Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Gatts on February 09, 2012, 07:41:06 pm
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I can't find any way to shade his hair. Any suggestion ?
(http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/8441/linkface.png)
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Take notice to how the hair in this picture frays to one side of links head as well as the different mid-tones to the strands in his hair in the picture below.
(http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/papercraft-link.jpg)
In your preview you kind of clump the hair on the forehead of your character as opposed to letting it flow naturally, it kind of looks like a liquid is leaking down his head.
As you can see instead of actual strands, in the lower-poly art (above) there are simply darker lines to achieve the desired effect, try adding more contrast and experimenting with honey color (or auburn) [#F4940C or near that] to get the kind of look in the picture.
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At this size you have too many colors. They're kind of all mushed together. 3 should be plenty to define a shape such as Sakoshi mentioned. Then maybe ad one or two more for highlights and aa.