Aseprite Brush Tips and Tricks (Pixel Art Tutorial)

everybody in this video I want to talk about a few tips and tricks that you can do in a sprite for the brush so some of the things you will see in this video is how you can advance the workflow with your brush a few tips and tricks that you may not know about we'll also be talking a little bit about painting with tiles one thing before I start this is a little bit of an advanced video on brush so if you don't know the basics of the brush I suggest that you check out my basic a sprite video where I cover all the basics for the brush but that's it let's just get into the video so the first thing I want to talk about is how you can paint tiles with your brush I'm gonna give you an example here you can see I have my tile over to the left and you can see I'm just painting it out here and I'm gonna show you how to do that it's quite simple the first thing you do is make some kind of tile in this case I'm going to use my little wall tile I've made here next up you select the tile so you take your selection tool and just select the entire tile and the next step is pressing control B and that will turn your tile into a brush so there are three paint settings I want to talk about they are up here in the top it's called pattern align to sauce pattern align to destination and paintbrush so let's just take one of the times that we can see how they're works so let's take pattern align to sauce and this tile over here that I selected this is our sauce when I use the control be comment on it that becomes the brush sauce so wherever I paint now you can see it's always always going to be aligned with my original tile that I drew and that is the align to the sauce so you can see if I draw separate places no matter what it's always going to be fitting the same place which can be super convenient though there are some cases you want to switch over and use pattern and line to destination what this basically means is that where you place your mouse left click now is where this strokes sauce is going to be so if I click here and paint the soles is where I made my first stroke as soon as I release it resets the source as well and there's no source destination and you can see if I place it some or else lashes places somewhere random here that is now the current source of this stroke and you can see it does not align with any other time that we had drawn so that's the difference between a line to source and a line to destination last up we have this paintbrush and it's a little bit different we don't really use this for tiles but I'm gonna show you what happens when you draw with it real quick you can see it only paints with the outer edge of my tile this is used more for brushes that are supposed to emulate certain paint brushes or if you have some kind of light pattern you want to place down one click by one cling first off I want to show you how you can also apply this to other tiles so so for example we have a fence tile right here and we're selected again control B and you can now see I have it here I've set it to align with destination so now that we have the fence as a tile one thing you can do is that you can click where you want the fence to start so let's say we wanted to start over here and you want it to end over here then you hold down shift and you can see I now can make a line with the tile but you have to be super precise to like get it in there but you can end working around that by holding down control and shift at the same time you can see it kind of snaps to an angle here so I can easily just like straight drag it where I want it to be and it snaps to that one straight line so that is one thing you can do it I'm just gonna do one more time click where I want it to start shift and alt at the same time and I can just drag it out where I wanted to this is the same as just making a line speaking of line tool this tile thing control B thing that we do to an object it's not only applied to the brush now it works on any other objects so we can take out a line here I'm just gonna select this straight line and you can see I can make a tile line I can even take out my rectangle tool here and make a big rectangle and boom there we go have a big rectangle of my tiles and not only that guys it also works with the paint bucket so let me just select this area here boom there we go look at that insane so it really applies to any tool the control be thing that you do which is super super handy because some of them might use better for the bucket tool some of them might use better for the rectangle tool some might even work better for the circle tool or the line tool so the fact that I can just select something in my image control B and I now have a brush that paints that thing that's super handy and it's just about finding creative ways that you can use it alright but let's not get too far away from the brush because there's way more to the brush that I want to talk about and the next option that I want to talk about is the ink option we slightly covered this in the basic video as well but in this video I'm going to try and take a little deeper into it and explain what the different inks really does alright so the first ink option is simple ink up here simple ink is the first option and it's basically just your standard option so that is what you've probably been using if you've been using a sprite already it's just your standard way of drawing with no fans effect over it just a normal ink your standard basic thing there's actually no more else to say about it I could keep going on about how basic it is but I'm not discuss its you probably already get it so I'm going to move on to the next one alright the next ink option is up here and it's alpha compositing and what it basically does is it as an alpha to your ink if you don't know what L face let me just try and slide this around the