Golfer - Down Swing

Golfer - Down Swing

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Title: Golfer - Down Swing
Pixel Artist: Irate Corpse  (Level 1 Thug :: 212 points)
Posted: 8/5/2006 14:48
Palette: 19 colors
Statistics:  10 comments    0 faves    0 avatars

I wanted to capture the action in this down swing and also practise not using outlines. If the ball looks small it's because he's in the rough and it's a bit buried

I'm reasonably pleased with this piece but there's clearly room for improvement, so crit away!

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Irate Corpse (Level 1 Thug) @ 8/7/2006 11:06
You can bend your leg like that. I'm doing it now. Well, not now but I did it a moment ago.

As for colours, I'm thinking my monitor is brighter/higher contrast than most people's because whilst I cant make out the 3 grass colours individually they certainly help make it less flat-looking.

Oh, and that's not AA under his shirt - it's shading under his belly. He's a golfer, after all.

I'd agree with the arm - more specifically the hand - but that's the best I could manage.I kept trying to bend it a little and it just looked ugly and elongated.
I used this image as reference but I was trying to literally just use it to refer to. I didn't want to try and make a pixel version of the photo, hehe http://www.1st-beginners-golf-swing-tips.com/assets/images/down-swing-1x250.jpg

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Mykola (Level 3 Corporate Drone) @ 8/7/2006 04:21

The arm looks like it's brokeb :D

And the aa at the bottom of shirt makes this guy look round like he has a belly :D


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Opacus (Level 7 Ichikyu) @ 8/7/2006 01:11
His arms are just....strange and in an impossible position. Though I cannot exactly say if the front arm is bended, or if his hand is in a vary odd position, but it looks off. Also his left leg (Our view) looks like it's bending through, a leg cannot bend like that. Another comment is the amount of colours. There are alot of unneeded colours like on off the greens in the grass. I actually don't see it from a distance. This should be atleast brought back to 16 colours. But I still quite like the overall feel off the picture, though the pose is incorrect, it's still working.

Phew, all the comment I can spill out now.

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THE KAPPTIN (Level 5 Captain) @ 8/6/2006 16:54
Much better now, looks pretty good. Possibly darken the pixels underneath his right / our left eye to show a shadow of an eye socket.  ... up to you. Big improvement.

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Irate Corpse (Level 1 Thug) @ 8/6/2006 16:14
Yeah, I see what you mean about those eyes.

I'v given him slightly different shading on the face and removed his eyes - I've tried to just suggest a recess where his eye sockets are and accentuated them with some eyebrows. He looked okay without the eyebrows but with the it makes him look a bit older - more like a golfer, hehe.

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Stained Glass (Level 1 Intern) @ 8/6/2006 15:23

Everything in this piece looks good to me exept the eyes.  They seemed really round, and you should almost not see them for how close he is to the the ball and the way he (should) be hitting the ball.


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THE KAPPTIN (Level 5 Captain) @ 8/6/2006 14:26
I think those eyes really hurt it. They're too close together, I think they're too close to the hairline by far, and overall they just look weird. I think the only indication of eyes you should have is maybe a couple dark pixels near the bottom of his head. You could leave them off entirely, in my opinion.

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Irate Corpse (Level 1 Thug) @ 8/6/2006 14:11
Yeah, the grass tiling was obvious but I've never dabbled in tiling, so I've thrown together some new grass and given him some eyes... I can't fit much more face in!

Cheers guys

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Skull (Level 11 CEO) @ 8/6/2006 11:46
Dynamic. Looks great, but the grass is too tiled. The clothes are nice, but I'd like to see a little bit of face.

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fil_razorback (Level 5 Lieutenant) @ 8/6/2006 08:58
Heh, I like the idea of pixeling golf in action ^^
Maybe you coul rework the grass, tiling is a bit obvious.

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