/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4192598
Did a commission last week for someone. I want to try simplifying my forms a bit more and upping my colour game.

>>4192599
Some more stuff to get us started. I'd like to experiment more with making game assets and
pixeling with existing palettes when I have the time.

I made this a few weeks ago for practice.

is there any eng version of EDGE2? at the very least english documentation on it.

>>4195796
EDGE2 reminds me of graphicsgale.

is dithering essencial for the look?

>>4196020
There's plenty of pixel art that is fairly flat without any dithering and looks beautiful.

made this for connected map

>>4192598

I'm struggling with picking a canvas size, sometimes the art looks too chibi, like >>4196153
which is amazing, but not what I'm looking for

>>4192598
This looks cool, but why is it so low res? I can't see shit.

>>4196639
A sorry lad, didn't know how 4chan would display pixels, it's been a while since I posted pixel stuff on /ic/. If you click on it it shows up properly.

>>4196624
If you want actual faces it has to be somewhat chibified or larger in size.

Is Saint11 the only person who can explain pixel art in a cohesive way?

i made this shit 5 years ago, i have zero creativity now, looking at my old stuff i had a game in the works. Maybe because i had so much free time and wasn't in college

I don’t understand why, but it just looks bad. Any tips?

Commission I did a while back. Piercings weren't my idea but I still like how it turned out.

>>4192598
im squinting at this thread

>>4198548
Since the bodies are turned toward the right a bit, it looks weird to have the completely symmetrical arms and vag. The shoulders look really hunched and pulled back in the non-posed ones. You should have more of your shadow color. Having just the tiny bits of shadow around the edges makes everything look flat, or at least weirdly front-lit

How do you post pixel art on twitter without it being compressed to shit?

I love Deceiver art style.

>>4201509
This is super cool

>>4203599
He has an interesting art style

Any tips for drawing pixel art with 32 pixel height or less?

>>4206895
Simplify and keep your colours limited

>>4192598
I made these reskins a while back, but other than that, I'm a creative dead end in terms of pixel art.

>>4199244
Blog?

>>4208539
Scott Pilgrim right?

>>4192604
make the stars twinkle beautifully and receive 400 billion twitter likes

>>4208510
Thanks, I'm still trying to simplify the shapes, and I need to study color theory, I have problems selecting good ones.

>>4208540
very NSFW and I retweet furshit.
(@bernbirk): https://twitter.com/bernbirk?s=09

my instagram is benbrook.art where I put my tryhard sfw stuff.

>>4192598

Eh

jazza's pixel art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooo51ZRgU_4

>>4213211
the artifacts make it more authentic than anything itt

Copied from a Bob Ross episode. Gonna have another go at it later tonight.

>>4213211
now post some pixel art please

what programs do you guys use? Any free ones with a grid?

>>4217985
krita has pixel art templates, pixel art brushes, and a grid

>>4218020
unironically MSpaint or >>4218020

>>4217985
GraphicsGale

I've been doing pixel art for a while.

>>4213211
The fuck is that typography?

>>4217985
aseprite, it's 15 bucks but if you look up the github repo you can compile it from source (legally), or use the trial version except you can't save your works.

>>4217985
Plain ol' Photoshop. Pixaki on the ipad.

>>4192604
Nice. Blog?

>>4219058
https://twitter.com/irisdrawsstuff
https://www.instagram.com/irisgsmit/
Here you go, anon! I don't only do pixel art though.

>>4219060
Well, I can already tell that you have good taste.
>retweeted stuff based around Yoshida Hiroshi, Moebius and Shinkawa Yōji
>has a penguin with blazing eyes as his pfp

Tried to imitate SNES style, but with more details. What do you think, /ic/?

I've been trying to get back into sprite since I quit drawing, but in both case I'm /beg/ level.

>>4219389
A black and white sprite that I made much earlier today before going wageslaving.

>>4219136
It's really nice, anon

>>4219389
Base is fine, but black line art kills yout readability. Especially when a majority of your color choices are darker shades.

>>4220099
One reason black line art is there because I start with black and white sprite then add flat colours, but I don't know if it's right way to do it.

>>4220104
That's fine, but don't just leave it at that. Black lines are rarely used in sprites as they add nothing to the image, especially smaller scale ones. Outline borders may be used to help the sprite stand out from the background, but rarely is it employed for the entire sprite.

>>4220159
>>4219389
Same sprite but without black outline

>>4220282
Another sprite of the same character but I tried to make a lewd pose. Like spreading the legs on a bed but without the bed.

