Sword and shield

[KibaWolf]

Hey everyone,

This is my first post here and my third pixel art I made. It is a sword and shield I made while looking at references of pixel swords and shields. I do not feel it is complete yet and I want some critiques to help me make it a whole lot better. I want to get better in pixel art because it is becoming something I enjoy.

Thanks,
Kiba

[thoughtmachine]

If that is your third attempt at pixel art that is really good!

EDIT:
Don't enlarge your art before posting it. People will assume the aliasing caused by enlarging the art is an oversight on your part. Besides this site has a zoom feature.

Here is one that I did a few months ago. You might compare your sword to it.
Spoiler

From this you should be able to learn how to progress though the steps of development.

[Wes]

This is really fuzzy and jpeggy. It's hard to give you any proper critique on your pixel technique. Can you post a cleaner version?

[KibaWolf]

Thoughtmachine: Thanks! I have to say, nice work. That will help.

wes: Here is a clear version with no enlarge lol. I hope this works.

Thank you both again

[Alexanator28]

this has almost a 1000 colors in it!http://akira.hopto.org/pj/?input=http%3A%2F%2Fimagizer.imageshack.us%2Fv2%2F320x240q90%2F540%2F8i9V73.png

try remaking the piece without using 'soft' brushes, but just the 1 by 1 pixel brush so you know you aren't getting all of the extra blur.

[KibaWolf]

Alexanator28: Wow, thanks for the input. So you are telling me that is why my image is blurry?

[Alexanator28]

yes exactly! What program and what brush are you using exactly?

[DawnBringer]

No. The image has been scaled and saved as JPEG at some point.

[ptoing]

Also, please have the common courtesy to crop your images before posting. There is no need to post things with a lot of empty space.

[KibaWolf]

Alexanator28: I used photoshop and I used the pencil tool.

DawnBringer: I have saved it as a jpeg before and png.

ptoing: Thanks for the heads up. I will avoid that in the future.