple days ago?
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