It is a great time to learn Inkscape, they just released a new version recently that lets you make seamless textures much easier than in previous versions.

A great tip for Inkscape is to make a default.svg and place it in your c:\programfiles\inkscape\templates directory. That way you do not need to resize the image and set the grid every time you use it.

You can also add other custom templates there as well.

If you want inkscape to start a fraction of a second faster, delete all of the templates that you will probably never use. (they just seem to cluter things anyway.

There is another template directory that is hidden in your user-files somewhere. If you place the templates in that directory,they will always show up on the very top of the New File list.

Here is an easier way to do SVG graphics:

http://editor.method.ac/?dimensions=64,64

It makes SVG and PNG like Inkscape, but can be learned in an afternoon.

i use inkscape for complex drawings, but for quick sketches and sprites , Method draw has a very nice interface.

Nice added plus is that you can use it with a Chromebok, or Linux, or Free BSD, it is HTML5 and Javascript so you can use it on almost any computer and portable device.

Best tile generator since texturemaker's 2003 release.

This is a must have tool for any game dev.

Very cool! One of the best SVG solutions.

Thanks this made my morning!

Ok Found it! I never noticed it in the font popup dialog before.

What a wonderful tool!

Thank you very much for this.

I dont see anything for outline or dropshadow. I must have an old version.

I was asking for a Height adjustment actually.

I went and took another look, and noticed you already have a small gap at the bottom, so the Height adjustment is not needed.

Thanks fora great utility!

Only things that I might request is an outline and maybe a dropshadow feature. It is perfect the way it is though. I will really put this to good use

The speech thing does not seem to work with Node webkit.

If you are about to invest some serious time into learning an application, may I suggest Blender 3D?

You can make animated sprites really fast.

By learning different rendering and material combos you can do everything from Pixelated retro graphics, to photo realistic graphics. Look into "Toon" rendering, Photoreal rendering, and retro rendering.Another great medium that is nearly impossible to freehand draw is Isometric tiles. Blender makes it really easy!

It also imports from other applications so you can use things like Make human to make you characters :

http://www.makehuman.org/

(caution, it makes naked people, just like god does.)

Another nice application is Zbrush but it is quite costly.

Another route in to use Synfig. This is how Anime and all the other japan cartoons are made.

Blender is a lot faster to learn than synfyg. Blender makes it really easy to get the shading you want.

For nifty backgrounds try Vue De Espirit. It generates trees and all kinds of other goodies for you. Can also make neat fly around animations for your cut-scenes or whatever.

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Can you please make so that we can add spaces between the letters?

We need a blank row of pixels between the characters, otherwise when we use certain scaleing options it will "bleed over" and give poor results.

This looks just amazing! Thanks for this!

Looks very professional I really like the Icons, and the layout!

Thanks Zendorf