>>4220468
dick is awfully off-center. Looks like its attached to chars right leg

>>4220504
I should try to move more to the left I think. I'm still working on it.

Because 64x64 is too, I resized at 800%

>>4220546
*too small

bump

I was thinking of the DB Hell Filler character when making the sprite.

Did this CG for my RPG Maker pee game a few months ago.

>>4220546
Why is the dick twisted by 90 degrees to the side?

>>4221467
it was suppose to be like a pov but it comes out bad because I'm beg.

just mad it

reference-free WIP I've been working on lately. Feel like the legs are too long, but good God trying to do hands and feet in pixel art is a pain.

Should I post some examples of my old MUGEN/fighting game character work?

>>4222403
don't ask. just post them

>>4222407
Ok, this lineup is based on a cleaned up Ultimate Battle 22/Shin Butohden style (2013)

>>4222413
Ultrahigh-res resprite from the 1994 Aliens doom mod

>>4222424
Probably should posted this first:
Original 1994 sprite(not mine) compared to 2011 resprite (use in Aliens: Colonial Marines Doom mod)

Here is my most recent stuff. Crit welcome.

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>>4195985
EDGE2 looks more versatile than graphicsgale.

>>4222401
i rike it
i reearrryyyy rike it
i reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

>>4222424

dude and you did all that? nice work

>>4192598

>>4223189
Cool, but I have no idea what is in the third column, looks like a jew swordfish.

>>4223225
its a sawshark with armor plating, supposed to to be like a sword so yeah

>>4223189
rendering reminds me a lot of clovers stuff

I used too do sprite editing many years ago but I didn't continue and wasn't very good at it.

Another oldie

make this a general, ive been too lazy to do it

>>4225895
I could post more sprites but I'm not sure about continuing to post them since they are old stuff and not very good.

>>4225910
still post, you can get advice i guess

Just made this from scratch.

How do you pick up a name for an OC donut?

>>4225895
Itd be more supported if enough people took interest in it

>>4226147
I'd be up for writing one up and setting things up.

how in the fuck do i get faster at this shit? a lot of the time it's just me sitting there attempting trial and error hoping something turns out good hours on end draining any energy i have. Small canvases in particular that don't allow just line art all across.

>>4226629
I don't know. I'm pretty slow myself especially when starting from black and white going pixel by pixel at a time.

>>4226629
Copying other pixel art seems have improved my speed, try copying for a while.

>>4197804
Yes and no. Initially very useful but linked to a specific style of pixel art that is kind of inoffensive but pretty generic

Any tips on how to draw vegetation?

Just made this some minutes ago.
It's Hell OC character, but I don't have names for my OCs.

>>4230916
The legs look flat.

>>4230916
I made an edited, not sure if it looks good.

Made this years ago

I've been making a lot of pixel art recently, i wanna get better

>>4222685
>>4222686
Blog??? I love the style

used to do animu on dotpict when I first got into digital art one year ago

>>4236567

>>4236573
was still /beg/ level, but I had a lot of fun

>>4230643

I'm pretty satisfied with the demon, but the lady is preddy fugged up. Going to tweak her hair/skin colors, and touch up the face and arms. Anything else? Weird edges or jaggies I missed?

>>4240455
The arms look like wooden sticks, that strands of hair going to the back looks more to like a dreadlock, and personally I don't like the shading on the snout, and on the fur, I think you can achieve the same result with 3 or 4 colors.
I liked the details in the end of the fur, the horn and the lower part of the creature's body.

Any advice for getting good at pixel art?

>>4241128

Pixel art is essentially very precise painting. The more your fundemental painting skills improve, the better you'll get at pixel art.

>>4241128
Copy and edit other pixel art, and make your own using references.

>>4196130
/ic/han, daisuke~

>>4242999
Damn, I can already feel the weight in the gesture drawing, very nice anon.

>>4243038
I didn't make that, some anon from /agdg/ was working in a dark fantasy game, but the kickstarter failed.
I forgot the name of the game.

>>4225877
>filename
>dubs

I dab ble

>>4243294
Very good, it looks like a duck.

>>4222377
i want a full game with those colors

>>4246071

Slowly carving it out...

>>4246240

Fixed boob sizes.

trying to limit myself in 16 cols and it can be pain sometimes

Absolute noob willing to study and learn here.

The priest guy base was stolen from Ron Gilbert's trash bin.

I'm working on the green guy right now, and I don't see how I could improve, so if you could please have the patience to explain to me, I would truly appreciate it.

