No unfinished piece should be in the gallery. I'm rather disappointed this has made it through. The faces are great but those oekaki lines are just killing me inside.
It's a good point. I added variations in the dithering to avoid banding, but they kind of obscure the shape of the objects, adding to an already poor interpretation of the light and the shapes (which is a bit of a weakness I have).
I'm still kind of happy with it as a quick drawing :) (Oh and it won't be approved because it's unfinished).
actually, i still find this oversmoothed look overly mechanical (there are MANY tools that produce exactly this look) and, frankly, it looks boringto me! but that's my taste, not a valid criticism.
the only valid part of that is that all the guys who work like this create tons of false shapes that don't help the eye identify the piece. there's abstraction that foster recognition, and abstraction that combats it. in what appears to be a caricature, i'm not certain the latter is your ally.
This is far too deep a critique for these boards. I would love to discuss your work over at pixelation if you're interested in continuing the conversation, but there's no need for that here.
Oh, and doing this by hand is not really a big deal, there's just one 16 colour range for skin tone to keep track of. Some of my other pictures were a lot harder to do. I would be more impressed if there were any tools that could produce this look.
Well, although I use brilliance this is all hand pixeled. I pick a colour from the palette and place it with a 1 pixel size brush, even though I often use the keyboard to pick the colour (+/- along the palette).
It is true that brilliance has various other draw modes (smooth, tint, brighten, darken etc). I sometimes use those for sketching or trying out colours schemes. But the result from using those tools always looks like crap, it would never look like something hand pixeled. In all my finished pictures, every pixel is placed by hand in colour mode.
I wouldn't be surprised those tools have been used by scene graphicians, but lots of scene gfx is obviously hand pixeled.
unless im terribly mistaken, indexpainting includes any tool that changes each pixel incrementally along a set palette rather than handpicking colors. it's pixel-perfect placement, but there's still a lot of machining going on that i don't know whether people here approve of or not (dpaint has it and all demoscene stuff submitted here catches this kind of hell for that reason).
I believe you could do this by hand, though it gives the impression of tools
I know it's old "scene" pixel art style, but that's the kind that uses assloads of index-painting. Is that what we consider kosher here? (seriously, I like this piece and i don't care one way or the other - it's just a question I've been wanting to ask)
To smoth and hard to control all those pixels with this count of colors for faces - i understand why is not finished =)
and yes... this is old "scene" pixel art style.
The B.O.B. (Level 11 Master Assassin) @ 10/15/2007 16:12
This is most definitely pixel-art, yes. However, it's a wip. The Gallery is for finished pieces only. I think this will be easily accepted if you finish the bodies, or just crop it smaller, and finish the hair on the fellows. I'd send it into the gallery if this were done, anyway....
I did post links to wips for some of the other pictures, but they're all archives with amiga iff files, so maybe people don't take the trouble to look at them. I guess I could make post some image links like this instead.
the tough guys (unfinished) avatars, the tough guys (unfinished) icons, the tough guys (unfinished) pixel art, the tough guys (unfinished) forum avatars, the tough guys (unfinished) AOL Buddy Icons
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