How to Design EMOTES for TWITCH

hey dream chasers it's JC today I'm gonna show you step-by-step how I create a moat for Twitch full disclosure this video has a very brief promo at the end for fiber where you can hire someone to make emotes for you if you don't want to do it yourself emotes can be made in pretty much any art program as long as it has layers I usually use Photoshop but you can make you most using clip studio pro or Krita which is a free program any art program is fine you don't need something really fancy or expensive to start I'm gonna make my file size 500 by 500 pixels at 72 pixels per inch also known as dots per inch or dpi the largest emote size that you need for Twitch is 112 by 112 but I like to start a little bit bigger because it's easier to hide your mistakes when you shrink your artwork down so if you have kind of shaky lines or your shading isn't perfect no one's gonna be able to tell the other perks are working at this size is it's big enough that you can actually use your remotes for prints like stickers or mugs I don't like to go much larger than this though because if it's too big it ends up looking kind of muddy when you shrink it down and you waste a lot of time adding details that you're never gonna see will resize the artwork when it's done to the correct sizes that's which needs so for anyone taking notes you're gonna need three PNG s at 112 512 56 by 56 and 28 by 28 so let's figure out what kind of emote we want to draw emotes can be anything you can have an emote that's just a grilled cheese sandwich if you want which still and Griffin has and I love it but usually they're used to convey an emotion of some kind so for this example we're gonna draw a person laughing my advice is don't be afraid to get really cartoony with your emotes you're basically designing a chibi or an emoji and sometimes I actually will Google chibi expression or emoji expressions to get ideas you don't want to copy or trace any of those but you can learn things about how to convey emotions as simply as possible so looking at examples of laughing emotes I found that a lot of them include tears indicate that someone's laughing so hard they're crying I see a lot of people with their heads tilted back in a big wide mouths so I'm gonna take all those features and incorporate them into my emo but kind of make them my own so for the sketching phase I like to start with a thin pencil brush that kind of has a real natural pencil feeling just so I can stay really loose and get some basic shapes down and I just start off roughing in sort of the shape of the head and the basic expression and add in more details and I go really big with the features like eyes and mouth because I want the expression to read and I don't even include noses any moats most of the time because they're not that important to the expression and you don't have a lot of space to work with so I really just emphasize about the eyes and the mouth one thing I want to mention is that during the sketch phase you want to make sure that you're filling the entire canvas you have this little square box shape that you're working with and you really don't want to have a lot of empty space in your sketch because the emotes are small and it's important to make sure you fill that space as much as possible and make sure that things are really reading clearly and sometimes that means that you're gonna have to cut things off a little bit or get creative with your placement but it's important so you can tell what you're looking at and usually with art you know we we turn out to crowd our drawing we try to make sure that nothing gets cut off but any moats it's actually fine if you cut off you know part of the hair or an accessory or something if it means you can see the expression better the next step is the line art my advice here is don't be afraid to make the line aren't really thick a lot of the time your lines seem thick enough when you're working at a large size but that when you shrink it down they're actually really thin and they kind of get lost so play around with your line weight try to make your lines kind of thick shrink down the emot-- preview it at a small size make sure that you can see all the lines clearly and just keep adjusting until it looks right to you and by the way I just want you to know that liner is really hard so please don't worry if this stage a long time for you just keep practicing and you will get better at it I still will redraw lines over and over again erase things and make lots of changes it's very difficult to do if you have a program that includes some kind of smoothing make sure you turn it on and just be patient with yourself and practice and you got this once your line art is done it's time to fill in your flat colors color theory is a whole topic on its own so I'm not gonna be able to cover all of it in this video but I'll give you a few tips that I think are helpful my first tip is make sure you don't go too bright a lot of beginners in digital arts use really bright highly saturated colors and don't get me wrong I love me some bright colors but when you're hanging out on the far right of a color picker you're an eyesore territory the those colors should really be reserved for light sources and things that are glowing move your eyedropper over towards the center a little bit more and you'll get better results I know it's not as bright but trust me those colors in the center will actually still look really bright in your art my next piece of advice is about skin tones skin tones are really hard to learn a lot of artists choose colors that make characters look kind of a natural they either make them too pale or too yellow or very D saturated and gray and the skin looks kind of