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Which app you usé for Your drawings? 😗

Hey! I use a couple different apps! I use FireAlpaca for general pixel art illustration on my laptop. It's not too different from using any other drawing software, you just have to turn off anti-aliasing! I just use it because it's free.

I switch to Aesprite for animation. :) It's one of the best pixel art software out there, but if you don't want to spend any money, you can use the open-source version: LibreSprite!

Hope this helps!

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Question from a learning pixel artist; what program do you use and how do you use shading to create textures so well? Thanks in advance

ahh congrats on starting pixel art! i hope you're having a lot of fun with it! it's one of my favorite mediums! it really pushes you to consider various limitations and those constraints can result in really innovative and creative art solutions.

Regarding the programs that I use, I use FireAlpaca for rendering (I sketch in pixels from start-to-finish), Aseprite for animation, and PyxelEdit for tile work! I go a bit more into detail in this ask here: https://www.tumblr.com/moawling/701841953932951552/hi-there-welcome-to-tumblr-your-food-snails-are?source=share

For me, pixel art is so much about optical trickery, especially when you're working with smaller resolutions (working bigger uses different techniques). Pulling off textures requires knowing when to simplify and exaggerate certain forms. For example:

Looking at the rice, you can see that I didn't render every single grain of rice! I used my understanding of lighting to judge where to draw rice grains and where the omit the texture. If you study photographs with intense lighting, you can see how very dark and very light areas get "washed out".

With textures, especially with pixel art, sometimes less is more! As an artist, all you have to do is provide just enough visual context to provide the viewer with an understanding of the material. ThEn let THEIR imaginations do the rest of the work!

Hope this was helpful! BEST OF LUCK to u and ur pixels journey!

#ask moaw #mbe i'll do a more in depth texture rant but i hope this was helpful #have fun with it :)

Hi there welcome to Tumblr!

Your food snails are so cute especially the burger one 🥺 What program do you use to make your pixel art?

ahh thank you so much! i rly like those pixels as well :) I use FireAlpaca for general pixel illustration. It's a free drawing program comparable to Paint Tool SAI! It's not a program designed specifically for pixel art, it's really the same as any other painting program, just turn off anti-aliasing.

For animating sprites, I use Aesprite! Aseprite has a p huge and active userbase that's always making cool scripts for the program! Aseprite costs $19.99 USD, but there's an open-source version called LibreSprite here!

For complex tile work I use PyxelEdit! It's a cute program that allows you to edit and even animate tile sets but it hasn't received any updates in a while :( it costs $9.00 which isn't too bad but I recommend investing in another program mbe

Hope this is helpful!

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hello!! i am not the anon who asked if they could cross stitch your work but i'm very glad they did because i would LOVE to cross stitch your food snails if you are still okay with sending files over! i will of COURSE credit you and tag you when they're done, they're so cute 🥺

hello! ahh im so so sorry for the late response YES im v happy to share with u! i am away from my work computer for a couple days but i'll share asap

please yes yes would loave to be tagged and would loave to see ur interpretation of them!

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hellloooo!! i adore ur work :3 wld u be ok w me cross stitching ur work? w proper credit ofc!

Ahh thank you for asking! Cross-stitching takes a lot of focus and patience, I'm so so honored you want to use my work as a reference! If you're comfortable with it, please tag and share it with me when ur done!!!

Good luck!!!

#ah if u need the files too anon i can see if i can dig them up?#anyway ty for asking!#ask moaw

Do you have an online shop anywhere? I would absolutely love to buy some of your art as stickers :)

ahh i'm so so SO sorry for the late responses! I've been offline for a bit bc of traveling!

I do have an online shop but it's closed for the time being! I don't know when it'll open again, but hopefully I'll be in a good place to manage it again soon! You're so so sweet to support my work and thank you thank you!! for your interest!

#ask moaw #u r very nice thank u friemd

just so you know, you have great talent of making pixel art :)

ah that's very very very sweet! thank u so much!! i rly enjoy it and im glad other ppl like it too :')))

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