AuthorTopic: The Colored Line Art thread (Doodles also Allowed!) (Read 293225 times)

Panda · **on:** May 02, 2007, 08:34:03 am

This is where you can expose all the line art you have colored from The Line Art thread, all without the worries of having to create new threads and taking care of them.
Of course, if you are willing to receive critique and improve your pictures, you are more than welcome to post on the Pixel Art Board.
Don't forget to give credit to the original creator when posting.
Enjoy the different takes on the same line art and what not.
Keep it clean.

Helm says: Additionally, you may post sloppy, preliminary, unfinished-not-to-be-finished pixel art here if you feel like it. But you still have to keep it clean, lol!

eck · **Reply #1 on:** May 03, 2007, 01:13:36 am

oh-emm-gee! first post!

ftw plz?

lines by someone whose name i cant remmember atm. ill figure it out later, but in the mean time, if someone knows, please post.

Ryumaru · **Reply #2 on:** May 03, 2007, 01:29:10 am

i colored the same lines
they are by locracian.

Stwelin · **Reply #3 on:** May 03, 2007, 01:32:20 am

they. are.

Ryumaru · **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2007, 01:35:22 am

sorry, im a lazy typer and i disobey the rules of grammer like i do the rules of lots of other things. fixed just for you.

Xion · **Reply #5 on:** May 03, 2007, 03:05:28 am

Souly's lines:

Ooh, doodles:
I took this "grid":

And this palette:

And constricted myself to 4 colors per rectangle, resulting in this:

Which I haven't worked on in ages, and have lost all intentions of finishing.

Anyone else wanna take on those restrictions?

Also,

<monkeyhater

Edit: Hahaha, make the monkey big.

(oh, and crap, I transparented the eyes)

Stwelin · **Reply #6 on:** May 03, 2007, 03:21:07 am

doodly.. work in progress. 'egghead.'

Quote

sorry, im a lazy typer and i disobey the rules of grammer like i do the rules of lots of other things. fixed just for you.

hah, it's cool. i copy edit for my school newspaper, so i tend to nitpick, the there, their, they're thing is just a pet peeve since this one kid cannot get them right for his life.

Rydin · **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2007, 05:16:41 am

Messy-ass doodle.

I used the colors:

Code: [Select]

09F911 029D74 E35BD8 4156C5 635688 C00000

..actually rather pretty colors for a code...

JWW · **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2007, 05:28:57 am

screwing around with blicks lines for about 5 minutes

6 colours

Cow · **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2007, 07:11:33 am

Little bit of stuff for a game I'm working on. About exploration and butterflies, if you were curious.

Jolly · **Reply #10 on:** May 04, 2007, 10:25:47 am

Line art by Dixet.

willfaulds · **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2007, 10:44:06 am

xion - i love those little characters.

1 crit though. the executioner's head, visibly the eye, seems to move in in two steps to look where he will slash. i would attempt an edit to display what i mean but ImageReady really doesn't like the disposal method used in this gif.

basically his head seems to turn - pause - turn. do you see what i mean?

Xion · **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2007, 06:18:04 pm

Ah yeah, I see it. Thanks, I'll fix it.

And nice stuff everyone. Especially JWW.

Jolly · **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2007, 07:33:19 pm

Lines by Dixet.

Fizz · **Reply #14 on:** May 05, 2007, 01:55:04 am

Dra Chan's Prinny I finished coloring yesterday. I had a fun time with the dithering.

eck · **Reply #15 on:** May 06, 2007, 12:45:24 am

lines by .takam

Wolverine · **Reply #16 on:** May 15, 2007, 12:22:31 pm

Lineart by Serena. edited by me

Wasn't sure if I was gonna post this but Mirre and Schu suggested I do so. Couldn't decide whether the pinky/purple one works better or the one that uses the darkest skin tone in it's place so here's both. I personally prefer the pinky...

The B.O.B. · **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2007, 03:04:03 pm

I had planned on entering the character screen mock up challenge at Pixeljoint.com, but found that, once again, my idea was too elaborate and detailed to be finished within a short time span. It was supposed to be a fighting/strategy game based on old card games, like poker, and black jack. The suits would each be over-caricaturized characters of the actual suits themselves...I only finished 2 cards:

yeah, I'm losin' it...

Darien · **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2007, 03:21:42 pm

B.O.B., those are great. Please make the rest.

Xion · **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2007, 05:11:44 pm

Or at least a joker!

philipptr · **Reply #20 on:** May 27, 2007, 12:03:32 am

couldn't sleep, so this was my first try at this famous palette

pretty random lightning hitting water.. well I ran through a storm 1 hour ago that could explain it.

madartiststan · **Reply #21 on:** May 31, 2007, 01:58:08 am

Was coloring Adarias lines, got sorta bored of it. Wasn't interesting so I'm not going to do anymore. Good lines tho mate!

And a quick (quite messy) coloring of Fools doggy lineart:

Faktablad · **Reply #22 on:** June 02, 2007, 03:16:52 am

B.O.B., the way you portrayed the characters makes so much sense. Like, I imagine the queen of diamonds to be kind of a stuffy square (or diamond LOLZ), and I imagine the King of Spain to be a violent psycho. These are really great.

Xion · **Reply #23 on:** June 03, 2007, 04:17:08 am

King of Spain?

Faktablad · **Reply #24 on:** June 03, 2007, 05:48:56 pm

Spades. haha.

Xion · **Reply #25 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:53:29 pm

The B.O.B. · **Reply #26 on:** June 12, 2007, 07:00:17 pm

I saw this at Punaji...wicked awesomez..I kind of don't get why it goes grey towards the end(beginning?) of the anim. Maybe have it change colors every end movement?

Xion · **Reply #27 on:** June 12, 2007, 07:23:45 pm

You saw it that fast? Gee, I just changed it like...not long ago. And good idea. Will do.

Malor · **Reply #28 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:02:41 pm

I was bored, it was 2:30, mah sisters friends were loud and drunk, I began doodling...a fat troll/ogre/golem....thing. I probably won't finish this...cause I'm lazy..

Cow · **Reply #29 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:36:51 am

Colored Zach's beautiful minotaur lines. "Not finished, couldn't really figure out what to do with the head, and have some more pressing matters at hand..."

Xion · **Reply #30 on:** June 15, 2007, 07:24:30 am

Yeah, I know, the collar changes sizes.
Edit:

It's supposed to be on a white bg.

Doppleganger · **Reply #31 on:** June 16, 2007, 05:39:43 am

Just a mini art dump. I hope that these count as doodles. I didn't want to make a new topic for them.

Helm · **Reply #32 on:** June 16, 2007, 09:31:06 am

I don't know if they count as doodles but they certainly count as awesome.

