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Step 9Įyes are the windows to the soul, they say.

We're getting to the eyes, and if it seems we could use some different shades, you'll want to add them to the palette.

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The eyebrows and other elements can wait some time, as we continue to use skin colors. Which color makes your doodle disappear the most? Pick that one.įree tip: you can select new colors on the fly when the Pencil Tool is active by holding Alt and clicking over the colors on the canvas. Not sure what color to use on an area? Select the color with the Eye Dropper and doodle right over the palette. The good thing about the symmetrical style is that we only need to work on one half of the face.įor illustrative purposes, I'm leaving the black rectangle layer visible on most of the screenshots. Step 3Ĭontinue in this fashion, covering more and more of the face. You may want to work while zoomed in by 600% to 800%… you can then open a new window for the same file so you can check on your progress zoomed out.īasically, you'll be drawing right over the photos with the skin color closest to the original that you can find on your palette. And progress will be areas of colors that closely match the photo's. Turn off visibility for that square to make progress. Otherwise the colors may be too close to the originals to know what you've drawn. In between your pixel art layer and your reference layers, you may want to put a black (or white) semi-transparent rectangle so you can quickly check on your progress. Step 5Īnd finally make a few versions with different hues, about 10˚ cooler (redder) and 10˚ warmer (yellower.)Īnd that's most of the palette work we'll need. You'll want to get to 100%, but you might not need to go to 0%. Then you make more versions of those colors with the variations being in brightness, 10% or more up and down. You'll want to make more versions of the same color, with the only difference being that saturation goes up and down by at least 10%. If you're a bit persnickety, you might want to move all these measures to rounder numbers (multiples of 5 or 10). We'll be making more colors by moving on these three bars. If you don't have the panel set to HSB, I would recommend you do that. You can start by picking a skin color, possibly from the forehead or the cheeks, and making this the first color in your palette, which will sit right next to the photo (in a New Layer). To get a 'blockier', retro look, we'll limit the number of colors. We're going to be tracing the picture, and we want to get an artificial and deliberate kind of look to the portrait that we can't get using filters. If I had shrunk the photo more, I might not have had enough resolution to achieve that.Īpologies if this keeps you up at night. I drew a pair of beady eyes in a New Layer that I could use as a reference I wanted to be able to leave a pixel for the pupil and a pair of pixels on the side for the iris. The face could be anywhere from 50 to 75px. You can apply the change to both layers at the same time… don't merge them.

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Step 6Īnd now shrink the portrait ( Edit > Free Transform). This will sort of average out the face, make both halves identical, and we won't need to worry about the light from the photo not matching the one on the pixel portrait. Step 5Ĭopy the aligned face, paste it in a New Layer, flip it horizontally and lower the layer opacity to 50%. Transform ( Edit > Free Transform) and align the eyes with the horizontal line, and the nose with the vertical. Paste the portrait in a layer under the crosshairs. Step 2ĭraw a crosshair that will help align the photo. Get (or take) the photo! The subject should be looking straight at the camera-this way we need only do half of the face (and flip horizontal for the other half), and also the end result is kind of stiff, in a good way.Ī selfie may work, but if you can get a picture with a bit more distance, it would probably work better for the portrait. You'll need a very symmetrical photo of the person you'll pixelate. If you're looking for other retro pixel art graphics without having to do the work, you can always head over to Envato Market. We'll do some pixel-by-pixel work to achieve a retro, arcade game kind of look.

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Let's check out how to turn a photo into a cool pixel art portrait. Do you want to give yourself or someone you know a very retro look?

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