SkunkyArt | aries0ram — Pixel Icon Hair Walkthrough (sorta)

look at other tutorials!! There are some really helpful ones liiike this basics one (gimp) and this really awesome one

this is the way I shade and stuff and definitely noottt the only way or the right way so experiment on your own!

I've started not liking bases anymore ahah so my more recent pixels are sketched on a 300x300 canvas before resized to 50x50 and pixelling from there

try to use lighter/brighter colors when pixelling so it looks less... murky? like most pixel artists use a really light yellow/almost white for skin and yeah ahah idk how to explain it well OTL

for a more interesting color palette, generally try to use more bluish/purplish colors for shadings and yellow/red for light. Say your main color was some sort of salmon pink, for shading use a more magenta-ish color, refer the tutorial I linked above for better explanations ahah