Cute snowman advice!
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Topic: Cute snowman advice!
Posted By: Thrifting
Subject: Cute snowman advice!
Date Posted: 18 December 2017 at 8:26pm
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Howdy,
So it's the holiday season and I like snowmen so I decided to try get back into the creative spirit and make one. I'm having a real difficulty adding texture, getting a well adjusted (and saturated) pallet, and just general n00b mistakes since I haven't pixelated in a few years. Here are some mock-ups I've been playing around with. I'm trying to keep the colors pastel too! I might add animation (like idle movement) or text later in. 
I work better with tough advice! Not afraid to scrap and restart. Any tips that could help me in the long time (or tutorial links) would be super appreciated. |
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Posted By: Thrifting
Date Posted: 19 December 2017 at 9:05pm
Played around with the colors some more and decided sparkles to be the texture? 
I'm pretty happy with the outcome now, but any advice would still be welcomes. |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 20 December 2017 at 4:19am
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Hey Thrifting, That is a lot of progress compared to the first one! First thing: Please use imgur rather than photobucket, I couldn't download the image so had to screenshot it... I'm not a big fan of low contrast or the dither glitter, but this is probably mostly a style choice. I edited it a bit to get more contrast in without ruining the style too much. The shading is a bit inconsistent, on some places it seems to be top lit, but the face overall seems to be lit from the bottom, or even glow. I tried to fix that. I did mess up on the scarf on the right.. Anyway, I hope it's of any use to you!  |