lifeless your first guess is probably off a little bit from what actually is gonna look good in art so pay attention to what other artists are doing especially if you're not used to certain types of skin tones or if you're not good at drawing darker skin tones look at artists who are good at that color pick what they're doing and try to learn something from it and really pay attention to those colors and finally pay attention to the overall contrast of your emote contrast is so important in emotes because when they're shrunken down your eye can only make out the basic shapes and if you're relying too much in your line art your emotes will look like blobs at a small size if you can't tell if your remote has enough contrast look at it in grayscale if all the colors seem to be this shade of gray and you need more contrast mouths are especially easy to do that with if you choose a pink that's too similar to the value of your skin it's gonna blend in if your characters really pale try a darker pink or a red for the mouth so it stands out and you shrink it down I prefer colored line art to black lines on emotes I feel that black lines can make you remotely kind of muddy and hard to read at a small size and everything ends up looking kind of gray I think that the different line colors help separate each section a little bit better so I usually make my lines a slightly darker version of the section that they're lining so I'll just color pick that section from my flats and then I'll choose a color that's a little bit darker and make that my line color and there are tons of ways to color your line art but a really easy way to do it is lock your layer and just draw right over it that said I usually leave the outline of the eyes black because I think that they read really well that way and you want to really draw focus to the eyes since that's such a big part of the expression so for shading I would say keep it pretty simple with emotes it's really tempting to add a ton of details and I think it's not always a good idea because when you resize your remotes to a small size a lot of those details get lost and you can't really see them I would say look at other emo artists and pay attention closely to how they shave their work of what they're doing most of them keep stuff pretty simple I usually start with really soft gradients for my shadows to kind of make things look around I might put a soft shadow along the cheek it's a kind of run out the face and then I'll switch to a harder brush when I'm adding in drop shadows and highlights and sometimes I'll soften those with a soft brush again if they look a little harsh I'll make a new layer and just kind of go over that and please be mindful that if your shadows and your highlights are too small they're not gonna read at a small size so I'll be afraid to make them a little bit thicker I also recently started adding these colored highlights to modes originally I think they would read I thought they wouldn't show up or they'd be too busy but they actually look really nice and they help separate the emote from a dark background which is great because boats can be really hard to read against a dark background sometimes depending on what you have and what your line out is like so this is a nice trick to make your emote pop a little bit more this emote doesn't have any text but since it's very common in emotes I wanted to touch on it quickly as a rule I suggest keeping your text to four or five letters maximum I broke that rule with minor chili mo but how was my first C mo and I struggled a lot with the text I changed it a million times before I got to the point where it could read and is still not quite perfect and finally it's time to test your mo I really liked the contrast tool which can be found at twitch - contrast firebase app comm and when you upload your remote it automatically appears on both light mode and dark mode backgrounds so you can see both and you can click on your emotes to flip them to see what they look like in either direction and there's also a smaller upload box where you can upload sub badges and see how those look in chat as well it's a very cool tool you don't have to export all three sizes to use it you you can upload the one that you've been working at and the app will automatically adjust it for you it doesn't export them for you which would also be cool but so that's my process for designing anymo I really hope that this video was helpful and by the way I do sometimes take email Commission's if you're interested please check my Twitter or my twitch panels to see if I have Commission's open before you reach out and if I don't have them open or you want to hire someone else you can check out Fiverr they have a twitch store where you can hire someone to make your emotes twitch panels overlays or any graphics you need for twitch there's a link where you can sign up in the description and full disclosure for the sake of transparency it is an affiliate link so I do make a little bit of money when you sign up and hire someone through that link if you have any questions about designing emotes please ask me in the comments not in my DMS or email I'm sorry but I get way too many messages and I can't answer them all and it helps me a lot to answer those kinds of questions in the comments because other people who have the same question can read it and everybody can get all the answers they need I don't get repeat questions it's very very helpful so if you do that you're awesome they you so much anyway thank you so much for watching until next time chase your dreams peace

Channel: Jacey Chase

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Length: 11min 7sec (667 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2020