Faceless · **Reply #33 on:** June 16, 2007, 05:02:53 pm

Yeh, I don't see why this isn't being posted in the main Pixel Art board.
I know this place isn't meant for crits, but I'd lessen the harshness of the outline (or outright remove it) from the bottom of the roots, and the underside of the bushes.

AdamAtomic · **Reply #34 on:** June 17, 2007, 08:28:39 am

couple hours on an NES environment mockup:

I think i'm breaking the 16x16 rule in a couple places but otherwise it should be kosher. Only using 3 of my palettes so far; rough areas I've hit already are the dithering on the yellow lights, and the smoke on the smokestacks in the background...le sigh!

EDIT - ok its basically done now, probably 4-5 hours or so to include all the tweaks and stuff

DOUBLE EDIT - Here's a version using Arne's WIP "perfect 16 color palette":

philipptr · **Reply #35 on:** June 17, 2007, 10:51:53 am

cow and doppelganger: very lovely stuff.
adamatomic: great work with these limitations. reminds me a bit of oddworld. what is this 16*16 rule you're talking about?

starcraft2 fanart!11 well actually it turned out pretty bad (epecially the nose area), which is partly because I used the following screenshot instead of the much better concept art as reference..

(12 colors, only lineart was mirrored)
Reference: http://eu.starcraft2.com/images/screenshots/ss7-hires.jpg

Malor · **Reply #36 on:** June 17, 2007, 11:30:22 pm

Booooorrred. I am not really happy with this..the lines are fine..but the shading sucks.

I guess this isen't doodling...but I don't want to make a new topic, and I need help with a better palette..

ptoing · **Reply #37 on:** June 18, 2007, 02:03:14 am

made a mockup with Arne's palette as well, widepixels just for fun and enhanced retro feel

Faceless · **Reply #38 on:** June 18, 2007, 06:06:52 pm

Arne's palette is looking good.
You should both post those in his thread.

I think I'll have a go at using it too.

Helm · **Reply #39 on:** June 18, 2007, 06:24:48 pm

Arne's palette wins for Adam's mockup.

miascugh · **Reply #40 on:** June 18, 2007, 09:17:56 pm

Malor, that's uncanny...

That picture is by Ndeal/Miguel from easily 3 years ago.

Malor · **Reply #41 on:** June 19, 2007, 03:17:47 am

Quote from: miascugh on June 18, 2007, 09:17:56 pm

Malor, that's uncanny...

That picture is by Ndeal/Miguel from easily 3 years ago.

O.O that is very weird..nearly the same post..pointing a finger..shoes..o.0 it's scary..oh well..Mine did NOT come out how I wanted it

Dusty · **Reply #42 on:** June 26, 2007, 12:51:07 am

Just some sketchy stuff I did after playing Silent Hill 2, and trying my hand at creating weird-ass monsters.

- Kitchen knife is actually in proportion, so this guy is really small.

- and his animation I started. Ya, I went the cheap road out, and there are some mistakes with the blood. That's why it's here!

AdamAtomic · **Reply #43 on:** June 26, 2007, 01:03:51 am

expanding on an earlier mockup:

Xion · **Reply #44 on:** June 26, 2007, 01:06:29 am

You can climb on the ceiling pipes, right?

Malor · **Reply #45 on:** June 26, 2007, 02:36:01 am

Quote from: Dusty on June 26, 2007, 12:51:07 am

Awesomeness

Those are terrifing/awesome. That crawling lady thing reminds me of the ring.....

Cow · **Reply #46 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:31:29 am

Small mockup [in a state of perpetual incompleteness] using Arne's palette. 2x please [or larger if you want, I guess...].

Darien · **Reply #47 on:** June 26, 2007, 07:05:19 am

Wow, I haven't pixelled in months.

Obviously inspired by Dusty's stuff. Not very good, and I think borrows too much from Dusty's, but at least it might help me climb out of this slump.

Cool stuff, Dusty

EDIT:

Cow - I didn't really look at your mockup at first because it's so unfinished, but looking at it now, what's there is really cool. Please finish it! I don't believe I've ever played a Western platformer... something that I think would work well in style of Flashback/Blackthorne...

.TakaM · **Reply #48 on:** June 26, 2007, 08:33:49 am

Quote from: AdamAtomic on June 26, 2007, 01:03:51 am

expanding on an earlier mockup:

I would play the game if it looked exactly like that

Xion · **Reply #49 on:** June 27, 2007, 05:26:55 am

NES restrictions, for the most part.
The beast on the bottom is a Catoblepas, or a relative of it, and the ones on top are, respectively, the Grobble and the Roc. You're the little yellow dude in the top-left. I don't know why my mockups always put the character at the left.

AdamAtomic · **Reply #50 on:** June 27, 2007, 08:25:27 pm

expanded my refinery level:

apologies for the hugeness! it shouldn't slow things down too much though, its only 40k or so still...

Xion · **Reply #51 on:** June 28, 2007, 01:59:17 am

O' sh*t, man, makeitMOVE!

(as in, "I'd really like to play that.")
I can totally imagine running through there, nay, sneaking through there, and pistol-whipping henchmen through the first half before gunz start to blaze in that second outdoor space, where enemies keep spawning until a GO arrow appears.

ptoing · **Reply #52 on:** June 28, 2007, 06:59:38 pm

Go arrows in real life would be nifty.

Kennethfejer · **Reply #53 on:** June 28, 2007, 07:17:07 pm

wow nice adam.

so detailed and yet so flat and simple, awesome

Jad · **Reply #54 on:** June 29, 2007, 12:04:33 am

Quote from: Xion on June 27, 2007, 05:26:55 am

I don't know why my mockups always put the character at the left.

Western traditional reading direction. Feels natural to start there.

Ryumaru · **Reply #55 on:** June 29, 2007, 01:49:18 am

xion thats pretty much fucking beautiful.

Faktablad · **Reply #56 on:** June 29, 2007, 03:32:15 pm

eyestacks (MS Paint colors)

AdamAtomic · **Reply #57 on:** June 29, 2007, 10:48:43 pm

time for some Konami NES title screen homage action:

Helm · **Reply #58 on:** June 29, 2007, 11:12:18 pm

Okay, make this game already then.

Zero · **Reply #59 on:** June 30, 2007, 05:49:34 pm

Quote from: Helm on June 29, 2007, 11:12:18 pm

Okay, make this game already then.

Yes, please, that mock-up looks pretty damn sweet.

Zach · **Reply #60 on:** July 02, 2007, 05:25:29 pm

Aline · **Reply #61 on:** July 02, 2007, 11:48:53 pm

I'll repost my coloured version of Adam Tierney's lineart, done with 5 colours, I guess.

