I Need Help to Make Dungeon Tiles

[Polioliolio]

Just a little hack... 

 This sucks, I really can't make tile, there is no logic I guess... Anyway, thank you all.

Don't give up.

That castlevania image isn't a single tile. Looks like a background piece indicating a cylindrical turret or something. Has quite a few pixels in it.

Start simple. Try working with a 16x16  or 32x32  tile. Don't draw straight lines. Keep it loose. Sketch the pixels in and like Pix3m says, don't keep all the bricks the same size or shape.
You may want to make a few variations with a pencil and paper first. Get a look you like, then try to replicate it in the pixel program.

Good luck!

[Tapsu]

Just a little hack... 

 This sucks, I really can't make tile, there is no logic I guess... Anyway, thank you all.

I like it : )
You seem to have forgotten that you can add one or two medium shades with dithering to make the stone look rougher, though.

[Selassin]

I like it : )
You seem to have forgotten that you can add one or two medium shades with dithering to make the stone look rougher, though.

 I didn't play with it, just desaturated the photo and chanced it's hue.

Don't give up.

That castlevania image isn't a single tile. Looks like a background piece indicating a cylindrical turret or something. Has quite a few pixels in it.

Start simple. Try working with a 16x16  or 32x32  tile. Don't draw straight lines. Keep it loose. Sketch the pixels in and like Pix3m says, don't keep all the bricks the same size or shape.
You may want to make a few variations with a pencil and paper first. Get a look you like, then try to replicate it in the pixel program.

Good luck!

 Thanks for your support Polioliolio, yes, the image from a tower but I lost the original image, sorry. So far I did these in 16px and 32px:
 I'll try to improve.

[Cyangmou]

One question: why are you doing tiles with 60x60 resolution?

common resolutions are 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, 64x64 ...


Your main problem is that you don't understand form. Without understanding how to render form you won't be able to draw anything which doesn't look flat.

We had quite a similar thread not to long ago with the exact same problems featuring a stone bottom.
http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=15738.msg144324#msg144324

On top of that you should compare where the differences between yours and the bette rlooking reference are:

[Tourist]

The artist who did the Castlevania bricks in your original post was cheating quite a bit.  In a good way, but still cheating.  He or she only made two rows of bricks.  From the top, row 1 and 2 of the texture are unique.  The rest are just a combination or repetition of those two.

Row 3 copies the left half of row 1, and uses the left half of row 2, mirrored, for its right half.
Row 4 is exactly row 3, mirrored left to right
Row 5 and 6 are the same as row 1 and 2.
Row 7 is row 2, mirrored left to right.  Row 8 is just row 1 again.

Tourist

[ptoing]

You have to keep in mind that it is 8x8 pixel tiles, which can be x/y mirrored as well. All done to save space on the cart and in RAM.

[Selassin]

 Thank you very much Cyangmou, that thread and your posts were really helpful!

 The reason why I'm working on 60x60 tile is, firstly I admit that It was a big mistake, but my game have to support 1920x1080 resolution size, so I thought It'd be better to work that way. Anyway, it was a bad idea.

 So after reading these, I started to work on 16x16 tile:

 After that I tried to make 32x32 tile: I only used 3 different shades of gray.

 I thought some highlight could be good, though I suspect if I used it right:

 Then I tiled it 9 times and played with Hue/Saturation a little:

 So what do you think? What should I improve? Does it suit to dungeon theme?

[Polioliolio]

Vast improvement over your first efforts. I like it.

If there's an obvious issue with this one, I'd say it's the structuring of the stones separating the larger ones and the smaller ones makes the 'grid' a little clear.

Maybe try to make a larger stone exist on the boundary of the tile.

[Selassin]

 Aww, enough, I always find something missing, anyway with Polioliolio's advise, first I did this:
 and after 30 attempts I finished with this:
 Tile + hue/saturation:

  I tried to hide grid as much as I could, but every time I see another wrong thing. Anyway, is this one usable for a game?

[FRAWG]

With that most recent one, I would advise playing with the depth of the stones a bit more. They appear a bit flat and the contrast could be reworked a bit. I think you have a great start here and it's been a fun time editing the image to help out.
       
So if we take a look at this, we can barely distinguish your two darkest colors. This may just be a difference in monitors but it's important in pixel art to think about the visibility of your colors. Just raising the brightness of your second darkest color helps out a lot.
       
So the next thing I noticed is that you don't seem to like your food to touch each other on the plate. Sometimes rocks are just pressed up against one another and are just gonna have to get along. Also, the extremely varied rock sizes is part of what contributes to your grid issues, but the best way to fix the grids is using several varied tiles (which I know is something that I always forget or just don't want to do) with the texture you are trying to create.

Lastly, as you can see in the edit, I wanted to work with the lighting and color a little bit. Experiment more with this, as it can really make your pixels pop out more or recede into the background, depending on the desired effect. The midtones are emphasized more and the darks aren't as prominent; they merely serve the effect of shadowing rather than outlining the rocks. The lone tile on the left and the middle column are the greyscale from the original, and the other two are my own experimenting with color a bit. Almost no two are exactly the same hue, though they are similar in saturation. I'm not the best pixel artist in the world, but I hope that I helped in some way.

And yes, I'd say it's usable for a game. Just be sure that with the large contrast in your lightest and darkest colors that this does not conflict with any foreground images.