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How to Create an Isometric Pixel Art Neighborhood Block in Adobe
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Create an Isometric Pixel Art Office Building in Adobe
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What You'll Be Creating
If you've been following this series of tutorials, you may
already have aneighborhood block with (slightly) different houses
and cars. Let's continue to growour city, but this time vertically;
we'll be making a building multiple stories high.
1. Dimensions
As usual, we'll use our character as a sort of yardstick to find
a reasonable heightfor each floor. Dimensions don't need to be
completely realistic; it's better forbuildings to be slightly
smaller so that characters still get to stand out on the
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canvas.
Step 1Place your character next to a surface line and, to be
mindful of the texture we'lladd later on, make many copies of this
line with regular spacing in between so youhave a wall of lines
that stops at the desired height for one floor. As with thewooden
textured house, I have left three blank pixels between each
line.
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Step 2We've got the height for our first floor, so now let's
define the lengthit may be a bitmore or less than the length of the
house. We'll mostly base it on the rows ofwindows, the door, and
other architectural elements we might want to add.
The windows will be a bit narrow, and the space for the door
we'll leave wider andtaller than the door we made for the house,
because the door frame will be a bitwider.
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Here I added the main widths and maximum heights for these
details in othercontrasting colors. These are mere guidelines, so
it doesn't really matter whatcolors you use, but it's better to
separate them enough from the colors of elementsthat will be kept
in the final version.
Step 3For the side I decided to add only one window to go for a
more unexpected,asymmetrical look. I think it helps the end result
because otherwise it's just a grid ofwindows, and if you've seen
one you've seen them all, so it's nice to let the texturebreathe on
an area.
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Step 4Now that we have the main lines for each floor, we just
copy it as many times aswe want. Go for a cartoony height if you
want, or just a few floors. Here I've donefour floors, because that
looks nice and normal for a brick and mortar type ofbuilding.
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Step 5Let's finish our main building shape by adding the
vertical edge lines and rooftoplines.
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Looking nice enough!
We could have created a more complex shape like L or H or T or
what-have-you,but we'll be able to make this very basic shape look
nice and compelling with thetexture and the rest of the details
we'll add. And anyway, for the type of buildingwe're doing, this
shape is quite normal.
2. Texture
Let's add our brick texture. We won't be going the easy way for
the texture, but the
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result will be, in my opinion, worth it!
Step 1To work on our texture and later add it to the building,
it's best to get the door andwindow guidelines out of the way.
Select them with the Magic Wand Tool(Contiguous unchecked,) paste
them in the same place but in another layer, andmake that layer
invisible for now.
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Here I filled the holes left by those elements, although that's
not necessary.
Step 2We'll be making a texture with "hand-picked" colored
bricks to have something thatlooks random or, in a way, organic.
Ideally it shouldn't look so repetitive so our tileshouldn't be so
small but if it's too big then making the texture will get
tedious.The size I landed on allows for 12 bricks horizontally and
24 vertically.
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Let's start the tile in a new layer with a bunch of "horizontal"
lines. To be precisethese are 25 lines with a width of 134 px.
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Step 3Let's add some vertical lines to define some bricks'
edges. They should align andalternate, one row on and one row
off.
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And for the off rows we add the same lines but a few pixels off
to the side. Herethey are off by 3px:
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Then simply select those two first columns and repeat all across
the pattern,keeping the spacing regular.
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We already have a basic brick texture, but now let's work on the
custom brickcoloring!
Step 4Let's fill all the bricks with some random color for now;
vivid but not blinding!
Shortcut to do this: fill the entire area with the Bucket Tool,
with the Contiguoussetting checked off. Then with the Magic Wand
Tool, with the Contiguous settingchecked on, select all the color
that's outside of the bricks and Delete.
Also make the dark brick edge lines a similar color to the brick
one to lower
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contrast.
Step 5
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Now start adding some other color randomly placed across the
whole texture. We'llhave three different brick colors, so to keep
it even, if we have 12 bricks per row,there should be four bricks
of each color.
So here I went through adding four green bricks per row, hoping
to keep thingsrandom and sort of evenly spread, trying to avoid
areas that stand out.
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Step 6Repeat the same process with a new color for now the
colors are high in contrastto help in making the pattern.
