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Weekly Challenge: RTS faction
In your post you talk about your worries about the small canvas size. Where I feel like your jack in box sprite took up a lot of the space, I believe you could of made him smaller.
I think you should recreate him smaller and smaller just for your own study to see how much you can keep the idea without losing his most important features. You will learn a lot this way.
Also I understand you didn't have much time to finish but it would be great to see some more shading.
I can tell that you really care a lot about your line work, it is very neat. I would suggest not to use black to shade under his neck, it makes the line look displeasing there, instead you should of just used colour to show that there is a shadow there instead of thickening the line.
Also you don't need to use black to outline the features INSIDE the sprite. For example, the yellow collar around his neck has many black verticle lines going down. Instead of using black there, use orange or a darker yellow, something other than black. But if they are frilly parts that are sticking out then light would hit it and instead should be a lighter colour. You just got to think about the light when outlining with colour.
. But then again, it was work that was fun. I said iIwould finish this piece and submit it before Sunday, but here iIam now submitting on Sunday
. While I do started planning this piece way before the weekend, due to many issues, like my procastinaprocr and technical issues beyond my control, I ended up actually working on the piece from Saturday, meaning I had less than three days to release something!
Hey Amazonite. I'm sorry I never really replied until now. All I just want to say is thank you for the advice! About the small canvas issue, it wasnt really about the Jack In The Box. I was having the issue when I wanted to design toy plushies in an isometric view. I eventually scrapped that idea!
Your exercise of progressively reducing the canvas size sounds great! Funny thing is, I usually do something like this but the other way around, starting with 8×8, then going 16×16, then going 32×32, and finally stopping at 64×64. I think I like my exercise since it has a focus on mastering things like general 2D art principles (like perspective), and advanced pixel art techniques like dithering! However, I think there is some value in your exercise, which focuses on the idea of doing more with less, which is sort of a core tenant of pixel art!
I also believe in your critique of the shading. Maybe I could have used some dithering to make things better there. Also, your critique of the black outlines was very handy!
THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK!!!