does he have a lower body? is he some sort of turkey human hybridd? it looks like it just ends with those feathers or bades of grass there...

very unique concept. he's a giant right? i like the rolling hills in the back ground. i think you should do something with the seem between the arms and the body, like have some hair or feather downpoking over like what you did with the neck...

The clouds that i normally see that are that large form flat bottoms... and dont be afriad to draw a couple of towering shapes in the clouds like a cumulonibus. googlr cumulonibus and you should see some results.

I think I will completely throw the clouds away, because I have googled for cloud reference pictures and tried to add better looking clouds, but unfortunately wherever I tried to place it and no matter how I formed it, it turned out to clutter the scene badly.
I only have one more idea where to place a cloud and how to do it, which I will try doing after writing this post. (letting the bottom start at 1/3rd between arm and branch, going all over the full width to the left and letting it pile up higher and higher, forming a some sort of P turned ninety degrees to the right and then mirrored along the horizontal axis)
(btw, you have a typo there MurrMan: cumulonimbus is the correct term)

I am afraid I lack the artistic education to follow your words jalonso... What is a key element and what function does it fulfill?
And are there any good tutorials on composition?
(So far I found a very short one (in german though) which said in one sentence: "A succesfull composition is achieved by balancing unity and multiplicity."
Combining that sentence with your words, I assume unity and mulitplicity are to be balanced for position and orientation of the various elements.

(edit: P.S.: I forgot to add: I'll have to change the tail, since everybody seems to see it as grass or banana leaves, when really I want it to resemble something like feathers.)



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Hellow fellow!  Nice to see more Allegroids around.
I will make a game as soon as I get my motivation for coding back. Currently my motivation is just about enough to get my arse out of the bed each morning and to do some non-game-content-related pixelling. Another thing holding me back is that when my coding motivation comes back, the first thing I should finish is my dynamic color gradient generator tool and write all the documentation for it.(argh! writing documentation is boring.)

Back on topic:
I put in a new cloud, which I might still kill off when I get to color the scene, because I'm not all too happy with it. I think it's ok for now. Also changed the tail.

Hey that's looking cool MurrMan.
I will change the cloud yet again, following your example. The only thing keeping me from just taking and using your modified cloud is that I want to be able to say, I've done the whole piece myself in the end. (Please don't be angry about it, but the doing-it-myself part is very important to me.)

Yo, I've started working on step 5 now and to make it a really really really tough challenge, I decided to have only 16 colors and I picked the colors in advance.
So the challenge for me is to make something good of it with just those fixed colors.
(uh oh...)

Needless to point out that the current transitional state with flat colors looks like total CRAP!!!. (but that's the challenge, I've choosen to take on for myself...)

I am not good enough with words to fully explain this   

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Left arm is colored now... (this whole thing is going to take forever to finish)
Update 5..: Both arms done now...


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Red X

Thanks for pointing that out Blick, I hope the arm is ok now.
Currently my progress is very slow, still working on the body. Maybe I don't have enough colors...

Souly:
What does "Red X" mean? (in case it refers to the screenshot not being displayed: it's a .png (portable network graphic), so you might need to get a newer version of your browser to display it. Sometimes it's also the webspace where it is hosted that is unreachable, though that should only be rarely the case.)

Face and neck done. Now there's just the hair left to do and then at least the main char will be finished.

Very dymanic colors i love them!

What program are you using? Did you make it yourself?

Thanks for all the moral support, everyone. :)

The programme is called "Personal Paint" and it was made by Cloanto. (I also posted this to the Graphics(Misc) tools.)
So nope, I didn't write the tool myself, but I always wanted and still want to make my own pixel-art tool someday.
(I once wrote a very basic one under TurboPascal, but as I had just started learning to code back then, the tool was not too useful and it only supported .raw format. I'll see if I can dig it out from an old backup CD.)

I hotlinked the section with Personal Paint inside... how could you not find it?
Yes, I'm using it through emulation. As also mentioned on that links page, Cloantos Personal Paint is included in some versions of Cloantos AmigaForever CD, which contains fully licensed Amiga Kickstart ROMs and a preconfigured Workbench environment. The used emulator is WinUAE.

P.S.: I just uploaded the latest update (hair). I won't have much time to pixel until next thursday, so progress will probably not be made until then.

P.P.S.: I found my old crappy pixel tool and uploaded it here. Read the included readme.txt, before you run it. Run at your own risk. Expect nothing, it's old and I barely knew how to code at that time.

K. Don't forget to close this thread when your done.

Closing the thread? How can i do that?
(I don't want to close it yet...)

updated: 5........



Like I said, I continued to work on this in very small steps and I hope enough of those mini-steps have accumulated to justify another update. Texturing the full tree will take a few hours i think, and I feel stupid repeating it, but time is currently very sparse here, so I apologize to anyone who is waiting for this to get finished.
Oh and since the thread is two pages now, i placed the image on the second page as well, so that you don't always have to go back to the first page to view the update.

Finished the tree and the frame today. (you might need to refresh the page to see the updated gif)
(5........... (eleven dots, maybe next time i should just give each update a unique number))

the tree looks awsome.

well the whole thing looks awsome, way over my pixelling skills and color understanding so cant give you any critique.

keep up the great work.

im sure brian will do it for ya!