It genuinely frustrates me how crappy I am at designing clothes. I really don't want to have other peoples pro designs because I want to hang them up, but I genuinely cant even copy other peoples clothes. I can never get anywhere close and it just makes me more frustrated cause I don't label them as mine, they're just for my villagers and so the original clothes are gone. How the heck do you get better? I don't understand how to like my work.
Making Clothes/Designs
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Pintuition
Semi IA <3
I struggled to create designs at first too! If you look up “ACNH ______ design” with whatever you’re looking to make (Xmas sweaters, dresses, etc) you can see a lot of examples people have posted online of the actual pixel art they used on the design, not just the finished product. It really helped me envision how to make certain shapes! Taking inspiration from that is the best way to get started with designs imo!
Also, other people can come hang up designs in your ables, so if you really don’t want to do it anymore, take a look around and ask if someone would stop by to hang stuff up. I do that for people all the time! That way you don’t have to spend so much time if the designs are just for your villagers to wear.
Also, other people can come hang up designs in your ables, so if you really don’t want to do it anymore, take a look around and ask if someone would stop by to hang stuff up. I do that for people all the time! That way you don’t have to spend so much time if the designs are just for your villagers to wear.
Tysm!! I can't envision things in my head, so its been an issue haha.
Sharksheep
Senior Member
You can ask people to hang up their designs in your able sisters. I've hung up a design for someone that asked on Twitter and discord. You can make a thread in the able sisters subforum for designs people are willing to hang up or look at design threads and ask if they are willing to come over to hang up a design.
You can stick to simple designs too. Sweaters with just an image in the middle works well or something with a repeating pattern
You can stick to simple designs too. Sweaters with just an image in the middle works well or something with a repeating pattern
There are some online tutorials. When New Leaf was the game, I looked up how to make clothes from tutorials, but I could never get them to look as fancy as some. Still, if you want to make some stuff, that's one way of doing it.
I suck at making designs. I would like to put some up from my villagers to choose. I also don't want someone elses designs up either. It would nice to have my own. But I suck. They take me hours and there not even that great. Haha. I will keep trying, just hard to find the time sometimes.
BigBadButterfree
Senior Member
If you like the idea of making clothes that look like they have things pooping out or like emulate ribbons or things, I'm terrible at those too. As for just designs, as far as I remember, the default patterns on your app for things like the sweaters actually have different colored parts for each "part" of the design. Like, the hoodie I believe was all white/cream but then the hood portion was purple. That makes it easy to start from there and then you don't have to guess where the hood line or the sleeve cuffs are.
Long post incoming, sorry!
The pattern tool is kinda weird to work with, and it does take some practice. Part of that is because what you draw on the right doesn't directly get put on the shirt to the left, the game tries to 'help' you a little. Sometimes it works in your favour, sometimes it's the worst thing to deal with.
It will try to find straight lines and curves, and smooth them out. The way it does this can make it really difficult to draw things of similar colours next to each other. Knowing that can already help sometimes! Here's the kind of behaviour I'm talking about:
I've quickly drawn a shirt as an example. It's by no means perfect, but it may help a little?
You'll want to avoid overly bright or dark colours, they'll look a bit odd on your character. You're looking for something like the difference in these two images:
I've seen people not know this before so I will mention it: the "change palette" tool is your friend for this. You can set every colour individually if you want! It's the little tube thing.
Adding a few colours that are close to the other ones you used will make a design feel a lot less flat:
You'll see a lot of designs use more than one colour even for solid areas too. It's how you draw rougher fabrics, and can make a design a little more interesting if done well. It takes ages to get it looking okay, though! That would look a little like this:
Some final quick tips:
- Finding clothing you like online and trying to recreate that in-game is very helpful if you want something more complicated than a simple printed design.
- If your design has things that stand out like ribbons, buttons and layers, use more colours for those so you can try drawing shadows. It's the only way to prevent them from looking flat!
- Try placing your design down in-game while you're working on it. Sometimes what looks good in the editor will not look good outside of it, there's always a slight difference. Adjust accordingly & repeat...
Hope that helps!
The pattern tool is kinda weird to work with, and it does take some practice. Part of that is because what you draw on the right doesn't directly get put on the shirt to the left, the game tries to 'help' you a little. Sometimes it works in your favour, sometimes it's the worst thing to deal with.
It will try to find straight lines and curves, and smooth them out. The way it does this can make it really difficult to draw things of similar colours next to each other. Knowing that can already help sometimes! Here's the kind of behaviour I'm talking about:
I've quickly drawn a shirt as an example. It's by no means perfect, but it may help a little?
