Tutorial
6 min
Silhouette first, colour second and detail almost never. A walk through the Courier Club cast.
At 16 pixels wide, a character is mostly a silhouette with a colour.
Give each character one thing nobody else has: a hat, a hood, a staff. Then check it in solid black.
A coloured outline that picks up the fill next to it looks softer than black and reads just as well.
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Process
7 min
Dawn, noon, dusk and night from a single drawing. Here are the four lighting keys, and the one mistake I made for years.
Tutorial
5 min
Why your greens look muddy, and how a ten-colour ramp from teal to lemon fixes it.
Process
8 min
Players notice repeats in seconds. Here's how Lanternfall's tileset hides them.