I had a rather different idea of how to colour his lineart... As a drowning guy.

Ray Frenden · **Reply #62 on:** July 03, 2007, 04:43:20 pm

Doodle, first in a while. 16x16 character with an EGA palette. Background bits added to make sure he popped well enough.

Arachne · **Reply #63 on:** July 04, 2007, 01:00:21 am

I'm loving those mockups.

Some stuff of mine I won't finish. The second one was decent enough, just didn't like the palette.

Dusty · **Reply #64 on:** July 04, 2007, 01:45:16 am

besides the dithering being very messy and noisy, kick ass! The volume you created is awesome, why not finish them?

Helm · **Reply #65 on:** July 04, 2007, 03:22:09 am

I enjoy the second one sooo much. Just make a thread for it and let us mess with the palette for you until you get the inspiration to finish it!

Arachne · **Reply #66 on:** July 04, 2007, 11:48:03 pm

Why, thank you. I just made up the first one as I went, so the pose turned out a bit random. I suppose I could give the second another try, just need to finish some of the stuff I'm already working on

rabidbaboy · **Reply #67 on:** July 06, 2007, 04:27:16 am

The first one is also awesome. I'm saving these for future reference.

JonathanOfDrain · **Reply #68 on:** July 07, 2007, 09:42:52 pm

WIP
Lines by Xion, I'm really playing with colors and junk.
Reminds me of the "last" boss in those Contra style games. Those big ones that were just heads and would spit out creatures that ran at you.

Evil-Ville · **Reply #69 on:** July 07, 2007, 09:53:15 pm

I guess this is more of a doodle than lineart.

Malor · **Reply #70 on:** August 03, 2007, 02:08:47 am

7 1/2 minute doodle of the moon.. I might take it further...probably not, though. Just taking my mind off of my own disappointment with myself...

Arachne · **Reply #71 on:** August 05, 2007, 01:07:31 pm

dragonrc · **Reply #72 on:** August 05, 2007, 03:25:53 pm

Quote from: Malor on August 03, 2007, 02:08:47 am

7 1/2 minute doodle of the moon.. I might take it further...probably not, though. Just taking my mind off of my own disappointment with myself...

7 1/2 minute!

It would probably take me 30 minutes to make something like that...I must be a very slow pixeller

AdamAtomic · **Reply #73 on:** August 07, 2007, 06:40:39 pm

Quick doodle for a new mockup, got a long ways to go on it obviously!

Helm · **Reply #74 on:** August 07, 2007, 11:16:16 pm

Most depressing game ever. Make it.

bengo · **Reply #75 on:** August 07, 2007, 11:28:01 pm

Helm, I mean, what the hell would you do? I mean, he's in jail, not much you can do, now if you got to break out of prison.... sweet.

Dusty · **Reply #76 on:** August 07, 2007, 11:38:22 pm

You'd be surprised how something as simple and pointless as being in prison could probably be fun.

AdamAtomic · **Reply #77 on:** August 07, 2007, 11:43:56 pm

For maximum depression, I debated making the winstate committing suicide with your lawyer (the only non-military personnel allowed in gitmo) present, so that it couldn't be covered up (which actually happened, but the prisoner was saved), or, more optimistically, actually getting a private meeting with a lawyer (hasn't happened yet, but the future is a bright and shiny place).

The bulk of the gameplay will likely consist of sleeping until the next interrogation, where, no matter what you answer, you are beaten, urinated on, threatened with dogs, and splashed in the face with alleged menstrual blood.

ndchristie · **Reply #78 on:** August 08, 2007, 12:04:33 am

that makes my doodle seem a lot less tasteless :

"What's the Frequency Kenneth?"
You are William Tager. Use your mind powers to psych-out druggies on the streets to collect their Benzedrine tablets, your eventual goal to find dan rather and discover the secret frequency that the media has been broadcasting into your brain.

Feron · **Reply #79 on:** August 08, 2007, 12:38:34 am

Quote from: Adarias on August 08, 2007, 12:04:33 am

"What's the Frequency Kenneth?"

i love that song. nice concept too, i would probably play it.

AdamAtomic · **Reply #80 on:** August 08, 2007, 01:06:41 am

i gotta hear this song now, who's it by?

also, reality can be tasteless sometimes

Helm · **Reply #81 on:** August 08, 2007, 01:12:00 am

Adam, you HAVE to go with Zelda perspective for this. Just so the room becomes all the more opressive.

bengo · **Reply #82 on:** August 08, 2007, 01:12:54 am

Adam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxfDRYGtjw

AdamAtomic · **Reply #83 on:** August 08, 2007, 03:27:46 pm

oooh - i didn't know that song was about that

heard it lots of times before...i can never understand what that dude is sayin anyways though!

helm - yes that's very much the plan

Doppleganger · **Reply #84 on:** August 08, 2007, 04:00:26 pm

I have no idea where I was headed with this. Twas going to be for the ol' weekly challenge. I highly doubt it will progress any further than this.

ndchristie · **Reply #85 on:** August 08, 2007, 05:32:51 pm

you DO need a new monitor. nice work though

dragonrc · **Reply #86 on:** August 10, 2007, 11:59:26 am

Colored lines of Arachne:

Phlox · **Reply #87 on:** August 11, 2007, 10:30:39 pm

I also colored one of archne's

Xion · **Reply #88 on:** August 13, 2007, 02:55:49 am

I believe Helm (or someone) mentioned something about trying to pixel without changing the lightness (BTW, is lightness the same as value?) of any colors, changing only the saturation and hue, which is actually something I'd been meaning to try for a while but forgot about. So yeah, only hue and saturation is changed for all but the background color (which has a lightness of 30).

Adarias: I think that's the first cartoony thing I've seen from you, and I'm lovin' it. Inanimate objects with faces are fright'ning.

Conzeit · **Reply #89 on:** August 13, 2007, 03:05:33 am

great lil experiment thingy Xion! it has a nice oldskool retro feel to it =)

someone should try a whole mockup like that...that'd be trippn'!

Helm · **Reply #90 on:** August 13, 2007, 03:29:40 am

very cool, Xion. I'll have a try soon as well.

Xion · **Reply #91 on:** August 13, 2007, 08:10:16 pm

upon a suggestion from Mr. Atomic, every color is 50 now:

I've always found it fascinating how changing colors affects the perception of adjacent colors. I mean seriously, I learned about that like, years ago and the fact still amazes me.

AdamAtomic · **Reply #92 on:** August 13, 2007, 09:51:29 pm

Something to help out people whose minds are boggled by this whole process:

Left is Xion's original. Center is a fully desaturated (Ctrl+Shift+U in Photoshop) version - 50% gray (obviously). On the right is Image->Mode->Grayscale version (Alt+I+M+G), which uses the old black&white TV algo to maintain something like "true" brightness (technically i think called luminance), separate from the lightness or value according to HLS or HSV histograms in art programs. Though I think in photoshop there is an option to "preserve luminance" in some of the dialogs? Not sure...

