If you are an employer who's making a decent amount of money, you should pay whoever you hire.
All I want is for things to be fair here, and people to at least take the job section in a serious and realistic manner.

*ends rant*

Can I get some help from you guys on the shading / have one of you run a quick edit or something? I made this today, trying to learn how to shade objects like the android mascot since I need it to perform another drawing I have pending and I don't know how to shade these types of objects properly. I also need to apply the chrome effect on it. All help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.



Here is the reference:

Hey everyone, it's been a while since I check out the community. I'm still a pixel artist haha, though I haven't done huge amounts of pixel art in the past months which have made me a victim of a certain common situation that I hope I learn more about it by sharing it with you all. Okay, you know how for example, you attempt to make a grass tile, and you fail and fail again... only then to find a tutorial about making grass tiles that you then read up and try again which ultimately allow you to get the grass tile done and past this obstacle... but then you have to make another grass tile and the same thing goes on, it just makes you question if there is something more than just studying tutorials that you need.

I have some art books that I'm down to studying to further my understanding of art, but my question is, is that what it's all about with pixel art? as someone who is still in that stage of say "learning the basic / intermediate / semi-advanced stuff"...? do I have to go read up a tutorial each and every single time I try something of new? (such as a grass tile which I consider mid level difficulty) Or can I just suck up a 300-400 page art book and bypass this practice? What do you do to get unstuck when stuck? and how did you learned to make all of these art assets, did you read art books? did you go to school? I have all these questions that I wanna know, to know if there is a better way of learning / practicing / studying than the way I do at this point, you know, to make things more effective in overall.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I'm recently designing an RPG character template, I want to have your take on the walking animation... so far only one pose has been done, which is the 3-framed down position animation.



The finished template and the characters will then be available as a Creative Commons license, so anyone can use it for in any RPG project. We're talking about me making a huge amount of characters. Please, give me your take, as this is one of my most important work that will ultimately benefit people in the sense of having more free graphics for them to use. The shades will be 3 colors and then 1 for the outline of each part, so it will be easily editable.

Also, I can't increase the # of frames for the characters, it's only 3 so it will be compatible with programs like Rpgmaker XP and VX, and then anyone else can use it in their own engine.

Thanks in advance.