Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Ashbad on May 28, 2012, 04:37:31 pm
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(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/149/d/e/pixel_twilight_sparkle____twilight_is_amused_by_theashbad-d51irbp.png)
Took me a few hours to make. The original pose in my concept sketch of this (that I did during standardized testing on a sticky note) was a plot shot (bronies will know what I mean :lol: ), but I played with the pose a lot and it ended up like this. Used 32 colors on this one, and since I know a few people here probably are more into larger restrictions than that, I kept a 16 color version from about an hour (http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/Twilight_amused_16color.png) ago before I started Anti-aliasing and selouting.
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I love your works but I think you have a terrible obsession with that ponies. Maybe you could tell your psychologist
Well, I think the horn is a bit too small and I don't like how the round shadow under the pony looks. Apart from this, it's a really good work.
I watch it for the plot pixel!
(Ah, you don't have to post it 2x, clicking on the image increases the size)
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I love your works but I think you have a terrible obsession with that ponies. Maybe you could tell your psychologist
... :-\ I'm going to pretend that wasn't said :P
Well, I think the horn is a bit too small and I don't like how the round shadow under the pony looks. Apart from this, it's a really good work.
I watch it for the plot pixel!
(Ah, you don't have to post it 2x, clicking on the image increases the size)
Indeed, I might need to lengthen the horn. I added the shadow just for fun; I think it looks better with than without. I'll try using a lighter shade with it in my next edit and you could then decided if it looks better :) As for the size, I just hotlinked it from dA, where I always scale up everything at least 2x; I'll be sure to make my edits normal-sized, though.
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Just a quick edit mainly trying to address the lighting. You can ignore most everything else—I was just messing with her expression, and it got a little out of control.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v350/Daroge/horseke.png)
So yeah, just a couple small changes. The front legs didn't feel quite symmetrical, so I tweaked them a little bit. The more important part of my edit, I feel, is just adjusting some of the shadows. Right now your shading seems almost isolated to each limb and body part. What I tried to do was be more conscious of how the different parts of her body would affect each other in terms of shadows and highlights.
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Just a quick edit mainly trying to address the lighting. You can ignore most everything else—I was just messing with her expression, and it got a little out of control.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v350/Daroge/horseke.png)
So yeah, just a couple small changes. The front legs didn't feel quite symmetrical, so I tweaked them a little bit. The more important part of my edit, I feel, is just adjusting some of the shadows. Right now your shading seems almost isolated to each limb and body part. What I tried to do was be more conscious of how the different parts of her body would affect each other in terms of shadows and highlights.
Haha, yeah, you did go a bit overboard in some places ^_^ I notice what you were trying to bring about in the shading; I think a compromise between what I have so far an what you did would make my piece a bit better. Slightly unrelated, the facial structure of your edit makes her look like a G1 or G2 pony :lol:
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Yay! More ponies!
I think her eyes are too square, considering this almost a profile shot the eye should be really ecliptic.
Looks extremely cute, well done!
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Yay! More ponies!
I think her eyes are too square, considering this almost a profile shot the eye should be really ecliptic.
Looks extremely cute, well done!
I think you're right; my only excuse is that the hardest part of drawing ponies for me are the eyes :lol: I'll play around with it some for sure.
And thanks! Brohoof! (\
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I think eyes might be the easy part for me.
Getting the anatomy correct on the other hand.
I started drawing this applejack, but then I realized the resolution was a bit too high, haha :D
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8543/applejackn.png)
btw, this is how I think when drawing eyes.
(http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/6712/eyesguide.gif)
I think it's only twilight and rarity who have those sharp corners, everyone else has sorta rounded ones.
It even changes based on face expression.
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Thanks for that eye diagram; didn't think about the eyes in that way :P I always just jot in a pixel cluster of white, and keep on shifting the edges around until it looks about right. Thinking about it like that would save *so* much more time.
As for your Applejack, the anatomy is actually pretty correct, just that the front leg facing us needs to come forward more, and her back legs look a bit too thin near the top. The face is absolutely excellent ^_^
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re: the shadow: intuitively, it feels like the shadow should be squashed vertically. She's not a marshmallow, unlike Rarity :)