Black man portrait
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Category: Pixel Art
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Topic: Black man portrait
Posted By: 7Soul
Subject: Black man portrait
Date Posted: 13 February 2012 at 8:36pm
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I'm pixeling a portrait of a black man, and I would like some general c+c on the anatomy and colors
Using the NES palette 
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Replies:
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 13 February 2012 at 9:45pm
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An important thing to remember about darker skin tones is that highlights, rather than shadows, create forms. At a pixel level, this means you could do away with the outlines around the nose. The orange highlights and eyes stand out too much imo, you need some kind of buffer (e.g. the next lightest purple). The dither doesn't bring anything positive to the piece. In my edit I lightened up the background and used that lighter purple as the base skin tone.  |
Posted By: 7Soul
Date Posted: 18 February 2012 at 4:26pm
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I liked this edit, but I don't want to use too much purples, cuz the game is displayed at 2x, and he looks like a purple alien at that res
New version: 
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Posted By: r1k
Date Posted: 24 February 2012 at 5:38pm
heres another color edit, from jeremy's sense I made the face more red I tried making the shirt even more red so the face looks less red by comparison. |