Pixel Tutorial - Lineart
First, choose something you want to draw. This can be the hardest part of drawing, but it helps to get inspiration from real life items like your favorite food or favorite animal. Sketching your drawing on paper helps the process along as well. For this tutorial I will be drawing a slice of chocolate cake.
Select the magnifying glass and zoom in as far as you can. This helps you place all the little details in your pixel.
Then, select View > Zoom > Show Thumbnail. A Thumbnail pop up box will show up. It will give you a zoomed out view of your pixel as you draw it. Older versions of Paint won't have this option, but don't worry if you don't have it. You don't need to use this feature to make a pixel.
Use your line tool to help draw straight lines. For the bottom of the cake slice, select the line tool.
Then click where you would like the line to start and drag it in the opposite direction to make a straight line.
Continue using the line tool to make the outline of the cake slice. Don't worry if some of the lines are too long, we will fix them later on.
Select the pencil tool.
Now right click the excess bit of line at the bottom of the cake slice to erase it.
Now we can start drawing the outline for the accessories. I like to draw them seperately then add them to the main piece after they are done.
Using the pencil tool, draw a shape similar to the one in the example picture. This will the the whipped cream. It won't ever come out perfect the first time (unless you place it dot by dot), but using the pencil tool and the right click method, you can erase the excess. I also edit the drawing a little as I go, to fix up the shape.
Okay so here's what we have so far. Still doesn't look like much, but shading will take care of that later. But before that, we need to draw the last accessory.
Using the line tool, outline the decoration sticks. You can also use the pencil tool to fix up the shape if the line tool doesn't cut it.
We are now finished with the line art! Next up is
coloring and shading.
