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[C + C] Spiky hair and Faceless Man

on: July 08, 2016, 01:21:15 pm
After a year or so without pixel art, I decided to practice again and get better.



How can I improve the following :

- Shading
- Palette
- General shape

Please take note that the base is not mine and I am just trying to draw the hair.

Thanks you in advance guys!!

Update:

Tried to convert a sideview to a front view



Original art from: http://orkimides.deviantart.com/art/Fight-of-Thrones-410299344
« Last Edit: July 16, 2016, 11:02:37 am by rappdg »

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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #1 on: July 08, 2016, 02:01:48 pm
The hair spikes shapes are looking good, the spikiness reads well! I'd work on redrawing one half so that it's not mirrored though. Perfect symmetry looks unnatural for hair.
The back view also seems lighter than all the others, you're using your darker shadows there much less. Work some of those shadows in there.

You have a decent sense of form, with the spikes at the back of his head being in shadow. Depending on the lighting you want, you could benefit from extending that shadow upwards a little.

The spikes on the forehead should probably cast a shadow. Just switching the highlights on the forehead to the skin shadow colour should do it.

The palette isn't unattractive, but there are two potential issues:
1. Real blonde hair, even dyed blonde hair, isn't yellow. If you're looking to make blonde, your colours are all wrong, and looking at reference should help you find the colours you want. If you are going for outright yellow hair instead of blonde hair, then you're on the right track.
2. The orange shadows might be a bit too saturated. I'd darken and slightly desaturate the shadow colour.

I don't think you need that lightest highlight colour. It doesn't read at 1x, and hair spikes aren't smooth enough to have distinct highlights like that, so highlights make them look plastic.

Here is an edit incorporating some of the above suggestions:

The version on the left has the highlights removed, shadow desaturated a little, and with a shadow cast on the forehead. The version on the right has slightly more realistic blonde hair, in case that's what you want. Real blonde hair isn't really yellow, it more tan-coloured.

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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #2 on: July 09, 2016, 04:30:16 am
1. Real blonde hair, even dyed blonde hair, isn't yellow. If you're looking to make blonde, your colours are all wrong, and looking at reference should help you find the colours you want. If you are going for outright yellow hair instead of blonde hair, then you're on the right track.

You don't actually dye your hair to achieve a blonde color, you bleach it. Dyed-yellow hair looks, in fact, very yellow.



Even so, blonde is a very general colour, there's white-blonde, dirty-blonde, beach-blonde, golden-blonde, blonde-at-the-roots-blonde, etc. It's all very confusing.

But, yeah, most of eishiya's points are correct, follow them.

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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #3 on: July 09, 2016, 04:52:36 am
He is probably going for a more anime blond

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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #4 on: July 09, 2016, 05:18:13 am


Thank you for the tips guys!!

I have a few questions / requests:

- I did something to darken the back view of the hair but as you can see it's not enough. How can I darken it without losing the spikyness?

- I understand the problem with symmetry and all but I have issues reshaping the other side of the hair. Is this because I'm an outline first guy and not a block out basic shapes guy? Can I ask for a visual step by step how you guys do it?

Thanks in advance and I hope to hear from you guys soon!! :D

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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #5 on: July 09, 2016, 02:03:39 pm
So I found a game of thrones pixel art here: http://orkimides.deviantart.com/art/Fight-of-Thrones-410299344

And I decided to rotate it as a study.



Any thoughts? Tips or correction?

Thanks in advance!!

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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #6 on: July 09, 2016, 06:10:05 pm
eyes look pretty unfocused.
PSA: use imgur
http://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=19838.0 also go suggest on my quest, cmon
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Re: Spiky hair

Reply #7 on: July 10, 2016, 11:44:22 am
Update:



Are the eyes better? Any tips and corrections (the left sprite is not mine)?
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Re: [C + C] Spiky hair and Faceless Man

Reply #8 on: July 10, 2016, 08:29:49 pm
yes indeed! now ahe needs some definition on the nose, the face looks a bit too smoth. a dropshadow on the upper lip or some slight color tweaking in that area could do it.
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Re: [C + C] Spiky hair and Faceless Man

Reply #9 on: July 16, 2016, 10:27:34 am
well?

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