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With Orig. Photo in BG. | Only Pixel Art.

Ok, this is my first portrait. It's of a good friend of mine. I am worried about one thing.

1: I'm not sure if I cheated on it or not. I don't even know what I mean by that, but you should get an idea when you soom in.

The hair will probably be my most challenge, since the mouth and nose I quicked through pretty nicely, and the eyes don't have much detail because of the shadow.

Tear it appart. Not litteraly.

Edited by Zoomrix

Uhhh... Thanks? lol. I would probably need a person with HUGE critiquing skills to help me on this.

Is that a self portrait or someone random

I need to know if I cheated or not? All I did was basically take pieces (blocks, you can even say pixels) from the original image and just plopped them onto my version. I want to know if that's the right way to do it.

Thanks for the comments

Not much to tear apart. In my mind, this is basically just like using tracing paper in traditional art. Using your reference as a reference rather than an outline and palette.

I mean, I probably couldn't do that well, because all I've got is style. I'd suggest going back to the beginning and re-lining your lines without the ref being the background. This'll give you more opportunity to learn what to do and not to do when it comes to lines, like smoothness and such. Also, pick your own palette from either your brain or an unrelated photo.

I mean, if you just want a nice looking pixel picture at the end, then fine, you're doing well. If you want something that reflects you or your bud here, then you gotta deviate from the picture itself a lot more.

And she's pretty :P

I'd say as long as you use MSPaint there is no possible way you can cheat, because none of the tools you can use would be cheating. If you used tools outside the reach of MSPaint, it is possible you cheated. That's my opinion.

Here's an important question. Do you want it to be a piece of art, or a copy of the photograph? Because you obviously already have the photograph, wouldn't it be nicer with something a bit different? Something of your style?

To prevent making a copy, do the lineart without tracing the picture. And don't pick the colors out of the photo, try to make your own palette (perhaps as similar as possible). It sounds hard and awfully boring, but it will result in something we all can see you made on your own, and your friend would probably appretiate something different than a copy more

I've cheated a lot :D

But at least I admit it, and that's a lot more than most rippers and step-by-step-tutorial-followers do  I hate it when I find 10 houses looking the exact same except for the color choices (and many times not even that) when only one of them mentions the tutorial. Luckily no tutorials teach you how to create masterpieces, so they won't get far unless learning something along the process anyway.. :P

Erm, I talk too much



How's it going, Zoomrix? Three days has passed, and no update ^^