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Offline znkart

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Sprites and more! by znkart! <-

on: February 22, 2016, 06:10:57 pm
Here are some of my sprites i did after a long break of pixeling! I lost many of my old works due to a new PC and yeah.. So enjoy these!:D

Also i'd like some constructive feedback ♥





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Re: Sprites and more! by znkart! <-

Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 06:19:36 pm
These are pretty cool, very rustic yet bubbly. Nice. :)

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Reply #2 on: February 22, 2016, 06:34:29 pm
Pixelation has a built-in zoom feature when clicking on the image, so there's no need to post them at 7x/8x.  :)

You seem to have saved the last two images as .jpg, yes? That's...not so good for pixelart.  :( Tends to add noise/mess up the colours and such. For example, those two images now have respectively nearly 3600 and over 7600 colours in it. As a result, I can't really comment on those two.

The first image is quite nice. The main issue I see with it is in the text. The first few letters are pressed into each other, as are the last two. This makes the gap between those two sets ("heal" and "th") make it seem as though they're two separate words. As a result, the text reads like "heal th" to me more than "health" which I suspect you intended? (Unless 'th' is actually something from a game you're working on--such as the initials of a character or such--that you can/are supposed to heal. If that's the case, then ignore my previous remark)

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Reply #3 on: February 22, 2016, 06:41:21 pm
Thank you, i didn't knew about the zoom feature!

And the text is a font, and not drawn by hand so that's because there is a gap. But i'll make it by myself next time!

I also noticed saving as jpg destroys the images, but also thank you anyways!

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Reply #4 on: February 22, 2016, 06:50:07 pm
You're welcome. :)

Ah, that font suffers pretty badly from bad kerning, then. But yeah, good practice to draw it by hand. (Or at the least, pick a font without those issues and/or fixing those issues by hand when they occur)

Once more, you're welcome.

The reflection/lighting on that first vial suggests the light comes from more or less the frontal direction, by the way, while the shadow it casts suggests upper-left.

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Reply #5 on: February 22, 2016, 09:14:51 pm
Small update with an little themed picture featuring 2 different styles
Table and Wine Bottle with Outline
and Turkey and Candle without Outline.

Enjoy!

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Reply #6 on: February 23, 2016, 03:25:48 am
zoom these down a bit :P

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Reply #7 on: February 25, 2016, 08:03:08 am
ewwwwww upscaled please fix these and stop posting like that.
also "dinner" looks like bevel and emboss layer effect in photoshop?

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Reply #8 on: February 25, 2016, 11:36:33 am
Why do you all hate upscaled ones? its much better than small 16x16 pictures isn't it?

And yes it is bevel and emboss

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Reply #9 on: February 25, 2016, 11:39:31 am
Because there's an in-built zoom function. and if someone wants to do an edit on your art, they can't because it's upscaled to god knows what size.

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Re: Sprites and more! by znkart! <-

Reply #10 on: February 25, 2016, 08:41:02 pm
Dudes, be nicer. I mean it makes sense to remind people about the zoom feature and to post at 1x but if you're looking for critique and you get "EWWW UPSCALE" that's like. come on.

also if it's 2x and 4x just scale it to 50% or 25% and make an edit and junk! it's ezpz.

that said, these images are upscaled to irregular percentages and it's not easy to edit!

Pixelation's main mode of conveying criticism has always been just drawing on top of each other's art (edits) and so posting at original size in gif or png (or bmp if you're brave) is Best Practice! (don't save in jpg, it does weird compression artefact stuff to pixel art!!)

Without editability, here's some critique! ... Lots of colors going on, lots of noise. everything looks a bit sandy in a way!

esp. with the potions and whatnot I feel like it'd make sense to try and make the liquid look clear rather than adding noisy texture to it.

Speaking of that, I think your "health" text looks clean and nice. the spacing between L and T looks weird, but it has the cleanness i'm speaking of and really nice style.

For the dinner piece, there's no need to have so much pixel noise in the tablecloth. I suggest trying to just work with big clean color shapes instead of scattering single pixels everywhere.

You're quite good at pixel stuff! Hang around here and maybe try a bigger character next time and I'm sure you'll get really good! You've got lots of stuff to learn about saturation, value and contrast and if you just hang around I'm sure you'll soak up loads. Good luck!
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