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Dragon - help with colours/texture please

on: August 20, 2017, 02:13:41 pm
First post, hello!

I've done a bit of pixel art but just enough to learn some basics. I feel like I still fall down a lot on colours and textures (and probably other areas that I'm too noob to notice ::) )

I've done this simple dragon and would love some critique please, I'm not sure where to take it from here.


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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #1 on: August 20, 2017, 03:26:53 pm
For me the dragon is really good, and the colors are great. If you think that this is a newbie art then you are not right (Great shading , highlights and shadows). For me it's great and if this is your first pixel art then that means that you are talented. Why am I telling that ? Colors can be always fixed but the figur of this dragon (great control of each pixel)

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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #2 on: August 20, 2017, 05:52:57 pm
I'd play with the colors some, right now it kinda looks like they're made of slightly moldy green paste. More contrast and saturation could ease that, but I don't know what kind of environment you're building this dragon for
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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #3 on: August 20, 2017, 06:03:47 pm
Yo!

I really liked what you did there. The dragon looks very good, I liked his face the most.

I've made some edits based on my personal taste so don't take it as some absolute truth  ;)



I've mostly messed with the colors and some minor stuff like the fingers, the shadow on the tail, the lighting on the tip of the wing.

Anyway, impressive!
Bring it on!!

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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #4 on: August 20, 2017, 07:25:10 pm
Thanks heaps for the feedback!

@MysteryMeat You're right, it was very slimy. Changing the saturation and contrast made it way better I think.
I don't know what kind of environment you're building this dragon for
Neither :lol: it's just a practice monster at the mo

@Danielclarc Your edit was really helpful, thanks! I had no idea what I was doing with the fingers.



I tried adding some texture on the tail but I think it's just adding noise

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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #5 on: August 20, 2017, 08:02:31 pm
Okay so I toned down the lighter colour I added and used it more throughout, but I'm not sure if it's necessary. I don't know how to shade the belly and wings either ???



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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 06:28:28 am
this isnt a good looking edit because i'm "new" to pixel art.

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Re: Dragon - help with colours/texture please

Reply #7 on: August 22, 2017, 09:27:39 pm
I was reading about banding in the ramblethread (https://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=8110.0) and I realised there was a lot in my dragon. Tried to fix it, I think there's more that I missed though