first pixel work - my room
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 8:58pm
Topic: first pixel work - my room
Posted By: jegHegy
Subject: first pixel work - my room
Date Posted: 04 August 2005 at 10:19pm
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hello! i'm new to (making) pixel art, and also this forum. spent the
whole night browsing around, very nice stuff people have here. :) been working on this pic since like a week ago, messing around with it half an hour a day or so. comments much appreciated.  ------------- http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ - http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ |
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Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 04 August 2005 at 10:44pm
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It all looks very blurry. But welcome to PixelJoint! -throws confetti- More contrast between the shades might help out with the blurryness, I'm not sure. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 6:39am
You dont have to post it enlarged in any way, we can zoom in on it here
at the forum. I must say you have a very nice start here, really trying
to pack in the detail. Youve got a lot of subtle colour changes in
there which I think you could get away with not having, I dont know.
Depends on your style. I cant really give much advice, sorry 
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 1:11pm
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Actually, i'm not sure if you saved it as a .gif or what, but there are 1012 colors used, so technically, this isn't pixel art. You might have saved it as a .gif which will greatly increase the amount of colors in a piece, or you didn't truely make it pixel by pixel. Either way, right now, this isn't true pixel art. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: Xion Night
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 1:44pm
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Yeah, actually it is. Just because someone saves in the wrong format doesn't mean that each pixel wasn't individually placed. Anyway, yeah, I do see alot of colors in there, like the result of .gif or .jpg-ing. You can fix this easily, and as for the actual art, it's pretty good. Detail crammin', eh? I do agree about the contrast being a bit low at the moment, though. Anyway, good work, and welcome! ------------- Kizzah! http://www.thepixelagency.com"> 
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Posted By: jegHegy
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 2:11pm
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it's a 24bit PNG. i don't really know why that disqualifies it from
being "pixel art", just because it uses a lot of colors. i made it in
GraphicsGale using only the pen, line, and fill tool, and the noise
effect to add the fuzzy texture to the bed. ------------- http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ - http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 2:21pm
Well noise is a filter - therefore not pixel art. I suggest doing that "fuzzy texture" youself on the bed. Because using noise is almost the same as being lazy  .------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: jegHegy
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 2:28pm
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i AM lazy :P i'll probably never do another pixel piece after this, i'm just messing around. the thing i don't get in the fuss about the high color count is that it doesn't NEED to have a low color count, because i'm not trying to optimize it for filesize or anything, like if i'd do for a game. it's about having fun, and i am. ------------- http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ - http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 2:55pm
I wasn't the one talking about color count. The color count increased because of the noise but that doesn't matter. The fact that you used a filter matters. Please believe, that we weren't trying to discourage you from anything. I would really love to see this piece pixel artized  But if you really don't wanna, that's fine ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: jegHegy
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 3:01pm
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:) depending on the spare time and patience i'll have, maybe i'll
reduce color count one day (thus eliminating the noise effect).
------------- http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ - http://jeghegy.deviantart.com/ |
Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 7:28am
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Again, like Zoomrix said, you can have the fuzzy effect, but in order for it to be pixel art, you have to do it by hand. You can't use any filters. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 10:10pm
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Aww, don't get discouraged. This is actually really good. :D I mean, good lineart and detail going on. I think, if this is isometric, you should have a 1 pixel highlight on the edges of everything. :) ------------- |