WIP:Need Help
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Topic: WIP:Need Help
Posted By: acronym
Subject: WIP:Need Help
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 12:03pm
Doing a bday present but really need help with my pixel, so far its OK but the lines aren't really smooth and I'm not sure what to do? |
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Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 12:03pm
| Eyes are crap too. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 12:33pm
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'Step' your lines to clean up some and then use color/AA to smooth. i.e., 1-2-3-4-5-7-9-11-8-6-4-2-1 like the right panel shows here.  I'm sure the eyes are fine and once you shade and color block use color to further sculpt the shapes...GO! ------------- |
Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 12:54pm
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Originally posted by jalonso 'Step' your lines to clean up some and then use color/AA to smooth. i.e., 1-2-3-4-5-7-9-11-8-6-4-2-1 like the right panel shows here. I'm sure the eyes are fine and once you shade and color block use color to further sculpt the shapes...GO! Sorry can you explain the 1-2-3-4-5-7-9-11-8-6-4-2-1 because I'm a right thicko and I don't understand. My hardest part second to time is drawing curved angles. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 2:19pm
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Say you are drawing a line and begin to curve. At the point that you begin the turn make another line, say 9px The next line is 9px or less, say 7px The next line would be 5px Then 4px, then 3px, then 2px then 1px You can also have more than one of the same size so long as its going down in number. Any left over 'jags' you fix later in with AA if needed. GO, GO its a present! The jump between 1-2px depends on the tightness of the curve. Quickie sample :)  Posting 2X pixels are much harder to show edits. I did it this time but ;) ------------- |
Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 3:12am
| Thanks Jalonso for the help:) |
Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 2:57pm
Updated, still not happy with this. Just looks rubbish |
Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 2:58pm
| Leg looks awkward too I know |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 2:59pm
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Don't focus on the lineart only. Lineart is only part of a piece, coloring will help and then detailing will solve. Looking god :) ------------- |
Posted By: acronym
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 3:03pm
| Do you honestly think it looks good?, I really think it looks rubbish at the moment and I'm not sure if coloring is going to help?. Maybe I'm tired but thank you Jalonso for your input but you think I should continue?. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 3:43pm
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Just keep going.
A good idea now would be to block in some basic shading, get a basic palette down, maybe 10-15 colors or so, and then show us again. Don't bother too much on getting perfect lineart for the legs, painting in some rough shapes will be much faster. You can keep the head lineart, but you might have to tweak it after all. Anyway just keep pixeling. And if you run out of pixels....baby, they gonna wish you hadn't ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: bannanawalrus
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 2:28am
| the legs look alright, the only slight things i can see is maybe the waist of them is a little too wide (his face/torso dont look that fat), and his right(our left)ankle is a bit awkward. but thats being critical. now is a good time to block in some basic colours and shading |
Posted By: tormi1000
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 4:12am
| Dude do not quite, this picture has a lot of potential and like snader said just keep going and it will turn out create :) |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 8:18am
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Originally posted by acronym ... it looks good?...it looks rubbish...not sure...going to help?...I'm tired...should continue?. We know where you live and we will hunt you down and beat you up if anymore of this talk comes from you  Go color, believe in yourself and use this thread for feedback.  ------------- |
Posted By: bonehead11
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 8:55am
You got to be kidding me...ITS MR. T!!!! Grrr YOU FOOL!!!
Dude give him mohawk and some jewelry!!! Well you can, you can give this piece more awesomness, well at least for me,if you make him Mr.T in retirement, but its your piece, but your piece looks great, bring on the colours, you still can solve lineart issues when its coloured, sometimes even better. |