Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Cure on June 08, 2013, 05:16:54 am

Title: Grishkin
Post by: Cure on June 08, 2013, 05:16:54 am

(http://i.imgur.com/fyWun7m.png)

WIP (http://i.imgur.com/XdY2jGT.gif)

Original (http://possumart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/grishkin.png)

Still lots to clean up. Feedback welcome.

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: DawnBringer on June 08, 2013, 09:30:23 am

The body and hair have a structure and texture that looks much better in pixel than the analog; the little details that give it a "3D" look is very cool. The bottom-right water will need quite a bit of work to conform with the set style. The top-left red fluff doesn't seem to belong in the picture at all.

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: big brother on June 08, 2013, 06:01:13 pm

Looks like someone broke into the medicine cabinet.  :crazy:

I love the fluid swooshy curves and the hue blending. There might be a way to keep the chaos, yet guide the viewer's eyes through the piece more. The face seems like the focal point, since it has the most detail, but maybe there's a way to reinforce that with color. What if her "hair" was red and the more abstract designs around the border were white?

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: Helm on June 08, 2013, 09:47:49 pm

I think it works pretty well! I'd avoid single pixel stuff, though, it just looks noisy (to me).

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: Cure on June 18, 2013, 07:27:46 pm

update:

(http://i.imgur.com/xVE8R0b.png)

DB: water has been mostly finished in this update. I agree about the red bouquets and will try to mix that area up a bit.
BB: sounds like too much work!
Helm: Thanks, trying to avoid noisy pixels as I come across them, others I've expanded into small clusters because I like the splatter effects.

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: Mathias on June 22, 2013, 04:05:32 am

automatic human rationalizations:
bottom left - lush ground cover flora
top left - dragonfly
middle - curvaceous zombie chick
bottom right - rippling pond water with a duck
middle right - levitating kidney organ
right? right?

What medium(s) used for original? Looks like water color + some very blendy color large nib pens + black ink pen/sharpie (can you upload an even higher res original?)

NICE

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: Cure on June 22, 2013, 05:28:30 am

bottom left- pitcher plants and swampy stuff
top left- wasp
middle- curvaceous zombie chick
bottom right- soggy housefly in the drain

For the original I used water color, acrylics, markers, sharpies, crayons, colored pencils, highlighter, india ink, pen, and oil pastels.

Here is a link to a larger version. (http://i.imgur.com/sdmCCg0.jpg)

And here is the final:
(http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/adfdfd96.png)

Title: Re: Grishkin
Post by: YellowLime on June 22, 2013, 11:23:07 am

This is pretty amazing, and it shows that a lot of hours were put into it :y:

But I must admit I don't appreciate the differences in the cleaned-up version as much as I should :crazy: