I thought it looked like a fine avatar! Never the less, it will still retain a spot- here, in our hearts... forever... until millions of year later it will stil- alrighty back to work (got wayyy to carried away there).



@Riley
I think I fixed it somewhat. I might ditch the idea of glass completely and instead make metal bars. The plane is sort of a doodle so that'll probably get erased too.

Thanks! I'm gonna be erasing the birds though (as much as I'd like to keep them) ;P

Leaves... it's the leaves that will be the most important part though.

Edited by ADrawingMan - 12 June 2013 at 1:02pm

getting there!
colors, contrast and the overall feeling are much improved
keep it up! but get rid of those strange repeating birds (?) also maybe put the plane somewhat more off center and on an angle

Edited by onek - 12 June 2013 at 1:50pm

To me, your dirt doesnt really convey any greater form to the dirt below. I'd try to draw the dirt again if I were you.

Well, you know how some people when pixelling a tree, they spend too much time making every leaf look beautiful, but then when they finish it looks flat because they didnt pay attention to how the tree's foliage has a overall shape to it. You are doing that on your rocks. You need to think of the overall shape of the island before putting individual rocks in like you did. You did it correctly on your tree, were we can clearly see that it has a spherical shape to it. Right now your rocks just look like a pasted on texture on a flat 2d island. Also, the shingles on your tower, the ones facing the light could have a much brighter outline then they do right now.

I still think they both look the same in terms of perspective. I also really don't see how they look copy and pasted. But here it is now.

Ah, good call. I never really thought about adding planes but I'll give it a try. I'll also try to include minimal leaves to make the scene prettier.

I hope you people didn't think I'd given up on this :P. I've spent this time trying to get a feel for leaves which ties into my second project.

@Jal I made some adjustments to the right side but I think I'm going to alter the color on the outline of the right side of the leaves.



That smoke was made by fiddling around with the options so I think it counts as using tools. I'm going to be making the smoke pure pixel art so don't worry.

I'm still not 1000000% sure this is how I want to make the leaves but it is a pretty good start I think. Btw, that tree is for my second project.

Edited by ADrawingMan - 20 June 2013 at 7:51am

Thank you, your support has been helping greatly. I've been taking a look at quite a few tutorials one of which that deals in color which I feel I am seriously lacking.
This ties into the making of my tree and my knowledge of pixel art as a whole so I think by learning about color will greatly affect the outcome of this piece and my future pieces.

http://finalbossblues.com/thinking-in-color/

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

Haven't read everything, so I apologize if I miss something or if this has already been said... but I definitely like how you originally had the soil below the tree. The bricky rocks definitely don't look very nice to me. The edit you have on your latest post is lovely so far.

But otherwise you've definitely improved.

Edited by Oriena - 06 September 2013 at 5:13pm