Panda [WIP]

[Apricot]

Hey, I'm new here and this is my first pixel art, I'm kinda stuck and need lots of help.

I looked through all of the tutorials on the site... but I just don't understand a lot of things, mainly how AA works (I get what it is for but I don't understand how it is used).

[NaCl]

Hey Apricot, I think this is a good starter in pixel art. What exactly are you stuck on? I think this very stylistic piece has been brought nearly as far as it can be.

For more information on AA, read this tutorial. I typed up a few explanations of how it works, but they all fall short of this tutorial. So, read that instead.

http://gas13.ru/v3/tutorials/handmade_antialiasing.php

[heyy13]

What's the purpose of the three differant shades of neon purple that never appear togeather and add jerky cracks to the outline?


EDIT: It's good for a first try and i came back and decided to do a quick edit that reduces the colours (from 13 to 10), fixed the outlines/sillouete(sp?) and smoothed the aa alot. The white to black transition could probably do with another colour as you have on the original but that's a personal choice.

[Apricot]

I've been having some internet troubles, but I worked on my panda some more.

@hey: I think I got rid of the weird neon colors, I tried to fix the AA. For some reason it seems like the display settings on my computer have been altered, so I'm not sure if I fixed the problem, but it looks better to me.. And I get the edit you made, if this were a sprite (and I would like to use it as a sprite at some point) I know I would need an outline for him instead of trying to blend him into the background.

I'm trying to learn the basics of pixel art and I thought I'd start with AA. This panda isn't detailed so I picked it as a starting point (he's a frequent doodle of mine).

[Ninjafro]

Dithering =/= good pixel art.  It is a style, but a worn out one at that. Try actually using three shades.