/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Reposting my last two line-ups

>>5078024

>>5077629
>- Porn is fine
yep, I'm thinkin cringe

>>5079643

>>5079644

>>5077631
But how many times are you gonna repost something you did in 19 October

>>5079785
OP, I'm not the author, I just post samples from other threads.

how do you do limbs?

critique on how to make this look prettier is much appreciated :3

>>5081381
are the wacky proportions part of a stylised set of pieces or are they unintentional? it could work if they were a part of a set “rules” for a sprite set/multiple character piece but right now it looks off

>>5081446
Bigger version

>>5081381
the animuh eyes with the bowling ball head look absolutely ridiculous

besides banding at the chin what can i do about the lighting for the head? it looks off

>>5083884
it's too flat. give it some more personality with texture work. hairs don't have single sections normal to a light source, they have patterns that get highlighted. they're also not so uniform on colors
this is all if, of course, you're not going for a flat look. small pallets aren't an excuse, you can use colors of different guess and it would only make it look better

whatcha think of the texture work on this? how could it be improved?

>>5084103
I dig the roof, it's odd but it works. #1 improvment you could make is the windows. Perhaps a darker/lighter frame around the windows, to help add a bit of depth (no need for extra geometry).

>>5077629
Which system are you guys trying to emulate?
I personally like the Mega Drive aesthetics and color palette.

>>5085082
the NDS I guess

>>5084781
noted, thank you so much!

>>5085075
REVENDRETH GANG LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>5084103
largely depends on how you intend it to be viewed, but i would make the weather vein a different color since it blends in with the roof in the turn around

>>5084102
I must have been pretty high from sleep deprivation when I wrote this because even I can't tell what I meant by this. but as an example of hair sprites that are somewhat similar to your style, these are somewhat flat-ish in the sense they're not overdetailed, but they look pretty good anyway by using simple shadows. it's from a pokemon game

>>5085227
that's very true and I considered changing it when I made it but I figured I'd leave it as a "silhouette enhancer", if that makes any sense, because at the time I thought this was the one thing the house model was lacking the most

>>5085247
>>5084102
I forgot the image, naturally

>>5085214
I sacrificed 10% dps to be a cool vampire you better bet I'm gonna fucking copy their shit

>>5077637
>>5078024
>>5078032
Are you working on a game or something?

what pixel art app do you guys like for android?

Heres the first frame of an animation i was working on but got too preoccupied in detail and realized I'm too lazy to continue it.

>>5085600

Didnt have my pen with me so i used line tool, here are some sketches i did.

>>5085590
dotpic

>>5085082
nes & c64 mostly

>>5085600
god I love this, looks flawless both stylistically and technically

>>5085635

Thanks! I also did a storyboard animation of this characters prototype design before deciding on using aesprite. l for a new one, link is the animation.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/371043307532451844/791864249864814642/rapiddecentcats-mobile_TaN2cbgC_VnJR-1.mp4

>>5079646
you seem to imitate classic belmont walk cycle, but more inbetweens and higher res makes him seem like he does the robot walk
i think old belmonts were meant to look jogging, so straightforward run cycle may work better
attack looks nice, but try fusing 6 and 7 together and see if faster attack looks better

How cheap does the up-and-down jiggle look?

>>5086624

It looks like you used the group select tool to slide different body parts around on different layers.

>>5084103

I wouldn't necessarily call this pixel art but still looks good.

>>5080878

Unironically how kingdom hearts characters look.

>>5086624
very but I'd work on that right arm first. If this style of movement is kept consistently throughout the game or whatever it can be pulled off I'd say

>>5086699
Merry Christmas, anon

What yall think of this Rodian I did for an upcoming tg? kinda new at this so any tips would be great.

>>5087970
I particularly like the colors but the anatomy seems off, don't know but it's a thing from the species but if not then I'd try to work on that

>>5088009
don't know if it's a thing*

>>5087970
not a fan of the entirely black outlines ngl

>>5088009
I went a head and took a picture of myself for reference and holy shit i was so far off before idk how i didn't see how wacky it was.
>>5088262
This made such a big difference thanks for the advice! decided to keep the black around the silhouette but it makes it look so much more clean without black lines mudding up the colors.

>>5087970
Contrary to >>5088009 I fucking hate the colors. If you're going to use a gradient tool like that and a full 97 colors for one fucking sprite I don't think you're working in the correct medium.

Did this as a school project, turned out aight.

>>5088740
dang, it's 1 bit palette? it looks superb! I'm guessing you used some sort of brush or something else to advise you on the lighting/dithering because otherwise that must have taken months to finish this aspect alone. mind expanding on your process for this a bit? either way, good fucking job!

>>5088915
So I kinda start out by sketching like you would any other drawing, and as I draw I refine pieces here and there and explore the aesthetic I want to go with.
Typically I fully render a part of the drawing in a style, and then do the rest in a similar manner with the same rules I laid out in the first rendering.
And yeah, I made brushes for the dithering because otherwise it took way too fucking long, in Aseprite its stupid easy to make brushes, so I did that. This one took about 4 days of on and off work to finish.
Some of the effects I did involve laying down a dithered pattern and then blacking out pieces of it with the default 1 pixel brush to give it a glitchier or more broken look as well.
I also do these as 1 layer drawings, kinda like a painting, obvious exceptions being when I do animations.

