Well, I started to make something, not sure if I will finish the whole idea of it but. Here it is.

edit*
Kind of finished it, but still I am planning to do something else with this.


Edited by LBpixels - 01 August 2011 at 7:38am

Ok, this sucked :P, ill start over !

Edited by Alex Pang - 01 August 2011 at 10:13am

There's mine been working on it for maybe two hours now. It's still rough I didn't clean it up yet and I'm not too sure about the colors. I want to do a longer animation for him, but I'm not sure If I will have time to do it.

Seems this challange is tripping a few people over, stay strong. Too bad this is an underground theme, could use a mob from Larry Niven's books.

P.S: If this challange did not require an "original" output,  I bet ya'll draw Cthulu. d:

Eh, it's terrible I know. I'm planning on AAing the hair, but I can't seem to get the shading on this right.

Oh, and it's a floating subterranean bear head. It's hidin' in yo garden.

Yes cure, I was greatly inspired by this picture of yours(I should of mention). :P
I will try to fix it, I am not really sure what you meant, but I will see what can I do about it.
Thanks for telling me also.

Wip:

Can you feel how much I hate you Tarius? TAT  I love the colors of your wip.

Here's mine's basic shape, now sized correctly. I can't figure out his other hand.

it's messy, but a start!

 

haven't checked the colorcount, but I would assume it's bellow 16 by quite a bit.

wip update:

Quick question:

Can I add a cool background to go with my monstronsity?

Here is all I got so far..

Also should I change the palette?

I am not only talking about the following one's palette. I am talking about all of the monsters palette.

Thank you so much for the feedback, Tarius!  That was kind of what I figured...  The only problem is that I have trouble drawing irregular and randon things, like a pebble strewn ground or the surface of the ocean.  Hopefully your tile method helps with that.  I've never worked that way, so is there and advice or tips you can give on tile usage?

About done with mine

I can't seem to get a good pallet... I'll have to keep messing around with it.

Thanks guys! Some nice starts here.

Keep going with that Melee, looking nice. I look forward to the coloring and shading if it! :)

@chibiwing thanks for the feedback.

Updated with new palette and better pixelling.

@Chibiwing I like the middle one best. :O

@ melee:

using dithering to create the effect of large flat areas of a new color isnt really neccesary unless youre under heavy color count restrictions (and even though youre limited to 16 I dont think the dithering is nessecary).  You might also want to use dithering to imply texture, but in that case youll need to increase the contrast (which you might want to do anyways) as I could not even tell it was dithered until I zoomed in.  Heres an edit:

yours is on the left, the right is my edit which takes out the dithering.  At 1x on my moniter they both look almost exactly the same, which basically means the dithering isnt serving a purpose.

The foot look out of perspective too.  The toes should be pointing towards us, not going straight down, which makes him appear to be floating.

I also noticed you tried to AA the claws into the background.  Generally solid color backgrounds arent accepted into the gallery unless they serve a purpose (especially white backgrounds), and your AA right now doesnt seem to have enough purpose to warrent the background right now.  For that reason AA around the outside of sprites is ussually left out for work in the gallery here unless it is blending the sprite into a background.  If you go with a transparent background youll want to get rid of any AA around the outside.

That cave background is kinda cool! :D
I've finished my mining lizard-dragon-whatever, off to submit :D

by the way, this is what the people digging down would have found:



A huge, horrifying, unfinished... something! :D

Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 05 August 2011 at 2:42am

fades to black too quickly. if the face is that close to the surface and the lighting is as good as it is I don't see can't see more of it. the dithering is unnecessary.

why is one leg higher than the other?
also, the legs don't look connected to the body. In my edit, I bumped up the saturation (palette is rather dull) and improved the contrast in the palette so the values weren't so close together. tip: never dither if you have a color in your palette that works just fine in that spot.


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@mrmo: lovin' it.


Edited by cure - 05 August 2011 at 12:09pm

Well, I'm doing this, this pixel art it is a snake with humando face.

if you have any tips on sombrementos or poses help me.

@cure You're awesome. Ummm, I re-did the legs and /think/ I bumped up the contrast. It might need some more contrast though, which I can dink with again. Added texture because I had too much fun clicking and erasing and adding and click-click-clicking.

EDIT// Messed with claws and made belly outline less jagged. Ummmm.


Edited by Melee - 05 August 2011 at 9:50pm

Looks a bit flat IMO, and I'm not sure how necessary all the dithering is, but good job.