Looking for new RPGs to work on!

"Also, the stairs weren't random, they represent the piece of the board game, you can check it here."

I didn't think they were. I believe I said they were added deliberately.

"But I have a question, the walls are all in a 45° angle, should all of them be the same color?"

If you ignore the kind of gradient effect you originally applied and you ignore shadows, then all walls pointing in the same direction should be the same colour I guess.

"they represent the piece of the board game, you can check it here."

This puts things in a different light. As it were.

What do you want the final work to be or do? Is it a piece of art based on the game, or is it going to be sprites for a game? If the former, then deliberately shading your pieces will work. If it's for the latter then shading by hand will make things really tricky when you want to move pieces around. In that case you could look at the game engine to see if there's a way to get the effect you want. Some will allow lighting effects of different types. Or possibly you could code up similar kind of shading process to the one I described in an earlier comment. That's not my really area though, I haven't had much experience with lighting in game engines.

I echo SeinRuhe's comments about the domes. The originals don't really gel with the image and the edit is a lot better. The palette works better with the walls IMO. What material do you imagine they should be made of? This will help determine the type of shading and texture you need to apply to them.

Hey, this look quite good, what little I can contribute with my limited knowledge is:

• You are not using outlines or dithering on the buildings, keep it that way with the blue domes
• Use less saturated colors on the blue roofs, they'll match better with the white on the walls

Of course this is a personal prefference, feel free to leave it or take it <3

Here's a little edit of the roof:

Hi Sen, welcome to Pixelation. 

I did a quick edit on your piece to show how it can be made more readable. It was a mistake to separate the shadow from the cables, as it is a cast shadow, and therefore physically impossible to be separate unless you want to imply that the cables are floating above the desk! I suspected they are not, and you will be happy to know that whether the intention was to remove aliasing or to imply a shadow makes little difference in this case.

However the monitor noticeably lacks a cast shadow, even though it is the tallest object on the desk. I also found that the cables were too messy, to the point that they are distracting from the whole piece. And where are they all going, exactly? I plugged them into the wall. Another issue was proportion, the mouse and monitor too small in relation to the keyboard. I enlarged them a bit, but this monitor can definitely be larger still.



As for how to improve in general, study light and shadow around you. Pencil and sketchbook, just draw whatever catches your eye in your room or around your house, find the shadows on and around objects. Study their form. It does not have to be perfect. But with just the act of practicing you will come to learn how light works.

Hi, i think the shading on the character looks a bit messy, i would focus on using bigger clusters of pixels instead of short small lines.

made a quick edit of how would roughly shape it:


the colours are nice and the anatomy seems ok to me ( i could be wrong though hehe)