You'll want to avoid overly bright or dark colours, they'll look a bit odd on your character. You're looking for something like the difference in these two images:
I've seen people not know this before so I will mention it: the "change palette" tool is your friend for this. You can set every colour individually if you want! It's the little tube thing.
Adding a few colours that are close to the other ones you used will make a design feel a lot less flat:
You'll see a lot of designs use more than one colour even for solid areas too. It's how you draw rougher fabrics, and can make a design a little more interesting if done well. It takes ages to get it looking okay, though! That would look a little like this:
Some final quick tips:
- Finding clothing you like online and trying to recreate that in-game is very helpful if you want something more complicated than a simple printed design.
- If your design has things that stand out like ribbons, buttons and layers, use more colours for those so you can try drawing shadows. It's the only way to prevent them from looking flat!
- Try placing your design down in-game while you're working on it. Sometimes what looks good in the editor will not look good outside of it, there's always a slight difference. Adjust accordingly & repeat...
Hope that helps!
daffodilcrossing
Traveling Seashell Seller
The tutorials online definitely helped me, I used them a lot for new leaf. My biggest problem was always shading, like I had no idea how to make it realistic. Even if I got a shape I liked I could never figure out the shading parts that’s why I like the pixelated tutorials because they have all of the parts I need. My problem too is making paths as well because again, I have no idea how to shade lol
omg I love the visual guide, like I said I cant imagine things myself so thats helpful <3 TY!Long post incoming, sorry!
The pattern tool is kinda weird to work with, and it does take some practice. Part of that is because what you draw on the right doesn't directly get put on the shirt to the left, the game tries to 'help' you a little. Sometimes it works in your favour, sometimes it's the worst thing to deal with.
It will try to find straight lines and curves, and smooth them out. The way it does this can make it really difficult to draw things of similar colours next to each other. Knowing that can already help sometimes! Here's the kind of behaviour I'm talking about:
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I've quickly drawn a shirt as an example. It's by no means perfect, but it may help a little?
You'll want to avoid overly bright or dark colours, they'll look a bit odd on your character. You're looking for something like the difference in these two images:
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I've seen people not know this before so I will mention it: the "change palette" tool is your friend for this. You can set every colour individually if you want! It's the little tube thing.
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Adding a few colours that are close to the other ones you used will make a design feel a lot less flat:
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You'll see a lot of designs use more than one colour even for solid areas too. It's how you draw rougher fabrics, and can make a design a little more interesting if done well. It takes ages to get it looking okay, though! That would look a little like this:
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Some final quick tips:
- Finding clothing you like online and trying to recreate that in-game is very helpful if you want something more complicated than a simple printed design.
- If your design has things that stand out like ribbons, buttons and layers, use more colours for those so you can try drawing shadows. It's the only way to prevent them from looking flat!
- Try placing your design down in-game while you're working on it. Sometimes what looks good in the editor will not look good outside of it, there's always a slight difference. Adjust accordingly & repeat...
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Hope that helps!
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thats a big problem w me!! I can make an OK design (I dont like my own designs but yeah), can never make them look like other peoples and I compare a LOT
The big thing I did to get better was look up designs from other people- not the version you get when you see a code, but the actual pixelated version you see when designing. But not many people upload those for ACNL or ACNH since there are other ways to share clothes.
BUT. I suggest searching "Animal Crossing CITY FOLK Clothes Designs". There was no way to share in that game besides sharing the actual "blueprint", so you'll find a lot of them. If I'm looking to make, say, an apron (which I recently did) I'll add "apron" to my search. Then I'll look at the little details that seem to make the outfits look extra nice (like shading- I'm generally terrible at shading) and basically copy some parts of one design, and some parts from another, and try some stuff on my own. I'm no master designer by any means, but I'm getting better, and that's what really helped me!
BUT. I suggest searching "Animal Crossing CITY FOLK Clothes Designs". There was no way to share in that game besides sharing the actual "blueprint", so you'll find a lot of them. If I'm looking to make, say, an apron (which I recently did) I'll add "apron" to my search. Then I'll look at the little details that seem to make the outfits look extra nice (like shading- I'm generally terrible at shading) and basically copy some parts of one design, and some parts from another, and try some stuff on my own. I'm no master designer by any means, but I'm getting better, and that's what really helped me!
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I usually go off of pixel art for plain flat designs made w/ the original creator, not Pro
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