[WIP]Street Environment

[Caliber9]

Heres a street I'm working on.  I'm not sure if I should make some areas brighter and I'm afraid right now that it is a little difficult to read especially on a monitor that is not very bright.  I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys suggest on how to improve this.

[Feron]

hopefully this has been compressed wrong.

i can't distinguish anything at the moment.  It's all too dark.

[AdamAtomic]

This just looks like a total mess to me.  I cannot make out what is going on at all.

[Caliber9]

The image isn't compressed wrong. I think that it's just too dark to see on some monitors. I looked at it on another monitor and it is way too dark. I tried brightening it up here.  I'm having troubling getting it to look like it's night time while still being able to see.

[Dusty]

Blue/purple are great hues to portray darkness with.

[Joseph]

I see a blue guy standing on the right, 3 blue guys flying around on the left, a giant lizard man with shiney red high heels on the left, a bunch of urine spraying all over the place.

[Gunne]

The blue "guys" are actually bottles haha 

Well, it doesn't really have to be this dark to give the idea it's at night. Like Dusty said blue and purple are great colors for darkness;

   
   here's an really simple edit to show you what I mean, still looks like night, right?

Right now the pixels look very messy, especially on the wall. I don't know if the yellow is supposed to be light coming from the moon or light cast by a streetlatern, but it doesn't look right in my opinion.

[Caliber9]

Gunne:   Thanks for the edit.  I'm glad at least one person could understand it, I saw that it was confusing but I didn't think it was that confusing.
Joseph:   Actually the lizard is a dog character with a hood on.  He blends into the background too much.

Hopefully this one will be a bit easier to understand.  I had been drawing this at 500 zoom and unzoomed it is very hard to understand and messy.  I cleaned up the bricks and got rid of some of the mess.  I still kind of want a more blue color for the wall.  Joseph,

[tehwexxl0rz]

Much better! Still pretty damn dark though. Also, some sidewalk detail would be nice.

[Joseph]

yes, it is awful dark still.  I can kind of see what you're talking about though.

[TrevoriuS]

Here goes nothing...
Just giving it a more nightly palette.

[Presley]

I think the inclusion of a streetlamp directing light somewhere on the scene would be very beneficial to this piece, as well as the disclusion of alot of the wall detail. try to keep it simple and geometric I'd say.

Your small objects don't read too well. Get a recognisable shape before your begin adding highlights and whatnot.

[Caliber9]

TrevoriuS:  That is a really nice color palette, I like that edit a lot.  Is there a program that I can use to easily change the color palette of my piece without having to go in and use the dump tool ( in other words, have an option to change every pixel that is a certain color all to a different color, so I don't have to go in and use the dump tool and manually change each pixel.)
The ground is untouched I do plan on adding detail. Thanks for all the feedback so far everyone.

[Teknogames]

I would suggest making the character stand out more. As it is, all I see are floating red objects. You should change the color of the sidewalk too, I don't think the moon would have as much influence in its color as the wall seems to be soaking up much of the flame's light.

[nizzate]

I agree I would increase the characters brightness right now he blends in far too much.

[Caliber9]

Increased the characters Brightness and added detail to the sidewalk.  What color do you think the side walk should be?

[JonathanOfDrain]

Can you post the sprite of the character by itself? I think the character has too much noise and it's not quite clear what it is exactly.

[Teknogames]

try using the same colors in the wall for the sidewalk

[saimo]

Increased the characters Brightness and added detail to the sidewalk.  What color do you think the side walk should be?

Dunno about the color (that would depend on personal tastes and on the material you think tiles are made of, I guess), but one thing I can say about the sidewalk is that its perspective bugs me a lot - the problem is that the character, the wall and the background are perfectly frontal, whereas the sidewalk and the road are skewed. I'd suggest that you adopt the same perspective for everything - adjusting the wall would already change things a lot.

As regards colors in general, nice improvement over the initial version

saimo

[Caliber9]

  There is the character I fixed him up a bit and tried to make him less noisy.  If you cannot tell he is a dog type character with a hood over his face only his snout is sticking out.  I'm working on fixing the perspective issue.  I can kind of see what you mean but it doesn't look to incredible harsh to me.  Ill post up a new version of the street with the perspective issue fixed.  Thanks for the compliment about the colors Saimo.