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Once that is finished we can tile our pattern a few times (but
keep an original tileseparate) and analyse the result. The edges
should match precisely.
Most likely some areas will stand out, especially the ones that
were on the edges.Any areas where a particular color dominates or a
pattern repeats too much causesthe tiling to be more conspicuous,
when what we want is seamless.
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But you can go in and move some colors around, fill some here
and there (butmostly in the middle section), stand back a bit and
squint, and if it looks a bit moreaveraged out then the pattern
will be more successful.
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If you edited the pattern, you'll want to remove the extra areas
you got from tiling it.You can do this by making a selection in the
shape of the original pattern, movingthat selection over the big
pattern, copying the improved area, and deleting the rest.
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Here's the almost finished pattern only missing the final
colors.
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Step 9Brick can be quite a few different colors. I've chosen a
slightly saturated and slightlylight orange. Apply your preferred
color to one of the brick colors (Contiguouschecked off for the
Bucket Tool.)
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And then make a darker shade for the brick lines; this should be
the darkest shade.
And then two more shades, one lighter and one darker for the
remaining bricks:
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What I have here is:
Brick color #1: 94% brightnessBrick color #2: 90%
brightnessBrick color #3: 85% brightnessLines color: 78%
brightness
Step 10Copy the pattern and flip it horizontally to make the
right hand side, which I typicallyshade darker. Colors can be
updated manually (selecting and filling with the buckettool) or
simply by lowering brightness by selecting it and using the Image
>Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast slider.
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Step 11Now let's bring the textures togetherbut remember to keep
the original tilessomewhere safe for any future use!
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Tile them enough to cover the building completely and make them
meet at thecorner. Try to make them meet nicely; if there's a long
brick on one side of thecorner, we should only see its short side
on the other side of the corner. Like this:
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We could also color the corner bricks to make them all match but
maybe we don'tneed to be that finicky!
Step 12As usual we add a highlight to all peak corners. Make a
new, brighter shade andapply it to the corner, leaving the brick
lines untouched (or make that lighter as well,just don't erase them
with the new color).
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You can make these edits to one or two bricks and then Alt-nudge
or Copy/Pasteon and on until you cover the whole length.
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Now we place the texture over the building.
To make the placement easier, you can lower the opacity for the
texture's layer andthen place it so that the brick lines match the
bunch of lines we had on the building.
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Then remove the bits of the pattern that we won't need.
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The vertical residue should be easy enough to remove with the
Marquee Tool but
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the other areas could be trickier. If you click with the Magic
Wand Tool outside ofthe pattern, you'll have a negative selection
of the pattern's shape, and you canthen move this negative
selection over the residues you want to remove and simplypress
Delete.
Bring the layer's Opacity back to 100% and merge down with the
building's layer.
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And you're done applying the texture!
3. Details
So now we sort of have a big brick-textured-brick. We have to
work in the rest ofthe details.
Step 1Let's make our windows layer visible again.
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And finish defining the size for our windows. You can make a
selection of the blankspace around the windows with the Magic Wand
Tool and move it up a bit anddelete. Try many different lengths and
see which you prefer just don't apply thelength change to the
door.
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Step 2After defining these sizes, take one window guideline
aside to turn it into a finalwindow.
Start by removing the placeholder colors and completing the
rectangle shape.
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Step 3We'll add a small window ledge. After trying a few
different versions, I ended uppreferring this style, with a darker
grey shade running through the middle of theledge, but you could
try a single solid color if you want.
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This grey actually has a bit of color saturation. For
consistency, we'll be applyingthese colors to all
concrete/cement/plaster material details we're about to add,
soplain grey could possibly be too boring after so much
repetition.
Step 4Now let's add depth to our windows. We should see the
ledge go a bit far back intothe window, and we'll need a vertical
line from the topmost ledge corner to the top
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window edge.
Step 5Now let's fill this bit of corner wall with, not just
color, but brick texture. Since this bitwe're adding is facing
right, we need the brick shades from the darker pattern, butthere's
no need to have the varying brick colors for this bit; one single
brick color(the middle brightness one, logically) will do. We of
course need to keep the brick
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lines and have the corner highlight.
Also, let's make a new darker brick shade and apply it to the
borders of the ledgethat will be in contact with the brick
pattern.
Step 6
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Now we add the window. We can use the same window frame color we
used on thehouse, and we should use the same window color and same
border effects forconsistency.
