There are different techniques. In the old days GFX artists used to draw an image by drawing the edges of the objects to get the shape. Then they colored the object and finally they shaded it. In DPaint there is a tool for this but it was of low quality so artists shaded their pictures pixel by pixel.
You should also learn a lot of shortcuts in DPaint. If you select a brush you can press “x” for flipping the brush, and “y” for flipping it in y-axis. Very handy, especially when making logos.
And that is how I painted some pictures. No layers and such. If you want to do modern style pixel graphics like “trendy” isometric art it is better to work with layers. According to some pixel artists they use Photoshop for making isometric art, but I have never got Photoshop to work well with that (I have not ever got Photoshop to work good for me when trying to paint anything old school pixel related). I just stick to PPaint and laughs at them who uses Photoshop for pixel art, what do they know, (or maybe the new trendy pixel “articians” are laughing at me for sticking with an older “crappy” art package?).
Hmmmm.....
But then I rarely do classic pixel art anymore, to timeconsuming, Im mostly into my own kinda style, not
finished yet but take a look if you want.
