Spectra-Bird
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 08 June 2026 at 11:33pm
Topic: Spectra-Bird
Posted By: Indigo
Subject: Spectra-Bird
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 12:23pm
Last night I came across an old piece of mine and decided to finish it. It was made as a palette study. The goal was to use a full spectrum of highly saturated colors and make it work with the help of a grey. some areas have yet to be touched (such as the front-most hand, chain, and front foot), and other areas still need more refining (such as the muscle structure in the forearms). Note: thanks to http://www.finalredemption.com - kon for some critique. This originally was going to be a collab between me and him, though that fell through. Its been a blast to work on so far :) |
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Posted By: QuaziGNRLnose
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 12:54pm
| Reminds me of dynablade so much, its friggin awesome man, although i find the contrast between yellow or " the yellowish green colour" and red is a little strange, also maybe add feathers to the arms |
Posted By: Shougi
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 6:06pm
| I love the color and light in this image keep it up can't wait to see the finished product. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 6:30pm
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using the gray to control the saturation, like adarias maybe?
------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Indigo
Date Posted: 14 May 2008 at 7:00pm
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sure adarias uses this technique in some of his pieces, although this is a concept as old as art itself. Perhaps the oldest "pixel art" place to find it used extensively is in c64 pieces. basically gray is a magic color in which it appears cool when next to warm colors and warm when next to cool colors. This makes it the perfect linking tool in-between saturated ramps of warm and cool. (check out http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm#color_relativity - color relativity ) also note that the gray does not "control" saturation as you say - but it does use saturation to it's advantage. Research up a bit :) Thanks guys for the comments/critiques thus far -Dan ------------- |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 15 May 2008 at 12:32am
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I believe I have seen that document once in the past, but didn't read it. Thanks for sharing it Indigo, i was indeed needing some info about the subject :9 ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Peach
Date Posted: 15 May 2008 at 1:23am
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I agree, nice topic indeed @Indigo : nice piece, well done. |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 15 May 2008 at 6:04am
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Hm...why not push the challenge a bit further and have it so everything is 100% saturation Anyway, it still is amazing :D ------------- |
Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 15 May 2008 at 2:26pm
 I don't mind the vibrant red. I just toned it down in my edit. Tiny edit to the left peck. And I darkened the hand/wrist. ------------- 
I am the jesus of PJ. |
Posted By: The B.O.B.
Date Posted: 15 May 2008 at 8:47pm
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My favorite parts are the way the Purple and Green use the Gray to intertwine up into the Yellow on his belly. It's gorgeous to me. However, on a design point of view, I'm not diggin' the "buff bird" thing here. I would rather see a thin armed bird, or regular armed bird with some feathers peeking out here and ther instead...But I guess that would detract from the statement it's making with the broken out of cage and can now hold it in the palm of it's hand sort of deal. And yeah, the red is too extreme for me. |
Posted By: Indigo
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:16pm
slight update. I'll get around to more of the critique a bit later. I hope I can finish this soon >_< looks like i'm going with the bird-suit look rather than a humanoid-bird ------------- |