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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
Forum Discription: Get crits and comments on your pixel WIPs and other art too!
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 3:24am
Topic: Twitch Banner
Posted By: Lumataru
Subject: Twitch Banner
Date Posted: 28 April 2021 at 11:13am
Hello, am working on a banner which I intend to use for a upcoming
Twitch Channel. The channel will primarily be a art channel and its
theme will be that of calm, relaxing, ASMR, Late Night talk with some
indie gaming mingled in. The character in the banner is a OC of mine
named Marsha. I've been attempting to make her my mascot. I want the
banner and any additional art I make to have a Lofi or Jazzy look but I
also want it to kinda match my studio which has a lot of bright rainbow
colors and lights. This is just one banner but I have another idea as
well but I wanted to finish this one sense I got started. I do a lot of
pinup type art in addition to Pop art and mixed media, so I was hoping
that this design captures that feel. I'm debating on changing the name;
Joeys Net Toons was a name idea I had a year ago because I was
attempting to make digital media for online clients such as Twitch
Streamers. This was also a excuse to make my first post in these forums so HELLO! 
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Posted By: SeinRuhe
Date Posted: 28 April 2021 at 1:01pm
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Hi and welcome to the PixelJoint forums!
Please do not post upscaled art on the forums, a pixel should measure a pixel, not more. There's a functionality that allows to zoom in on any image by clicking it and zoom out by using CTRL+click. A great way to find mistakes is to flip your piece horizontally (Or vertically for really challenging fixes), here's the flipped version of your piece. 
Here are my thoughts on what could make the piece look better: - Get rid of the dithering, it seems like it's doing more harm than good to the piece - Pick up a position for a light source and render your piece accordingly, as it is shadows and highlights seem to be putted at random. Every plane that faces towards the light should have the lightest values, every plane that faces away form the light should have the darkest values. Specular only happens on planes that reflect light from the lightsource directly to the viewer. - The rainbow effect have colors swapped out of place, in the light spectrum the color next to the yellow is green, not blue. So the correct order for your piece should be red, orange, yellow, green, blue. - The character seems to have structural issues, specially on her limbs, look at reference when drawing, improvement is almost immediate. - There are 36 almost identical colors with alpha on your piece, get rid of them, this is seen as a mistake on pixel art. Hope this helps! |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 18 May 2021 at 2:28am
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I feel like if you flipped the character like above with elbow poiting to the right side that would create more balance in composition. other then that, maybe some button shading on the font would make it pop more. ------------- |