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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Topic: A noob in search of direction
    Posted: 12 January 2013 at 2:13am
I've had it in my head to make some tilesets for some of my favorite games, just because I thought it would be fun. I think its been stuck in my head too long, so starting to take my first steps into pixel art, and would love any direction and critiques anyone has.

Stuff from my first of the day to my first serious attempt.






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Quote crozier Replybullet Posted: 12 January 2013 at 3:06pm
Ok as for the ninja dude on the bottom, well, hes looking like a goat from the waist down. The feet could use some work, because they neither look human or are at the right angle (the way his left ankle/foot is positioned it almost looks like hes on tippy toes.) The left hand is looking mildly disfigured also D:
His suit is quite nice looking. Its shaded pretty well. The colors are nice. But 3 things: he has an odd looking tiedie pattern going on near his right armpit, the grey you are using on his suit is a little light, and also the black line cutting the left and right side of his suit could use some AA (its looking out of place as of now).
His bandanna is not an attractive color. I like the bandanna in the 3rd pic though. And lastly his left (our right) calf is too strait. A little curve, specifically on the leftmost line of his left calf could be added to help fix that.
And you don't have to scale the first two pictures to 2x or anything along those lines. We can do that (although a few browsers blur it, slightly)
Anyway, I'm glad you are trying to be serious. Good luck in the future.

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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 12 January 2013 at 6:14pm
Thanks, I had a lot of your crits in my head as I posted but I figured I would show where I was to get some feedback before I went further. Here is some changes as well as a chibi I wanted to try as well.

Couldn't get the flowing cloth to work on the mini.

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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:35am
Having a lot fun, feel like I'm learning a lot with em.
But this one is giving me a ton of trouble. The hair, the arm closest to us still looks wrong to me. The cigarette doesn't quite work either I think.



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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 14 January 2013 at 12:17am
Tried a different approach, doing a drawing the way I normally would and working from that. Saw it in a tutorial somewhere, soo much easier for me.
 

Are there any automated ways to check how many colors are in an image in photoshop? I see people doing palette counters with other programs.



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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 14 January 2013 at 3:50pm
A bunch of random tiles I tried to make, and not have the repeat be obvious.
An edit of a sword from another thread I wanted to see what I could do, and
my first attempt at an animation!



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Quote Cinderblock Replybullet Posted: 15 January 2013 at 4:57pm
Originally posted by Soundlst

Tried a different approach, doing a drawing the way I normally would and working from that. Saw it in a tutorial somewhere, soo much easier for me.
 

Are there any automated ways to check how many colors are in an image in photoshop? I see people doing palette counters with other programs.





You can click Image > Mode > Index. The popup window will tell you how many colors you have. I think their is another way to do it but I'm not really sure.
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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 15 January 2013 at 7:40pm
Thanks! I figured it out I think. It's not something I can really worry about
right now, but it will be good to know for the future. Some more toying around.



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Quote underwood Replybullet Posted: 16 January 2013 at 7:30am
Diggin your work man, giving me a bit of stuff to go off also, for some reason I never thought of an edge piece for grass to dirt.
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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 16 January 2013 at 9:23pm
I've basically been just learning by diving into the deep end of the pool. Anytime I see something I like I just attempt to do it. Usually doesn't turn out...but its soooo much fun. I giggle like a school girl from time to time.


Underwood: thanks man, you are making a lot of progress too. We both gotta keep going!
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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 18 January 2013 at 6:51pm
More tile practice, I'm trying to make the dirt have some interesting shapes but not repeat so obviously, I toyed with it for quite a while.

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Quote Soundlst Replybullet Posted: 19 January 2013 at 3:26pm
I wanted to do a brick-like tile, but the normal brick tile was boring....and this was too hard for me to figure out. So...back to a regular brick tile lol

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