Also, kudos xion, wicked cool, i can't wait to try one as well

Ryan Cordel · **Reply #93 on:** August 14, 2007, 12:39:41 am

Attempt the 50 Brightness challange in Pro Motion. Very tricky, but cool. Also, I took a look at Xian, it seems that his work isn't only 50, seems to be higher and (possibly) lower..

AdamAtomic · **Reply #94 on:** August 14, 2007, 12:41:58 am

Photoshop would disagree with you, as illustrated in my post immediately previous to your own.

Arachne · **Reply #95 on:** August 14, 2007, 12:58:25 am

What Ryan drew was what I understood was the point, to have all colors at 50% brightness. The colors in Xion's drawing vary in hue, saturation and brightness.

Conzeit · **Reply #96 on:** August 14, 2007, 01:23:40 am

Maybe it's a matter of how each program handles lightness, Xion's checked out fine in GGale

AdamAtomic · **Reply #97 on:** August 14, 2007, 04:36:14 am

If you open Xion's piece in photoshop, and you set the saturation to zero (either through Adjust->HSV or Adjust->Desaturate) you'll see the entire image becomes 50% gray. Xion's piece DOES vary in luminance, which was the whole point of me posting what I posted in the first place...I guess I didn't do a very good job

That is the whole point of the exercise though - that hue and saturation DO affect luminance, while they have no effect on value.

EDIT - Ryan, I have no idea what is up with your piece. It doesn't check out to 50% gray either through desaturation OR by running the grayscale convert on it. Whatever you did, I think you might have did it wrong...

DOUBLE EDIT - Yeah promotion's "brightness" slider is definitely different from the "value" slider in photoshop. I assume the HSV and HSB algorithms differ somewhat, though it doesn't seem to be according to the grayscale conversion's algo either. Which is the confusing part!

ndchristie · **Reply #98 on:** August 14, 2007, 05:31:09 pm

this is mostly based on the brightnesses of the RGB lights though, not phyisical properties of color. It's interesting, but the fact that the green light is brightest followed by red then blue, with the averaged (desaturated) gray being just brighter than red is what's accounting for most of these differences.

Rydin · **Reply #99 on:** August 16, 2007, 08:40:56 am

doodle:

seven colors
made it a while ago...and its been staring at me...clogging up megabytes ever since...been wanting to pixel something new, but i keep this junk keeps getting in the way...maybe a public display of it will get it out of my system

it was going to be an ad for a hot sauce...never got that far

on to other things then...

fawel · **Reply #100 on:** September 02, 2007, 05:11:16 am

Did this around 2 months ago. I'm never going to get around to finishing the legs.

Not a doodle but I don't want critique, since I won't be working on it.

Souly · **Reply #101 on:** September 19, 2007, 11:00:45 am

Quote from: rabidbaboy on June 20, 2007, 07:55:51 am

idk

Made this long ago, never finished it, but I might as well post it. :/

The B.O.B. · **Reply #102 on:** October 04, 2007, 02:13:03 am

These were supposed to be in the "shadow" piece I created a while ago. However, it was already too busy to add more detailed characters into it, so I spared these guys...

If anyone feels like having a go with the lines, be me guest.

Jamie · **Reply #103 on:** October 05, 2007, 03:44:54 pm

Some unfinished doodles's (Obviously),Colour's are just quickly chosen from mspaint

Larwick · **Reply #104 on:** October 05, 2007, 05:10:41 pm

Jamie, i like the sketchy painted style the buildings in the background seem to have. Although i don't think it's being used in the rest of the doodles. Might work out nicely in some kind of mockup's bg.

miscdude · **Reply #105 on:** October 06, 2007, 06:33:39 am

idk if i can call this done..but i dont feel like doing more.

arachnes lines...
(and I added irises and pupils...but..sshhhh >> << >> << dont tell. xD)

Sherman Gill · **Reply #106 on:** October 16, 2007, 07:52:32 am

(Thanks, Adam)

sharprm · **Reply #107 on:** October 17, 2007, 06:16:44 am

Using GFX2 on my mac. Its great since no buggy pallete like Pixen, also working fullscreen in a 'low resolution' is alot easier on the eyes. Hope to really get back into pixelling once my exams are over!

The B.O.B. · **Reply #108 on:** October 18, 2007, 03:17:11 am

Another character design of "The Shadow" that I never finished. I looked back on my older pieces and saw how I used to use FAT black outlines in them, and decided to bring the nostalgia with this biggun', as well as some color experimentation. Didn't work, though. Twas a failed experiment....

Xion · **Reply #109 on:** October 18, 2007, 06:17:17 am

Quote from: The B.O.B. on October 18, 2007, 03:17:11 am

Twas a failed experiment....

Not really. Just finish it. Awesome ensues.

Gill: Groovy new avarat.

Jad · **Reply #110 on:** October 18, 2007, 07:14:49 am

Just tweak his legs and you have an instant winner @ __ @ 'Failed?'! Go away!

Sherman Gill · **Reply #111 on:** October 21, 2007, 08:59:07 pm

So's I realized, recently... I had never done a basic "Top down grass" tileset.

I learned a CRAPTON doing that.

sharprm · **Reply #112 on:** October 27, 2007, 01:03:07 am

Looking through my hardrive and found something that was unfinished but i wanted to share the joke. It was for the avatar killing challenge,
and there was this guy who cheezed me off saying "i know what art is but you don't becuase your stupid". So this was my eleaborate way to
get back at him:

Story: That guy is walking along weirdly wearing 'beatnik' clothers in an art museum. He sees a abstract portrait, then smiles and says "thats
art". He keeps walking along and looks at the next piece. Its modern art, so its a bag with shit in it nailed to a board. He looks at it and says,
"thats art". Then he walks along and sees a fire extinguisher. He looks at it and says "thats art". Finally he keeps walking, slips on a banana peel, falls through a window, down 20 storeys and smacks on the ground. Shows him dead with a rat pulling his brain out. And then another
beatnick walks by, looks at the body, and says "thats art".

I got really busy so i never finished it.

CrematedPumpkin · **Reply #113 on:** October 27, 2007, 02:11:21 am

BoB, I have to say that no matter what, your art always looks very good. It's such a different style for pixel art that it's always aesthetically pleasing, even if the subject is boring.

baccaman21 · **Reply #114 on:** October 27, 2007, 11:07:46 am

Quote from: sharprm on October 27, 2007, 01:03:07 am

Its modern art, so its a bag with shit in it nailed to a board.

