I like the nudes, Ai. The widepixels do something really nice for the curves. Pine tree is pretty rocking, too.
Thanks!! That's actually the reason I started the picture, because I was sure that the inherent cuteness imparted by widepixels would play nicely with drawings of nude women
The pine tree demonstrates well the argument of the past few weeks re: treatment of method vs result on PJ; it was sketched with a largish brush randomly rotated (using GIMP's new brush rotation dynamics settings), which established the overall aesthetic excellently well. Lots of touch up required since pixel clustering was often a little clumsy, I still reckon I saved a lot of time agonizing by using a clumsier, aesthetically consistent tool to start with.
I like your cpc doodles, AI. You seem to have a pretty good grasp on how to utilize that palette. I take one look at that 5x5x5 box you've got, and... well actually I was gonna say that it's a confusing mass of neon colors, but zoomed in it looks pretty versatile. For the longest time, palettes set up that way intimidated me. Maybe I should try doing some of that nature myself. I've still never really made any graphics based on older systems.
The 5x5x5 is pretty much my favorite colorcube. the 3x3x3 CPC one forces you to become a good dramatist, so to speak, and the 5x5x5 one still requires dramatization/exaggeration, but you can usually get roughly any isolated color you wanted without having an excess of choice, so it might be more approachable . Another thing that's nice about really small cubes like CPC is that it makes it very profitable to use plenty of black, so the resultant graphics get people to use their imagination more.
Re: your more recent mockup:
I like the character/unit style, and the various styles you've used for different types of graphic mesh well.. except for the character portrait (maybe this is just because of her hair sharing most of the interface colors. Might have a little more pop-outness if only say, the highlights shared the UI colors)
Re: your older mockup:
Again, I really like the style (reminds me a little of Earthbound, actually).
I think if you stacked a mirrored L:
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of dark pink pixels on top of the existing short row
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on the bottom left of her hair, it would emphasize the shape of her hair and provide an interesting 'echo' vs the shape of her hat.
[remainder of post reserved for whatever image I post next -- in this thread, I think it's good to have every post with some item.]