sorry another grumpy pixel jointian,

ive seen your pieces come and go, i leave them when it comes to voting because im such a nice person i decide to not vote at all than vote no. your still lacking in most aspects of pixel art, dithering, i say should only should be used on 'close-ish' colors so no clashing becomes present, lines, your lines apsolutely horrible! ive seen my brother do better, when hes drunk and listening to his thrash metal. (he does draw a killer male genital). black, my most dreaded color/shade (to those specifical ones) i say never use it! me myself i have gone through atleast 30 pieces with only using black as the outline at the most. anatomy, yeah rar, rar, rar, concept is nice but how it anatomically comes to me, if i was you i would be disgraced with how bad your anatomy skills are.

i agree with Gil go back to pen and paper, i am constantly still.

Ok updated all the mistakes i made and reduced dithering.

I know what i am doing and i am even better then some people here.

Looking at your art you don't need intermediate tutorials yet. Start with the basics. In fact, I suggest you go back to pencil and paper, because I think you lack a lot of fundamental art skills needed for pixel art...

Ok, thanks guys , also do you have any good intermediate tutorials in suggestion ?

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Do you have a link buddy ?

YES, cleaning up your line art, it has many problems. Look for Derek Yu's tutorial. Its awesome.

Ahhh....thanks for your comments guys ill try to improve my work in the future. IS there anything i should learn from my mistakes in this rather than dithering ?

no.

this should never be accepted in the 1st place. unpolished, unrefined, lacking technique and quality, lack of work, care and a long list follows. what this means is that this needs a lot, a lot more work to be really considered as pixelart itself. i am surprised how the heck did this thing went past the queque, and, as a friendly advice, i'd rather take it out of it not only because its "bad"(technique-wise), but also because allowing such unrefined and poorly executed pieced encourages the one behind it that they are right and well done, when they are not. specially when you start doing your first pixels, such things can determine how are you going to develop your works in the future. this had to be rejected in order to make arylic rework it, study a bit more and why not post it on the WIP forums to get some food back to put it on the right track. its not meant to be some sort of blatalant elitism of pixelocracy, but rather making you the favor of being honest and giving you a no with a good set of reasons.

 inb4 defensive rant: no, pixeljoint is not attacking you or your style or your concept. we are mainly focused in the technique aspect of pixel art, and for that is that we want to be honest with you, rather than giving a lame set of fake pink flowers encouraging you to continue on what is already wrong.

As everyone else the there is too much dithering, and you said "So that  it has a rough texture and a tone of light." So he has rough skin rough clothes a rough hat rough shoes and a rough stick?

I don't agree to your last reply.
Your understanding of Dithering is obsolete and so the point behind what you tried to do serves no real purpose.
I agree 100% with Jeremy. It does, it reflects the environment of nothingness, but only light to far away source. That comment seems to have come from your ass, not only does it not make sense, but it is also outright stupid. Nothingness is not an environment, that and light would depict the opposite of nothingness. Light conveys volume and colour and so this would not be seen as nothing.

Also It does it reflects the environment of nothingness but only light to far away source. hahaha, what a lame excuse. Look, we as people looking at your work see this as something over dithered and nothing else. Why can't you see that?


And lastly. I can't see why this was accepted?! seriously though, It's not good enough, noire is it near finished. The dithering is used mindlessly, the line art doesn't fit the rules of pixel artand is so unfinished, the background was drawn with a brush or the pencil at a bigger size than 1px. Overall you are pissing me off! Fix this and don't be lazy! I don't see other unfinished crap work posted on an art gallery..

Well hope that helps jim

@ the b.0.b - I know its over dithered but that's the main purpose behind this piece... its meant to reflect the full use of dithering and act as some sort of shadowing. So that  it has a rough texture and a tone of light.

@ jermy - It does it reflects the environment of nothingness but only light to far away source.
@namre - Yes sir...lol

@ Metaru - i know, i have a specific reason to use that much dithering.

youshould start looking for some tutorials to learn the most basics aspects of pixel art. the resources section of the forum is full of them, so you should start doing some reading to have a better start

I'm kinda new to pixel art so the comments here are also helpful to me in the future. So no dithering unless you want it for texture, got it.

That background really serves no purpose at all. Your outlining is haphazard and the entire thing is overdithered.

Also, this has 18 colours I believe. 

I think you overuse dithering in much of your pieces, way too much. I'd try flat shading some of your pieces, build some volumes, and attempt making a piece which has NO dithering whatsover, as practice. Remember, dithering is also used as a visual texture, so sometimes, it isn't very wise to use on objects that are smooth in real life, unless it really calls for it.