Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Sherman Gill on October 27, 2006, 06:40:03 pm
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Made this... Probably still a WIP but you never know.
He's a robot howling (His mouth is tube-like.)
(http://h1.ripway.com/Inane/Werebot.Png)
Moons above him, so thats where the light source is.
Looks best at 2x zoom, I think.
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I thought that maybe yours made how it is cause of the style you were going for but I edited.
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/4795/edit2ct3.png)
The legs and arms were horrible..They looked choppy and like thick strokes.
Your colors are nice but your stance was a little off.
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I thought that maybe yours made how it is cause of the style you were going for but I edited.
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/4795/edit2ct3.png)
The legs and arms were horrible..They looked choppy and like thick strokes.
Your colors are nice but your stance was a little off.
talk about harsh...you ever heard of style?
choose your words wisely next time buddy.
nice piece sherman. looks like a platform game-type character. I just think you need to try and clean his legs up a bit, but theyre not "horrible". and the feet look funny.
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To be honest i think Victor's edit was pretty good, mainly on the legs. He gave a reason for his comment aswel, which is fine critique in my book.
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TBH, I like the original better, needs more cleaning up on those specific parts though.
And you shouldn't have to explain anything. You having to explain where the mouth is means it's not clear enough. Maybe a drastic edit on the head lineart-wise would help.
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Victor's version doesn't do much for me. It makes the thing look too human.
I didn't see how he changed the mouth until now, and I think that looks better.
But heres what I got:
(http://h1.ripway.com/Inane/683071-Werebot.Png)
Tried to clean up the legs and arms, and fix the crappy upper portion of the sky. (Not sure I did either.)
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Too human, in this first place how does this look like a wolf? I see no ears and no claws so you might aswell just say monster.
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It's howling at the moon.
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I don't see it. It looks nothing like a howl. I see no lips. I see neither robot nor wolf. Too organic to be a bot. Too...human(?) to be a wolf.
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Well hell guys, I just tacked the werewolf bot on there because I couldn't think of what it would be. So what do YOU think it is?
I called it a werewolf because it's howling and not exactly a human form, and a robot because the line art was done in a similar style to that of robots a guy in the line art thread did.
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Wow, you changed everything around now.
K, first of all, just cause it howls doesnt mean its gonna be a wolf, generally thats what people think of when they hear it but it would also be a dog?
How do the skin tones related to anything metalic affiliated with a bot. You need to get your things straight.
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What? A dog? Why on earth would you relate howling to a dog if you could relate it to a wolf, especially when the image is in the moonlight. There's nothing wrong with calling a robot something because of a slight similarity or relation. For example, my character the Rustbug is obviously not a bug, it doesn't even have 6 legs, and it isn't even meant to be rusty, it's only named so because of it's paint-job.
Perhaps have the robot standing on a hill or cliff-edge to relate it further? I'd avoid cropping the image so closely, make the canvas at least 300% that it is now and have a proper scene, perhaps? The leg on the left is too far outwards. You could research wolf anatomy and perhaps add a stylistic flair to the robot by creating similar legs to the beast (but with metal joints instead). Pull the tube mouth closer to the centre of it's face so it looks more like a mouth rather than an antenna.
That's all i can think of now. Good luck.
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Made the robot much more pale (Especially the highlight, since that's light from the moon), expanded the canvas and um... Maybe something else.
(http://h1.ripway.com/Inane/491070-Werebot.Png)
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He doesn't look like a robot to me and it doesn't look like he's howling. I thought that thing was an attenae or something. I mean that would require a neck to bend his head, but it's just a solid block into his body. As for looking roboty, well he looks much more blobby and fleshy rather than metally. Robots would have clearly defined parts, I think. Like segmented body parts, or if something is flexible and bendy, there would have to be some part of the body that is designed to be flexible and bendy, not just bendy metal.
I think this has promise but as it stands, it doesn't succeed on its own becauseyou have to tell us what it is. We should be able to look at it and recognize that it is at least a type of robot.
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Fine Fine Fine!
(http://h1.ripway.com/Inane/728146-Werebot.Png)
Check the subject of this reply.
I declare it Daemon machine! Demons happen to have a much more flexible form than wolves.
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that's looking much better. The head still confuses me, though. Here's a quick edit to show you what I gather is supposed to be going on in the piece, and how I think it could be better defined:
(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2166/728146werebotjl8.png)