Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: AlexHW on June 20, 2012, 06:02:46 am

Title: feel the pixel
Post by: AlexHW on June 20, 2012, 06:02:46 am

just doodled something. (http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/heart__r1431219741.png)

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: Blaze Enigma on June 20, 2012, 09:19:19 am

Looks great, but if it wasn't for the basic side of the piece I would probably not know it was a heart, as the texture you applied to the realistic side looks quite odd ^^..
 
- Might just be me but it slightly looks as if is melting
Just chucked in a nice reference :P
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgjul10/heart.gif (I wouldn't click it if you are rather faint of heart)

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: rikfuzz on June 20, 2012, 09:56:59 am

I don't think the intention is to transform it into a realistic heart...  I interpret it more that the pixels themselves are mutating organically?

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: AlexHW on June 20, 2012, 09:43:02 pm

you both are correct.. basically just made it to provoke some thought as to what it is. Is it something crisp and rigid, or something more? mutation?.. melting.. fractal?.. organic.. something under a microscope?.. i dont know. you tell me.

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: Daimoth on June 20, 2012, 09:48:24 pm

Awesome. Not feeling the tendrils, but the boils and whatnot are just awesome.

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: Phlakes on June 21, 2012, 12:01:49 am

It looks more hairy than veiny. Probably because of all the short dark ones.

But other than that, like everyone said, it looks great. Reminds me of an album cover I did once that was the same general concept.

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: Daimoth on June 21, 2012, 12:26:10 am

The tendrils on the top of the right lobe look absolutely cool, though. Try spreading that look all the way around the right half.

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: Grimsane on June 22, 2012, 12:27:08 am

this is what it made me think of :lala:
(http://i.imgur.com/rySqm.png)

for anyone who doesn't get it the reference, it's a character from the off the hook bizarro comedy cartoon Adventure time, the character Ricardio was loosely based on and voiced by George Takei :lol:

(PS: hope you don't mind me desecrating your work  ::))

Title: Re: feel the pixel
Post by: AlexHW on June 22, 2012, 07:07:42 am

:O!
weird.. I didn't know adventure time had such a character.

yea.. i began trying to make the edges look torn, but then I just went with the flow and that's what happened. basically just a doodle thing where my mind spaced out for a bit.