Pix3m, I kinda mean to go with the general feel of weapons.  My game is intended to have a more natural feel, like no HUD as in Call of Duty, and even go so far as no statistics, or numbers, like Zelda.  The HUD will be a pull up like in World of Warcraft with hotkeys.

Now, because of this, It is important, to me anyways, to have the weapons convey a clear message with their type.  Daggers are for chainmails, Estocs are for Calvalry, Flanged Maces are for Platemail.  I'm kinda going for a type trump, game, where you can be the jack of all trades, or specialize in certian types.  I'm kinda hoping players will apply what they learn from, idk, let's say Pokemon, and figure out a good balance, to invest in areas they feel will match up to what they read reviews on are important, hard bosses (or not, lol, they can just play it without google).



Enough game theory.  Yes, I am going for that simplistic, realism feel.  I'm not a big fan of crazy designs atm.  That being said, I feel as though the bows don't vary enough irl.  I appreciate the links you sent me, I really dig those bow designs, never would've thought of stuff like that.  I feel as though the other weapons vary enough for visual recognition, that the gamer can differentiate them without having to do the mouse over for information, unlike the bows.  Thanks for your input as well dude!

Edit: MTD = mentally transmitted disease, codename for the project sprites in this thread belong to.

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I guess what I'm asking for is critique, help shading (if you can do one and set it as an example to do for the rest of the swords or axes, that'd be great)

Thanks!!!!!!!

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The weapons from the other thread are what goes in the inventory screen.  These creatures are far more important, they are actually in-game!!!

No reference, just kinda winged it.  Started scribbling, cleaned up lines, then figured 'Oh it looks like a tentacle' or, 'oh, I should put a big eyeball in the middle,'

I can't shade, it always comes out as either noise, or it hurts the detail of the image.  When I see sprites from games like Final Fantasy, or Black Tiger, I s*** bricks.  I wonder if there is any inspiring artwork from people who don't use reference to unleash their creativity, because it seems like everyone is all over techniques like art class to paper to pixel, fakemon, or even the lame-o splicing.

Critique please.

he looks mexican.  big eyebrows, the shading looks like a 'stache, his eyes are wide open, nothing really tells me he is bruce lee, more like pedro haha

no but in all seriousness if you freehand traced it, try to see if it's logically, dimensionally correct with a photo overlay, that's what I would do.

I'm not one for giving advice, being a pixel noob and all.  Take it with a grain of salt.

they came out blurry because i saved the .gal to png and took it to a different pc that has internet (but no graphics gale) so I resized the png to 400%... and it is blurry.  If it is necessary to properly critique that I bring the full quality spritesheet, I can do so tomorrow!

lol wut its you from the link i found in google



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pixel artists are a rare breed.


I'll try to make it so easy, a caveman could do it! -regarding the .exe file i'll make. 

It'd be nice to have different pens on the fly.