Let's make a 5.25" pixel art floppy!

The inner mylar disk or "cookie" (biscuit if you are from the UK) needs some depth.

So we're going to make a jacket shadow layer, set to Multiply.

My favorite feature of Aseprite is that the [ and ] keys walk up and down the perceptual brightness of your indexed palette. So it makes it super easy to boop in really nice shading effects.

now lets make a new layer to give the cookie a bit of a surface variation.

We're somewhat limited in grayscale tones, so stippling comes to the rescue

Time for our floppy jacket shading layer

this will use our overlay shading technique, so we can easily make the floppy different colors later if we want