Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - -W3s-
Pages: [1]

1
Pixel Art / Re: Random skull from a professional newbie
« on: November 24, 2009, 06:16:45 pm »
So the main problem throughout this picture, from the very beginning, was contrast. So I fixed that. Perhaps there's too much now, I don't know. I also was able to eliminate about 16 shades (!), bringing the total to 12. 11 on the skull itself, 1 for white/transparency. I also included the palette so yall can see what colors are used and maybe it'll help with critiquing.



Closer?

2
Pixel Art / Re: Random skull from a professional newbie
« on: November 24, 2009, 03:43:47 pm »
Thanks to all of you for your critique! Ptoing and EyeCraft, I took both of your edits and studied them extensively, and I now think I have a better grasp of how I'm SUPPOSED to be doing it, lol. So I completely revamped mine, tell me how I did:




3
Pixel Art / Re: Random skull from a professional newbie
« on: November 24, 2009, 04:29:26 am »


There's the original, it's in some Riply's Believe-It-Or-Not museum, the other horn actually grew in to the animal's skull and killed it (ow). So as you can see, I had to make that horn from scratch. And looking back on this, I saw numerous problems that I had made and decided to further accentuate the shades. And it wasn't the horn that was misplaced, rather, it was the rest of the skull around it. So here's the once-again updated skull:



Kinda embarrassed to show the original, 'cuz mine kinda doesn't look like it.

EDIT: Just noticed EyeCraft's post, and dang it looks like I have a looong way to go. :/ Looks like I need to work on some anti-aliasing too, I guess. And maybe try and be more dramatic with my color choices.

4
Pixel Art / Re: Random skull from a professional newbie
« on: November 24, 2009, 03:33:32 am »
Thank yall for you posts, I tried to address both of them by darkening the shadows, lightening some of the highlights, and dithering where I needed some in-between shades. The difference is subtle, though I do feel it improved the image in all. I'm surprised no one had gripes with the horn's modeling; the shades were exactly like the source image, and although I darkened a few parts, I was going for as close to original as possible...so I think that part is better left alone, if you get what I'm saying. The rest, though, is subject to change. So anyway, here is the edited version, I hope you can notice the difference:



Too subtle?

5
Pixel Art / Random skull from a professional newbie
« on: November 24, 2009, 01:28:56 am »
So I've been doing this for a while now. but I'm not that great IMO. I could use some c+c on this, and tell me just what I've done wrong on it. And don't get me wrong, I'm not really in to dead stuff, but I thought this looked cool so I decided to draw it and put it on here.





What worries me most is the right horn. It wasn't in the pic so I kinda had to do it from scratch...and it looks it too lol.
Any thoughts?

Pages: [1]