*marvel's*

"I know it's terrible."

...Huh?

That's not bad at all considering I tried making a chest like that once and failed miserably. The closest I've ever gotten to a chest is that metal box in my pixel art monstrosities thread. The only things that I can see that it lacks is design and it's a bit blocky in one spot. When you find an image with text so blocky it makes you puke, you'll go in and try to soften it up and you'll get some experience with deblocking.

Here's an edit to show you what I'm talking about:



First of all, I changed the background color. Sometimes, working with a pure white background will throw you off when you make the edges of your piece. Generally, choosing a background color similar to the background you envision your piece in is a good idea. Other than that, I made it a little less plain by adding a striped pattern to the top that may not even be noticeable and I added a few of the things that you usually see on a treasure chest - handles and a lock. Also, you may want to consider adding a line to indicate where the chest stops and the lid starts. That'll make it look fancier. If you're going towards a 'fancy' look, I suggest you take a look at some Castlevania games, coming to mind are Aria of Sorrow and Symphony of the Night. But you could probably find better things on DeviantArt, Google image search, and this forum.

There's my bit of suggestive critique, from a newb to a newb. Don't take me too seriously, though, because I'm still a newb and someone else could probably do better.

 - keantoken

Helloes, everyone.

I just recently registered after discovering that I'm not too bad at pixel art (Or am I...?). I started somewhere around a month ago, when trying to make some sprites for Cortex Command at http://www.datarealms.com/. Before that, I played Cave Story all the time and gained n interest in tile-based level construction. I play a lot of old games, namely Super Metroid, the Megaman X series,

Since then, I've been testing myself a bit with different spur-of-the-moment challenges arising from sudden urges to bring up Graphics Gale (free edition). Here I'll show you my few current monstrosities. Feel free to critique and suggest.

Most of these were purely pixel-pushed, with some small use of the line tool and sometimes the rectangle tool.

I believe this is my first serious endeavor, though I'm not sure. I was inspired by the spikes on Megeman X6, and was drawing these as sort of concept for something for Cortex Command.



I believe this is my second, though I'm still not quite sure. This was for a mod for Cortex Command but I can't release the details for fear that someone from Datarealms might take a peek. My inspiration was my deep freeze and those thick metal boxes that supposedly carry nukes that you see all the time on movies.



This one is concept[?] for a game I'm programming that I'm calling FlopNinja for now. It's pretty old and now it's kindof obsolete for what I've got going, but it's an honorable mention since it's supposedly my third serious pixel art endeavor.



These two are things I just sorta did on the spur of the moment. The one on the left is the original, and I edited it a bit on the right, because I thought about using it as a banner and I needed to make it look just a bit more sinister. My reference for these was a spare stereo cord I had just laying around, and had been itching to try and draw in Graphics Gale. I used the line tool to make most of the lines, though I pixel-pushed most of it.

 

So, how likes?

 - keantoken