Farm lesson 8: garden beds
Three tilled beds for the garden: tomatoes at the back, carrots in the middle, cabbages in front. Their right ends line up and each has 5 pixels of soil at the ends.
This sprite is wide. It's easier to draw on a computer, or with your phone turned sideways.
Step 1
This step also removes a few pixels. Use the eraser where the guide fades a pixel out.
Show the finished step
You did it!
Done! This is the garden beds exactly as it is in the farm.
Step by step
Step 1: Lines
The rounded outline of each bed.
Step 2: Colors
The soil brown.
Step 3: Shading
The darker soil: a dark foot along the bottom and the shadow under the far lip.
Step 4: Light
The lit top edge and a few light specks.
Step 5: Outline colors
The outline in a dark soil tone.
Step 6: Finishing touches
The edges made ragged by hand: small bites of grass into the soil, never two at the same place, and the inner shadow line thicker in some places and broken in others.
Why it looks this way
A bed dug by hand is never a perfect capsule. Organic edges are not straight for more than about 10 pixels.
The colors
7 colors, dark to light. Pick them with the eyedropper in the trainer, or type the codes into your editor.
#222034#15600f#5c3d31#7a5539#2f8a0a#9a6e48#64b42c
Where it goes in the farm
The farm is 208 by 168 pixels. These are the top left corners of all 3 copies:
- Tomato bed: x 81, y 90
- Carrot bed: x 85, y 107
- Cabbage bed: x 81, y 124
Want the whole scene in layers? Download the farm as an .aseprite file, every sprite and its shadow in its own folder.