Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More!

Book Description

Make Your Own Pixel Art is a complete, illustrated introduction to the creation of pixel art aimed at beginners just starting out right through to the experienced pixel artist wanting to enhance their skills.

Hand anyone a pencil and paper and they can start drawing, but it’s just as easy to draw digitally using a keyboard and mouse. With Make Your Own Pixel Art, pixel artist Jennifer Dawe and game designer Matthew Humphries walk you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors, shading, and how to turn your art into animation. By the end of the book, you’ll be creating art far beyond what’s possible on paper!

Make Your Own Pixel Art will teach you about:

• Creating pixel art using the most popular art software and the common tools they provide
• Drawing with pixels, including sculpting, shading, texture, and color use
• The basics of motion and how to animate your pixel art creations
• Best practices for saving, sharing, sketching, and adding emotion to your art

With a dash of creativity and the help of Make Your Own Pixel Art, your digital drawings can be brought to life, shared with the world, and form a basis for a career in art, design, or the video games industry.

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书名：Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More!

打造自己的像素艺术这是一个完整的，图文并茂的像素艺术创作的介绍，旨在为初学者，直到经验丰富的像素艺术家想要提高他们的技能。

给任何人一支铅笔和一张纸，他们就可以开始绘画了，但使用键盘和鼠标进行数字绘画也同样容易。有了他们打造自己的像素艺术，像素艺术家Jennifer Dawe和游戏设计师Matthew Humphries一步一步地向您介绍可用的工具、像素艺术技术、形状、颜色、阴影的重要性，以及如何将您的艺术转化为动画。在这本书的结尾，你将创造出远远超过纸面上可能的艺术！

打造自己的像素艺术我将教您以下方面的知识：

• 使用最流行的艺术软件及其提供的常用工具创建像素艺术
• 使用像素绘制，包括雕刻、着色、纹理和颜色使用
• 运动的基础知识以及如何为您的像素艺术创作设置动画
• 保存、分享、绘制素描和为您的艺术添加情感的最佳实践

有了一点创造力，再加上我们的帮助打造自己的像素艺术，您的数字绘画可以栩栩如生，与世界共享，并形成一个在艺术、设计或视频游戏行业的职业生涯的基础。