AuthorTopic: Meh. A face. (edited)now with bearded man (Read 8429 times)

pixel_pixie · **on:** August 21, 2006, 06:40:44 am

Hello everybody, i"m new here. A friend told me to join. I'm not really good at pixel art, but I made this:

Omfg, i found this picture a picture online, and thought it was kewl beens, so i tried to pixel it

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Please tell me what looks wrong, i think the dithers on the bottom right of his face are off or something, lol.

Evil-Ville · **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2006, 06:57:55 am

Link to the original picture please.

.TakaM · **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2006, 06:59:05 am

i thought it was a bit suspicious you didnt say "this is turk (donald faison) from scrubs" or something.. so I did a quick google image search of him and found the reference.

tracing, definetly.. could go so far to say you just tweaked the brightness, contrast and colours, then did some quick dithering $:-\$

pixel_pixie · **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2006, 07:37:04 am

so what's wrong with that?

Rydin · **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2006, 07:48:10 am

omg, i can't believe you posted that....

Meta|Fox · **Reply #5 on:** August 21, 2006, 08:10:13 am

its not pixel art, its cheating

but on a lighter note, have a Muffin. ITS A POISON MUFFIN!

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yeah this is my new one of some guy's pic i found

oh dear god its like your asking to be beaten to death...

yosh64 · **Reply #6 on:** August 21, 2006, 09:44:44 am

hey

I don't want to be harsh on you or anything, for I think you do not know better. I just wanted to let you know that the uproar of sorts is due to that I think (and maybe others) there is no skill, far less effort, nor proper art involved in following/performing a few image processing functions

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cyas

Feron · **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2006, 11:29:49 am

Please learn to speak/type properly too.

Rydin · **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2006, 11:50:06 am

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I'm not really good at pixel art

Well are you willing to learn? You show obvious effort trying to make something that resembles what you think is pixel art.......but you're methods aren't spot on. So maybe you could try out the actual methods of producing pixel art; it appears as if you already have dithering down. Everybody here is more than willing to help.

Just keep the critics happy and you'll be a hardcore pixeller in no time

and where the hell is the bearded man?

Feron · **Reply #9 on:** August 21, 2006, 04:00:23 pm

He doesnt have "dithering down". He color reduced a blue version of the photo - thats why it looks so messy and ugly.

djork · **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2006, 05:21:16 pm

This must be a troll

ndchristie · **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2006, 05:40:27 pm

i like how you didnt use the actual image, but the google preview

really though i dont want to insult you man. bitching out n00bs isnt as fun as it sounds.

to clarify:

pixel art is about purposeful manipulation of individual pixels to create an image. filters like color reduction, auto-aa, auto-rotation, auto-scale, etc, are not allowed and most of the time produce results that dont look nearly as good as hand-pixeled work

as an example, i used your reference to pixel a quick portrait:

this portrait is ass-crap-bad for an infinite number of reasons, however, it's not traced. in fact, its not even in the same pose really. this kind of thing builds skills (well, it would if you put more work into it than the 5 minutes i put in), and it's authentic to you anr your personal skills. this also is the kind of thing that people will help you with on this forum. we cant tell you how to hit the filter button better, but we can tell you how to make better art.

@djork: what?

Tremulant · **Reply #12 on:** August 21, 2006, 08:32:24 pm

I have top say that my suspicious nature has me leaning toward djork's conclusion. The tone of the initial post (with its excessive number of eye-roll emoticons, the "omfg, I found this picture..." bit, followed by a winky guy), the fact that he chose the preview of the first image that comes up on a google image search, the ridiculously overdone response to TakaM.'s post (again, note the emoticon abuse and the fact that there's no denial whatsoever; hardly common among 'serious' color reducers), and the fact that there have been no posts since leads me to believe that this is, like, a joke from one of the regulars (making a stab at reducers), a much-more-subtle-than-usual troll post, or... something.

If not, sincere apologies to pixel_pixie (but not too sincere, 'cause the whole reduction thing is self defeating and, quite frankly, just stupid). In any event, something seems a bit of here...

Maybe I'm just paranoid.

Larwick · **Reply #13 on:** August 22, 2006, 01:25:59 am

Ah yes, and most who talk like that with so many smileys can't actually spell or punctuate properly...

Ryumaru · **Reply #14 on:** August 22, 2006, 01:57:02 am

Quote from: Adarias on August 21, 2006, 05:40:27 pm

bitching out n00bs isnt as fun as it sounds.

wait, what?

ndchristie · **Reply #15 on:** August 22, 2006, 02:20:18 am

Quote from: Ryumaru on August 22, 2006, 01:57:02 am

Quote from: Adarias on August 21, 2006, 05:40:27 pm
bitching out n00bs isnt as fun as it sounds.

wait, what?

it was a joke

Alex · **Reply #16 on:** August 22, 2006, 04:35:03 am

this is hands down, the best thread.

pixel_pixie · **Reply #17 on:** August 22, 2006, 05:01:25 am

:)sorry guys< i'm working on something new now, and actually doing it from scratch this time. thanks for the help though. and btw, i did the dithers by myself from the pic. didn't know you couldn't start from other pictures

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.TakaM · **Reply #18 on:** August 22, 2006, 05:14:31 am

$:-\$

IP check

Rydin · **Reply #19 on:** August 22, 2006, 05:24:53 am

I told you they would be able to tell, Steve...xd

AlexHW · **Reply #20 on:** August 22, 2006, 05:27:34 am

stop it with the multiple emote faces.
i figure i'll lock this thread since this is going no where..

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