Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Redshrike on August 21, 2007, 12:19:49 am

Title: A Portrait
Post by: Redshrike on August 21, 2007, 12:19:49 am
Hello!  This is my first thread and post on Pixellation, and before I get to the actual portrait, I just wanted to say how impressed I am by the general quality of the stuff on this forum; it's given me a lot more motivation to try stuff out and to improve my pixel art skills.

That said, here is something I made recently, a small portrait I made referenced from the picture found here:
http://www.kshs.org/people/graphics/harvey_fred.jpg (http://www.kshs.org/people/graphics/harvey_fred.jpg)

(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/3705/harveyzb0.png)
Any comments and criticisms would be greatly appreciated!
Title: Re: A Portrait
Post by: AdamAtomic on August 21, 2007, 03:02:15 am
Welcome!  this is a great start.  Something you could try is ripping out that black outline, and using natural contrast and lighting to define the shape for you.  good start!
Title: Re: A Portrait
Post by: Froli on August 21, 2007, 05:02:51 am
From Adam's advice, I made an edit and removed the black outline. It's far from perfect but, it gives you the idea how it would look like. 
 (http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07342/redshrike.PNG)
Hope this helps :)
Title: Re: A Portrait
Post by: Timpa on August 21, 2007, 10:22:10 am
Might i ask, are you by any chance Lord Ariakas on WoT?
Title: Re: A Portrait
Post by: M.E. on August 21, 2007, 08:14:31 pm
Hello Froli,

Your edit inspired me to play a little with a color palette I'm working with.
Maybe a little OT but I wanted to share it with you all anyways:

(http://martineijmans.nl/pixeljoint/reply/portraitreply.gif)


Best regards from

M.E.
Title: Re: A Portrait
Post by: Redshrike on August 22, 2007, 12:49:40 am
Thanks Adam and Froli (Ariakas?)!  It does look a lot better without the outline, Adam, and Froli...  o.0, it's amazing!  I have a lot to learn yet... I didn't want to become defendant on what you provided, so I had two windows open, one with the photo and one with my original, with yours just offscreen so I could look at how you did something but hopefully not copy it exactly.  This is the result:
(http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/2258/harveyupdatedbd1.png)