So for the past week or so I've been attempting to put myself into pixels. It's made for going on a white background and because I like to see pixels in my pixel art (an odd and retarded fascination of mine) I tried to do this in a very dithered style. I also did my first attempt at AA with the merging into white.



Not sure how well it turned out but so far I am very proud of it. Even if others think it's a dithered mess.

I did have some trouble with the shirt but I'm pretty pleased with the rest.

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All C&C welcome!

Ah just letting you know you ARE allowed to change the background. Try shifting to a yellow or something to help the guy pop more.

I personally think Bryce's method to be a little irritable as I prefer to hand pick the colour.

Simply use the wand to select the colour then just boost the brush tool up to max and draw the colour you choose onto the entire canvas, filling only the areas that are selected automatically. 

Anyway that's how I do it in Paint Shop Pro, not certain if the method works in Photoshop.

Argh right should have been more specific. I meant to be pointed like a boat and it the left right to be like this:



Right now th right side is far more curved and more steep in my eye. Even though I counted the number of pixels left and right etc...

This may be a rather pathetic gripe but if I can learn angling of isometric properly to begin with then it should make the rest slightly easier.

(at least that's the view I get.

Thanks gil and ndchristie and sorry I wasn't too in-depth. -_-

I'm not a real (good) pixeler but from what I've seen water doesn't create perfect lines of a gradient like yours does. I don't usually see water getting brighter as it gets further away, however this is probably a stylistic choice, however I'd try and change the shape you gradiate (sorry no real word springs to mind) the water to a something similar to the beach as the water does look like it fits into your scene.

As for the clouds, I'm not very good at them myself, I tend to go the random scribble route then cleen-up to be honest however I think you should try ditching the outline. and attempt some sort of reflection upon the water so they too feel like the fit the scene. Also note clouds are still affected by the light source so try and keep the white sections more to the left so the fit with he sand dunes. As for the sand create some smaller dune like shapes with out the outline and keep with the dither, as I find dithering suits sand. Some blank solid space however is good to keep so don't just dither the whole beach.

Hopefully others will be more helpful to yah!