Rock practice

[Aelyrin]

It's too bad just telling me this stuff doesn't really do much. >: I don't know how these forces affect rocks, and I really don't know how to go about drawing them.
Same with cracks. .___. I can try, but I'm not guaranteeing it'll look at all right.
*opens paint*

editsu:

I edited the shading and tried adding a few cracks and textures. I didn't want to go overboard and ruin it, though.
I hope I did alright considering my (very) limited knowledge on rocks.
I used bengoshia's palette.

[ndchristie]

a good exercise :

find yourself:
- large piece(s) of dried plaster of paris, to represent a sedimentary rock.
- hammer and chisel, to represent the creation of fissures
- vice, to hold in place or represent pressures
- sandpaper, to represent water

see what sort of forms are made and imagine them on a large scale.

Right now your rocks will never be believable because rocks simply do not pile and squeeze quite that way.

[Aelyrin]

Too bad that's impossible for me. >:

[bengo]

Whao whao, kid, you won't learn anything by copying my palette, make your own, you can look on how I did mine, but don't copy it and dude, just look on google images for some good images of rocks, stop making excuses.

[ndchristie]

As harshly worded as ben's post is, his advice is sound. 

here are some rock references :

http://www.pbase.com/iof/image/38388982.jpg - Australia
http://www.rsiphotos.com/images/photos/Landscapes_11.jpg i a particularly beautiful stone face in the northwestern US
http://shot2focus.com/db4/00337/shot2focus.com/_uimages/Rockface.jpg - another from the same region
http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/images/P22211286e.jpg - France
http://lakdiva.org/sakwala/sc_site04.jpg - Sri Lanka.  I like this mostly for the ancient carving, see how it is literally a single piece of stone?
http://mayacaves.org/files/images/chisecface.preview.jpg - not sure where it is from (mexico?) , but i really like it
http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~dcoatta/Summer2004/JoshuaTree/Fullsize/JoshuaTree-RockclimbingDan.jpg - California, US
http://www.mongabay.com/images/peru/cuzco/Train_1018_0929.JPG - Peru
http://nightglow.gsfc.nasa.gov/eric_journal_files/serpentine_gorge.jpg - Australia
http://www.donporter.net/Cuernavaca/SaltoSanAnton/RockFace.jpg - Mexico

As before, there's little point in continuing something if you refuse to learn about it.

[Aelyrin]

Originally, though, I was trying to go for a stalagmite kind of rock, but then I was told "No! Rocks look like this!", so I tried that.
The thing is, though, it's not that I refuse to learn, it's that I -don't learn. I -can't- learn. I try and try, but never get anything. *sigh*
m(_ _)m But thanks. I'll try again sometime.
I guess I'm the only one Google hates. Everyone else seems to be able to find stuff with it, but not me. :\ Oh wells.
But those pictures you provided are pretty. o: I guess I'll see about using them for references or something.

[AdamAtomic]

This is a typical whiny teenager attitude, and if you want to be taken seriously anywhere, but especially here, then you're going to have to change it.  Why would you take advice about how rocks look from someone if they're wrong?  Is it because you couldn't find any pictures of rocks?  Here is a surefire way to find pictures of rocks on google:

1 - go to google.com
2 - click on images button to do an image search
3 - type the word "rocks"
4 - press "search"
5 - view the tens of thousands of images of rocks that google just gave you

You've got a very good start on your rocks, and really in pixel art in general; better than when i started, that's for sure.  But the easiest, fastest way to waste a good start is to ignore great advice, and make bullshit claims about "oh i can't do this, i can't use google, i can't find rocks."  Grow up a little bit, and if YOU can't figure out how to find some friggin rocks on GOOGLE of all places, then grab your sketchpad and pencil and go outdoors to draw some REAL LIFE rocks.  There are lots of ways to LEARN - the only way to not learn is to not try.