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Trying to improve

on: July 14, 2009, 12:55:15 am
Lately i am trying to make pixel art but i cant really get how to draw a face or how the pixel thing work,
here some that i made this far:



i want to make some pixel characters spirits but they aren't complete i cant pixel well enough to finish them can some one help
me to learn to pixel i watch tutorials but all people do on them that's draw them self nothing that they explained so far onle drawing
this way i cant figure how to pixel right for example i didn't pixel everything well in thous 3 pics can some one help me learn to pixel please?


   

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 04:52:05 pm
work on smaller pieces until you get it, then work on bigger
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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #2 on: July 14, 2009, 06:23:25 pm
Thanks for the advise and the encouragement, i made another one here

i still think i made the legs impossible to move with i hope the pixels are put good this time :-\
how to draw a humans face by the way in pixel i mean like chibi human face for a game?   

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 06:24:12 pm
don't save as .jpg.

Save as .png
Don't save as .gif if you're using Paint, otherwise it's ok :D

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #4 on: July 14, 2009, 06:31:48 pm


Added background to it  ;D

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #5 on: July 14, 2009, 10:35:20 pm
Still JPGed. Photobucket will automatically convert bmps to jpgs if that's the format you're uploading them with.

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 12:59:09 am
i upload it when its bitmap mauby when i upload it like that it turns jpg.
okay ill upload 1 .png then again it doesn't improve my pixel drawing skills does it?

is this any better?

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #7 on: July 15, 2009, 01:42:40 am

Anatomy, dither, AA, proper coloring and shading

take a look at some references, bodies that have like the stance you want to get, works, and such stuff.
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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #8 on: July 15, 2009, 06:32:34 pm
do you have a link, i didn't understand where the sentence begin somewhere in the first line i think and where to tape it too
please can u give a link?

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Re: Trying to improve

Reply #9 on: July 15, 2009, 10:13:13 pm
Oh, well i know Anatomy since i draw but with pixels its different my main problems are making a line for the body of the spirit that im going to draw this is what im trying to draw eventually
<--an char set
<--and a battle spirit wish i need to draw all hes movements like running slashing getting hit and so on
main point, i don't know how to pixel the body lines and how to color it and especially i cant pixel their hair well and by the way those i didn't draw my self, their from RPG maker community their dont belong to me their examples.
my problems in exactly drawing them is:
-always when i make the body it goes wrong like the pixel lines are not shading the spirit as i want it to,
problems in coloring
-i don't know where to put the lighter point on the hair the body and and pretty much everything
can someone explain me how it is that you decide where the light point is and once you put it it looks smoothly it doesn't to me no matter how much times i try, help please im tierd of all the mistakes that completely ruin my char and the battle spirits  :'(
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