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Shadowforge does not support drawing with 2 pixels using draw tiled (pixel perfect) over a large canvas such as 1920x1080. But here's the catch.

You can draw your prop or character in a larger canvas and then resize it. After you've resized it, since Shadowforge is not exclusively a pixel art software, you can draw smoothly and you can smudge.

Here's an alien character I painted. I first painted it with large pixels. Then I resized it and started to smudge it to make it look dithered. If you want it crispy, then you can still have it crispy. But I preferred to make it dithered. And this is the result.

From this.


To this.


Now if you want to go further you can make it look human and animate it.

If the eye icon on the left menu is greenlit, you can begin smudging. Happy smudging!

Use the shaders for lighting and shadows. The shaders that can be used for lighting is the white shader and the gray shader. Warm shader can be used for shadowing.

Here is a before and after using shaders.


Without shaders.


With shaders.

You can do this by lassoing what you want to shade.

Here's another example. I used the white shader that can see what colors should be black and what colors should be white. Then I used the grey shader next to the white shader. I imagined the light coming from the right. So I went from right to left chromatic and then light/grayish. I'll first show you the original picture and then the shaded picture and you can decide wether you like this way of shading or not.



The original picture without shaders.


The picture with shaders.


We can of course also exclude the white shader which is chromatic to only use shadow and light.



Finally, you can use the blur brush on the painting and there you have it, a bald orc avatar.

In the settings menu, if you click on Draw Tiled then it will change to Pixel Artist. It's a greasy way of pixelling, but it's not pixel perfect - that's the point. If you click on it again then it changes back to Draw Tiled.

Made undo work correctly for lassoing. Unchecked lasso movement with color overlay on and made abstract lassoing more accurate.