[Pixel Art Tutorial] Simple Sword

[Punika]

**FIRST OF ALL:**
This tutorial is not limited to any size. You also can create Axes and other weapons with metallic parts.

Difficulty: 1/5

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**1]**
As always we start with the outlines. And again noone can help you with these since it's your imaginationand your skills to draw. But you can get some nice ideas from http://www.google.com for swords outlines. Use a black outline first.

**2]**
Seperate the blade, handle etc and simply fill the simgle parts with their colors. Use a bright grey for the blade since it's usually made of metal.

**3]**
Let's improve the outlines now. Choose the main color of your blade and make it darker. Use this color as outline for the blade. Do the same for everything else. With this improvement of the outlines the whole art looks more clean and real.

**4]**
Fill your blade with a color that's a little bit darker then your main color but leave the inner outlines bright. This way the blade looks sharper on the dges.

**5]**
The last step is adding some shine to the blade and shadows on the other parts. Shine is added with the bright grey. It should be brighter than the "sharp edges" and has to be added on the blade in lines. Two pixels to the right and one pixel up untill the blade is filled with the shine. As always my lightsource comes form the upper right corner. Make everything that's at the left bottom a little bit darker. Every part got it#s seperated shading but with the same lightsource.

original:

[xeross]

Looks alright, The shine ain't that great, and I would make the handle longer. other then that nice tutorial.

[Punika]

It's a one handed sword. So the handle actually don't have to be longer. =)
And yes, the shine is weird but live with it. ^^''

[xelander]

I like it.
:D
Because I newly started pixeling, so it's good for me to learn this.

[ZoSo]

Not bad.

I personally think its a pretty good sword.. only thing i would point out is again, as so many people do wrong is use unnecessary colours.. I mean there is like three shades of Yellow in there, and only like one is visible to the eye.

Also having a bit more contrast never hurts.. Especially with metallic objects.