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Pixel Art / Re: New artists seek critique!
« on: May 01, 2017, 05:13:31 pm »


Sorry we've been gone, said we'd upload a new image last weekend but life got in the way, you know how it goes.

We gave the concept a second try - spent some time sketching things up and talking about what kind of character we wanted, then made another attempt at a concept sprite. This time we tried a couple things different.

First of all, we made an effort to incorporate hue shifting into the sprite. Neither my girlfriend nor I are exactly experts when it comes to color theory - I don't really do a lot of visual art and she tends not to color her art too much, so exploring hue shifting was a really fun and exciting thing for us. Another thing we did differently is that we heavily restricted our palette. Where before we didn't put much thought into restricting ourselves, we tried to keep the color count low this time. We weren't able to stick to 16 like we initially wanted to, (the count comes to 18) but we did try.

With that being said, some stuff is missing right now. We decided the symbol we put on Strix' chest before doesn't really work at this scale, so we're coming up with new ones. Also, the scarf isn't trailing behind Strix right now, because we weren't able to get it looking quite right and it was getting late. We know there are problems with this piece for sure and we want to know what everyone else thinks! We're looking at what we need to re-do and have some ideas of our own, but input from people who haven't been staring at it for hours is more valuable, I think, so any feedback you have is very much appreciated!  :)

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Pixel Art / Re: New artists seek critique!
« on: April 21, 2017, 03:24:07 pm »
That is an incredible treasure trove of information, thank you so much for finding that and linking it here. We're both reading over it and taking in as much information as we can, and we're definitely going to apply this stuff to the next concept we do, which should be over the weekend hopefully. We'll be coming back to post that up and get more feedback, hopefully it'll be even better  ;D

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Pixel Art / Re: New artists seek critique!
« on: April 20, 2017, 03:20:54 am »
Thank you! She (and I as well) both agree about the poncho bit. We're sketching up some replacements, as well as slight recoloration and looking to restrict the color palette for the next concept bits we do for Strix. We'll post up more when we decide on another concept to block out!

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Pixel Art / New artists seek critique!
« on: April 19, 2017, 01:54:51 pm »


My girlfriend and I are working on a game together so that she can learn pixel-fu and so that I can learn Unity and C#. Together we came up with the concept for our character - Strix - a grumpy robot owl in a futuristic setting where hard light is the way to be.

To that end, this is her first pixel art ever, which she asked me to post here for critique while she's at work. She's done plenty of art in traditional mediums as well, but we both want to know what's been done well and what's been done not-so-well here and how to improve. Hopefully in future we'll also both be able to post more pixel art here as we get further into development, as I'm also learning the craft. So basically hi, everyone, it's nice to meet you.  :y:

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