[A] Computer Monitor Pixel Art (MS Paint)

[Eleven]

Ok this was for the Beam Graphic Tourney, but seeing as its a tut, may as well submit it



What do I need?

• MS Paint/Pixel Drawing Program
• A little Knowledge of Paint Tools

Step 1
First take the rectangle/box tool and create a 44x42 box, using the color black.

Like above

Step 2
Using your Zoom tool, Zoom in and cut the top corners of the box off (You should only cut off 3 pixels on each side, Using the 1 pixel white brush tool) That may sound confusing so I will show you an upclose picture:



The red indicates what changes are being made. You should NOT have it in red, rather in black.


Thats how it should like as of now

Step 3
Now you will be adding the screen. This will go on the inside of the box you have created. Zoom In and create a box in black. I have put it in red so you can see what I'm adding. Take off the corner of each box (on the screen part)



Step 4
Now you will be adding the 3D parts. Zoom in and add these pixels to the corner of your picture. As I can't explain it clearly, you'll need to go by the picture example. Again, Red indicates what I am adding, and you should add it in black.


Step 5
Now we add a bit more to the 3Dishness ;D

Add the lines as displayed above, by now you should know red lines are what I added, and you should make them black We are starting to see the monitor now!

Step 6

Probably the hardest part, the keyboard. You may find the following difficult and may have to try several times to get it correct. Zoom in and add diagonal lines, connecting them as shown in the image below. You can either do this your self, or feel free to take my image, using Ctrl V to paste my example into your paint and copy the keyboard from there. A Tutorial is to teach you to do it yourself so I suggest you try yourself.



Now we need to add the keys. Again, this is difficult.You need to make small keys except for the space bar which is on long bar. Your design really is up to you, or you can use this mini template I am suppling for you.

Mini Template for keys:

How it should look when keys are added:


Step 6

Time to add color. You should have several different colors, but they need to be closely related. Now of course this won't look exactly like your computer, this is my pixel interpertation. I suggest using dark colors, but that's just my choice. Several parts of the computer should be lighter/darker then the others. The outside should be light, the little 'depth' corner spot should be light as well, along with the keyboard. Everything else a darker color. As this description may be confusing you can look at the picture to understand me better



Well your finished! If you'd like to go into more detail you could add a mini website, but I'm not going into that right now

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Eleven/E11

[Rifle]

Cool, I might try this ;D

[Eleven]

Thanks, anyone else?

[Force]

i like i really dont do pixel art but u made it look so easy lol

[Dimeﻛ]

thats hot eleven...keep on pixeling

--DimeS

[Eleven]

Thanks everyone It is easy after practice

[Psionic]

Ah, good work E11.
making pixel work easy

[Eleven]

Thank you

[Michael Savage]

thats alsome nice work

[Nate]

E11 said:

Ok this was for the Beam Graphic Tourney, but seeing as its a tut, may as well submit it



What do I need?

• MS Paint/Pixel Drawing Program
• A little Knowledge of Paint Tools

Step 1
First take the rectangle/box tool and create a 44x42 box, using the color black.

Like above

Step 2
Using your Zoom tool, Zoom in and cut the top corners of the box off (You should only cut off 3 pixels on each side, Using the 1 pixel white brush tool) That may sound confusing so I will show you an upclose picture:



The red indicates what changes are being made. You should NOT have it in red, rather in black.


Thats how it should like as of now

Step 3
Now you will be adding the screen. This will go on the inside of the box you have created. Zoom In and create a box in black. I have put it in red so you can see what I'm adding. Take off the corner of each box (on the screen part)



Step 4
Now you will be adding the 3D parts. Zoom in and add these pixels to the corner of your picture. As I can't explain it clearly, you'll need to go by the picture example. Again, Red indicates what I am adding, and you should add it in black.


Step 5
Now we add a bit more to the 3Dishness ;D

Add the lines as displayed above, by now you should know red lines are what I added, and you should make them black We are starting to see the monitor now!

Step 6

Probably the hardest part, the keyboard. You may find the following difficult and may have to try several times to get it correct. Zoom in and add diagonal lines, connecting them as shown in the image below. You can either do this your self, or feel free to take my image, using Ctrl V to paste my example into your paint and copy the keyboard from there. A Tutorial is to teach you to do it yourself so I suggest you try yourself.



Now we need to add the keys. Again, this is difficult.You need to make small keys except for the space bar which is on long bar. Your design really is up to you, or you can use this mini template I am suppling for you.

Mini Template for keys:

How it should look when keys are added:


Step 6

Time to add color. You should have several different colors, but they need to be closely related. Now of course this won't look exactly like your computer, this is my pixel interpertation. I suggest using dark colors, but that's just my choice. Several parts of the computer should be lighter/darker then the others. The outside should be light, the little 'depth' corner spot should be light as well, along with the keyboard. Everything else a darker color. As this description may be confusing you can look at the picture to understand me better



Well your finished! If you'd like to go into more detail you could add a mini website, but I'm not going into that right now

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Eleven/E11

I have never seen anyone better with pixel work

[Eleven]

Wow Nate, thanks, I appreciate that. I try ;D

[Jag]

Personally I'd have made'd it bigger and also highlighted it. At the angle its at, its really just too think to be realistic. Also, add the little details that make pixel art so exciting, ie, the "on" button. Also, make a mouse, ect.

[Eleven]

Jag said:

Personally I'd have made'd it bigger and also highlighted it. At the angle its at, its really just too think to be realistic. Also, add the little details that make pixel art so exciting, ie, the "on" button. Also, make a mouse, ect.

This is a tutorial for the Monitor/Keyboard, not the other things, although I have drawn other parts, which are not included in this tut. This was to be an easy to follow tutorial, I can get into detail ya know *Points at sig*

The on button, for the monitor, was considered, but I took it out at the end, figured I'd just stick with this. If you look in the first image of the tut, there is a webpage on the screen too, so I did put some detail into my own monitor

[Jag]

E11 said:

This is a tutorial for the Monitor/Keyboard, not the other things, although I have drawn other parts, which are not included in this tut. This was to be an easy to follow tutorial, I can get into detail ya know *Points at sig*

The on button, for the monitor, was considered, but I took it out at the end, figured I'd just stick with this. If you look in the first image of the tut, there is a webpage on the screen too, so I did put some detail into my own monitor

Well, I understand you can do details, but why in that case, don't?
If you look at this tutorial I made, you can see that details were used, even if they weren't needed: www.blueshout.com/tutorials/pixelcar.html
Which in my opinion does make it better.

I think its a great tutorial, but you can make it even "greaterer".
Keep up good work, plus don't get me wrong I'm not doubting your pixel art skills

[Xandros]

This is what I've got: