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Offline Ray

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First post here and it's a Santa!

on: December 06, 2007, 10:14:35 pm
Hey there, this is my first post here  :)
I was almost to scared to post, seeing al those great pieces of pixel art...
But today i finally gathered all my courage and here's the result:



Ho-Ho-Hope you like it, Cheers

Edit: oh, and if you like this, check out my site for older pixels (www2.hku.nl/~roy)
« Last Edit: December 06, 2007, 10:17:47 pm by Ray »

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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #1 on: December 06, 2007, 10:28:15 pm
This is a really vibrant cartoon Santa. The color choices look really good to me, lots of colors but it looks really smooth. Great first post. Your art (checked your website) is pretty good too. The only thing I see is that you don't experiment with colors enough. Too clean I would say. :) I'm not great with colors so I won't give you bad advice but plenty of people here can give you some good advice about palette choice.
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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #2 on: December 06, 2007, 10:30:43 pm
Thanx and yeah your right, I'm not to good with palettes...
but that's also why I'm here: "to learn"

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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #3 on: December 06, 2007, 10:32:26 pm
I think this is absolutely wonderful, the colours work so well and its put me all in a christmasie mood  :yay:

My only suggestion would be to experiment with a different light source because it may look a tad too mirrored, just to give one side more exposure than the other could give this more dimention.

great though, never be scared to post. Id like to think this is a friendly forum.
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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #4 on: December 07, 2007, 12:39:15 am
great though, never be scared to post. Id like to think this is a friendly forum.

Yea…friendly, its actually very easy to get scared here… in one of my first posts I was accused to steal pixels, but well that was a long time ago, right now some nice people are helping me a lot! ;D

As for the santa, I found it very well done and the colors look fine.

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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #5 on: December 07, 2007, 12:53:18 am
Yessir! That's really awesome. Keep up the good work mate!

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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #6 on: December 07, 2007, 01:01:02 am
Thats great. Hard to crit. Maybe try adding thumbs, bigger black boots and an extra shade to soften shadow on nose.
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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #7 on: December 07, 2007, 03:17:05 am
hey

Yep, looks fine to me also, and I think it has nice character :).

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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #8 on: December 07, 2007, 07:28:39 am
I'm all for cute santas, and this definitely takes the cake! You've got some smoooooooth colouring there, something i must comment you for, it's just excellent.

I don't have any crits, I think you've done a great job, and wanna give you just a warm welcome.

Oh, and your site is pretty too.

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Re: First post here and it's a Santa!

Reply #9 on: December 07, 2007, 07:50:00 am
Looks great!  I don't really have much advice, I guess.  One fun exercise to ease into doing more aggressive color mixing is to see how few colors you can use to get a piece that looks almost the same as this one.  E.g. can you get the same basic effect with just 12 colors?

To be clear, this piece is great as it is :)  But if you're bored and want to experiment, that's a good place to start!