/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6164269
There seem to be some interest for this, and if it bump the thread i don't mind.

Here are 2 examples, left has 8 colors and is 500 px tall, right is 16 colors and close to 250 px tall. Which one looks better is not really that important. What is significant is which one looks more like pixel art and why. Even tho left is also limiting the resolution and amount of colors, most people would not call it pixel art. Here lies the importance of references, if your work don't look like it belongs on a group that has other drawings made by pixel artist, you need to try again.

On the subject of cleaning drawings and achieving the rendering. I did some clean up on the bottom right to illustrate this. As you can see, i removed some anti aliasing on the circle, and the green pixels on the pants. Still there is a lot to be done, like joining or removing single pixels, fixing some curves, and you can still remove one or two colors here but i'm not really that fond of this drawing to keep working on this.
As it was mentioned before, pixel logic is a book about rendering pixel art, so the recommendations there are going to apply when you are cleaning up your pixel art (i have no idea why some people are trying to push it as a drawing manual, but i digress).