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Offline DanTheFlyingMan

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Re: I'm a complete newbie.

Reply #10 on: February 22, 2008, 08:26:43 am
I had a go at editing my picture of Dan, though I am not entirely sure it looks much better.

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Re: I'm a complete newbie.

Reply #11 on: February 22, 2008, 03:07:37 pm
Hello DanTheFlyingMan, I remember critiquing your art on SomethingAwful (under a different name, of course). Welcome to Pixelation!
Anyway, as of now your Dan character appears to either have a spotlight shining directly onto him, or he is close to reaching the light at the end of a tunnel. Unless this is the desired effect, you need to focus on fixing that flat shading. It seems like you're pulling things from your concept of "what things should look like" rather than the way they actually appear in life. For example, as Helm pointed out, your "reds are reds and greens are greens." This simply isn't the way light works.

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Reply #12 on: February 22, 2008, 08:50:10 pm
I think I get what you mean now. So colours like this will look a bit more natural?

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Re: I'm a complete newbie.

Reply #13 on: February 23, 2008, 12:24:42 am
The colors do look more natural, but the sources of the light are head-on. What is the lighting situation here? Where is the lightsource? Is this a sunny-day piece? Then shouldn't most light be coming from directly above?

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Re: I'm a complete newbie.

Reply #14 on: February 23, 2008, 03:16:29 am
I was thinking more of a sunset.

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Re: I'm a complete newbie.

Reply #15 on: February 23, 2008, 03:32:31 am
Out of curiosity: How did you animate those breasts in Ms Paint?
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Re: I'm a complete newbie.

Reply #16 on: February 23, 2008, 03:56:21 am
Out of curiosity: How did you animate those breasts in Ms Paint?

I didn't animate them in Paint, I just used Paint to draw each frame and then put them together in some crappy GIF program.