Made a color pallette based on one of my favorite band album from the prodigy, Feedback on it would be appricieated.

>>5088740
>>5088977
With something that scale why choose 'pixel art' over traditional drawing?

>>5086616
Its not my work. I just posted that because it helps give people an idea on how to animate pixel art. This also is not mine.

>>5088740
>>5088977
I see, thanks for the thorough explanation!

>>5088995
the file size is too small, I cant see anything

>>5089033
Because there is something to be said for making something as simple as pixel art complicated.
Hell doing binary isn't the same either, I draw in binary as well but you can't replicate dithering or texture the same way.
Pixel art just looks different even at a large scale, and I dig it.
Pic related is a binary drawing I did for comparison.

>>5089109
Faggots like you are why art has a bad name.
>there is something to be said
Then fucking say it you vapid cunt. You can't articulate it because there is no valid reason, you just want autism points so that people overlook your two left hands.

>>5089133
jesus anon. you sure have some strong opinions about pixel art don't you. you should get yourself a cup of tea or something

>>5089074
Now?

>>5085404
yup, some kind of monster train/soul cradle thingy

>>5089133
so what i dont care

>>5089133
pyw

>>5088740
>>5088977
>>5089109

This isnt fucking pixel art this is using MS Paint. Im pretty sure the max limit on what would be considered pixel art would be something like 64 bit gen art... FF7 spites and shit

>>5089567
pyw

>>5088995
>>5089229
Don't really know what to give feedback on here, it sure is a color palette.

>>5089229
I like it anon it has potential. Keep going

First time trying my hands on animation :x

>>5090983
2x size
I'm very beg at pixel art, so I just copied a pokeball then I attempted to add some particles to it
might be a bit dull but I'm proud of it

>>5090992
good particles, I feel like the animation could be a tiny bit faster

progress update.

More practice, making pixel art is fun!

posting some of my old stuff

using piskel btw
think aseprite is better but haven't gotten into it yet

think that's it
if i start drawing again i'll be sure to post em

How's this look? Its my first time doing a pinup sort of art. I feel like there's something wrong with it, but I can't quite put my finger on what.

>>5094984
>something looks wrong
to make the pose more realistic, try doing it yourself
seems to me the butt should be closer to the ground

also it reminds me of this
http://pochi.x.fc2.com/kisekae/k_kisekae2.html
consider using it as some kinda reference (i think you need flash)

Making concept art for a game I'm making. Still unfinished, but thoughts?

Made some Wargreymon. Is it fine to post twitter links here?
https://twitter.com/Geno_CL/status/1343934800613273601

>>5077633
Nice!

>>5095510
Not pixel art.

>>5095526
I don't care about your narrow definition of what pixel art should be. That is pixel art. Stop gatekeeping just because your favorite pixel art growing up was made for a small screen.

>>5095526
?
Then what is it in your opinion?

>>5095526
Faggot
>>5095510
Not bad, but dull colors. Assuming the lack of any shading is a WIP thing, since the orb looks good.
Perspective is off. The above platform is bigger than the below one so it looks like the above is closer. The foot position implies opposite. Also the platforms look like turds, could have a stronger "floating island ripped up from the ground" design.
Pistol is not as emphasized as it should be as a weapon. At that angle you would see little more than the top of the slide. Tweak the pose such that it is more of a profile view.
The orb is neat, with pleasant texture and colors though said texture lacks polish with orphans and noise. Lightning bolts are strangely ribbon-esque. Reference stylized and real electricity.
>>5094984
If the white pixel strip is panties the torso is extremely long, and lower legs are tiny. Use a reference for this pose since it's relatively advanced.
>>5092946
Easy way to cheat more intrigue in your animations is to desync them. Have the balls animate at different delays. Follow this principle with the sparks too. Currently the entire piece looks sturdily tethered by invisible trusses.
>>5087970
>>5088313
On a very good track with being rid of the internal black lines.
Your shading method is incorrect and too soft. Colors are barely distinguishable from each other. Try to use no more than a handful of shades of colors per element. Don't use antialiased tools to shade. Study cel shading.
Also, arms are too small.
>>5086624
Since the clothing stays rigid it does just look like transform tool edits. Have internal elements such as the cloth also bounce, and during the movement the sword should change angles with the tip of the blade lagging behind. Study subpixel animation, it will work great here.
Legs move like hydraulic pistons. Think about how your thigh moves while beginning a crouch. It hinges at the knee, which is what lowers you.
The pendant moves left and right despite it being an entirely vertical movement.

>>5095532
Just a digital drawing. It's not pixel art because it's displayed via pixels; same as a digital photograph isn't pixel art.
The issue isn't that the picture is large, to be pixel art you have to actually follow the rules of pixel art, or try to. In that picture there's horrid aliasing with no effort made to prevent it; an excessively large palette is used instead of dithering; outlining is completely inconsistent; and individual pixel placement is thrown to the wayside. Pixel art require that pixels individually matter. You don't have to place each one one at a time, but you can't ignore them entirely for the whole either. Look at these details; they're not acceptable from a pixel art perspective. It looks fine as a drawing as a whole, but not as pixel art. The fact that the artist decided to compress the drawing so you can't even easily pick out the pixels just elucidates my point, individual pixels don't matter in the piece, ergo it is not pixel art.
No one would seriously suggest this kind of thing in a 32x32 piece is acceptable, so it shouldn't be acceptable in a larger piece either. WoW icons are only 64x64 but I wouldn't call them pixel art, because they try very hard not to be. Meanwhile, >>5077633 is probably like 150x150, but maintains the principles and style of pixel art.

