Hello guys! I’m a student with a love of game development, and I love pixel art games, so I want to learn doing pixel art on Aseprite. What should I do?
what do you like? i know you like pixel art games but what pixel art games? if you can figure that out, you have an idea of what you want to make. start there. and also welcome to the world of pixel art lol
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one more thing post stuff like this in the help category, you might get more feedback sooner.
I am also a beginner (like a bit more experienced than a beginner) and this is how i started.
firstly start practicing objects with simple shapes on a 16x16 canvas. like donuts, 8ball pool balls, fruits, etc. If you feel like you got a hang of it then move on to a slightly bigger canvas. If you get hang of that as well start making simple sceneries with pixel art like not complicated ones but simple ones. A great way to do this is to search “vector art sceneries” on google/pintrest and recreating them but in pixel art. Here’s on the recreations i made
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/192818-vector-landscape-illustration
as you see this isnt an exact copy of the vector art as i was experimenting some of my own styles on this one, so i would recommend you doing the same
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hello, newbie here. also would love to see some very easy to follow guides like tutorial videos. i want to make animated sprites i can export with transparency that i can add on top of videos for a YT channel later on…
later maybe even make game art, since i am rediscovering basic programming 
You’re lucky i am here, heres all the resources i used when i started out, not a lot of videos, theres plenty out there, thought, most are threads:
Pixel Joint Forum: The Pixel Art Tutorial - a basics guide
Pixel Joint Forum: COLORING “I dont get it” - useful palette making fundamentals
Dithering for Pixel Artists - Pixel Parmesan - a dithering guide
https://saint11.art/ - this guy is an artist that worked on Celeste and Tower Fall, he has a absolute beggineers guide and a series of more specialized tutorial gifs for specific things, very useful visual aids.
Pixel Art Tutorials - The complete Pixelblog catalogue — SLYNYRD - another series of small gif tutorials for specific topics.
Finally, if you have cash to spare, i HIGHLY recommend getting the game Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode, its not complete just yet, but it will guide by hand throughout most these topics in a relly easy to digest manner, like a low stakes course of sorts, it also includes projects in retro software to see some of your things moving, its a joy to play and relly easy to learn.
cheers mate