middle here and draw something here take a different color and draw here and you can see it's transparent so you're basically choosing how much transparency you want in your ink with this one I do want to say one thing if you have this simple ink you can also choose the Alpha down here below this slider so let me take some Witt color and you can see here one hundred percent and about fifty percent and about twenty-five so you can see there's different ways you can choose the Alpha if it's zero I guess it's an eraser I didn't know that I learned something too here that's that's fantastic but yeah so the alpha compositing and sample ink can let's do the same thing if you have your alpha all the way up it will just be drawing like you are with a normal simple ink option so that's C alpha compositing the next option is copy alpha plus color and it's a little hard to understand maybe if you don't see what's going on but you can see here right now I'm drawing with 100% of my color in the Alpha which means it's not transparent at all let me go up and switch to the alpha compositing and set the Alpha around the middle so you can see when I draw over this now it is you can see through it it's see-through but it's this color right so if we go into the copy alpha plus color and I do the same exact same thing I have this as my main color but I make it around 50% transparent and I try and draw over this guy now can you see that it instead of making it transparent it takes the amount of transparency and make it into a flat color basically imagine that before you place down your transparency it plays down a white color on top and then it puts the transparency on top of that meaning that it's not transparent but you still get the transparent color but as a flat color that is the copy alpha color I have never used it myself I'm sure it can be used in some way and now you know what it does let's move on to the next one the next option I want to talk about is the alpha lock option and it's super neat and it's really useful so first off before I show how it works I'm just going to draw a little circle here and let's just draw like a some some shapes around here so you can see what happens when I use it so now that I shift my color to a purple pink ish and I shift the ink to T lock alpha you can see my brush kind of disappear and only shows when I'm on top of something on my current layer so what it basically does now it's only allows me to draw on top of what's already there I've been using this a little bit for when I've been shading things I've been like trying to shade this way sort of like just use the Alpha lock because it's a good way to to like make sure that you don't go outside of the actual object and and and start drawing like you don't start drawing outside the image like this as super cool super neat just remember every time you want to draw something only within an object and you don't want to draw outside the object this might be a really good tool to use meanwhile so that's the Alpha lock Inc let's move on all right the next option I want to talk about is the shading ink and this is a really really neat in gumption so it's kinda in the name what it does let me try and show you here I'm gonna make a bigger brush and go into the ink shading and now I in my palette have to select the shading colors so these are my shading colors I'm going to select these four because these are the colors that I'm going to be shading with it's just a shading tool you use it for shading objects it's not really any anything else to it right-click is brighter and left click is darker so if you want to find efficient way of shading the shading ink is really really great and that's really what I want to say about the healing tool so that is all about the different ink tool hopefully these tools will also help your workflow in a sprite improve and be faster so yeah that's it for the inking tool I hope that helped you out I don't really have any more else to talk about in this video so I hope that you've got a little bit smarter and understand the brush tool a little more there it's just one last tip I want to give before I go off and that is if you make a brush for example you can see here if you click on your brush types you can see I have the tile that we used earlier down here you can save that if you don't want to lose it or if you want to to save it for later so you can always go back and get your other brushes that you've been using earlier if you want to so I really hope this video helped you guys out quite a lot I know some of the features in this video when I figured them out I was like revealed and saved a bunch of time so hopefully some of these things can do the same for you before end of the video I have a few things I want to show and talk about and one of those things are that every Monday to Friday I stream over at twitch TV slash Mort Mort every Monday it's commune today Tuesday to Thursday it is anything creative and Friday is feedback Friday where I do giveaways for you guys and I give feedback on you guys wait and we just talk and I try and help you improve your artwork so head over there if you want to join the streams you can also head over to my asset store where you can download some of my palettes and even a simple base all for free and there's also some other things in there for you to check out and my last shameless self-promotion is my store where you can check some of my shirts out I'll leave a link to everything down in the description and yeah that's it for all the shameless self-promotion and if you like what you saw in this video make sure to give the video a like and if you don't see more content like this make sure to subscribe and with that said I want to give a special thanks to dr. 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Channel: MortMort

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 04 2018