I'd just like to point out that at some point ALL art was Modern... those cave paintings the cavemen did... modern art at the time... likewise, that stuff that the turtles did (you know, raphael, michelangelo, donnatello and leonardo) did was modern... at the time... and indeed I'm sure you're all aware that the likes of monet, and pissaro, and manet, and van gogh, and Renior, and Degas, and Cezanne, and Gaugin, etc - was modern (and [at the time] considered shit and not worthy of public display by the art establishment)

Point I'm making is that using the term 'Modern Art' refers to all art at some point in history depending on your point in time(realistically) but it tends to applied to any art that is difficult to 'understand' because it's not a painting of a nice landscape or a bowl of fruit or a sculpture of some biblical figure... And in reality modenism began as an art movementin the late 19th and early 20th century and is still being used today (in a pejorative manner) which I personally find quite ironic.

I know what you're saying Sharprm though... it's just that the subjectivity of art is so open to personal interpretation that it's nigh on impossible to argue the case.

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what's that over there? is a can... of worms per chance...?

.TakaM · **Reply #115 on:** October 28, 2007, 04:02:59 am

digging through some old folders, found what I think was my first attempt at pixel art:

and a couple months ago I started to improve it:

I decided to keep the same colours (taken from a LTTP screenshot lol) and see how much better I could make it (added black tho)
I should finish it one of these days..

AlienQuark · **Reply #116 on:** October 28, 2007, 06:25:55 am

Quote from: baccaman21 on October 27, 2007, 11:07:46 am

Quote from: sharprm on October 27, 2007, 01:03:07 am
Its modern art, so its a bag with shit in it nailed to a board.

Point I'm making is that using the term 'Modern Art' refers to all art at some point in history depending on your point in time(realistically) but it tends to applied to any art that is difficult to 'understand' because it's not a painting of a nice landscape or a bowl of fruit or a sculpture of some biblical figure... And in reality modenism began as an art movementin the late 19th and early 20th century and is still being used today (in a pejorative manner) which I personally find quite ironic.

To be fair, the whole reason it was called that was in response to the industrial revolution and sorts. Modernism and 'modern art' were kind of a bigger picture kind of movement encompassing a variety of new styles and things of that sort. Just as the renaissance was a 'rebirth' of roman and greek art, or how neoclassicism was... well you get the point I think. Someone called it modern art for a reason, not just because it was new. It was in response to something, just the same as all artistic shifts ever made. I don't think they would've called themselves modern back in the day. New, revolutionary maybe, but not modern.

Felt compelled to respond to this. Sorry for getting tangential

Malor · **Reply #117 on:** October 28, 2007, 06:30:18 pm

Quote from: .TakaM on October 28, 2007, 04:02:59 am

digging through some old folders, found what I think was my first attempt at pixel art:

and a couple months ago I started to improve it:

I decided to keep the same colours (taken from a LTTP screenshot lol) and see how much better I could make it (added black tho)
I should finish it one of these days..

Ah the Moon form Mojara's Mask. Excellent subject matter. I like the improvements, and with a little bit more work, this will turn out great

Darien · **Reply #118 on:** November 09, 2007, 08:46:54 am

Since I won't be able to finish this in time for the PJ challenge I figured I might as well post it here:

Would still appreciate any critique, however!

The color ramp is very boring I feel

rabidbaboy · **Reply #119 on:** November 09, 2007, 09:17:52 am

Quote from: Souly on September 19, 2007, 11:00:45 am

Made this long ago, never finished it, but I might as well post it. :/

Didn't see these before, I like the oufit and how it was shaded/colors, but not so the skin tones.

Lawrence · **Reply #120 on:** November 10, 2007, 04:32:09 pm

Faktablad · **Reply #121 on:** November 11, 2007, 12:18:29 am

Nice pic, but it sorta looks like Mario is in control instead of toad. It's because he's in the high backed chair, and his posture isn't at all fearful.

eck · **Reply #122 on:** November 11, 2007, 02:01:06 pm

the dithering on the back of toads head looks rather rushed and unfinished.

Malor · **Reply #123 on:** November 11, 2007, 11:07:58 pm

Quote from: Darien on November 09, 2007, 08:46:54 am

Since I won't be able to finish this in time for the PJ challenge I figured I might as well post it here:

Would still appreciate any critique, however!

The color ramp is very boring I feel

Tater Warrior? Anyways, I wish you had been able to finish it.

Darien · **Reply #124 on:** November 12, 2007, 01:28:14 am

yep. Actually got a chance to do a rush job and finish it. posted it in the main forum

JWW · **Reply #125 on:** November 12, 2007, 05:47:18 am

4 colour platform character

squareface

ndchristie · **Reply #126 on:** November 18, 2007, 04:50:43 pm

got about an hour in before i remembered other things that needed doing. might work more on....

Jad · **Reply #127 on:** November 18, 2007, 05:55:18 pm

White-hot wonderful!

More! Please!

Arachne · **Reply #128 on:** November 21, 2007, 07:25:34 pm

Some old stuff I wasn't happy with, so I fixed a few things that looked off and drew a few more horrible creatures.

Don't really know what more to do with it, though. I think it was inspired by Tokyo's flood prevention system, of all things.

ptoing · **Reply #129 on:** November 23, 2007, 10:26:51 pm

Behold the poodles (pixel doodles)

about 10 min avg of fiddling in PM for each, mostly adjusting colours.

difrnt · **Reply #130 on:** November 25, 2007, 09:00:20 pm

Quote from: Arachne on July 03, 2007, 11:33:13 pm

OK, I'll just link the older lines since there are so many of them. You'll find the first 110 here.

I have not pixeled in a while, it does not do it justice, but hey at least i tried.

bengo · **Reply #131 on:** November 27, 2007, 02:55:25 am

Adarias: If you don't finish that piece over 9000 kitten will die of cancer and Helm wouldn't like that(Not really, but that piece would look awesome finished).

My current WIPs, started as doodles but I've decided I'ma finish em:

Kren · **Reply #132 on:** November 27, 2007, 05:07:26 am

Took me a week to do this( spent 4 days thinking about how to fiinish those trees

, And still I haven't figured out.):

Malor · **Reply #133 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:46:05 pm

Quote from: ptoing on November 23, 2007, 10:26:51 pm

Behold the poodles (pixel doodles)

about 10 min avg of fiddling in PM for each, mostly adjusting colours.

Finalize these. NAOW!

miascugh · **Reply #134 on:** December 01, 2007, 12:51:54 am

Ptoing: Those are all kinds of cool, really.

I just rediscovered this, which was made in February I think, when I was sick and stuck with my dads PC. I kind of like how it turned out for using a mouse. Probably uses pro motion's default palette too.

