I like these... there very cute. What you said about tiling though... well tiles can do wonders. If you make 3 or 4 seperate grass tiles NO ONE will be able to see "the grid" especially at this size. Plus, if you ever want to expand this little scene anymore you can do it easy as pie. Tiles are a wonderful thing.

the duck is actually pretty good, though I think if you shorten her leg it might make her look less like a chicken. Ducks have shorter, flatter fatter feet then chickens

One thing I noticed that seems off with the whole piece is the shadows. Your lighting appears to be coming from the upper righthand corner on most of your objects, but the shadows fall direcly below, like the light is overhead. They should be going to the lower left.

A few other minor citiques I have are
-the tree could be a little pointier, but that might just be a style thing and reads fine the way it is
-I like the pallete you have though it could use a little more contrast exspecialy with the greens and browns (don't worry, I have MAJOR problems with contrast too.) and the water could use another color
-The shadows under the butterflies seem off more than the other shadows. Maybe there to far away from the butterflies?

Anyway, good luck! It would be really cute to see this animated. love the little lost duckling!

P.S. I almost forgot! For help with the 3/4 rpg perspective the tutorial by Cyangmou on this page http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=14148.0  might help

yes, yes indeed we did 

now lets just hope it stays that way...


P.S. every couple times I refresh Pixelation or click on a topic or something it goes back to 502 bad gateway... it must be a warning. We must appease the pixel gods... Pixelation could be lost forever to the GREAT INTERNET ABYSS! dun dun DAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

(sorry if it posts this a dozen times, it goes to 502 everytime i attempt to post or preview... well except for this time!!)

alright, thanks for pointing out the thing with the hood. I think I fixed it but now Im having trouble with colors. I want them to contrast nicely but not so much that it looks like an entirely different color of paint. I don't really like using very much dithering either. It always turns out... i dont know how.. i just don't like how it looks. grr.I might use it here and there for the rust or where I want it to look like a bunch of paint have chiped off but that will be later anyway. right now I think i just need help with the colors being the right blend Oh and I changed the wood once again, befor it was blending in to much with the purple. I'll update the other tiles soon, I promise!

Awwww!! He's so cute!
The little tiny cowboy with his little tiny hat and his little tiny gun thinks he's so tough!!
...
Yah..Thats... probably not the reaction you were going for but... what can I say...
I can totally see this little guy pulling out his (little tiny ) gun and going all badass on someone! I really can't wait till you animate him!

Your probably right about the black outlines working better against the backgrounds but I'd have to see some backgrounds to know for sure. Also from far away the second version of the legs looks a little smoother but I'm no expert for what would be better in game. After I zoom in though I can't decide what seems better. I'm not quite sure how to help with the back view exept that his vest should probably go all the way around back and that his pants seem to be pulled up a bit to high.

I hope you add some more characters too! He needs a wacky sidekick and some fine lady to be sweet on.
Good luck!!!! Srry for the lack of much useful critique. Oh, and he could use a horse. No... A STALLION!!

heyo everybody. I've been off the forms for probably over a year now (not that I really posted much) and kinda stoped doing any pixel art. This summer I decided to pick it up again cause I kind of needed a new hobbie. Anyway, I've been working on these on and off all day and it seems that I'm doing alright. I doubt I'll actually use them for anything, they're more of just practice but I'd like to know what you think.

 

just so you know the two brown ones in the middle are sopposed to be dirt. The second one (that looks like a bunch of scribbles) was my attempt at making it look less like rocks. There's no grass tile yet because I'm absolutly terrible at those. I did start to work on one but... bleh. Really hope you like the water, because I spent a ton of time trying to make the colors right. I might eventualy animate it but idk. By the way the shore is still very WIP because i have no clue how to do sand.

I will also probably make more than one tile of some of them and do some transition tiles later.

So my major questions are:

are the colors good (they feel a little desaturated to me but I kind of was going for that dreary feel sooo.... yah, I'm really bad at knowing what colors to use but I guess that practice makes perfect)

do they contrast enough

these are sopposed to be rpg perspective (I think this tutorial shows what I mean
 http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=14148.0 ) but without any walls or objects its hard to tell so am I doing this right

does anyone have any good, fairly basic tutorials on pixel art and tiles that I may not have read (and tutorials in rpg perspective)

P.S. These were done on Paint because may computer went crazy and I have yet to re-install Graphics Gale

C+C
TEAR IT UP

there will be more tiles to come!!!