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[Lee]

Pen pressure (or some other form of control) is mapped to a colour gradient. Not complex but it looks nice. Although personally I wouldn't find it useful.

[rj]

yeah, i like the effect in the end (and that plant-thing is cool) but personally i'm much more comfortable with more standard digital painting methods! but it's cool whenever people come up with unusual solutions to mess with stuff.

[eigenbom]

Hey everyone, I'm running a pixel art comp today. The prize is a copy of Super Time Force Ultra, by CAPY. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/Pixel_Dailies/status/522514630011154432

[Geti]

Wish I had time this week, good luck to the participants!

@Cell looks interesting, dunno if the aliasing helps much though; can see it working better with your painting than pixels perhaps.

[rj]

whipped this up for that pixel dailies whodad.



tried working at the opposite resolution from what i usually do.

i.e.: insanely small this time

[jtfjtfjtf]

Made this for a PJ comp. Theme was Tetris. Probably should have chosen a more exciting camera angle.

[Landshark RAWR]

what could probably be a time machine for the pixel dailies

[Alex Christin]

Some stuff I made for Blood Alloy.

[Canned Turkey]

[alvarop]

noobster attack vol.2
gotta fix that sprite

[Canned Turkey]

Here's what I think...

Your character needs a lot of work.
Pros:
Good color choices
Simple to animate
Charming
Cons:
Too fat
Arms extend out unnecessarily
No continuity in pixeling style
Eyes too high

My main issue is the shadows.
I did two edits for each pixel style you're using.
if you use shadows like in #2, the darker limbs need to be on the side farthest away from the view-point, otherwise it looks like the character is standing one way, but looking another.

Don't mean to be too harsh, but looking at your character was hurting my eyes. Especially since everything else looks great.

[alvarop]

Hehe, no need to hold back. I'm really a noob so I appreciate the feedback.

Yours looks way better. I'm trying to go for a character with "hole" for eyes and a monochrome palette for the whole game (or at least just cold colours).



And if you can believe it, the character looked even worse before :




I guess the tutorials and pixel art studying I've been doing hasn't sunk in yet. Gotta keep working. If you have any resources I could use, let me know. Thanks.

[Canned Turkey]

That actually looks really good with just one shade per character.

If you have any resources I could use, let me know. Thanks.

Any tutorial related to art can transfer to pixel art.
Don't think of it as a whole different medium, it's just painting with a huge, square, brush... on the computer.
What I mean is just read about lighting and form, it doesn't need to be pixel art per say.
Also, there is a pixel art tutorial thread on the tutorial sub-form.

[SolarLune]

That hooded dude is awesome, Canned! Nice work!

I made this for pixel_dailies' Time Travel challenge.



Also got a process video of it being made here.

@alvapop - I agree with Canned's edit. You could also make the limbs similarly thick (i.e. 2 pixels) and kinda make him stubby, which would up his charm factor a bit, I think.

[alvarop]

I'll try that out Solar. Thanks for your tutorials

[Cellusious]

[Lazycow]

@Cellusious: Ah... finally some color. I like that... tentacle-thing on the topleft. Everything looks a bit raw, though

[s_l_m]

That's pretty different from your normal stuff. I like it.

[CyangmouArt]

Sprite #4
60 colors
description at Deviantart

[Geti]

Looks great! very hard act to follow with quick work but whatever

"Early Morning Run" - Zombie in a field. Always had a thing for these spindly zombies. Gonna have to explore it more at some point, perhaps revisit prelude on a much bigger canvas.