>>5095716
So, in pixel art every individual pixel must have purpose? That's what you meant in short?
If so, how do you distinguish between just bad, amateur pixel art and non-pixel art?

>>5095742
Intent. It can be difficult, but I feel quite confident in this particular example there was simply no effort or thought put into a lot of it. Stuff like the line along the spine is just not something any aspiring pixel artist would do. Even if someone wasn't happy with the end result, I would expect some comment about the issues with aliasing, or how the lightning was really hard with only two colors, or a couple examples of attempts at anti-aliasing, or something. Doing/saying nothing AND providing the image in a compressed, non-perfect form is just not caring about pixels at all.
There are plenty of examples higher in the thread, my own included, that are far from perfect, but you can tell the artist was trying.

>>5095766
Well, I agree with you then. Other people here should really try to present their point on this instead of just bitching and crying "you are gatekeeper" or "you are faggot, fuck you".

>>5095716
>>5095766
I think it's adorable you're making up rules for what "pixel art is" that are completely arbitrary. Why must it have dithering? Why does it need to look good in 32x32? Those are just the rules some initial pixel artists had to follow out of technical necessity. The reality is that pixel art is an art style. It's not necessarily easy to define, like you so effortlessly attempt, but it is certainly easy to spot and claiming something isn't pixel art when it clearly is only makes you a pompous elitist ass

>>5095814
Just because someone says the most words, does not mean they are correct. Often times it just means they have nothing better to do, as opposed to people who know what the fuck they're talking about

>>5095827
This is a widely accepted definition, I'm not making it up and learned it from others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299&PID=139318#139318

>>5095716
Well I didn't realize I had to prove it what my process is so I took a quick screenshot of a WIP. Here it is more properly transfered, perhaps now you can tell that I indeed did pay attention to aliasing and in fact, contrary to what you claim, I paid attention on where each pixel was placed - well, almost each. But pretty close. It's not perfect or even good really, but I specifically went for that retro "rotorscoped" kind of pixel art you might see on Another World for example, if you know it.

>>5095845
First of all, if you read what you linked, most of what you claimed makes pixel art is categorized as techniques and not as defining aspects. I think you will notice that the first line of the definition of pixel art states that there is no concrete definition of what pixel art is (despite the fact that it goes on to define it based on what "most pixel artists agree"... and that is why Wikipedia is not the bible kids)
Also, as to that forum post, I understand the point being made, but I respectfully disagree. For example, the first picture of a tree is not pixel art, but the comparison pixelated zoomed in picture of the tree, I personally would consider pixel art, even if it was not hand-made to be so

>>5095878
>this is pixel art
are you even trying?

>>5095916
Just my honest opinion, it evokes to me the same kind of feeling as some pixel art so for all intents and purposes I think so yes

>>5095939
>visible pixels = pixel art
I suppose the simple-minded being simple does make sense.

>>5095945
Feel free to think whatever you want, but you are the simple minded one friend

>>5095414
Ah, I tried doing the pose myself, but I derped and didn't use a mirror (I dont have one large enough), and didn't think to use my cellphone. I will see how far off the ground my butt is.

>>5095625
Ah, you're right. The calves DO look a bit too small, and the panties line is a bit too long. Will make adjustments later, thanks.

someday ill get better at this

>>5095516
Hella cool, good job bro
>>5095625
>Currently the entire piece looks sturdily tethered by invisible trusses.
Yeah I see what you mean, thanks for the input
>>5096312
Cool points for using dithering in the BG, but I feel like your anatomy (look at her right leg, poor girl) and shadows are off
Maybe apply some AA as well

>>5095516
Oh fuck now I noticed a mistake and it's too late to fix it on insta, damn.

>>5096942
nice

>>5096312
GMI
Nipples do not go nuclear with the gap between them like that. They could if the breasts were huge and sagging but not here. In this instance also the clothing should perfectly cover them, but instead here they sit on the cleavage instead of the zenith of the breast.
As a design element the hat is really small. Assuming it's a witch hat but it's really tiny, which is a missed opportunity for some nice exaggeration. It also doesn't rest on the head at all but floats above, redline the scalp and you can see this.
The right hand should be holding onto the leg to hold this pose for more than 3 seconds, but it's entirely absent. The upper body is disconnected with the pose in general, remove the lower body and it would work as a bust piece. Some shoulder action by not having them be level would go a long way. Tilt the head towards the leg also for more curvature and stronger center of mass.
Lower leg and head are too small, and left arm elbow lacks structure.
>>5096942
Technically correct, but at this resolution you want to work shape appeal for all it's got. Avoid having too many bumps and indents with the limbs since even one missing pixel deforms the shapes too much.
See pic related, this lower leg is an unappealing shape. It starts medium, suddenly thickens then suddenly thins into an ankle. Perhaps correct in anatomy but doesn't translate well here, the resolution doesn't allow for the pleasant curves normal art can provide us.
Also lower legs blend too much with thighs. This is hard to solve with shapes as I described so try shading to differentiate the parts. Shading the whole lower leg dark is an effective cheat.
Arms are too noodly and small. Shoulders are also missing.
The back hair view doesn't align with that the front view shows but looks good. Bring the front hair up to the same quality. The stacked blob of outline is strange and looks like a shadow where there should be very little.
Vary facial expression across the poses.

