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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: February 02, 2019, 02:08:46 am »
Aside from poses, I still struggle a lot in choosing colors. I guess I have to practice more. The round shapes are some of my color experiments. Used compound colors on the blue armored guy then used complimentary colors on the greenish knight.


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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 29, 2019, 01:07:21 am »
@pyxelbit
- i haven't worked with index colors before. I'll try that thank you very much.

@Vinik
- yes I tend to do a lot of banding or fat pixel. I'm trying to break the pattern by not fully coloring the next row of pixels but it seems like it still looked like banding. Thank you for the comment I'll try to avoid that next time.

Day 10 :


On the purple dress girl with bunny, I tried not to use reference for the experiment. I used trial colors for theory, did hue shifting yet I'm not sure if I selected the right warm and cold colors. I chose colors by putting a blue and yellow layer on top of the palette and change its opacity numerically and by intensity so it blend with original colors and create new warm and cold colors. not entirely sure about it. Also did some external AA. Realized I should make art with references more.

Day 11 :


The girl in the jumpsuit is inspired by Fool's pixel artwork. I created the character with the use of his color palette and tried to study his art style.

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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 26, 2019, 12:56:22 am »
eishiya - thank you very much for the advice, I know a lot of effort went into writing that post :) and I'm really grateful for it.
I use the color blocks even for still pieces because it helps me decide and visualize the shapes without worrying about colors and maybe clean it up also to avoid jagged lines, then I worry about colors afterwards.

yrizoud - thanks a lot ! how do you change colors on index color mode? what are the process or settings to color on index mode? I'm using Photoshop, and if I use "Image > Mode > Indexed Colors" it seems to lock the layers.

Day 9 progress. My first experiments at game-like side view, and went with 100 x 100 pixels. I don't plan to increase the pixel size until the level of my quality increases by a lot.

could really use advice regarding this view, and regarding the past pieces.

I'd like to ask, what am I doing wrong ? Am I ignoring any pixel art techniques ? is there any advice I should be following more ?

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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 23, 2019, 10:08:19 pm »
Day 7 progress :


and day 8 :


I still don't know how to shift hues correctly, I understand the theory, still I'm not certain how to apply it in practice, so I'd like to ask : what are your pipelines? do you choose colors manually or do you have a process, perhaps choosing a distant color and doing gradients ?

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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 20, 2019, 11:31:10 am »
Hi Zanorin ! thanks for the welcome :D definitely taking my time to improve.
The changes you've done to the face I've made are mind-blowing, although extremely small ! I'm surprised at the power you have with just a few minor changes :) . Thanks for the advices ! I'll look over them a few times while doing art to get them clearer in my mind. I might still do the same mistakes, but I'll definitely try to improve on it, thank you !
I want to ask :
- Is hue-shifting restricted to neighbor colors or can I jump to other hues not connected to actual color ?
I'll have to revisit the tutorials you gave me, quite a bit, until I place these deeper :) .

My art for days 5 & 6 :

I'm still having difficulties in choosing color palette, finalizing lines and doing proper shading, definitely would welcome any advice on that.
I'm having some issues, onto how should I build or connect colors on the ramp.

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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 15, 2019, 09:18:23 pm »
For Day 4, I tried a side-view character, using the clusters approach :

I didn't respect the action line in the start, so it came out all wrong. I'll keep on practicing.

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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 14, 2019, 06:56:03 pm »
Day 3, I went into reading a number of tutorials, about Anti-Aliasing, about palette and shading, so I've tried each. I've tried to do anti-aliasing on a few simple lines, then created my own palette from monochromatic colors, then tried to do shading on three different shapes, and then tried to place a straight light on a cube.
I also used the palette from the old GameBoy.


I'm pretty sure most of this isn't that good. I think I could really use some guidance in improving.

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Pixel Art / Re: ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 14, 2019, 06:51:42 pm »
Today I tried to do a character's face, and it came out terrible :

which is a bit strange, because I've been drawing faces since I was a young girl. I feel very lost. I'm thinking it's probably the fact that I looked at pixel art as an entirely different art than classical art.

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Pixel Art / ninjavivi's corner
« on: January 12, 2019, 06:41:12 am »
Hello, I'm new to pixel art and creating this thread as tracking log. This is not an art dump, I simply don't want to spam the forums with every little piece I do on a daily basis, because my pieces will be smaller in size.
All C&C's are welcome, but please take me easy as I'm (soon to be very obvious) just beginning with PA :) , I will take any help I can get, and be extremely grateful for it, hopefully you'll welcome me without any kicks or punches :) .

Currently I'm going through a number of tutorials, hoping to improve.

Here are my experiments for today :

I started with something very simple, black & white, just to get the correct setup in Photoshop and begin to dabble.

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