Exclamation Marx posted:

fine


In addition to Rapt0rCharles's post, be mindful of the saturation in your colours. The blue carpet especially is eye-burning. In the sprite you're using a heap of colours, and "straight" colour ramps (i.e. shifting in value rather than saturation and hue). Read this for a better description (hue shifting at the bottom).

Some mostly-mirrored portraits using Dawnbringer's 16 colour palette:

Octorok posted:

Not necessarily pixel art, but this should help you determine how you want to differentiate your values and create hair textures.
http://www.proko.com/how-to-draw-hair/

Chipp Zanuff posted:

I kind of feel embarassed putting this one in the thread, especially when im still not even half-way to grasping the basics (such as my attempt at dithering).

DicktheCat posted:

Did you try Aseprite? It's in the OP, so you might have already, but once you actually learn it, and its shortcuts, it's actually quite good. I use it, and I've really enjoyed it, just as an animator. There are a few snags- like I don't quite like how you have to tab out to do much with its layers- but other wise, it's a very solid little program. It doesn't like tablets that much, but neither does GraphigsGale.

Yodzilla posted:

Why did he grow a penis out of his forehead?

the chaos engine posted:

Took me a while, but it's the bottom left one of the 6 heads. A square dillz.

Count Uvula posted:

The leg in this animation moves an inconsistent amount per frame; when in contact with the ground, the foot should move back a set amount of pixels per frame.

Yodzilla posted:

They're not lopsided but goddamn those irises are huge. Reminds me of a Zwinky.

blowingupcasinos posted:

The ears are off by one pixel, so it tilts the face.

Scut posted:

You are making big improvements! Good usage of shifting your shading colours slightly into blue, too.

On the walking sprites, forgive me if I'm misinterpreting but it appears as if there is a highlight on both knees mid-stride. If one leg is angling away from the viewer that should not happen. Or it's the fact that the highlight flashes on for one frame on both knees then disappears in the others.

crabrock posted:

not on starfox64

Scut posted:

This just popped up in my daily feeds:

Salis posted:

Scut posted:

Shoehead your pieces seem to be solidly progressing but I feel like the oversize hands don't lend towards a balanced silhouette. I think they would be easier to exaggerate in a higher resolution, but when you are working in so few pixels that small increase of scale can really throw off proportions.

Scut posted:

That's a real improvement in my opinion. How do you feel about the change?

Here are a few more tweaks I would make:


I tried adjusting the hand ever so slightly to make it appear a little more canted towards the viewer, as well as introducing some shadow into the crook of the arm so that the pose appears more natural. I made a slight change to the foot to make it less puffy.

I know the black outline is a whole other element that you might not feel comfortable with messing with at this stage, but I wanted to illustrate how varying the darkness of that outline can give all sorts of methods for adding shadow and character to form without actually altering the outline.

Salis posted:

I uh....I don't know what it is

Internet Janitor posted:

I dig the webbed foot, and the faces are cool. The torso is presently kind of plain-looking. Perhaps add some shinies to make it look wet or some extra finlets?
Was the original crabman supposed to be based on a horseshoe crab?

Scut posted:

Data Shaman! Maybe it needs some manner of shaman staff.

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I thought that the idea of giving a bunch of artists a bland, basic, “bad” piece and having them each take it and fix it up and give it their own spin and style is just SO COOL!

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There aren’t too many rules! You can add more tiles, take away tiles, rearrange them! Whatever you want! Just as long as the final product resembles the base in some way and you stay within the current tile size, 16x16 for the tiles, and 16x24(or smaller) for the player!