Jad · **Reply #135 on:** December 01, 2007, 01:08:05 am

Quote from: miascugh on December 01, 2007, 12:51:54 am

Ptoing: Those are all kinds of cool, really.

I just rediscovered this, which was made in February I think, when I was sick and stuck with my dads PC. I kind of like how it turned out for using a mouse. Probably uses pro motion's default palette too.

WAIT WHAT!

You should be drawing all kinds of weird angular humans and stuff.

NOT WHITE-HOT AWESOME EVA-ISH ROBOTS.

FINISH. NOW. MY PANTS ARE STRAINED BY THE LOVE I HAVE FOR THIS IMAGE @ m@

flaber · **Reply #136 on:** December 01, 2007, 02:08:07 am

new display pic i made for the hoildays

something fun and cartoony - which i havent done much of lately

alkaline · **Reply #137 on:** December 01, 2007, 02:38:12 am

Quote from: miascugh on December 01, 2007, 12:51:54 am

ohmygod, you have such a way with colors. it's quite pleasing to the eye~
Show moooooooore stuff!

also, in honor of soul brotherhood, a homage <3

crab2selout.png · **Reply #138 on:** December 01, 2007, 03:29:16 am

Quote from: flaber on December 01, 2007, 02:08:07 am

new display pic i made for the hoildays
something fun and cartoony - which i havent done much of lately

liked it so much i wanted to try and throw some scary hip gyrations in there. Might look half-decnt if i kept at it and cleaned up the lines. Would be fun to see some more movement on the tip of the hat. Maybe see that it becomes more squished when moving the animation is moving to the right. Very festive

flaber · **Reply #139 on:** December 01, 2007, 06:49:52 am

haha
nice little edit crab2selout
but maby your hip swaying was alittle excessive for me...

crab2selout.png · **Reply #140 on:** December 01, 2007, 08:45:15 am

NICE! I like it tons more now. Feels much more fluid and fun. Great touch on the feet. I felt like there should be some kind of movement there, but i couldn't figure out what to suggest. Well, I was gonna suggest some kind of feet sliding, but when i tried it out during my edit, it looked bad. I really don't have anything more to suggest, and in fact think you should refrain from adding much more. Anything more would start to be overkill and distract from your main animation.

Once again, great update.

Helm · **Reply #141 on:** December 01, 2007, 09:44:43 am

I want the jelly to envelop the gelatinous cube in hot mostly protozoic sex

Malor · **Reply #142 on:** December 02, 2007, 04:13:10 am

Quote from: Helm on December 01, 2007, 09:44:43 am

I want the jelly to envelop the gelatinous cube in hot mostly protozoic sex

Mostly? What is the rest?

Helm · **Reply #143 on:** December 02, 2007, 10:55:00 am

I wanted to type moist!

Hyrule_SwordsMan · **Reply #144 on:** December 02, 2007, 12:48:40 pm

Quote from: Doppleganger on June 16, 2007, 05:39:43 am

Just a mini art dump. I hope that these count as doodles. I didn't want to make a new topic for them.

Well! Very nice tileset, but you could add some shadows projected from objects. I mean, the shadow of the trees and bushes over the ground. That would give a really nice touch of realism not present yet in this peace.

AdamAtomic · **Reply #145 on:** December 04, 2007, 08:55:01 am

some silly doodles for a joke thread at TIGS:

EDIT - TIGS thread here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=796.0 (includes the theme song!)

Cow · **Reply #146 on:** December 05, 2007, 05:41:00 am

That's hilarious and amazing.

Pretty much the most original thing ever.

EDIT: Though wouldn't, like, the Undersea or the Undersea'd (

) be more relevant? Maybe not.

ndchristie · **Reply #147 on:** December 07, 2007, 12:07:08 am

Adam - i love everything about that

just some doodles from design class (not an assignment, the teacher just left us to our own devices while making copies - which apparently takes half an hour)

hexagon form is misleading because it creates the sense of a job tree. nope! just random pasting.

after looking at these a little more (and talking to fil) i've been made aware that there are somewhere between monkey island, partisan, and ben's works >.<

Sherman Gill · **Reply #148 on:** December 07, 2007, 03:24:49 am

New abatar

.

Had to re-upload it like 5 times cuz' I kept fucking it up.

Mirre · **Reply #149 on:** December 07, 2007, 06:31:31 am

Aww, Sherman that is such an awesome avatar. So cute! <3

Jad · **Reply #150 on:** December 08, 2007, 12:24:02 am

Quote from: alkaline on December 01, 2007, 02:38:12 am

ohmygod, you have such a way with colors. it's quite pleasing to the eye~
Show moooooooore stuff!

also, in honor of soul brotherhood, a homage <3

Is this pure love?

Because I think I have found pure INTRNET love <3

Helm: Probably coming up (:

Adamatomic: SUCH TASTEFUL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CAVESTORY RIP-OFF STYLE TT wTT

I hereby demand you to make a cavestory-style game. Like the underside. Because .. It looks so good (:

Plus, do you want some real katakana (I KNOW SECRET SKILLS) or is it a mingled mess of WTF for the heck of it? Or can't I read?

I see:

Gakui (ka)mishiisutechikaisu

Is this an indecipherable romanization or just somebody hammering on his/her keyboard? O: Tellme~

Panda · **Reply #151 on:** December 08, 2007, 09:52:56 am

Quote from: Jad on December 08, 2007, 12:24:02 am

Plus, do you want some real katakana (I KNOW SECRET SKILLS) or is it a mingled mess of WTF for the heck of it? Or can't I read?

I see:

Gakui (ka)mishiisutechikaisu

Is this an indecipherable romanization or just somebody hammering on his/her keyboard? O: Tellme~

I'm pretty sure he just got a Japanese font and typed the thing as you would do in English (as in he typed The Underwater instead of reading what character is what) and thus the mess

AdamAtomic · **Reply #152 on:** December 08, 2007, 04:09:45 pm

panda is quite right

Jad · **Reply #153 on:** December 08, 2007, 04:38:03 pm

Copypaste if you feel like:

ザ　アンダーウォーター

Or

ジスイスナトケーブストーリ

I recommend the lower one, though (:

Panda · **Reply #154 on:** December 08, 2007, 04:55:14 pm

Quote from: Jad on December 08, 2007, 04:38:03 pm

Copypaste if you feel like:

ザ　アンダーウォーター

Or

ジスイスナトケーブストーリ

I recommend the lower one, though (:

Eh... why the lower one?

AdamAtomic · **Reply #155 on:** December 08, 2007, 05:20:50 pm

well as part of the point of the piece is to highlight how jacking someone else's art style can cheapen your game's presentation, I think the silly literal katakana actually suits this project better

but thanks anyways!

