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Pixel Art / Re: Lineart Exchange. Because I only like doing half the work.
« on: January 09, 2007, 05:54:49 pm »
Wow, Jamie. I <3 your rendition of those lines...very cool, and far better than anything I would've visualized ;) I like the colors you chose, makes him look like a harmless, camouflaged critter. The green cloud, however, makes it look like he is smoking.  :P

Love the combine, alkaline.  :lol:

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Pixel Art / Re: Lady Justice
« on: January 09, 2007, 01:52:46 am »
I think the misunderstanding is that it is counterintuitive for a Roguish Antihero to be associated with Justice.

But we surely all remember "The Upright Man", leader of the theives' guild in Krondor. I like your choice of character, Mr. Fox :) It is more interesting than standard justice. She strikes me as a thief with her own particular brand of honor.

Not much to say on the pixel level, but I really like the overall idea.

Though I do not see it if I study it closely, when I just glance at the portrait picture, it looks like the scales of justice should be bigger, or at least the bar should be wider. I do not know :)

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Pixel Art / Re: my first lizard with halberd
« on: January 09, 2007, 01:46:12 am »
I enjoyed the social experiment very much  :)  I like the red pants marginally better than the blue ones, and much better than the black.

The handle of the halberd seems thin for his beefy hands, I think?

The bit of leather strap under his chin doesn't seem to connect with the strap on his left shoulder. In fact, the leather under his chin just seems to disappear.

Also I am looking at the texturing on the pants on his right leg, and wondering...is his bottom exposed? It appears that way. (Maybe it's supposed to be his tail? It looks like the pants just fade and become skin)

Beautiful work :) The face on the halberd is my favorite part, along with the wristguards.

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Pixel Art / Re: Lineart Exchange. Because I only like doing half the work.
« on: January 03, 2007, 05:41:25 am »

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Pixel Art / Pixel dump
« on: December 26, 2006, 08:30:30 pm »
Various things not worthy of their own topic  :P

Follow me:
(I used the first 9 colors from the Corel Photopaint palette, plus black, for this one)

Civil war:


Jazzalisk:


? ? ?:


Thoughts? :)

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Pixel Art / Re: Qaz The Crazy
« on: December 26, 2006, 06:15:44 am »
Keep it goin', it looks good to me! :)

(for some reason, the colors look too bright to me. Maybe they're overly saturated, maybe it's because all the hues are some form of purple, maybe it's because I love pastel colors too much, or maybe it's 'cuz it's a wip  :lol: but I thought I'd mention it).

I <3 teh scarf.

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Pixel Art / Re: dont you hate it when..
« on: December 23, 2006, 04:20:35 pm »
Things that show more weakness are highly desirable  ;D

I like this piece partially for its anatomy "flaws", however -- one would not automatically expect an alien to have human proportions, so the tall-thinness and the long-armness and all the various curiosities give it an alien sensibility.

Also, yeah, things with extra eyes are cool.  :lol: No crits from me (I could say that mirroring is always anticlimactic, but that would be redundant).

(Your pictures in this style usually remind me of some kind of "guidebook to monsters", where you would expect the pictures to be in a non-dynamic, cataloguish pose -- they're very effective in that sense :))

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Pixel Art / Re: [WIP] some trees
« on: December 22, 2006, 05:01:08 pm »
Not bad for a #1 weakness ;D

I'm clueless when it comes to tree, but I have a single hesitant suggestion -- would it help if some of the branches showed through?

Also, maybe I am wrong about this because I have never studied trees at all, but I always thought the trunk grows more or less vertically up to the top of the tree, eventually narrowing to the size of a branch but not just stopping. On your tree, the stump kind of stops, and then all the branches branch out like flower petals. I guess it's just a really quick transition from thick to thin, and I am not sure if trees work that way.

But maybe I am giving you nonsense advice.  :crazy: I think it looks great overall!

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Pixel Art / Re: [Wip] Rs related.. Help needed!
« on: December 22, 2006, 04:55:10 pm »
This is pretty darn sweet for a Runescape signature  ;D Dynamic pose, nifty whip, long green coat!

Assorted crits:

-- I think the head is too small?
-- As mentioned, your lightsource needs to be better defined. You've got some tricky shading with the cloak but I'm confident you can do it :)
-- You're using *wayyyy* too many colors, especially for this stage of the piece. Try to trim out the colors that you don't need -- it will make edits easier. Once you block out the basic shading in 2 or three colors, *then* think about whether you want more colors.


Looking forward to an update -- this is nice. :)

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Pixel Art / Re: Dithered or More Colors -- Christmas Card [WIP] (updated 12/18/06)
« on: December 22, 2006, 07:24:51 am »
Thanks for your replies, everyone! :) AIGuy, your dithering example is really helpful...I didn't end up dithering after all  :-[ but I will probably try it in my next piece. My current ugly dithering is way too rectangular to be used on a sphere, so I must improve. :P

I stayed with the non-dithered partly out of laziness but also because I find the straight lines beautiful :P (still I find the crits very valid and will see what I can do next time)

It's probably finished now just because it's almost Christmas, but I would still do backflips for comments  :lol: Specifically, if someone gave you a Christmas card and this was on the front (2x) would you be like "ew"? Or would your reaction at least be neutral? (Positive is too much to hope for).

Thanks!  ;D

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