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[Kramlack]

'nd a broom

Your art (colours at least) always remind me of Pietepiet's work. This is good.

[Slow]

Love these, but why are their legs so far apart? Especially the big guy. The doodle looks good as well.

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I'd play that.

[Squid Party]

his legs still need shading better but apart from that he is nearly finished

[Medevenx]

If that's supposed to be the style it's still pretty bad.

[JoGribbs]

Boredom = leaf practice.

I love this and feel it deserves to be on this page

[Squid Party]

If that's supposed to be the style it's still pretty bad.

Screw you.

[Storsorgen]

his legs still need shading better but apart from that he is nearly finished

It's not awful Squid Party, but to me the visual style is quite unappealing.I suppose it might depend on the context, but the feeling of "half-finished" lines and such and lack of distinct features makes it feel kinda bland. Perhaps try making more of his face visible, and a more relaxed pose? I think the colors are alright.

[Kramlack]

As you mentioned, the shading is all over the place. There's a lot of colours that don't contrast well such as the skin tones and hair tones (I didn't even know their was a second hair tone until I looked at it at 8x). The anti aliasing on the arms is bizarre to say the least. If it's reflecting the light then why is it light on the bottom near the sleeve? Finally, it's worth mentioning but I noticed you're using something like 6 or 7 colours for the tie, most of which seemed to be almost the same as other colours, but I'll chalk that up to a colour selection mistake since it happens to everyone.

Really, just choose shades that contrast better between light and dark, instead of using 3 for the pants, use two. If you're going to shade the hair and skin at all (that is to say, more than you are right now), again, use more contrasting colours, or just leave it the way it looks right now and use one for each.

I'd go into shapes and anatomy but there's a lot of issues already without going into that, so work on it one step at a time.

EDIT: It's funny that while I was posting, Storsorgen posted with no issues about the colour, when that's all I complained about. Help, mixed messages!

[Manuel Magalhães]

If that's supposed to be the style it's still pretty bad.

That's rude, man. On top of that you should have gave criticism on why you didn't like it (e.g. like Kramlack and Storsorgen did), merely saying that it's bad doesn't help.

[Bones]

Quite nicely done. Simple yet detailed. I imagine leaves being kicked around when the character moves.

Fuckin' Eh man. Great work!

I love this and feel it deserves to be on this page

Wow thanks guys, wasn't expecting such a great response. I should look into do more stuff like this.

If that's supposed to be the style it's still pretty bad.

Sounds like you just have nothing nice to say.
I actually really like the style, especially the dudes face!
Certainly the color ramps could be fixed and a lot of this could go with some simple flat shading and remove the outlines.

Your anti-alias is pretty bad, I'll agree with that I suggest you do some AA practice.
I exchanged the AA for selout instead, hope this edit helps you out.


To help with your Anti-aliasing read this.

Take a look at this tutorial for some general help.

Make sure you establish a definite light source.
Try to round your shading across the shape, make them seem more 3d and less 2d and flat.

Edit: Oh I was unaware there was a thread for it.
Yea... some people have a hard time learning.
Some learn slower than others, some refuse to learn at all.

[Medevenx]

If that's supposed to be the style it's still pretty bad.

That's rude, man. On top of that you should have gave criticism on why you didn't like it (e.g. like Kramlack and Storsorgen did), merely saying that it's bad doesn't help.

He already knows what the problem is. He has an entire thread dedicated to the sprite in the Workshop right here.

He was given critique back before and he never really followed the stuff said to him because he wanted to keep his horrid "style" which IMO is an excuse for his ego issues and unwilling to improve.

It's like he doesn't want to shade not because of the style, but because he's just really lazy to do it.

Here was an edit given to him before by Yrgkala, all he did similar was the outline but all the other critique that was given to him was completely dropped. If you really want to improve, you have to STEP UP. It's like he's blinded by his work that he can't really see how bad it looks



He was already enlightened by Jesse on his sprite's arms

Love the design! One thing that bothers me in each evolution is that the shoulders and arms haven't been addressed - he looks like a body builder who's leaning forward and flexing his shoulders. Shoulders in general should be affected by gravity, and especially on a salary man like this fellow I'd think they'd be quite rounded and weak-looking.

Here's an edit with just the shoulders and arms touched up. I also plumped his belly out a bit to match the thinner arms. Hope this helps you!

But he gave some silly lazy excuse not to follow it because it was part of his "character design"

thanks Jesse its looking really nice, yeah the shoulders haven't been addressed but that is because I have a conundrum, the guy is meant to actually be a super hero called the g-man and he dresses kind of like a salary man, so when I think about the shoulders as hes a super hero I want him to look kind of badass. sorry should of said that any way thanks for the edit! I prefer you hands!!

[i wanna be the guy]

wherein medevenx gets mad at someone because they're proud of the progress they've made on their sprite

[namragog]

wherein medevenx gets mad at someone because they're proud of the progress they've made on their sprite

And rightfully so.

[Medevenx]

wherein medevenx gets mad at someone because they're proud of the progress they've made on their sprite

->

All he did from 4-5 was anti-alias it at very weird places. The progression is not much to be proud of because he hasn't applied any of the critique that was given to him.

[todd]