Tutorials > Shading Pixels (Hearts)

This is what we're going to do


1. Open up a new file in your paint program (Gimp, MSPaint, etc)

2. Zoom in about 600% or more and start pixel in the outline
(using a 1px brush ofcourse =P)

3. Pick a color that's lighter than your outline and fill the hearts in

4. Use a color much lighter than the fill color to do the lighting
*Remember where's your light coming from! Mine will be on the top left

5. Now add the shadow, a color darker than the fill but not darker than the outline

6. You can stop at Step5 for small pixels
Continue on add another set of lighting and shadow

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Results

2. 3. 4. 5. 6a. 6b.

If you hace any question feel free to ask me using the tagboard or email
*Do not use the images, edit and redistribute this tutorial wihout my permission.