Pixel Title

[Ails]

I am trying to make a pixeled title for my game. The theme here is tree, so im going for leaves, wood texture and a lot of green

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[Elk]

Hello!
You should be carefull with what youre sticking too! Try other possabilities too before totally over-AAing stuff and so on!
You'll get lost in details...

Here's something quick I doodled, theres more I could do but just for pointers!
Also be careful with typography, the hierarchy between your A and R is very strong, as the A is above the R
since it's a leaf theme, harmonize it! that's why I fused the A and R in my edit

I also modified the palette a bit, as you can see, more warm shadow tones to the wood and a little colder for the leaves

[STE 86]

hi,

extrapolating from the image Elk did u could also maybe combine the letter forms in a "twisted vine" manner something like this:



i have done this with a vector package for speed. tho personally i would always do such things in vector as silhouettes the "fill in the blanks" with pixels.

u could add as many leaves au u like to the "vines" i have just added one here to balance the top left area better.

Steve

edit this may work better

[questseeker]

I think the green portion of the letters should be dithered; the current banding is very noticeable (too many colours for flat shading, too few for unnoticeable thin bands).

[Jad]

preemptive attempt to not start a confused discussion about 'what is banding?'

questseeker isn't referring to the kind of 'banding' that usually comes up in pixel discussions, where bands of shading creates weird alias by hugging each other

but simply how the different shades don't mix and come off as separate bands of shading

(if I understand correctly)

[questseeker]

preemptive attempt to not start a confused discussion about 'what is banding?'

questseeker isn't referring to the kind of 'banding' that usually comes up in pixel discussions, where bands of shading creates weird alias by hugging each other but simply how the different shades don't mix and come off as separate bands of shading.

Of course I was referring to that: the sort of banding that appears by quantizing a smooth gradient into noticeable bands (not necessarily in the field of pixel art).
Calling it banding was natural; can you suggest a more specific term for this bad-looking quantization?

[STE 86]

whoooo. easy tiger! 

Jad, i think was just clarifying the point (possibly in case i jumped on it ). with all the terminology flying around on the pixel pushing forums its very easy to confuse one reference with another.

i too would have referred to "banding" in the manner u did, however it seems to have taken on a whole different new meaning on the pixel forums these days.

step back chill out and accept the post for the simple clarification it was. 

and u are right it would benefit from a bit more dithering.

Steve

[Ails]

New update:
I tryed to make dithering (only on the A for now)

[HC_Bret_Measor]

I really like your logo design. Could you tell me what steps you did before laying the pixels down? I've attempted only one logo myself, and I have another one on the way

[Shrub]

Wow, no critique from me, sorry. Keep on going, this is really good! If I ever get to work on my Pixel Art Flash game, I'll be able to take notes from this thread