Hi fellow pixel artists,

I have a major affinity for chests, because that's where a lot of awesome stuff are held XD And the better the chest looks, the better the loot! most of the times anyway.

So I decided to create some chests, gold silver and a lesser silver chest. Basically when you look at it it's suppose to tell you well, you're about to get some good loot, so anywhoo..

Here they are.



Alrighty so I had a little time left and thought I'd be productive, I think these chests could be animated like presented in this spritesheet ? The chests look kinda fine to me, just that they might need chains if I skip out on the forth sprite where the chest is open.

Any tips ideas ? They were fun to do, I'd very much enjoy creating a range of chests in the future. But for now these are fine for me.

I gave it another shot  ,




Tried to give a more clean feel to the pot, how ever I messed up the shape of it a bit. Ill spend some time looking at pots online to get a better idea of how they look. But Im going for those plastic ones but the brownish/orange color.

Tried a different plant, the idea is that the fruit attracts critters ?
Used less colors, the palettes visible on the top left. Gave the dirt two colors for lighting, something i learnt here was to take a walk now and then (yeah i spent a couple of hours on this hahaha so i needed walks). Uhm and I'd see objects where there's dirt and stuff, it made me ponder whether or not I'd add details like that to sprites, I realized it's not possible for smaller art, or perhaps it is but if it's not going to give an impression of what it is without having to think about it then it's not worth adding, especially when it's a small sprite.
One last thing hehe, instead of using a white background I went with purple, Darker colors made it much more pleasant for my eyes.
Any thoughts ?


Also thanks very much for the thoughts MysteryMeat. Its value was equivalent to a morning cup of coffee.

Thank you, I'll try again.

Now make it ten times bigger. :p

I used yours as a sample, my first cat too. Thanks for the opportunity.
I tried to improve on yours, first I had to figure out how the heck does one draw a cat.
From there the plan was to create one a little bigger.

From what I've done I set up my color palette with a few shades light to dark for grey.
I used four shades and an extra for AA, which im not too certain of.
From what I can see the larger the creature the more detail one can put in, as long as you know what detail can be added.