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[Circuitbomb]

So I wanted to jump in to share and seek some critique.  I've been doing pixel art for about 3-4 weeks now and would appreciate some feedback, tips, tricks etc.  The most recent is the tree/gnomehome; I wanted to try my hand at shading and lighting in larger pieces.











Thanks for any feedback!

[michelmohr]

Pretty good shapewise, but I'd look into picking a palette and instead of a darker/light shade of a colour, shifting hue instead.
Check this out for more info: http://androidarts.com/pixtut/pixelart.htm

[Circuitbomb]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[diegzumillo]

I'm not great at this either but here's my two cents

I like your characters. The simple shading works I think.

The mechanical orb and the other scenario-like objects are too flat in my opinion though. Think less in terms of outlines and more of light and shade. Here's a quick paint-over I did on your orb to illustrate what I mean:

[Circuitbomb]

Thank you very much.  I do like your paint over of the orb much better than my own, I feel the contrast there and it pops much more. 

I admit that, I think that the single biggest issue for me is colour management with palettes and understanding hue, saturation, luminosity, and contrast.  I am picking similar colours out of the picker in my program(s) so I'll just have to break myself out of that habit.

Like I said, I am new to creating pixelart so I fully expect there's more to learn than just that too; that's why I'm here.

[diegzumillo]

When it comes to pixel art specifically this tutorial always comes to mind: http://androidarts.com/pixtut/pixelart.htm But if you're a beginner to the whole world of visual arts you can learn a lot by looking for painting tutorials. You can learn about color, values, composition, shapes, lights and all that stuff. The reason I say this is because if you restrain yourself to pixel art tutorials there isn't much material online, that tutorial I linked is one of the few I like. And if you learn how to draw and paint you can be sure that everything can be applied to pixel art.

[Circuitbomb]

Thanks, I've got that tutorial opened in another tab    I've also been reading a number of posts on http://finalbossblues.com as well.

I have been studying general painting and sketching too, following along with the stuff presented at www.ctrlpaint.com that's been hugely helpful.  I used to draw a lot a long time ago but because I didn't keep up with it I lost that muscle memory so to speak and just end up with everything being a pretty rough, rough looking, rough draft