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Hi, the file format doesn't change your colors. Just pay more attention to the file settings before saving, i think you saved with less colors that the original image has.I'm actually quite certain that it does, at least, when I save it as .PNG under GIMP. Maybe it is a preference error... Hmm...
Here's what I see:Erm, for the black... Your computer must be reading it wrong. It is transparent, made under GIMP.
You're using black as your background color, which can throw off your eyes. Try using mid-tones for the background.
You're using the background color (black) in several spots on the figure. This may cause you problems with transparency later.
I see two choices that I don't understand. They show up in other people's work too. I find their persistence rather strange.
1) Long torso, short legs. I could see having a long torso if the character is fat or pregnant, but this character is neither. Legs generally take up half of the body length. Since his pants are not skin-tight you could drop the crotch a pixel or two lower than half-way, but the legs here are just too short, and the torso too long. Or maybe my sense of proportion is off because I see this a lot.
2) Tiger-stripe wrinkles. This one I just don't understand at all. I get that the shirt should wrinkle, but the horizontal dark stripes don't work for me. They're not rips, but they don't follow the drape of cloth either. Here's a tutorial on draping cloth and clothing:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14739 I haven't done any of this with pixels yet, but it should work.
Other crits:
The face isn't very clear. This is a profile facing to our right, correct? I think the neck should be entirely shadowed to help show where the jawline is. Maybe darken one pixel by the eye to suggest a bridge of the nose. Maybe one more pixel width to the back of the skull. These would help suggest the shape of the head better I think.
The artificial arm is cool. No crits on that.
The tan leg is forward, the blue leg is back, but the shoulders are opposite of this (the artificial arm is forward), and the head is turned hard to the side. When I try to stand like this I find that most of my weight would rest on the blue leg. This figure looks like more weight is on the tan leg. Try it yourself, maybe I've just got poor balance.
No comments on the colors, other people around here are much better at colors than I am.
Hope this helps,
Tourist
well, alot of the characters have little or no shading. Which makes them look kind of flat. Also, all the colors are pretty desaturated and don't work together.Yes, but every time I try to add more shading, the sprite ends up too dark and just... Really, really weird. As for the colors, in the last pair of sprites, I really tried working on them and thy seem fine to me...
I would spend more time on the colors. I think that's where most improvement is needed. And some more shading would help.
And what do you mean, 'don't work together'?
Thanks in advance.
I'm going to give this one a go, despite being relatively unqualified to respond.
Your sprites' colors seem to tend toward beige and gray, which, while those two colors do indeed work together, are kind of unappetizing. For grins, go look at junkboy's brilliant demake thread. Now, I'm not saying your sprites should look like this but...
Look at the color in that thread. Pixelling, in its own way, is painting. Painting is all about color choice (well, not all, but bear with me). Coming up with color combinations that really draw the eye and make for interesting, beautiful art is a skill that comes with practice (or you could just borrow someone's palette, like Arne's 16 color one here, but that's just for practice until you get good at selecting your own colors).
How to select dynamic colors? I dunno'. Maybe someone smarter than me will happen along and explain a good process.
PS: Don't get me wrong, despite my comments about your color choices, I think you have some really visually appealing sprites. Keep up the good work.
well, alot of the characters have little or no shading. Which makes them look kind of flat. Also, all the colors are pretty desaturated and don't work together.Yes, but every time I try to add more shading, the sprite ends up too dark and just... Really, really weird. As for the colors, in the last pair of sprites, I really tried working on them and thy seem fine to me...
I would spend more time on the colors. I think that's where most improvement is needed. And some more shading would help.
Guys, that's a lot of one-liners that don't really give the original poster anything to work with. Try to focus on giving critique.Thank you -_- I'll need that critique to try and improve my work...
(and I apologize for not giving any myself, I'm in moderator mode right now! I'll get into crit mode some other time, and we'll see then)
I see... Hm, he didn't give me that impression, nor does he give it to me now...The last guy has a kinda team ico feel to it"team ico".
Er, what.
The guys who made Ico, Shadow of the colossus and are working on the last guardian.
The last guy has a kinda team ico feel to it"team ico".
