Digital Dump

[ndchristie]

I completely forgot that unwritten rule.

Are you being ironic? There's no rules for art, written or unwritten. He's trying to help you, and his critique is good.

I meant to say that i've completely forgotten about it, because I realized myself that Lackey's crits were useful. Pardon my broken english. 

Nah, you're missing an extremely important point that helm's raising.  If i had read this in november i'd have commented on how valid it is:

there are no rules to art, only reasons.  Whatever you do, even something like outlining, should have some sort of reason*.  You could put those lines there if you could tell us "why."  As it is though, we're not sure.



*even if that reason is to be absurd or self-satirical.

[digitaldust]

I wasn't sure how to make the snake on his forehead more readable, so i left it as it is.

[digitaldust]

And so the Shin Cheetahmen avatars are now complete! Although... I grossly miscalculated the difficulty of doing Castor. His hair was a bitch to do.

[Atnas]

I'm having mixed feelings.

Pure black? It's attracting ALL the attention. But it's very cool like that. There's a nice effect, because my eyes are drawn to it like a black hole, I have to consciously pull away to look at the rest. But if this wasn't intentional... XD XD

If you want it to read like a normal piece, try lightening the black?

aside from the contrast, it's pretty clear what they are. Maybe heavier line weight on castor's fur right below his mouth, the one pixel lines are too sharp for the somewhat cushy cushy soft ^0^ style.

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[digitaldust]

aside from the contrast, it's pretty clear what they are. Maybe heavier line weight on castor's fur right below his mouth, the one pixel lines are too sharp for the somewhat cushy cushy soft ^0^ style.

Like this?

[Helm]

I understand these are piercings on the tongue. But what's that in the middle of it? Also, why black teeth?

[digitaldust]

I understand these are piercings on the tongue. But what's that in the middle of it? Also, why black teeth?

It's some sort of laurel wreath badge with a tongue piercing pin on it. As for the dentures, i was getting bored of the same ivory white/yellow/smoker's brown color, so i thought i might try out different colors. There's already different-colored tongues, so why not teeth?

[Xion]

There's already different-colored tongues, so why not teeth?

they don't really read well. Maybe some nice, shiny highlights?
The dark outline around the tongue piercings is really weird, since no other part of the image has outlines at all, much less edges that are that dark...can you get rid of the outlines completely and still have them be readable?

[digitaldust]

The teeth was a bit of a block for me, but i think i got it right.

[digitaldust]

WIP redraw of my first ever official pixel art attempt. I went for a much more "subtle" approach and... gave him, uh, sandals.




Here's the (shocking) original.