Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Robbie Harrison on April 02, 2018, 10:20:39 pm

Title: [help needed] letter characters .
Post by: Robbie Harrison on April 02, 2018, 10:20:39 pm

Hello everyone,
I'm working on an app where I need a personified " X " and " O " I do not have any obligation, except that they need to be red and green.

For now i've been working on sketching something that works, but whatever I do I cannot obtain something satisfying, does anyone with a little bit more experience than me could help me out ? I do not really know how to approach such a thing.

Thanks a lot!

(https://i.imgur.com/3KRc7TX.png)

Title: Re: [help needed] letter characters .
Post by: eishiya on April 02, 2018, 11:00:39 pm

Try making the letters thicker, both in terms of their stroke width, and their depth/3Dness.. Don't be afraid to make them asymmetrical, as well - living things rarely stand perfectly upright, they bend and rotate.

Title: Re: [help needed] letter characters .
Post by: Robbie Harrison on April 03, 2018, 01:30:02 am

Here's another essay, more asymetrical, larger canvas, thicker body, ...

(http://i.imgur.com/t0mioFF.jpg)

Title: Re: [help needed] letter characters .
Post by: eishiya on April 03, 2018, 01:39:20 am

I think that's an improvement, but it's still symmetrical and lacks volume. There's room for more thickness.
Why not bend the "limbs"? Give the character some body language, a personality. You can always dial it back if it stops reading clearly like the letter.

Title: Re: [help needed] letter characters .
Post by: Robbie Harrison on April 08, 2018, 04:42:00 pm

Thanks for the help, here's the final result :)

(https://i.imgur.com/adaCklR.gif)  (https://i.imgur.com/ksxe2tj.gif)