Made a potion, tried to apply my newly acquired knowledge of AA to it. I took heavy inspo from a pic on google though, so its not 100% OC, but good practice nonetheless

Work in progress. Obviously the succ effect needs a lot of fucking work, and it needs a repair animation as well, but I like how it's turned out. No idea if Ill ever finish it, or use it though, but it was a fun exercise.

Do you guys use "block-in" in order to figure out how youre going to draw/pixel your characters? I'm quite new to this stuff so I would like to learn from others and get some input (pic related is my current project, I wanna make a character)

More practice
Kinda sad how ded this general is (or maybe everyone is working hard on complex pieces?)

>>5097856
Forgot to post yesterday's piece but I've been doing something every day.
I'm not very good yet, and limbs in particular give me a lot of trouble.

>>5081381
better proportions

Should've finished this weeks ago, but I just can't get the fucking arms right. Nothing I try looks good it drives me insane.

>>5098013
Assuming pink is elbows, I think they go to far back.

>>5098110
I know, but I can't push them too far back, because it will look too ridiculous. I think pink ones are fine, it's green (arms) that look off.

My own attempt at making an original pocket monster. It's kinda shit, but I think it has SOUL
Making pixel art is fun!

UOOOOOOHHHH I CAN (NOT) STOP DRAWING PIXEL ART

Decided to rest from failing to animate shit and did some actual pixel art for once. Rate my amateur skills plz

>>5098728
nice colors, really digging the hair, but her left eye's looking like it's sliding off her face

>>5098762
well, eye was supposed to be obscured by hair, along with her left cheek. Also head is kind of tilted to the left very slightly. But if you read it like you did then I guess it fails to communicate all that.

Does this one looks any better?

>>5098834
I think the shadow on the first one is better. Dunno if you've been looking at it at proper scale as well but I think it's pretty good, with my only nitpicks being the left shoulder cape/pauldron/whatever is really indistinct (but as a portrait if there's another sprite somewhere else that shows what it is no problem) and the lock of hair on the front right of her face has a few pixels that make a weird right angle.

>few pixels that make a weird right angle
huh? what do you mean?

>>5099006
These two

>>5097458
yes block-in is very effective for pixel art, silhouette is extremely important

>>5097115
Not bad. Don't dice your backlights like this, have it be a single cluster. The vial also doesn't look perfectly curved. There is also zero hue shifting.
>>5097892
Good shit. Reduce use of outlines in the internals of your pieces, you will probably like the result. Text is hard to read also.
>>5098013
That looks fine to me anon. Maybe stiff. Have the hands move more.
>>5098203
You should study jaggies, and how to avoid them.
>>5098335
Pretty good for a simple key. Try thicker, unless it's a key blade or something.
>>5098834
Very nice.
Having a tough time identifying the nose. Does she have piercings or are they nostrils? I don't think you need to showcase the nostrils at all here.
Mouth could be simplified. There is little room for lipstick while also having expressive and distinct emotion. Here for example I struggle to know if she is gaping her mouth or sitting neutral.
Neck shading receives light from the opposite direction of the face.
Hair is highly pillow shaded, and has worse colors than your walk anim cycle for some reason. I like the anim colors more over all, they are vastly more lively. I don't like the darkest skin shade that is suddenly much more saturated than the next shade in line.
The blue shoulder pad thing could use more attention.
I also think there is too much antialias. The bare shoulder for example doesn't even need to be anything other than flat color since it won't receive light. Below the necklace could be cleaned up too.

>>5099877
Tried to address as many of your point as I could. Overhauled entire thing as a result.

>>5100168
aaand forgot to add earring back. fuck.

Did any of you do one of these to see your progress?

>>5100379
I am too lazy to do shit every month. Only work when I get hit with inspiration, which is very rare unfortunately. Will definitely make progress compilation when I have something to put there.

>>5100168
the nose looks a little too far up, making her look piggish and having long philtrum
i would lover the eyes too and blend out the sides of the eye too to get rid of the ring look.

Bought Aseprite and tried the animation feature
Still a noob in both animation and pixel art, but at least I'm having fun while practicing :x

>>5100379
well you just made me

>>5101084
I love the July design, rest seems a bit odd

>>5101091
that's funny, I consider that one to be the weakest of this selection

>>5101094
wew

>>5100530
She looks like anime girl now. Also, I guess this has to be my 2020 - 2021 progress card now. Happy NY, /pag/

>>5101170
unbitchified

>>5101201
It definitely looks better this way. Just little sad that my initial idea with head tilt didn't work that well.