>>4247056
The green monster looks flat, try adding dark values to create depth, especially on the mouth and on the top of the head, also, personally I would remove the outline of the sides of the body.

Hey Francis, how is the game going ?

>>4247056
Try not to stay so close in value with your colour choices.

>>4247611
Hello! It's going well. I started my ADHD treatment and everything is alright now. Vacations are coming and I'm working a lot on the story so when they finally come I can dedicate more time creating assets that won't go to waste. It's a solo zero budget project so it's all about cutting whatever I can. I'm learning a bit of pixelart every night now but what I really want is to run a modest Kickstarter campaign so I can hire an artist to do the polishing.

I'm following Video Game Storytelling by Evan Skolnick.

Oh, and I'll try to apply the tut you sent me. Thanks for you support. Don't forget to follow me at Twitter if you use it, it's @JohnNStudio

I have no idea of what I'm doing but I know I'll study shading.

I have no idea of what I'm doing but I know I need to study shading.

What program do you guys make pixel art in? Paint? honest question.

>>4199244
woah, this is rad as shit man

>>4248576
Aseprite, don't bother paying for it. Just compile it.

>>4248587
aspergers elemental form?

>>4248576
Photoshop on PC and Pixaki on iPad. Friend gave me aseprite so gonna try that one out.

>>4248576
GraphicsGale

A bat.

only pixel art i ever did, and also my rarest pepe

>>4192598
I've posted this a thousand times before, but I want to bump the thread.

>>4192598
>>4251897
Also, here's some LISA stuff

>>4251900
This one looks good.

https://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=10784.msg115062#msg115062

>>4248576
Only the best one http://grafx2.chez.com/

>>4253122
scared to open


random but are any of those old sprite websites around from the early 2000s?

>>4252979
Is there more of this ?

>>4253894
https://2dwillneverdie.com/
http://www.scrollboss.illmosis.net/blog/

I don't know how long these have been up though but they have been around for years atleast.

Here's the classic pixel art tutorial from 2001 still up. There are more in the same series
http://petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/chapter5.htm

>>4197913
Anon it's just a black girl with blue hair

>>4210865
Maybe use some complimentary colors on the eyes and whatnot?

>>4255672

First time drawing animated pixel art.

>>4255808
>http://petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/chapter5.htm
Something that always bothered me about the tiles in most snes jrpgs are the rocks, are they 3D renders, they don't look like pixel art.

>>4222682
Do you post anywhere,like on Twitter or smthng?

>>4260720
>Something that always bothered me about the tiles in most snes jrpgs are the rocks, are they 3D renders, they don't look like pixel art.

I don't see how. Maybe you're just bad at rendering

>>4260816

Did my first piece of pixel art today, can you guys give me some constructive criticism. Also I wanted to make the fire reflect of the tree and the character and also to cast a shadow behind him but didn't know exactly how to do it (tried cross hatching but it didn't look so well)

>>4260824
I don't know which game that's from but there was a lot of 3d based assets mixed with pixel art in late 90's and early 2000's arcades and GBA games. That particular example doesn't look like 3d to me though.

>>4260912
Night scenes are going to be more monochromatic and bluish. You wouldn't see such strong greens and browns in the trees for instance. A common approach to a scene like this would be to have two light sources; 1 from the moon in the upper left and a secondary from the fire in the house which creates rim light in the tree, figure and hills etc.

>>4250083
Interesting. I like this one.

>>4260984
Thanks for the feedback. also do you have any more tips on how to choose and deal with colors on night scenes, for instance, should the red t-shit be purple or just a darker red

>>4250083
I like the texture and blending dither provides, but then again I am from the era where pixel art was viewed on CRT screens. Too much emphasis on clustering gives pixel art a unfinished look in my eyes.

>>4261018
>but then again I am from the era where pixel art was viewed on CRT screens.
We're old, but we're not that old are we, anon?

>>4261020
I'm 38

>>4260977
Chrono Trigger, I guess this image is better, there is also the Kingdom of Zeal map, the rock parts don't look like pixel art.

>>4235392
Something about this one makes me genuinely smile!

Made this commission a little while ago.

>>4265295
What is that purple thing on his face ?

>>4267264
An eye.

what range of $ to commission an artist and where to find them?

>>4238177
Nice.

>>4267677
pixeljoint $30~$100

>>4260824
>>4260720
>>4262909
the shit /beg/inners say

Something I made this year.

>>4275475
Another snail I made this year.