Jad · **Reply #156 on:** December 08, 2007, 05:40:19 pm

Quote from: Panda on December 08, 2007, 04:55:14 pm

Quote from: Jad on December 08, 2007, 04:38:03 pm
Copypaste if you feel like:

ザ　アンダーウォーター

Or

ジスイスナトケーブストーリ

I recommend the lower one, though (:

Eh... why the lower one?

Because I have no sense of humor

>

And Atomic: Yeah, sure, but the case with podunkian is that he seriously didn't get how much he was jacking cave story's art style.

It's like he doesn't get the difference between inspiration and plagiarism. I imagine he started making the Underside and then he made the main character and then he went 'Man, I want simplistic backgrounds like in cave story because those sure are nice' and then he tried making them and 'what the heck, I can't nail the style

<' so he busted up some cave story screens and looked at them (he's said that he has done so himself) and then he 'nailed it'.

And so he was happy because the game looked like he wanted it to look.

Only problem: It looked just like cave story.

>

Especially with the accumulating-damage-damage-numbers and the health bars. Heh.

The only problem is, I can totally feel for him. If I was gonna do a game with numbers showing damage, I'd do it cave story style. And well, if you see my age old platform RPG mock-up, (still thinking about that game now and then, just never feel that I have the personal resources to make it now.

) it kind of rips the way of rendering the main character from cave story. Or at least I, after having played cave story kind of went 'Man, this flat shading style is so FRESH, I want to do animation with this, so effective time-wise!!'

So yeah.

>

I think this image is a bit douche-bag:y, but it's hilarious

Problem is, I want to play the game = A=

AdamAtomic · **Reply #157 on:** December 08, 2007, 05:47:32 pm

well i was hoping that the other theme that'd come through the picture is that, HECK YES cave story's art style is awesome AND very fun to work with. So I mean i'm not blaming the badunkadunk for wanting to mimic it. I wouldn't have spent like 6 hours putting together those screens if it wasn't such a fun style to work with! But it's still not MY style, and its DEFINITELY not his style.

Panda · **Reply #158 on:** December 08, 2007, 08:09:26 pm

Quote from: Jad on December 08, 2007, 05:40:19 pm

Quote from: Panda on December 08, 2007, 04:55:14 pm
Quote from: Jad on December 08, 2007, 04:38:03 pm
Copypaste if you feel like:

ザ　アンダーウォーター

Or

ジスイスナトケーブストーリ

I recommend the lower one, though (:

Eh... why the lower one?

Because I have no sense of humor >

Well, it took me a few tries to understand what you meant at first, since some parts made no sense and you put no spaces

But heh, "this is not cave story".

Jad · **Reply #159 on:** December 09, 2007, 03:25:36 am

zisu isu noto keibu suto-ri- would've been correct.

Silly me D:>

not zisu isu NAto kE-bu suto-ri-

JWW · **Reply #160 on:** December 09, 2007, 03:28:11 am

The B.O.B. · **Reply #161 on:** December 15, 2007, 05:45:04 pm

doodly doo...

(banding for the loss, yay!)

"The year of our WARlord:

That was going to be it's name, but I got tired of it, as I have no clue, and drive to finish this. Was supposed to be a Samurai in the distance, outlined by the green sky and sunrise(stereotypes, yes!!)
There was supposed to be more samurai soldiers behind him, but this was just practice any way, as I'm trying to stick to more simple designs now...gettin' tired of people telling me my stuff is too detailed for primary focus...

p.s., this thread needs less talking, and more art posting...

platnium · **Reply #162 on:** December 16, 2007, 03:10:54 pm

I will go get some doodles in a bit.

ndchristie · **Reply #163 on:** December 16, 2007, 04:04:03 pm

seems we've got japan on the brain....

JAS · **Reply #164 on:** December 17, 2007, 08:58:48 pm

Here is a piece of line art that I did, but could not figure out what color scheme to use.
This is also posted http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=5597.0

griffy6 · **Reply #165 on:** December 23, 2007, 05:36:35 pm

Tried my hand at one of Arachne's linearts:

Malor · **Reply #166 on:** December 24, 2007, 12:27:57 am

Made an attempt at that palette challenge... I call him Boss Dimagio.. About 30 minutes of work..

am_pm · **Reply #167 on:** December 25, 2007, 06:59:14 pm

I was watching Blue Planet last night on the Discovery Chanel and they were observing bio-luminescence in animals that live on the sea floor. I was inspired to make some doodles.

skw · **Reply #168 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:41:56 pm

a would-be Mockup Frenzy. . . erm. . . #1? entry; yep. . . I'm pretty sure the theme was, like, 'exaggerated female features', or something. :)

I really didn't know how to make an one-button game out of it. . . well. . . hmm. . . hehe, so I haven't finished the piece, right? :)

AdamAtomic · **Reply #169 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:47:44 pm

great face so far, but how come lefty is so small compared to righty?

shaheen · **Reply #170 on:** December 28, 2007, 04:41:46 am

Not exactly a doodle, but I'm not looking for hardcore critique as typical of a new thread. It's something I started working on today as an entry for the April Fool's weekly challenge (this weeks' challenge is a 'catch-up' challenge with all previous challenges as fair game) at PJ, but I think it stands on its own by now. Initially inspired by some of Helm's work.

Reference photo here.

Cow · **Reply #171 on:** December 28, 2007, 07:50:09 am

That looks great, Khris. Quite like how you did the lips, and I like the color choices.

Tres cool.

skw · **Reply #172 on:** December 28, 2007, 11:55:26 am

Quote from: AdamAtomic on December 27, 2007, 10:47:44 pm

great face so far, but how come lefty is so small compared to righty?

absolutely no idea! but maybe we can put it down to the perspective?. . . :)

Lawrence · **Reply #173 on:** December 28, 2007, 02:11:44 pm

Khris that's excellent, I can see the inspiration in the colours.

eck · **Reply #174 on:** December 28, 2007, 06:28:35 pm

Quote from: Khris on December 28, 2007, 04:41:46 am

Right now your at 11 colors, but i think you might be better if you added a few more and made it 16 or something. also, your palette is very unbalenced lumnanace wise, and i think that by evening it out some, you might also be able to add some volume to it.

edit: palette edits.

edit x 2: just noticed your reference picture. i think you could do with some working on the facial structure (what is that random purple block in on the bottom of his cheek?

shaheen · **Reply #175 on:** December 28, 2007, 10:15:36 pm

Hm... thanks for that, eck! I'd like to say that I also take notice of the face issues and have already tweaked it a bit since this one (chin was too far out, for example).