Did a sword, took heavy inspo from "Wind Blade" from Terraria
I'm such a noob at applying AA and my color theory is wack (very new to it)
Any feedback appreciated, especially if you teach me how to get better

Happy new year folks!

>>5101282
not bad at all

>>5101290
thanks fren

>>5101084
>>5101084
Nice! With each month you got closer and closer to the Pokemon GBC style.

>>5101282
I really like the highlights on the gold parts, very nice and shiny :) the color palette is also pretty cool, blue-ish grey + brown + gold isn't something you see a lot I feel, and it works very well. What I'd criticize is that the blade itself looks like it's made of fabric or something since the highlights/shading are so muted in comparison to the shiny gold decorations.
Happy New Year!

>>5100379
>Geno
Absolutely BASED

>>5101526
>>5101526

Currently animating this.

Any tip on how to create a good palette??

I learn to draw pixel art by trying to mimic drawing from another artist show
is that good way to learn?

>>5102299
I would like to know this as well

>>5102299
Realistically I think you'd probably have to take/self-teach color theory. I'm not interested in that at the moment and highly recommend using other peoples' palettes.
https://lospec.com/palette-list
There's no guarantee those are done well, but you can learn the reputable users or trust the masses.

Just made this, any critique is appreciated.

>>5095516
That looks amazing, good work anon.

>>5102722
here's one: don't post something at 10x scale

>>5102753
Why not?

How the dickens do grass and earth work? You guys got any tips on how to make tiles, especially nature-oriented tiles?
I tried my hands on it, but it looks like shit

>>5102773
2x upscaled so you can see my mess better

>>5102758
it makes it impossible to see how things actually look without a lot of work on the viewer's part
if you absolutely must post something at a larger scale, do 1x, 2x, and 4x or something, and ensure it's at least a common multiple/zoom level
a lot of things like (anti)aliasing, how colors interact/blend, how clear details are, etc. can look good/fine at a zoomed in level, but fall apart when it's actually 1x
in that particular example, I think the mouth is fucking trash at 1x, it bleeds into her face and is extremely indistinct at smaller scales, but looks fine at larger ones

>>5102777
Alright i'll zoom it less next time. Thanks for the tip.

>>5102722
I like your use of colors but I need to ask why did you use pink pixels in the choker.
Also to add to the zoom thing, you can try posting both the 1x and, dunno 4x image like this to help compare better.

Arthas' proportions are off but got frustrated so just leaving it and moving on.

What about this movement? Not sure if elbows should swing this far to the sides.

>>5102821
I think i got it, is this scaling better?

I used purple on the edges of the choker as an inbetween to smooth out the curves, since i felt it'd be too thick using only black, and too thin using only her skin color.

>>5102897
elbows are good but the shoulders are pretty stiff, looks like she's got a cramped neck or something

>>5102906
Bottom corner of mouth really blends with skin color. You have to squint your to see where it ends. Here's how I would've fixed it.

>>5102930
I see. Maybe I should allow shoulders to move horizontally too?

>>5102948
>Maybe I should allow shoulders to move horizontally too?
You should try it for sure

>>5102948
You're right about the mouth, i tried to fix it along with a few other edits.

>>5103065
definitely better, but left corner still blends badly in my opinion. Aside from that, good job

>>5100706
Isn't Aseprite open-source? And is it good for animation? I just too used to photoshop, even though it's animation features are very bare bones.
As for the coin, make detail on it more readable. Check out color theory, complementary colors specifically. Also as other anons said above, scale your art before posting it here. 3x or 4x will do fine in most cases.

>>5095510
i agree, that's jsut low def art, not pixel art
fuck off

>>5103469
yeah but its not free. its an absolute bitch to compile for windows, requiring several gigs of dev environment setup and libraries. linux is ezpz tho

lots of nice stuff, cool to see higher interest in pixel art on /ic/ recently, here's one i did for christmas time

Any tip?
I feel like the anatomy is fucked somewhere, but cant pinpoint it

>>5104500
The hood seems a bit stiff and rigid, and seems higher than it should be. Is there something propping it up? Legs look a bit stiff too, but in a different way. Also whats with the green stuff on the sides of his head?

Did anyone here start learning Pixel art first without know how to draw?

>>5104500
right arm is bigger than the left, even tho it's further away

>>5104531
That seems like a bad idea.

>>5103763
Very nice, fren
>>5104500
Like the other anon mentioned, the hood is stiff and higher than its supposed to be. I suggest placing her right elbow more towards the body, so you get more of an 'L' shape. The feet seem kinda weird but at the same time it works, not sure how I would fix that

>>5104531
i mean, i started learning how to draw by mimicing people in the internet

Where/how do I learn to draw faces in such a small scale? Pic related, I'm trying to draw an appealing face (young man). I roughed out a sketch with pen and paper, but I have no idea how to translate it into small pixels. You guys know any good guides on drawing faces in pixel art? Right now my character is around 70px tall and the face is roughly 12x12 in size. I feel like I need more space, but at the same time, this dude has managed to get a pretty standard appealing face in a small scale >>5104500.

>>5104803
Well, i paint circle first to know where the head is
and paint the face to know what position the face is facing to
mostly i just draw the head first
something like that

Can you into perspective?
because holy shit that shit broken me apart

>>5104879
whomst've are thou replying to?

