Assistance with color choices [Horror Creature Exa
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Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 11:45am
Topic: Assistance with color choices [Horror Creature Exa
Posted By: Johasu
Subject: Assistance with color choices [Horror Creature Exa
Date Posted: 09 October 2017 at 11:15am
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I find that colors are still my biggest challenge area.
Any advice on how to choose colors with more style or a better grasp on aesthetic appeal. Captivation! I want my work to pop more and I feel like colors are currently the biggest weak point. (Though I may be wrong there.  )
Critique please. If you see any glaring composition flaws feel free, but I'm primarily focused on the color side of things here. This is a creature from a personal project I'm working on. Playing with the concepts of our personal evils taking demonic or monstrous form, grown directly from our own bodies, fed by our actions and feelings. "Regret" 
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Posted By: MrHai
Date Posted: 12 October 2017 at 8:51am
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fyi: you should attach images at 1x resolution. You can click images on the forums to increase size without quality loss (shift+click to decrease). It can be hard to give accurate critique without being able to see the piece in its original resolution, especially when it comes to colour. How well a piece reads can change drastically between resolutions.
My gut reaction is that your contrast could be on the low side, but it's hard to tell at this size and without knowing what environment the creature will sit in. ------------- "Work is more fun than fun" -John Cale |
Posted By: Johasu
Date Posted: 12 October 2017 at 11:39am
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Thank you.
My apologies. That was an oversight on my part that I hadn't noticed. I've actually been hoping to update with a newer version but Pixel Joint seems to be plagued with an unresponsiveness of late so I haven't been able to get to the actual page for a few days. I've made some changes that involve widening the contrast. I've color shifted the skull and spread the ramp out a bit on it. Reworked the eyeballs to give them more stand out presence and pulled the yellow tones on the beak and now the eyeballs forward on the saturation and brightness to help them stand out. 
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Posted By: NancyGold
Date Posted: 14 October 2017 at 4:03am
| For a "horror creature" it doesn't look that scary or creepy. More like cute/weird. If you really want to turn it into horror movie prop, I would suggest using darker colder colors and less smooth geometry - i.e. make that little chicken beak into crow's or vulture's one. |