5 minutes in photoshop, playing with the purples and highlighting with layers. -- Not happy with the colors, but I think its heading in the right direction. Thanks for the help Manupix.

Do you or anyone else have any crits on the layout or anatomy right now? I'll keep posting updates.

Hey guys looking for any kind of advice I can get on this image. It's a title screen for a game. Premise of the game is warriors from different historic times battling for treasure. -- I really like the BROFORCE style banners and title screens. I used them as a reference for some of the colors and character looks. I'm open to change anything.

Please help me correct layout or anatomy issues. Also I'm not that happy about the current color scheme. In the end I would like there to be a gradient background of some sort...and I plan on having a lot of reflection from the gold trophy and maybe some fire/lightning? who knows... I really could use some help though. I am feeling burned out due to a lack of creativity with this piece. Ultimate appreciation for any help, and everyone who gives advice will be given credit in the game.

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What's going on with the horizontal stripes of pixels on the foreground trees? I find them pretty visually distracting and I'm not sure what they're supposed to be adding to the trees. Also the grass is just... cut off. Definitely needs more shape to it so it doesn't look artificial.

The horizontal pixels were an attempt at exploring new styles. That's actually one of the main things I like about the trees, hehe.. Almost all of the rest I don't really like.

I'm totally going to add more thickness to the floor tiles. This is a pretty early on version. I just wanted to tackle the color issues first, before moving forward anymore.

Color-wise I think maybe it could be more vibrant. When I see trees and overgrowth like that I think healthy nature. However the colors of the canopy and grass look almost brown, as though it's all dead. You might also want to try shifting your darker shades of green to blue, rather than yellow.

Thanks, I'll try that.

I'm also a little confused by the two types of trees you have here. You have a clearly much larger set of background trees that look very nice and natural, but the foreground tree is smaller and straight as a ruler. Why not incorporate the platforms and branches into the background trees, rather than having two different types of trees going on? Besides that the foreground tree appears to be floating, and the shade of brown is rather sickly in my opinion.

This was more of a practical mockup. We're sticking the tiles into an engine and messing around with them. So I don't really know how I could make the platforms work on the background. It will parallax freely from the area where the sprite will move. If you could give me an example, I would love to see how it could be done.  --- As for the straight as a ruler trees..That's just all I could think to do for easy tiling. Any help on that would be awesome too.

Hey guys... Working on a little project, but I'm running into some serious problems with my colors. I've never been good at creating an effective palette, as you can see in the image below.

This piece is heavily inspired by Vierbit and Slym, I appreciate the help they've given me...but they are pretty busy folks and I hardly get to talk to them about getting some pointers on this.

Would anyone mind helping me figure out the issues I have here?




1 thing that is really important is to keep the black area right around the edge of the rocks... This has to do with some transparency issues with the water in a program. -- Hard to explain, but please consider this black unavoidable.

--- The blue squiggly line is water

This is turning out nicely. I think maybe if you added a little pink or purple flower behind her ear it would give more of that earthy feel.

Also I think that the way the area around the belly button is colored makes it look like she has a pouch. Almost like a gorrilla would have. You know that lighter color thing, where there is less hair. Maybe if you kind of merged that dark and light better it would look thinner and she would look less chunky.

I just think if you are going to give a female such beautiful brests, and great legs and arms, that it would look better if she was thinner in the waist.

Also her chin is a tad masculine.

This is a great piece...Hope this helps you make her as beautiful as possible.