Like kind Anon suggested, I tried to look at reference to better my electricity and make it less ribbon-like. How does it look?

>>5105228
Also actual size of canvas

>>5105230
>>5105228
Why are you stretching the pixels? It looks like shit

>>5105305
What do you mean? I'm not stretching anything AFAIK

>>5105305
what are you seeing mate

How can you do a smoky/vapor affect in a really tight space? Tried for the rightmost but did not feel like it was a success.

Been fucking around in Aseprite all day long, trying to come up with all kinds of ideas and testing shit.
I'm struggling to get the face right, and I have no idea what kind of outfit I'm going for. Working in simple grayscale at the moment, to best figure out the values
I feel like the pose is kinda stiff (he's supposed to hold a sword in his right arm though), and I don't really like the look of his legs right now so I would like some help/tips on that

>>5105550
He has a literal NPC face anon, give him some emotion.

>>5105626
Quickfix just for you. Better now?
Like I said, I'm trying to work with only a basic grayscale palette to prac my values

>>5105228
slightly updated

>>5105962
please stop posting in this thread

>>5106116
I'm afraid you'll be with me to the completion of this piece anon, buckle up (unless, of course, you just ignore my posts... but nah you do your thing)

can i get critique on these sprites?
want to replicate the menu sprites style from the pokemon games

>>5106714
reference

>>5106714
i like em a lot
maybe left most's nose should be up a pixel

16x16,32x32 or 64x64
which one do you guy prefer?

>>5106993
Depends on what Im doing. I do portraits in 64x64, and normal tile stuff in 16x16.

>>5106714
looks like menu sprites to me great job, also now i am infected with the knowledge of this degenerate fakemon so thats a bonus

Can you guess what happens next?

I traced this

>>5107434
Why would you trace this? It doesnt even look good

>>5107442
I mean I took an image from google downscaled it and drew lines over it.

>>5107434
looks fine, mind blowing it up so we can see it better? resize by increments of 50% and with neighboring pixels resampling
>>5107442
Fag

>>5107271
she fucking dies

>>5107503
Nah it is pretty bad, I don't know what I'm doing I just wanted to draw hueg tiddies in between my 250 boxes.

>>5107567
From one tiddy man to another, I can respect that.
Lemme give you a tip though, depending on how new you are, focus on figure drawing instead if you want to draw characters (it really helped me out)
If you feel like that's too hard, stick with drawing simple forms then try to combine them into complex forms. Once you're comfortable with that, you should try figure drawing again

>>5107804
I'm new enough that I had to google "figure drawing". Should I draw these in "pixel" or like a normal drawing?

>>5107818
not that anon, but normal first. Do about 10 and you should be good

>>5107818
Oof, then I would suggest practicing using pen and paper
You're in your toddler phase so expect a lot of frustration, but I promise you it will be worth it
Stick to drawing simple forms (boxes, spheres, cylinders etc) in simple perspective (read Norling's book on perspective made easy), then like I mentioned earlier, combine them into more complex forms. Although the thought behind "Draw A Box" is good, the execution of repetitively grinding boxes will get tedious extremely fast and burn you out (in my opinion, of course) so I would rather suggest that you vary your simple forms and not take it to the extreme when it comes to grinding. Draw some shapes, get comfortable with them and move on onto more challenging stuff.

>>5107836
I like the idea of a very structured course which is why I wanted to do draw a box. I'll check that book out.

>>5107544
not quite

random practice

Have another one.

>>5107922
Why is it always Marle? Do something with Lucca next.

>>5107985
I dunno. What do you want to see?

>>5107905
cute, some nice stuff to give your environments life

>>5107995
Something to do with the robots in the future.

>>5108029
interesting... I'll look what can be done with this premise. As for Marle, her sprites are just too exploitable to not make smut out of them.

Another goth grill drawing

>>5108399
pretty good!

>>5108399
I like your style it looks nice

>>5105962
homestuck?

>>5108495
haven't read/seen/played it but I like some of the guy's music

>>5108412
>>5108423
Thanks! Here's another one i just made.

>>5108752
>siwmsuit
Why do i only realize this type of stuff right after posting

clearly this isn't good
is the head too round?

>>5108876
I love it, such a fun animation. What I'd criticize is the hair shape, it doesn't really look coherent

>>5108879
This. It's not a human face so it being on the round side is fine. If you want it more human, then less round. Hair needs some work.

>>5108876
Like others said I think it looks basically fine, but one thing that may be a bit of a possible correction is that the head seems to be at 3/4 but the face is perfectly symmetrical as if it's head-on. I think it looks good for pixel art, but if you think something is off maybe try to make the eye further away a bit narrower

do you guys ever make fake game screenshots? meaning you pick a retro system's resolution, color palette, limitations etc and make it look as of it was an actual game.

I love making fake NES cutscenes for example.

I love how images can't make up the entire screen (unless you use the transparent color a shit ton. like a night scene or something) so it's usually one or more small boxes with the art and some text at the bottom or wherever. It just looks so cool to me.

>>5110105
cute grill

>>5079643
>>5079644
>>5079646
Is any smilar tutorial, how to do this?

