[WIP] Need help with Game Boy Micro Famicom Version

[Inlagd sill]

Hello. I need some critics and tips with this WIP piece. The color range, and the colors themself are subjects to change.



I made some progress, so there are updates.





I'm having trouble with the L, R, START and SELECT buttons (the grey ones). Any hints?

Should I try to make that curvy line between beige/gold and red more smooth?

Can you hint me how to make A, B, START and SELECT markings better? I mean those little markings above their corresponding buttons (see refferrence photo below).

Any tips about the dithering? The beige/gold surface is supposed to be very glossy (red is less glossy).

Here is a referrence photo of GBM: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/hardware/micro/top/p01.jpg

[Malor]

Hi. Nice job for the most part. I really like it, and I have discovered a new object.. a Gameboy Micro.. Anyways, I think the contrast in the screen is a bit to high, either add another midtone of black, or dither if you are trying to restrict colors. Nice job overall,though.

[baccaman21]

no time to explain what I've done right now... sorry... got a wedding to go to...

but here...
have look see and see what you think...




in Brief - Anti aliasing and palette hues... is all I've edited...

<EDIT> - right - i'm back now so I can be more specific.

• I've edited the pallette a touch, hue shifting it here and there to make it a bit more dynamic and interesting
• I've reworked the A & B buttons, adding AA to the edges in an attempt to make them 'rounder'
• I actually completely removed the inner pixels for the typed A and B letters stamped on the buttons and remade them from scratch... and in a weird twist of fate ended up pretty much recreating exactly what you did, so I'm guessing you weren't far wrong with those
• I've overhauled the Dpad a fairbit - hjaving looked at your resource image I edited it so the light's coming from 12oclock, and added shading to the dpad itself to show the concaved aspect of it... it's subtle atm - maybe too subtle now I'm looking at it with fresheyes.
• I edited the two horizontal lines that run across the unit so that they're not single color, trying to give these lines some notion of light hitting them.
• finally, I've done couple of mine edits to the AA on the upper part of the unit as a way to demonstrate that you can push this a bit more.
  

I hope this helps and you understand what I've done...

Cheers

Good luck with you updates.