As far as colors go, I'll say for now that I was planning on upping it to 16 whenever I start doing final touches. On the color choices themselves, there's nothing I can really say. It's a mixture of instinct and ritualistic decision-making on my part. I'll take the palette you've created for a test run and see how I like it, though! I've been told about having issues with contrasting colors before, so you're definitely not the first.

eck · **Reply #176 on:** December 29, 2007, 12:20:40 am

No problem! As strange as it sounds, I think I taught myself something while examining your work

Helm · **Reply #177 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:36:14 am

Quote

As far as colors go, I'll say for now that I was planning on upping it to 16 whenever I start doing final touches.

Once I met Helm and he told me that this is a bad idea. Make the palette from the beginning, tweak it constantly while you work, but have the index slots filled from the beginning of working more or less so you can use every color everywhere as needed while creating volumes and textures.

shaheen · **Reply #178 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:49:25 am

That is going to be one hella tough habit to break! ):
I'll try it out when I start something new, however.

Side note: I just noticed that the picture was broken, so I upped a new one in case you missed it. (Edited the initial post it was in).

Helm · **Reply #179 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:52:23 am

You said you didn't want critique yet I have critique. I know I'm not Helm but if you're up for it I can tell you a few things that came to mind.

shaheen · **Reply #180 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:55:48 am

I guess I'll take it. I should've just made a new thread, bah!
If it's about the chin, however, I already know. That's one of the spots I see major problems with, but I would guess your critique might be more on color usage?

Anyways, enough speculation! On with it!

Helm · **Reply #181 on:** December 29, 2007, 06:00:14 am

Yes it is about color usage.

Have you noted that there's a HUGE value jump from the saturated purple to the first flesh shade? If you grayscale it it's a huge jump, it's even huger in how the purple is saturated (makes it warmer and needs more buffer shades before it can mesh with the flesh shades that are relatively desaturated. Blur your eyes a little and look at your palette ramp. Tell me if after the blue in the middle, the rest of the shades don't blur out to a single color more or less. This isn't bad Subtlety makes for index swapping and good dithering and shit. But you need more shades to go from the dark 1/3rd of the palette to the bright 2/3s of it. Keep in mind, you don't need many dark shades because in darkness there isn't much detail, it all blends towards a single color, that's fine. So it's good you have more palette slots for brighter stuff. But what you're missing, is MIDDLE VALUE RANGE. In a big way.

That is all for now. Remember, portray volumes before you start dithering and AAing.

ndchristie · **Reply #182 on:** December 29, 2007, 06:01:59 am

Your men are attempting to take the city by storm!

Would you like to command the attack?

Sherman Gill · **Reply #183 on:** December 29, 2007, 06:09:41 am

I think you forgot to fill in that area of sky below the flag.

shaheen · **Reply #184 on:** December 29, 2007, 06:21:50 am

Quote from: Helm on December 29, 2007, 06:00:14 am

Yes it is about color usage.

Have you noted that there's a HUGE value jump from the saturated purple to the first flesh shade? If you grayscale it it's a huge jump, it's even huger in how the purple is saturated (makes it warmer and needs more buffer shades before it can mesh with the flesh shades that are relatively desaturated. Blur your eyes a little and look at your palette ramp. Tell me if after the blue in the middle, the rest of the shades don't blur out to a single color more or less. This isn't bad Subtlety makes for index swapping and good dithering and shit. But you need more shades to go from the dark 1/3rd of the palette to the bright 2/3s of it. Keep in mind, you don't need many dark shades because in darkness there isn't much detail, it all blends towards a single color, that's fine. So it's good you have more palette slots for brighter stuff. But what you're missing, is MIDDLE VALUE RANGE. In a big way.

That is all for now. Remember, portray volumes before you start dithering and AAing.

Good points and points taken. Seems to be what eck was getting at previously, but in your own style of explanation. I completely agree about the purple, but particularly only on the chin, the bit on the cheek, and then the bit that's in the front of the eye. It really sticks out there, while I think it really works for the rest of the eye and hair, obviously.

So, yes. That would definitely be one big flaw with choosing new colors later than initially. Thanks for the pointers, guys.

eck · **Reply #185 on:** December 30, 2007, 12:28:47 am

my wize-cracking robot pirate from the waist up portrait.

ndchristie · **Reply #186 on:** December 30, 2007, 03:32:19 pm

originally was trying to make something less burny with the MSpain colors, then i just sorta goofed around. Might pixeltighten this and the one before, but probs not.

oh and yeah, i think i've been at art school too much. completely subconscious golden section :

funny thing is, i'm not even sure i like it like that ^^

JWW · **Reply #187 on:** January 01, 2008, 08:24:48 am

w00t first pixel of the new year

Feron · **Reply #188 on:** January 01, 2008, 11:22:52 am

Quote from: JWW on January 01, 2008, 08:24:48 am

w00t first pixel of the new year

i dont know what it is but i likes it.,

ndchristie · **Reply #189 on:** January 01, 2008, 05:09:25 pm

I assume some cute little spaceship?

JWW · **Reply #190 on:** January 01, 2008, 09:07:11 pm

bingo

Panda · **Reply #191 on:** January 01, 2008, 10:10:54 pm

Heh, looks more like a Katamari :0

griffy6 · **Reply #192 on:** January 05, 2008, 04:30:36 pm

I was gonna say a spinning turtle.

ndchristie · **Reply #193 on:** January 10, 2008, 12:49:54 am

just a quick thing, making dark cloud 2 into a 2d sidescroller - not sure if it works for pixeljoint challenge BUT i thought i might play around for a few minutes anyway.

The B.O.B. · **Reply #194 on:** January 10, 2008, 04:15:58 am

I'm sure it will work, and is allowed into the compo'. It's looking good at the moment.

Just don't let it quietly disappear into obscurity like your other PJ wip...

ndchristie · **Reply #195 on:** January 10, 2008, 04:40:53 am

yeah i suffer from "holy crap it's sunday already?" syndrome when not under contract.

i'm thinking of making a thread for all my half-begun weeklies...

small update, decided to buy into their really tacky ugly fun design sense and at the same time to to show people whether i can work with obvious colors, simple shapes, and all the other things that game designers prefer to my usual splatter.

Panda · **Reply #196 on:** January 17, 2008, 08:20:25 am

I guess some of you have seen them already, but since I don't feel like finishing them, here they go.

Larwick · **Reply #197 on:** January 17, 2008, 01:21:36 pm

Panda those clouds are tasty.

Idle, walking, attacking.
I'm pretty happy with this.

Cow · **Reply #198 on:** January 18, 2008, 06:42:44 am

So it turns out I haven't really posted much stuff here.

Gordon Freeman's the only newish one really.

and for awesomeness sake:

damn lack of transparency

Opacus · **Reply #199 on:** January 18, 2008, 12:37:34 pm

That mechanical thing is awesome

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