#it’s FireAlpaca with a binary brush but

[cartoonscientist]

pencils by Nicola Scott

[skittysketches]

✨ nya ✨

[danceintheskies]

speaking of other WIPs/etc ive rediscovered

baby ikesoren back when these units first came out. i couldn't wrap my head around ike's hair so i ran out of steam :sob:

..... i didn't get far with this because I felt it was past my skill level but I think I could probably try it now? maybe? idk what I was trying out with this perspective though lol

and some FE for the road.... I love CSP very much but I do miss the binary brush I used with firealpaca sooooo much

^ these three were with CSP

[xestuck]

the real basic review of art programs for sprite making (my opinion )

so tha main programs i use for art are KRITA, FIREALPACA, and PAINT TOOL SAI. im still tryin to figure out sai2. they all have pros and cons but this will specifically be abt how they handle ALIASED LINES!! aka "pixel" brushes, aka not anti-aliasing.

EACH PROGRAMS BUILT IN BASIC PIXEL BRUSH:

Krita has a few, but focusing on Pixel Art and Pixel Art Fill Firealpaca has Dot Tool (can be 1-3 pixels big) and the basic Pen brush with AA turned off PTSai has Binary Pen (or Legacy Pen)

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PTSai easily has the smoothest binary pen out of these when the algorithm setting is on accurate!! unfortunately the pen has barely any settings compared to other brush types in PTSai.

and when using pixel textures in regular brushes, unless theres a setting im missing, they still act like AA brushes and dont colour evenly.

Otherwise PTSai has a really easy compact UI and easy clipping layers

so its good for basic pixelly art without using fancy brushes.

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FIREALPACA Dot Tool is kinda rough, and when the aliased regular brush is too small then the lines break up and leave gaps. but at bigger sizes its pretty smooth. and a lot of firealpacas brushes can be pixel-ized in a single click!!!!

when this box is unticked then most brushes will no longer anti-alias and will become pixelly!! (the following images are zoomed to 200% to better see the effects)

while the effect shows on basically all brushes, not all are strictly pixelly and still have anti-aliasing pixels on the edges.

but still! a lot of the brushes do become truly pixel brushes, and brushes like the Edge Brush can be really useful for making sprites.

also Firealpaca has easy clipping layers too.

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KRITA Pixel Art brush is pretty smooth, and Pixel Art Fill is probably smoother for ppl with more steady hands lol. and while its ui is a Lot More complicated than the prev two programs (usually requiring a few more steps to do similar things), it has A SHITTON OF BRUSH SETTINGS!! and in those brush settings is the Sharpness setting, which can be used to achieve a similar effect to Firealpacas' Anti-Aliasing box being unticked.

but in my experience it can basically guarantee pixel-ized brushes!!! OBSERVE (again, images are zoomed to 200% to better see the effects):

(there might be a way to have sharpness up but still keep the fish texture. im not sure yet)

this also means pixel texture brushes can apply evenly too

but alas. clipping is a bit more annoying to do in Krita. u gotta rightclick on a layer then select Group > Quick Clipping Group for the easiest clipping layer (maybe theres a better way but idk it yet.)

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ok this is more of a comparison rather than a review. but still. i personally prefer Firealpaca for spriting homestuck style sprites, it just feels tha most natural for me

[charliedanilovich]

image description: a black and red court jester inspired harlequin is looking at the audience, smiling. His black fringe is coming loose from under his jester hood and has red tips dyed into it, the jester hood is half black half red with large yellow bells. His skin is a pallid yellowish colour with acne, and his smile bares his teeth and part of his gums. The tassels of his jester hood go down his chest and shoulders with gold bells on the end. His costume is half black and red, with opposing coloured trouser legs so it looks patchworky. his right hand has a black glove, and he is holding a bent card which is the ace of spades, while his left hand is holding the ace of hearts, not bending it. His legs stick out at weird angles as if he’s jumping up, and his mismatches black and red shoes have dangly toes with golden bells on them. He is also wearing a red belt with a black c on it. Around him are lots of falling cards depicting numbers from the house of spades and hearts, and the background is a darker red that his costume with squiggly black lines going through it. End description. 

Charliequin! 

[crayolatookmykids]

Drew my sonnnnnsss (+ Profile sheets)

Alucar (Belonging to @watorisprings) and Xeubea, my Teal son. They’re soon to be Matesprites after Xeubea creates their “Dream Bubbles”, the Cubes of Existence. In that alternate universe warping place, Alucar meets Xeubea  and l o v e lovely love love boom pow 

Xeubea is a motivational speaker and Alucar doesn’t have an occupation since he is a whole dead man troll

[caffstrink]

do you do your pixel drawings in ms paint? i'm like genuinely curious bc i don't want to have to buy or find like pixel brushes fr firealpaca dkcbsj

yea these doodles are made on paint lol but my old pixel art was mostly done in paint tool sai w the binary brush or in azpainter2

[viridiancity]

what art program do you use btw!!! :0 it reminds me of ibispaint x

i use firealpaca! i just paint everything with a binary brush cause i hate pen pressure

[gravitycoil]

how is there not a single firealpaca binary brush download at all im not fucking using the premade shit

[autistictogahimiko]

Firealpaca is shit cause it doesnt have the binary OR copic brush

[sikeyaout]

idk if i asked thiz before i've got the memory of a spoon butbut how did u make those lil like animated i think u called one a pagedoll?? like the lil dudes u have that u've animated? i rlly wanna try making siome lil animations too but i dont even have a program for it sdfsdgh so if u have any animation program recs that'd b helpful too, ALSO THIRD UNRELATED QUESTION WHAT DO U LIKE TO PUT ON UR SANDWICHES

i used to use firealpaca w/ the anti aliasing turned off! the binary brush in sai should give the same pixley effect ::0 i manually dragged around the layers for the movement AND for the sandwich question i dont rlly eat them much but i like mayo n cheese on my tuna sandwiches!!