Charaka(WIP)
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 8:12pm
Topic: Charaka(WIP)
Posted By: Aastikya
Subject: Charaka(WIP)
Date Posted: 03 March 2012 at 7:05am
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Hello everyone, once again. This time I made a sprite and I'd like to have some comments and critiques to make it better. It is supposed to have rocky texture which I failed to provide.
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 03 March 2012 at 9:35am
| more contrast, use the high contrast colors to define the planes of the rock. I'd also think more about your character design, reshape those rocks into something more powerful or dynamic, and less like a stumpy snowman. |
Posted By: reis
Date Posted: 03 March 2012 at 3:52pm
| Look, most of all improve the line art, has many crooked lines. After a tidy anatomy and make legs. It's always a good outline that facilitates AA, sell-out in different backgrounds. |
Posted By: Jumble
Date Posted: 04 March 2012 at 5:33pm
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Looking at your work, I think your aiming for a smooth looking golem. But I'll make an example for that later. An important thing to keep in mind with art is that color and form provide depth. Shading needs to be controlled, thought out, and concise. So you may want to start out with cleaved rocks for practice to get the idea. They are relatively easy to make because the planes usually require only one type of color and lighting is easy to setup. Here is a quick example I made for you to study:  (Also, if any plane is jutting out of the rock do not erase it. The silhouette of a rock is irregular.) |
Posted By: Aastikya
Date Posted: 05 March 2012 at 2:17am
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@Cure: I tried to use more contrast.
@Ifspr: I don't think good line art is necessary for rocky textures? Yet I tried to make one @Jumble: I found it difficult to shade rocky texture like you did. A good palette is my biggest enemy, I never found myself to make a good one :( 
Here is what I did but I failed immensely. |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 05 March 2012 at 7:39am
| you're not shading according to a light source. it looks like flat camouflage. pick a direction for your light source and shade accordingly. first lay out some sharp planes though, you're still working on a formless blob. |
Posted By: Aastikya
Date Posted: 09 March 2012 at 7:18am
The yellow thing is light for better shading, I used the colors of Jumble used in the above example.
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Posted By: Delicious
Date Posted: 09 March 2012 at 2:01pm
| Much better. The textures look a bit too soft though, try making it sharp and jagged like how Jumbles example looks. |
Posted By: Aastikya
Date Posted: 11 March 2012 at 5:42am
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I don't know how to make it sharp, could you please explain me? However, I tried to make it sharp.
Here 
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Posted By: Partack
Date Posted: 11 March 2012 at 10:14pm
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Hey Aastikya ^__^ I'm glad to see you're still at it! Good work!
this new rock golem is quite the improvement from what you first started with. wow, what a difference =D I think, for now, focus on the other aspects (like the face features and other things that your original picture had) and then come back to the whole 'rock' thing and texturing once you've laid out where the rest of stuff goes. you have a solid template to work from for now. =) Keep at it, you're doing well =) |
Posted By: Aastikya
Date Posted: 19 March 2012 at 7:15am
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