>>5108029
Had a lot of fun creating this. Even wrote some (shitty) dialogue. Lucca's sprites are not that lewd, so I had to improvise a little bit.
Also, I didn't create her helmetless sprites. Just stole them from someone else's deviant art.

This one is the biggest I've done yet.
I hope it plays here properly and if not, just download it.

Wip

I will MASTER the perspective

How's this looking, hair aside? Im trying to get better at drawing portraits, and I figured I'd try out blinking.

>>5077629
># TOOLS
>http://graphicsgale.com/
>https://www.getpaint.net/
>https://www.aseprite.org/
>https://www.piskelapp.com/
Wich one for the actual Amiga style?

Working on a mockup menu :]
Who knew drawing a fire icon would be so hard

>>5108876
the head and expression are great, the only problem imo is the hair
>>5110753
really nice, except for the weird beige stains on her face

>>5111646
GrafX2

>>5110783
First try to learn how to draw.

You guys know of any good tutorials on animation? I wanna animate a character I've made, and I need several animations like idle, run, jump, attacking, crouching, dashing etc

>>5111581
Not bad. Study and utilize hue shifting, it's fundamental. Also study selective outlines, it will look great with the low contrast outlines you have here.
Weird highlights on the corner of the armor segments and base of the neck. I assume you tried to shade the armor with a right hand light source? That's not how it would look.
Facial features all sit too low on the face. Jaw angle is too steep. Neck is slightly too thin.
Ear piercings are needlessly complicated. They all can be simplified into clusters of one grey color like the rings of the armor.
Quiver is too small. Arrows too, and they are jagged (study jaggies).
>>5108876
Head is shaped like some cut diamond esque object. Study planes of the face. Don't have to go too hard on it since it's relatively advanced, but study enough to get an idea of how to shade a face.
Banding around the eyes.
Horns are flat since they don't interact with the hair but also aren't suggested to come out of the forehead.
Hair is probably the biggest issue here, hard to comment on where to even improve. Look at references.
>>5108752
>>5108399
Really good. On the full body the torso is too small and you went too hard on wasp waist. Pic related is what I thought of it.
The bat dithering could be simplified and I think the bomb would look nicer if bigger.
>>5110753
That is fucking awesome. I would only sharpen the snake's eye, and the forehead logo seems warped in shape.
>>5112268
I don't know tutorials nor have references but I would study fighting games. Maybe Smash.

>>5110753
Forgot to include that the face is shaded flat. Your colors are really good so it'd be a missed opportunity to leave it so.

>>5112526
>>5112509
>>5111690
Here's the finished piece. Thanks for your comments!

Just some more Lucca.

>>5113119
Looks pretty good! Especially color and shading.

>>5113745
The Sclera is a bit dark, and there's no light reflecting from the eyes at all, which makes her look a tad dead.

Old sprite of mine.

finished this fucking monster finally

>>5113871
I like it.

>>5112509
Ok did some futzing with it, still very much WIP. I got rid of all the shading and lighting until I suck less at it, definitely need to practice it for a while, same with hue shifting. Not sure how I feel about the simpler color earrings. Thickened the neck a bit, and slightly modified the jaw, and thinned the face a tad since she was looking a bit too human. Redid the arrows, and quiver, though they still kinda suck. Fixed the feature position as well. Scaled up 400%. Attempted selective shading, but Im too OCD to not shade the hair. Also the hair still sucks. but I suck at hair.

>>5113968
*Selective outlining

>>5113968
Another alternate version; got rid of shading, and did a more partial outline. Found a compromise between my OCD and not outlining everything. Also before I thinned her face more, I just realised how bad it looked when I turned off the hair layers. Gonna do some major color reworking utilizing hue shifting next I think so it'll help the shading not look like ass.

>>5114038
I think face should be colored with lighter skin shade.
Also get rid of pillow shading to make it look less flat

>>5110037
really? can you show some examples?

>>5114060
Journey to Silius intro
https://youtu.be/5_Ztsa5mzA0?t=29

>>5114052
Yeah, the pillow shading atm is placeholder. Im fine with her base skin shade. I'll be lightening and shading from that as a base.

>>5108876
>that filename
kek. Looks like very creepy asian mask.

>>5107567
stop griding boxes dude, once you know the basics of perspective and bending basic shapes, go for more organic stuff like a simplified ribcage+ spine.

Last update for the night. The hair was a mistake, gonna figure out something else. Might dither the armor later and make some fixes.

>>5114205
You have to use a reference for the hair, I don't think you're doing that. References are vital.
Armor shading is a lot better. Its contrast could be higher.
The ear piercings were good when flat colored, not sure why you reversed it.
Irises have lots of banding and ears pillow shading.
Arrow design is way better. Quiver looks parallel with body, as in straight, but the arrows sit at a diagonal angle. They would be piercing the leather and poking out through. They're also still tiny.

>>5114065
He meant examples of your fake NES screenshots.

>>5114410
Oh whoops, well I'm not that guy

>>5114394
Quiver is also at a 45 degree angle, but isn't very visible, I should make adjustments, as with the arrows. I don't really like the flat earrings much, they just look so off to me, though I might make adjustments, but I do not care for them flat. I might make adjustments to the eyes, Ive been waffling on that for a while. Everything else is noted.

