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Ninja for a game ... ninja

on: November 20, 2010, 02:09:20 pm
What do you think?


Tell me if I can change something  :D
His style is to play Okami some know him, reice Connecto me back and I have to practice for the Gamer Maker   >:D
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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #1 on: November 20, 2010, 02:27:59 pm
Needs more contrast.

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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #2 on: November 20, 2010, 02:50:55 pm

Have if you like more this version   ^-^
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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #3 on: November 21, 2010, 04:45:10 pm
The shades between dark and light blues/skin color/light gray/reds are so subtle they're hard to notice.

Why's he standing on his toes like a ballet dancer?

What's the thing on his head? Hair or Link -like hat? Where are his eyes?

In other words, keep on practising with basic anatomy and you'll get there.  :y:

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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #4 on: November 21, 2010, 10:52:35 pm
Clean up the rough black outlines.

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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #5 on: November 22, 2010, 12:38:12 am
Well, recently I do this  :'(
It has a bandana in his mouth, then a blue armor with a red tunic

Here is with a sword, now has one eye, and you remove the effect of which is a Japanese drawing, the first is the original, the second has a drill and an iron mask, the third has a katana, a little clarification drawing, but keep saying things to improve it  ;D
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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #6 on: November 23, 2010, 04:48:14 pm
Well, recently I do this  :'(
It has a bandana in his mouth, then a blue armor with a red tunic

Here is with a sword, now has one eye, and you remove the effect of which is a Japanese drawing, the first is the original, the second has a drill and an iron mask, the third has a katana, a little clarification drawing, but keep saying things to improve it  ;D
We can say things, but if you don't try and follow them it's useless.
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The shades between dark and light blues/skin color/light gray/reds are so subtle they're hard to notice.
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Needs more contrast.
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Clean up the rough black outlines.

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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #7 on: November 23, 2010, 06:07:40 pm
I dorked it up and took a crack at it.



I tried to make things simpler and clean up the outline.

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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #8 on: November 23, 2010, 10:41:50 pm


Now it has more contrast?
We remove the thick lines but not in the hand, it makes me very complicated, the hand is to fat and we need a good idea XD
Well, now you change the edge because I want to be more like a GBA RPG  :)
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Re: Ninja for a game ... ninja

Reply #9 on: November 26, 2010, 07:27:38 am
    Oooh, so that was that thing on the hair.... it's hair...

    I think that you are mixing two different styles of drawing. While you  keep a dramatic total black "I'm-such-a-badass-ninja" shading on his face, you changed the "representation of shadow" to a more, mmm, soften shading. In the wole game you shouldn't change the style, it's has to be constant in order to maintain some sort of identity. While doing some difference between the style on the background and the animated sprites is not just tolerable but some times even a good choice, such must don't be done in a single indivisible character.

    Also, the total black shading don't seem to be a good choice for pixel art, at least on that scale. Check some post & comments around here, or even visit some other webs about pixel art, and you maybe see that usually people do the shading by mixing the original color to yellow for brightest areas and to violet or purple for the darkest ones (it's a bit more complicated than that, so go check if you are interested).

    By the other hand... what about that foot? I only think that he haves one leg taller than other, wich is not necessarily bad, as he could be a ninja with all his life, since he was trained, complicated because of his imbalance, then the last weekend on the temple his partners make him a really bad joke about that, and now is soo madly mad that his face turns chillingly shaded and decides to kill everybody, even his own master... :huh: