/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

pls rate.

>>3131905
the head looks really flat. the arms and legs are okay.

>>3129988

>>3131905
make the ear a pixel taller because it looks like another nose facing the other way or move the eye a bit forward.

Do I have to git gud at traditional first to make nice crunchy pixels? (pic not mine)

>>3132430

imo yes, knowing your fundamentals of perspective, color theory and anatomy are very important in pixel art seeing as you need to convey most information via simple color shapes and transitions between colors there a few stray pixels can make your character look off. That said, it's a much more forgiving medium since most artwork is stylized and abstracted to begin with and its very easy to correct

>>3131006
I dont have new stuff so I post old stuff

>>3132716
2/2

>>3132717

I love that grass animation so much. My wrist hurts from looking at it. Got a blog or something I can look at anon?

>>3132914

"animation" that's a fucking video loop

>>3132914
>>3132919 is correct
its pixelized... "fake" if you wish to call it so

So I just found a interest in pixel art. I like to preplan everything I draw. Is grid paper a good place to start at?
You know to map out all of my stuff. I want to be able to make a game eventually.

>>3133732

Unless you're doing a thumbnail sketch there's no real point to making what is essentially black on white pixel art on a piece of paper. Really if you want to plan out the values on a piece first I suggest just making your value sketch on a pixel art program to start with and refine it as you go along.

>>3133732

Is this bait? This is the craziest thing I've read here in a few weeks

>>3133798
Mario, pacman and such were designed on grid paper.

>>3133782
>>3133798
The only reason I ask is while watching tutorials I just people go into it. But each one, I assume since they are making tutorials, already have an eye for the form. I am not too proud to say that I don't.

I understand I would need to differentiate colors so I was going to use color as well as grid paper. Just seemed like it would make it easier to get used to the forms.

>>3133802
Talking about Pacman & Mario...

>>3136816

>>3134039

Regular drawing on paper has benefits over sketching on a tablet, but I can't seem to think of any benefits of manually filling in squares on grid paper which you can't freely move around. I can only think of drawbacks. What would the possibel benefit be?

Anyone know who made this? It looks like its for a game but it was tagged as a comic?

>>3136971
Looks like Cutlaska

>>3136971
>filename

>>3138019
Is that a game?

>>3133732
>>3136816
>>3136818
watdafug

>>3136971
https://twitter.com/Cutlaska

I've been getting into pixel art lately, but only done some really simple stuff. I don't mind posting more, but for now I'll just put in the piece I'm most proud of (despite it being quite flawed)

sup lads

>>3143657
Damn that looks good. I assume you made it?
How long have you been doing pixel art or just art in general before doing stuff like this? I think pixel art is so beautiful, I kinda want to try my hand at it but I don't know anything about colors because as a slightly-above-beginner-level guy I'm just focusing on stuff like gesture, anatomy, etc

>>3138139
Are you retarded?

www.google.com

Can I still make pixel art if I have zero experience with drawing on paper?

>>3144263
Yes

>>3144263

Back in the day (i.e. the 80's and early 90's) there were people who learned to do great pixel art without prior drawing experience. Obviously you need to know fundamentals to draw realistically, but you make pretty shoddy traditional pieces yet still create beautiful pixel art. Source: seeing the traditional work of actual pixel artists.

>>3144069
I google searched as well but it look like screen shots for a game and all I can find are still pictures.

idk

>>3144288
>Back in the day (i.e. the 80's and early 90's) there were people who learned to do great pixel art without prior drawing experience.
Just how did they do it? I see some modern day artists who do the same just for fun.

>>3143997
I've been doing it for about half a year now? It's fun stuff. Honestly dude if you wanna get into it you should, you'll pick up knowledge on color along the way

>>3143997
I've been doing it for about half a year now? It's fun stuff. Honestly dude if you wanna get into it you should, you'll pick up knowledge on color along the way

>>3145111
he's a dumb fuck lying to another dumb fuck, that's all

Pic related is my first pixel art, I read the Pixeljoint beginner post in the OP, so I tried to make a simple little image based on those "to do" and "to avoid"
However I don't understand how AA works. I mean if it's just a single black line on an empty space then you add more pixels of varying degrees of black to "soften" it, but how do I do that when the outline is black and the inside is colored?

Heres a thing

>>3147248
>that off center question mark

>>3147251

>>3147259
c o m f

>>3145621
>from 0 to that in 6 months
I guess previous drawing experience really helps, that seems like very fast progress

>>3148598
knowing the basics, regardless of the medium you learned them in, is 90% of creating good pixel art.

Bumping with a something I made (badly) because I want this thread to live and prosper
By the way is Piskelapp all one needs or should I download a program if I want to get serious?

>>3148818
Forgot a thing

>>3148822
thunder thighs

>>3148829
Do you point that out as a bad thing? I love big juicy thighs, so that's how I draw them.
Also fixed a few things, not sure why I didn't give her a shadow on the grass right away. Guess I'm just retarded

>>3148906
fucking lol
you're retarded alright

>>3149396
Explain

>>3148822
>>3148906
I thought they were poofy pants you hadn't coloured yet.

>>3148906
Learn more about anatomy in order to exaggerate it.
You drew the thighs as connected, like a ballsack and completely ignored the hips. The legs are also way too short.

>>3152676
They aren't connected, I just didn't outline the right thigh because I wanted to be accurate with the lighing, even if I knew it looked like they were connected

>>3133732

Just draw a sketch on a piece of paper and then work from it. You will have to change something (depending on the sprite resolutions) but a lot of times, that's for better.

>>3144263
Yeah.

Ayy

its relaxing to work from photos

>>3154866
Cute! Do you got a blog or someplace to follow you?

>>3155531
Thanks! I've been trying to post more on my Tumblr,
https://myangelpudding.tumblr.com
A link to my Deviantart is there too, I'm more active there.

been trying to animate some of my stuff

>>3156426
redraw the frames instead of scooting parts around

>>3156426
what movement are you trying to communicate here?

>>3156460
>>3156473
I'm not a very good animator; I've never taken a class. It's basically all I'm capable of doing at my current skill-set

>>3156559
try harder, do more, expand skillset

>>3156566
gud advice
also nice dubs
I'll try and improve!

>>3156559
I'm not criticizing you, I'm just asking what movement you're trying to communicate so I can be more helpful. Is it just an idle animation?

>>3141034
I really like that one, even though the horses body feels kinda stiff. More jojo related stuff pls

>>3156559
>I've never taken a class
yeah okay that's probably the single thing in your entire fucking life holding you back from being capable glad you really zeroed in on it early

>>3156622
Oh. Yeah, it's an idle animation. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

>>3156979
Are you being sarcastic? I can't really tell.

I just started making pixels... it's pretty fun but still not my forte

>>3157888
Blog? Absolutely kawaii.

>>3157890
Thank you!! No blog yet, but I made a deviantart recently- unicostar

I could use some tips / critique. I always feel like its TOO pixelated or not pixelated enough.

>>3157888
Like this is great but it looks more like an oekaki to me

How do you make your images bigger? I make my sprites in photoshop at brush size 1, but it's too small...

>>3158742
I would say this looks more like oekaki than >>3157888's.
the line work is mostly fine, but I would say use darker values to communicate the forms better, and maybe try to eliminate the bulk of the outline using sel-out. you got a few jaggy lines here and there which need to be cleaned up/AAed out. lastly the lines on the lower arm looks a little too sharp, try to make the line curve a bit.
still, this is a really good piece, I hope my critique was helpful, and also muh dick.

>>3158750
Don't tell anyone I said this, but zoom in then take a screen shot.

>>3157888 again
I'm on mobile so I hope this actually posts as a gif... the animation is really lazy, ik, but I wanted to save time to work on something else :p

>>3159476
fuck, the little pool of blood is supposed to fade away but the gifmaker got rid of the transparency. oh well...

Does anyone do art for games and give me some advice?

Or would that be better suited to the VG Dev general?

I find it goes too fast to keep up and people's interests are too numerous to get a solid answer on anything.

Also does anyone do any LCD style art?

>>3159476
The syringe is hard to read.

>>3158836
Yes thank you, i have been trying selout since then but it makes the image seem so blurry and melds together.

>>3159997
Yeah, true, I was worrying about that actually. I'll edit it a bit

this is pretty simple, but it was fun to make!

I feel like this could be a lot better. Any tips for if I do something similar in the future?

>>3159946
honestly, you're better off going to a community dedicated to pixel art, like pixelation or pixel joint forums. you'll generally get quick and useful critique/advice from very good pixel artists there. This thread is fairly slow, and I see too many posts that go by without any critique. I would advise against /agdg/ since, like you said, it's too many facets of game design cramped into one thread so it just speeds on through trampling over any form of feedback.
what kind of advice were you looking for though?

>>3160250
I'd like to do a little game but don't know how to start.

Is it better to use a game engine and export or code it manually?

So whats superior? Aesprite or Pro motion NG

>>3160241
the oras don't really hit hard. instead of a stationary text bubble, just shift the oras around each time like they're being punched on the screen.

also star platinums pose isn't set up for him to be punching

>>3132717
stop posting this in every thread

Here's some pixels to bump thread up

>>3162807
Blog? Love the colors.

>>3158742
Who made this ? I want more

>>3162810
I don't normally post anime stuff, so you might be disappointed. You can find me over at pixeljoint with the name CopherNeue, and my twitter handle has the same name

>>3158742
Anonnnn . . . Google image search isnt working, but i want moar

>>3147248
do you have a blog or somewhere youve posted more work?

I don't really have the patience for spending huge amounts of time on things, so stuff like this tends to be as big as it gets.