The Daily Sketch

[Night]

Some random practice.

[Ambivorous]

Thanks for the advice, AI.
I definitely know about the King of Fighters sprites. I like that sort of style and I strive for it. Although I had just called it cel shading until now.

You might be able to push the depth more and get a bit more hint of local color by using greyish shadow tone.

Also this made zero sense to me. I stoopid.


Today I was drawing a face when suddenly I realised I have no idea how colours work. Back to basics.

[wolfenoctis]

[Ai]

Thanks for the advice, AI.

You might be able to push the depth more and get a bit more hint of local color by using greyish shadow tone.

Also this made zero sense to me. I stoopid.

The shoe is originally greyish color, right?
In the simplified versions, you made it a kind of pastel pink in two shades -- dark and light. if the dark shade used grey instead, it would emphasize the lighter pink by hue/saturation contrast.
(although in retrospect, perhaps you don't want to emphasize the shoe?)

[0xDB]

[Ambivorous]

Ah right, I see now Ai. Don't think I've ever used grey to make the colours around it stand out more before. This is why I need more practice with colours. ^^

Speaking of: more basic fruit studies to understand colour.

[Atnas]

good ol figure drawinz

'mo figure drawinzzzz

[Ai]

@Ambivorous : Helm is less grey-obsessed these days, but he has some nice examples of pushing grey against other colors in his Pixel Joint gallery.

@Atnas: Drawing with two line colors on the bottom image, or just crappy photo?

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I like the looseness that comes from indexpainting with a truecolor 'backbuffer' (this is basically how it works in GIMP 2.9) -- you can 'invisibly build up' paint until it passes a threshold and becomes visible. More and more this is how I prefer to do pixely stuff. Manual pixel work is necessary, but too much of it and I think the result becomes 'pixel' first to the considerable detriment of the 'art' (overall impression/feel) aspect.


Each icon took ~10m (I find alternating A B A B A B ... where A and B are different tasks in at least slightly different locations helps maintain staying power on both tasks). Mostly with paintbrush and airbrush; DB32 palette.

[wolfenoctis]

[Atnas]

@Atnas: Drawing with two line colors on the bottom image, or just crappy photo?

have a crappy phone camera so i push the contrast to be closer to the real image via color separation on curves. Is graphite on newsprint in dim yellow lighting, but i bumped the reds up on the lower end of the spectrum.