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Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Not4mortaleyes on June 26, 2016, 05:05:18 pm

Title: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 26, 2016, 05:05:18 pm
just something i made while practicing that i thought looked cool
(http://imgur.com/Bpwn5KB.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Capta1n_Henry on June 26, 2016, 06:44:26 pm
You might want to make the egg a different or lighter color because it just looks like one big purple rock instead of an egg on a rock.
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 26, 2016, 06:58:12 pm
(http://imgur.com/A9cBe8X.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Capta1n_Henry on June 26, 2016, 10:36:38 pm
Much better. Keep up the good work.
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Zia on June 26, 2016, 11:11:12 pm
You've got some pretty heavy pillow shading going on there. It makes the egg look very flat rather than round. Here's a quick'n'dirty edit. I made the pedestal a bit more claw-like, and changed the colours around a little. I also made the egg smaller so the whole thing would fit within the original dimensions instead of going off the side. Don't be afraid of contrast and of picking a light source.

(http://i.imgur.com/8HLPJAi.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 27, 2016, 06:59:44 pm
(http://imgur.com/IK4qMX5.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: jun on June 27, 2016, 07:24:42 pm
Some thoughts:
More contrast!
Work on the readability. I have no idea what's going on D: The colors are too similar.

(http://i.imgur.com/M36LkzV.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 27, 2016, 08:05:48 pm
Some thoughts:
More contrast!
Work on the readability. I have no idea what's going on D: The colors are too similar.

(http://i.imgur.com/M36LkzV.png)
can you please explain what contrast is? i dont really know what that is  ???
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: jun on June 27, 2016, 08:16:51 pm
You should read
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299
http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

Contrast is basically the difference between two or more colors, if put very simply.


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


Left has high contrast with the background, the right color has low contrast with the background.

In Art, and pixelart especially you are rather limited by how much you can put on the screen. So more contrast is generally better because it helps with defining things and readability. (I'm sorry if this is wrong, but that's how I understood it)


Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 27, 2016, 08:39:29 pm
You should read
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299
http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

Contrast is basically the difference between two or more colors, if put very simply.


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


Left has high contrast with the background, the right color has low contrast with the background.

In Art, and pixelart especially you are rather limited by how much you can put on the screen. So more contrast is generally better because it helps with defining things and readability. (I'm sorry if this is wrong, but that's how I understood it)
ah i think i understand so basically it just means colors that are very different from each other. will will try to reduce the colors on my dragon egg and use more defining ones ( XD i never thought i would learn so much from drawing an egg ) also how is my dithering?
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 29, 2016, 06:52:17 pm
(http://imgur.com/ufVFR6V.png)
i tried increasing the contrast i may have to increase it more and mess with the colors but also i am going to make the egg scaly but idk how im going to do that
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: jun on June 29, 2016, 06:57:40 pm
Well done! Looks promising. 
As with adding scales, you're trying to add texture to the form.
This post might be helpful http://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=19743


Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 29, 2016, 07:37:52 pm
the egg looks too smooth is the anyway i can change the shading to give a rough realistic rocky look?
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 29, 2016, 08:29:21 pm
(http://imgur.com/Bkjr3Ul.png)
i added some scales but i looks too cartoony :/
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 29, 2016, 10:47:50 pm
(http://imgur.com/okXvJI2.png)
(sorry for posting 3 times in a row)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on June 30, 2016, 01:41:22 am
i made some tweaks and i think its pretty much done :) what do you think?
(http://imgur.com/AJ6355y.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Pizza Tom on June 30, 2016, 03:48:26 am
Definitely an improvement! But the scales come across as cracks, like something's about to hatch. If that's not the intent, I'd say lighten the outlines on the scales a bit.
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: MysteryMeat on June 30, 2016, 07:08:35 am
I'd say it looks more like a geode, there's a curvy tangent there that makes it look like the bumps are set into the stone rather than curving around the surface. Highlighted that in red here, and did a fixed up version reducing the intensity of the dark and tweaking some of the other colors to try and fix it!
(http://imgur.com/2yDdcVw.png)
(http://imgur.com/QMQHLZf.png)
Title: Re: purple dragon egg on a purple rock
Post by: Not4mortaleyes on July 06, 2016, 07:26:59 pm
thank you all for the feedback and im am so sorry it took me so long to respond i was busy with some things also i wont be continuing this thread because this was just practice and i think i understand what i did/dint do right while making this egg and again a want to say thank you all for the helpful advice