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i hate to be a spoilsport but i seem to remember all crows (member of the corvus family) have black beaks. i really like the idea though
Jeremy: Sir, no advice as well given could ever be too long, I assure you. Thanks for the comments. Trying to apply shading skills from media such as pencil, pastel, or even charcoal (for pity sake) to pixel shading is proving to be tricky (dithering manually? Ugh, what mean this 'dithering manually?') though your fifth paragraph does help me take heart. I'll try to submit something with these ideas in mind. Thanks.
Who doesn't love traditional media? :þ
The copy+pasting of leaves should be fine, as long as you pixeled the original. The 3px brush, that's fine too because you've refined with pixel precision.
Now critique >:D
This piece has 64 colours in a 64x64 canvas which is rather exorbitant. Is every single one of those colours absolutely vital in some way to the piece?
Your colour ramps are boring: Dark blue->Blue->Light Blue Dark green->Green->Light green
Where's the hue shiftage? How about modifying the colours so that the green is shaded with the blue and highlighted with yellow, there's 5 pretty much useless reds on the eye; Turn the darkest of them purple and use that to shade the blue.See what I'm getting at?
At the moment, it's pretty paint by numbers: Body is blue, beak is yellow, leaves are green, leather is brown, eye is red and white. Breaking the barriers leads to your colours being unified throughout.
Just keep practising, the shading techniques (Defined light source, shading to form etc.) are sound, it's pixel-specific techniques that need to be learned.
So yeah, keep up at it, try and semi-define a pallette and take stuff to the WIP thread to get another's opinion and advice. Being accepting of critique is a major plus- it's what stops newbs from learning.
God I wrote alot D:
Dhr. Bosch: Sir, you are completely correct about that. My only defence is that orange is a traditional beak colour in cartoons (as in Disney's Dumbo; perhaps artists mistook it for the blackbird?) and it would not have otherwise contrasted well with the blue costume. Though being completely black would certainly help a ninja out, eh?
Thanks,
JD