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so I am basically trying to answer 1 question How do different people make their palettes
This is how I would do it
make a Big canvas and draw lot of spheres with my grey
then open the HSL slider in aseprite and put down the base colors
I usually keep a set Saturation, and Light while plotting down the base colors
then for the shading I reduce the saturation and light to another set value and hue shift a bit (hue shifting is different for each color)
Here's how it Usually comes out
so this is my method I will be interested to see your methods in this thread
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That's so cool!!
I'm actually having a hard time trying to form my own palette and this is such a good approach in my opinion~
occasionally i'm pixelin', most of the time I'm trying to be casually vibin'
When I make palettes, here are a few questions I ask myself during the process of its creation:
It also helps if you have a vague idea of how you'd like to use your palette - if it's more like a fantasy console palette like PICO-8, or if it's a palette used for an avatar, etc.
For example, if I were to make a GameBoy palette, I'd answer those questions as follows:
This is an example of course, so you could answer each question differently (like using 2-3 hues rather than just one), depending on what your intentions are.
Hope it helps!
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Personally palette creation is highly defined by the context you're using it in. Therefore I create palettes as I create a piece - it's never set in stone. This doesn't mean my process is random, however.
First of all I use colors that are close enough to the feel I want. This serves to get a feel of the colors as I make the art. References are paramount in this step, since sometimes the colors might react in an "unusual" way, such as when close to strong, colored lightsources.
As I finish blocking out the colors I see which one of them are superfluous to the piece, by replacing them by already existing colors. Tweaking the colors so that they can be used in several contexts in the piece, checking values and contrast, and so on. In this step I analyze the shades and decide which hues require less contrast, and which doesn't. Remember that sometimes low contrast can be useful in pixelart to suggest very soft and smooth surface, or misty landscapes. This is, too, an example of context making the colors feel useful.
This approach feels better to me because the palette will be tailor-made to the piece I'm making. Lastly I run the finished image into contrast filters to zero in on a good balance (sometimes, manual adjustments only get me so far due to being accustomed to the piece. Adjusting it with an app may reveal points that need more work, or give me a different feel to it).
There's no tried and true method to make art and palettes, but you do get more efficient at it when you apply the colors you've created in a context.
This being said, ckelsallpxls also raises great points about palette making, I agree with it as well.
Most of my palettes are based on something. I see something that is some colors, I say, "cool colors," then I take them and adjust them so they are more suited for pixel art. Usually in this process I am making some piece at the same time as the palette, and I adjust the colors as I am making the art to make sure they work well.
1st: What feeling do I want from my palette? Something bold? Muddy? Vibrant? I look for a direction to go. 2nd: What does it actually look like, using it? I might test it out and find that while a ramp looks fine, its colors might not work exactly well in context. Adjust, adjust, adjust!
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I usually start with a few colors that have a certain vibe that i want, then just gradually expand it to more hues and lightness levels.
I try to organize the colors into a grid where dark is on one side and light is on the other, so you can see which colors are roughly of equivalent brightness, and colors in multiple ramps will touch. I feel this makes a lot more sense than branching palette layouts.
I also make a test shading ball for every possible small ramp (top left), so you can just how every pair of colors will work together, and fix any contrast issues.
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That does simple compared to mine, but if anyone is wodering here is how i do it: • thinking of the theme(planing). As a starter you gotta looked at the theme, finding theme like what art do you want to show with this palette, why do ypu want go use this pallete, and etc • colour circle-ing. After thinking of the theme, i always start of from a alpha colour which is a colour that i start with, i then change the hsb of the colour multiple times as i want, when im done i go to the next step •colour grouping. This step is showned as it is, grouping colour like a ramp as usual, this step is mainly to a universal type of palette theme • colour eleminations. At this step you maybe want to remove some of colours with near brightness point due that sometimes its not very cohesive or even you want to reached your colours limit, the easy way to find what colour is not good just grayscale the pallete and see what colour has the almost near brightness but dont remove it if has the opposite side of the hue and cohesive on its own group. Upon elemitating colours and find a drastic ramp on some of the colour group, repeat only step 2 but use the nearby colours.
And there you have it, my way of choosing colours hope anyone find this somewhat usefull
Essentially, I just throw a bunch of colors together and edit them until they can make large ramps (which usually use most of the colors in the palette)
I also almost always pick from the 9-bit color space (512 basic colors) for simplicity's sake.
Here is Skeddles' example, but altered to fit my palette styles (yeah I like 'em small, this has only eight colors):