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Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Pawige on January 30, 2009, 03:25:18 am

Title: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Pawige on January 30, 2009, 03:25:18 am

Hey all, I'm back! And alive! And pixeling! I am a bit rusty though, and I've been looking at this too long to see it objectively anymore. Please critique! It's just a silly thought I came up with a long time ago and I finally pixelled it.

(http://paul.gerla.us/pxlrt/usualsuspectsdone.gif)

Color crits are especially useful, I got a new LCD monitor and I'm not sure how good the colors are.

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: JJ Naas on January 30, 2009, 10:12:58 am

I like the character design. The low-fantasy costumes and having bald ugly guys as heroes is refreshing.

The lack of shoulders on the druid and warrior character looks a bit strange to me. Also, why is the head of the girl on the right half smaller than the head of the big guy?

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: balls01 on January 30, 2009, 12:45:15 pm

i think there are some stylized anatomy issues, such as what JJ Nas pointed out, most of the heads are too small fir thier bodies, still, they're a good few of heroes.

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Gil on January 30, 2009, 02:49:45 pm

Wow, you're back, I really missed seeing your art. These look great, but I've got a few issues.

The heads on the second and last really need to be a little bigger, the rest should be fine.

The colors tend to go to the red spectrum a lot, I'd try to spread the palette a bit more

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Pawige on January 30, 2009, 07:29:24 pm

Okay, quick edit on some of the anatomy issues, I had definitely been looking at it for too long:

(http://paul.gerla.us/pxlrt/usualsuspectsdone2.gif)

Thanks for the help so far, I'll see if I can work on the colors a bit as well.

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Gil on January 30, 2009, 07:33:25 pm

Looks fine now. Good edit.

I find the weapon the woman is carrying a bit boring. Maybe some extra detail on the scepter?

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: huZba on January 30, 2009, 07:59:22 pm

The wizard and the woman are somewhat stiff. They both have a clear straight vertical line going from the foot to the top of the head, so wavering that would make them look more comfortable and not grid-bound. Also the woman's mid section looks stretched, check where the ribcage ends.
I can't express how exceedingly happy those characters are making me though. I'd much rather have this kind over majority of the rpg cardboard-kids.

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Ian on January 30, 2009, 08:05:01 pm

These look great.

Small thing I noticed is that the Druid's arm resting on his hip seems very strangely angled. The hand itself seems to be angled downward when it should be resting near horizontal.  And then the lower half of the arm protrudes too sharply upward and should be a bit flatter I think.  Thus the gap between the torso and arm should appear bigger than it does.

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Pawige on January 31, 2009, 09:49:54 pm

Huuuuuuuuuuupdate!

(http://paul.gerla.us/pxlrt/usualsuspectsdone3.gif)

Title: Re: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Post by: Shrike on February 04, 2009, 06:11:35 pm

This is good.   ;D

Only thing that really stuck out for me is the Wizard, his right arm (Our left) is rather cramped looking, and although that fits his stature maybe loosen him up a little.  Looks rather confined atm.  But nice stuff!

Toodles!
Shrike