>>5114410
not him but...............

When you draw character, would you draw the head first with detail how face look so you can gauge how body work,
or would you paint the silllhouse of whole body first?

>>5116034
I paint the silhouette first then I figure out the proportions I want by using a simple skeleton on top.
Take my advice with a grain of salt though since I myself are quite new to this.

https://twitter.com/Haze2K1/status/1346434601368039426

>>5114060
sorry i completely forgot i posted that and didn't check back lol. here's an example of what i mean i was goofing around with it earlier today

>>5110534
I'm glad i requested Lucca. Good job anon.

>>5118065
Thanks! Really helped me to improve my anim skills. For example, now I figured out how to make cycles with more than 2 frames in them without wasting too much time.

Fucking around

damn where are the japanese pixel art tutorials

>>5119785
I made megaman

>>5119785
I am retarded and completely forgot to write my response, you can probably learn a lot just from following japs on twitter.

>>5120333
ok im in love

>>5119708
looks fun

>>5119798
Is there a better way to make room tiles? oh wait, yes there is, Draw on CSP and play with resizing with both High Accuracy for enlargement and Bilinear for Shrinking, then Photoshop for color reduction/indexing at no less then 6 colors and no more then 16 for sub sections of the same tileset, each individual tile ahould not surpass 8 colors tough.

That's how i did this.>>5115914

>>5121073
that sounds VERY gay

>>5121073
I'm not sure if i have negative IQ or not but that made zero sense to me.

>>5121073
This isn't bad advice but those first sentences are not a good way to start your post.

>>5121128
He said "try painting your tileset with normal painting tools, then downscale it and edit the painted tileset into pixel art", but with more detail and in the most smug-sounding way possible.

>>5121187
>>5121073
sorry for the unintentional demeaning attitude, is just that i got a bit too cocky since i just learn the method of doing tile sets this way.

I was doodling on Dia de Reyes this.

>>5121564
Here's a tiny sample of how i did it, the stuff not shown there was done on Photoshop for color indexing.

>>5121644
Nothing you showed there was pixel art?

>>5121658
sorry but, how do you think backgrounds and tiles were made post the 8-bit era?

>>5121669
A lot of fourth gen and further stuff isn't pixel art. Donkey Kong Country sure as hell isn't pixel art, but Super Mario Allstars is.

>>5121717
are you the same guy from many threads ago who was whining about what was it and what was not pixel art? specially when someone posted a sailormoon CPS style artwork?

>>5121725
This is the second thread I've been in so no

>>5121717
I beg to differ about Donkey Kong Country not being pixel art. What matters is the end result it doesn't matter how you get there.

>>5121887
I have no idea how it was made, I mean the end result is not pixel art.

>>5121908

Anyone have an aseprite windows build?
This bitch is impossible to compile

>>5121644

>>5122078

>>5122009
Just pay the 20 bucks, Anon. It's worth it.

>>5122078
>draw regularly
>scale down so you can see pixels
>pixel art, tada!

>>5122123
NO
GIVE ME YOUR EXE

>>5122138
Eh, it's working for them. It's not like they only just scale it down, they do make minute adjustments.

>>5122151
"No."

>>5122151
How can i learn more about this artstyle?

>>5122243
16 colors
640x400
That's theoretically all you need to know. Look up PC-98, that is the system those screenshots are from.

I'm halfway through making a piece with those restrictions right now. I'm not really a pixel guy so there's a lot of sloppiness, but I'm trying.

>>5122243
Look up various PC-98 games. I think that's from a PC-98 game, anyways. 80s to early 90s Japanese computer games have a lot of art like this.

>>5122151
>>5122009
Anon, do you have source for these pics?

>>5122331
Star Platinum
Kyouiku Jisshuu Joshikousei Maniacs

Just take my PC-98 folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9gg0ysun4wue1p3/Pixel_Art_4_Electric_Dumbledore.zip/file

Exploring body shapes for my game, I used some games as references, but don't how I should go from here.

>>5122485
third from right is the best

>>5122163
>>5122138
now what the hell is up with these recent snobbery lately?, you are the same people who praise Schizo.

>>5122294
the japanese use to draw on copic sketches, the scale them down and retrace those drawings.

other method is the bilinear shrinking method with color indexing and still requires manual cleanup and color and shading work.

Read 2D will never die tutorials

>>5123132
I don't think anybody can unironically like schizos crap, though. Unless of course they are mentally ill too

>>5123132
I don't know who/what 'Schizo' is, I just thought this specific thread was for pixel art. Practically the whole rest of the board is for drawing normally, why bring it in here too? I just want a small space where I don't have to deal with faggots for a little bit.

>>5122294
>>5122151

>>5111825
I wish it didn't have such a shitty interface

>>5123444
it's not shitty at all. the only difference it has with Deluxe Paint (which people seem to generally agree is one of the best "pixel art" tools of all time) is that the toolbar is at the bottom instead of to the side.

it's honestly worth it you can learn it very fast. i had to learn it because aseprite was no longer free on linux and now I got so used to it that I wouldn't go back 2bh.

>>5122294
You have a gallery anon?