Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: JonathanOfDrain on January 26, 2007, 06:00:49 am
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:D I'm working on a little project mainly to improve my pixel pushing, I'd like some advice because these are giving me a lot more trouble than I think they should. These are WIPs.
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2491/helpmeqn9.png)
This is the sprite for a weird alieny character. You can see what I had before and what it is now.
(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8876/helptilesgb8.png)
I also need some help with tilesets. The grass looks a little off, maybe it's the color, and it took me a long time. For the most part I think it's acceptable. The cobble stone probably needs another color and the space between each stone seems ugly.
Thank you ahead of time. I really hope I can improve these with your help.
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the horizontal lines are very clear in your grass tile, and should probably be broken up. I would also try varying your palette more! Work a little more yellow into your bright areas maybe - here's a simple change to your 4-color grass palette:
(http://adam.lastchancemedia.com/sprites/grass_edit.gif)
Your little alien guy is headed in the right direction, i'd pay attention to the same issues though - work some other colors in there, experiment!
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Thanks AdamAtomic, how would I break up the horizontal line? I've also noticed a lot of the more "real" pixel art doesn't go from a dark green to green to light green. Is there some rule of thumb to help me with this? Am I over complicating all of this?
(http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4078/colourdy2.gif) I made some pants and shirt color changes. I can't decide if any look good.
I think I just spent 15 minutes making the hands look worse. How do I make hands look like hands?
Feel free to be harsh with the C+C.
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Hue shifting gives wonderful effects but is by no means necessary. It is more how the person chooses to pixel it. It can be hue shifted or not. Now that I am getting into hue shifting I love it. I feel it brings pieces to life more
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There's no real rule of thumb except "check out how light works in real life". That's really the guiding force in "real" pixel art - real grass doesn't actually go from dark green to light green. Yellow from the sun, blue from the sky, the green chlorophyll, brown dirt, tan/white of dead chlorophyll cells, all these things contribute to a really wide range of color values, even in something as "simple" as grass. Shadows are never really black - blue is a very pervasive color in our world, because of that whole "sky" thing. So even when there is very little light (like under a plant) outdoors, there is still a lot of blue! Also, for illustration purposes, blue is a good shadow tone anyways because it receeds (this is not a real "rule" per sec, just a useful optical effect).
These are all the things that you should process when you're sliding your colors around!