First Try at Making Pixel Art Topic

3198

03/09/2012 06:33 PM

I've been meaning to do my own art and such for my game, Candy Quest. And I just now finally got around to it. These are a few of my first attempts at pixel art. I'd appreciate any feedback and criticism ya'll can give me!

First up: a treasure chest!

Second: a small table!

Lastly: a house!

chana

(Socrates would certainly not contadict me!)

1584

03/09/2012 07:25 PM

Well, for a first try I'd say it's, if simple, quite good (once again, I'm no expert).

TheRexion

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1424

03/10/2012 12:42 AM

They are quite nice! Though, the table seems a bit pillow shaded (very bad rookie mistake) and the corners are a bit jagged. Try a rounded corner. As for the house, the roof shading is inconsistent and makes it look sort of odd. It seems as if the light source is on each of the roof tiles individually. Otherwise, it's quite a nice bit of construction.

LockeZ

I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.

5958

03/10/2012 01:40 AM

Basic shading tutorial

The treasure chest is shaded just fine, the shingles on the house look to be shaded in the wrong direction (light comes from the sun not the ground).

Style of the tiles is very cartoony, which seems totally appropriate for a game called Candy Quest. If you want it to look less cartoony though, try desaturating the colors, and either removing the black outlines or recoloring them to be a darkened version of whatever the color is that they're outlining.

Irili

3198

03/10/2012 01:57 AM

Thanks for the link LockeZ! I get what you and Rex are saying about the pillow shading now.

I'm definitely going for cartoony. I'm glad I'm doing that right at least!

Archeia_Nessiah

Tear Harvester Nessiah

17368

03/10/2012 10:03 AM

I recommend reading this guy's stuff: http://finalbossblues.com/pixel-tutorial-introduction/

(I agree with it more than any other tutorial ever :>)

arcan

Having a signature is too mainstream. I'm not part of your system!

1866

03/10/2012 10:15 AM

Just a few tips:
- always define your light source before you draw in order to avoid pillow shading
- scale saturation with brightness to get better shades
- even slight use of shadows make a picture look way better

FIRST TRY AT MAKING PIXEL ART

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