Step 7Finally let's add an extra detail of window frame to make
the windows moreinteresting. And adjust the contrast of the corners
where surfaces meet.
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Step 8One window is done but we'll need two more types of
windows: the wider ones (towhich I added extra vertical lines to
make them less boring) and the windows thatface right, where some
colors needed adjustments, as that's the side I typicallykeep
darker.
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Notice the ledge is darker when it's facing right, and so is the
window frame.Meanwhile the bit of brick wall on that right facing
window is lighter, because thatsurface is facing left.
Step 9Once you have all windows it's only a matter of placing
them right over the
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guidelines.
Step 10Now's time to work on the door. We can simply reuse the
door we made for thehouse.
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Step 11But we'll change its color.
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Remember that you can easily try multiple colors with the Hue
slider (Image >Adjustments > Hue/Saturation/Brightness) to
find a color that goes well withthe rest.
Step 12Here I applied to the door frame a style that matches the
window ledges; it has thesame colors and the same dark line in
between, making it seem as if the same
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materials and finishes are applied throughout the building. As
though there was anarchitect behind it all which there kind of
was!
Step 13Now let's push the door back a bit, giving depth to the
entrance.
To do this you can select everything and then subtract the door
from the selection
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To do this you can select everything and then subtract the door
from the selection(for example, holding down Alt while selecting
the door with the Lasso Tool), andthen move the whole selection
over a couple of pixels to the side and one down.
Of course you then have to fill in some spaces to get this
result. And to finish thedoor off you could adjust the colors of
the corners where surfaces meet. I usuallydon't leave those
black.
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Step 14Let's add a ledge to the roof. It will be quite similar
to the window ledges but a bitthicker, and it can be darker because
it will have a different angle.
You can start it with some parallel grey and darker grey
lines.
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Step 15As usual, make the right side darker and bring in the
corner highlight.
Step 16And now trim off the corners on the sides. You will have
seen ledges like this in reallife or reference images; they look a
bit like steps, and that's why I made these
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corners like this.
Step 17The top surface is now higher and a bit wider. Add the
top lines to finish it off and fillwith the light
concrete/cement/plaster color.
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Step 18Now let's add some inner borders to the ledge.
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And fill this big rectangle with our main roof color.
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I went with a very dark grey. Something that implies it could be
a tarred or gravelledsurface, which seems to be common for these
kinds of buildings.
Step 19Finally I added a subtle texture to further convey the
roof possibly being tarred orgravelled, or at least not perfectly
smooth.
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Step 20Now we're going to add a small base to the building, with
a few steps leading up tothe entrance.
Let's start with one step, outlined here, about as narrow as it
can be. The extralines inside of the step we'll later use for
making a small hand rail.
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Step 21The subsequent steps are just a repetition of the prior
one, laid in front of it butmoved two pixels down.
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Step 22Add the usual concrete/cement/plaster colors to fill the
steps.
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Here I already added the inside corner between the steps and the
rest of the base.
Step 23And here's the base applied to the whole width of the
building (with a softened colorwhere the base meets the brick
texture.)
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Step 24This will be the shape of the small hand rail. It's
basically a wall, but has thecomplexity of conforming to the steps
and having a different angle for its surface.Do this in a new
layer.
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Step 25Final colors applied to the rail.
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Step 26We'll need another rail on the other side of the steps.
Let's copy the first one.
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And make a few easy adjustments to it.
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Step 27You can merge all these elements if you want. And to
finish them, you might want tosoften the bottom corner lines, where
the vertical surfaces will meet the floor.
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Step 28We're close to finished. Let's just add a few elements to
the roof.
Roofs in isometric art end up using quite a bit of canvas space,
so generally I wouldadd a terrace so that it doesn't feel so much
like a waste of the illustration's space.But terraces aren't so
common that every building would have one, so let's insteadjust add
some utility elements or anything that can be found on a random
rooftop.
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Maybe part of an air conditioning unit
Which would just be a box...
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With some vent lines or anything to suggest it's a machine.
Step 29We can also add a few chimney exhausts.
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To achieve the metallic look, I generally use bluish greys for
the dark shades andyellowish greys for the light ones. Here I
finished coloring and then duplicated theexhaust.
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Step 30Finally I'm adding a random element, in this case
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