Wizard Light [WIP]
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Topic: Wizard Light [WIP]
Posted By: PixelWizard
Subject: Wizard Light [WIP]
Date Posted: 08 September 2011 at 6:50pm
Something I started working on for the contest. Tell me what you think and what I should improve on. I am having a bit of trouble with the lighting.
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Posted By: PureAwesomeness
Date Posted: 08 September 2011 at 8:05pm
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Well, first of all, his hat is really jaggedy. Second, either you spent a
lot of time on them, or the clouds are a product of the brush tool,
which doesn't really count as pixel art. You can only have 32 colours
anyway. About the shading, just think of what shape you want him to be. He looks rather cylindrical, so you should make the left side darker than the right, and make the bottom darker than the top, putting brighter highlights closer to the candle, for example on the hat, and duller ones near the bottom, on his legs. The same should go for his face. One thing you should note is that when shading, you should add colours to it instead of just doing it from white to black. Areas facing the light should have sort of an orange-yellow tinge (just a tinge, though, not a pure colour, judging from your current style) from the flames, and the shadows should fade into blue if you want a cool darkness, or brown if you want a different feel. Another thing you could do since it's a dim light source is make the farthest areas (like his right arm and leg, in the corner of the picture) sort of fade into the black background to make the darkness a part of the scene instead of just a backdrop to your picture. If you're still having trouble with the lighting, you could go look up a reference picture for the lighting and base it off that, or I could do an edit for you. |
Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 09 September 2011 at 4:56am
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A few remarks (if this is indeed for the weekly challenge):
-the smoke is not pixelart; -the staff is not a candle (unless it has a candle on top?); -the point of the challenge is to practice low-intensity, one-lightsource scene lighting; this scene looks as if it's lit from the front with a huge diffuse lightsource. |
Posted By: Miumau0
Date Posted: 09 September 2011 at 2:01pm
| and this topic is on wrong forum. This should be posted to W.I.P - section or Weekly Challenge topic? |