My brother is in Tokyo, he's alright and says that a lot of people have sustained injuries. Most are scraps and cuts, a few deep gashes. Though there are still a lot of people with broken/shattered bones and probably a lot of concussions.

Very useful! PLEASE USE IF YOU CAN! Spread words and all that.
I <3 Japan, hope more people are ok.

A while ago on this board there was a huge discussion about color and palette creation. Some people said how they made palettes and others examined palettes people had been using. Along the way someone said that a color was ugly, the discussion halted. Some people defended the color. It wasn't the colors fault it didn't work well in the palette. On it's own it was a nice color, with the right colors it'd be beautiful.
Someone (may have been ptoing!) said "There are no ugly colors, just ugly combinations of color."

So I'm saying these are nice colors individually. Together they just don't work, they've got a bit of eye-burning in them. Since you're too stubborn to change them I suggest you pick a better combination of colors for future projects. Also, try to work a bit smaller to get a bit more from the medium.

Though you like the sharpness, it becomes overwhelming. Everything has that sharpness. In Arne's art tut he briefly goes over focus points. I suggest reading it over before wasting spending time on another project.
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm#focus_points

Mathias' edit is surprisingly easier to read. You can actually see the sun. St0ven and Mathias both have great points, read those both until they sink in.

It's a start. Not completely optimized for tiling -- just wanted to produce a mock.

It's a very nice start too! I really like the pipes on the left, though the shadow looks like more pipe.
The underside of the conveyor belt (which is mysteriously floating unobstructed) should probably be darker.

Clearly there will be a lot of shadows in this game, can we expect some film noire style lighting from the windows?

I hope to see a little more in the room to better describe it.

I'm not as concerned with shading, but more about the character design. Lack of shading is just laziness.
Still, thanks for the input.

Proper shading can help sell even bad character designs.

There's really no refinement in any of your line work either. It looks really sloppy.


Are you using windows xp? You know you can make different colors in MSpaint right? You don't need to use just the default colors they provide. Double-click.

Isn't it supposed to depict the letter "d" or "D"? I see neither.

I thought it was fairly obvious.

You've got a few different shades of green and you need to use them smarter. Create some smoother transitions with that blueish green. It might not hurt to push those greens into a more yellow direction.
I played inside of your lines, with your colors just to show you where you can drop a few black pixels and smooth out a few things.


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