The "inspirer" saying that the job is good? Wow... what a big honor.

I didn' t understand the "black outlines" complain... It' s not pure black, but now I think that what you really mean is that it' s a "too dark" colour". I will fix that.

I have been working mainly in connectors, for the coast, and coast to grass specifically, and I' ve changed the pallete... I think now it' s better.

I was happy with the mountains, but two complains (critics, or whatever you call them.. I am not offended, I NEED them, that' s why I am here ) is too much. I will work on it asap. I tried to make more sand tiles, as Gil said, but I didn't really focused on it, since his help seems too good that I will only have to copy the style when needed (thanks Gil).

And Evil... I don't understand the crit of the game angle. Understand me, I am not thinking "This asshole is criticising me, fuck him!" I am more into "This guy doesn't really like something... What is it?" If you clarify I could apply that critic into solving something, but I don't have the explanation.

Update:


Oh! I' ve added a new "church" tile. It's the roman catholic cathedral... See it in its location in "Barcelona". 

EDIT: Have in mind that the image is too big, and you' ll have to scroll right to see the tiles...

Straight seems ok, and Jab does also when seen together with the straight, but if you see it "solo"... I don' t know... Seems that his torso should do a rotatory movement, maybe even bringing the head a bit back to protect it from a possible conter attack. You don' t do that. You advance the whole torso, you make him do a little step to the fron, even. I think "static" feet and rotatory torso would be an improvement... 

Well, it' s easy... Add darker colours as you approax to the edges of the tube and you' ll get a nice volume effect... 

Hello! I am Nacho Ayala, a 29 year-old "artist" from Benidorm, Spain. Excuse my English, it's far from perfect.

I have been in the AGS forums for years... I firstly joined for the critics lounge subforums, but, while I still love AGS, critics lounge is not longer "good" enough for me.

I have been thinking in joining PixelJoint for years, but I was not really convinced of the environment over there... But then I found Pixelation.

Meeting Ptoing and Helm in person also helped buuuuuut... I am not sure if I should mix my name with those two, they are still lightyears away from me  Anyway, I am quite sure that joining here will give my art a boost for attempting an approximation 

So... Here it is: My art so far. I don't dare to post it in the pixel art forums since most of it is not really pixelart, and they are finished/abandoned projects that doesn't really need more crits.

The beginning... Basically painting over scanned pencil art and resizing to 50% for getting AA. I had no idea of what "pixel art" was.

First attempt at "pixelart". I was aiming for "pixel art looking", but I had no idea of what limited palletes were. I think I even used the bluring tool... 

Other attempts to do pixel art... I was realising that limited palletes were a help, and not a restriction... I was using too many colours still...

Another step into, IMHO, the right direction... I was copying Big Brother' s (Ian Schlaepfer) style... Some days after I learned that "16" is a very acceptable amount of colours for a sprite.




A set of sprites for a game I wanted to make... I am very happy of the result BUT... In the two last images there are some problems still... I am copying palletes from old games or pixel art images I liked (This last pallete was taken from a piece from Buloght... It can be seen here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/skavenbattleline1.gif Choosing colours is still a problem.

A "Flashback cutscene" style attempt... I tried to chose the colours alone and here you have the result... A big eye-ache.

Unfinished mockup for a game I planned to do. I copied the palletes from "The Dig", basically... 


Some attempt of getting the FoA style... It was going fairly well, but then I discovered Misja Van Laatum's http://www.miez.nl/ techniques (which basically are "Use zillion colours if you need them") and went a bit mad about the colour restriction... Not a bad BG, but a step in the opposite direction of the Pixel art Holy Grail.


Baxter... Bloop pattern analyst by day, serial killer by night. I copied the pallete for the flesh pallete from Monkey Island again, I think, but I was not happy about it and altered it... I was getting annoyed of pink characters. I started to realised that I liked too much marking the muscles (or boobies, in female characters) with dark outlines...

Experimenting styles... Now "Full throttle". Again, I used the pallete used in the game and () traced over Maureen.


So, thanks for the warm welcome (given "in person") to the forums. I feel very happy for being here  I will try to learn as much as possible and help when I can.

-Ignacio.