Yeah, things like iLlke's Skeleharp and dragon plane were allowed. It's not that I consider it "dirty", just that things such as that don't exude the feel of total pixel control until arduously redefined.
hard pixel index painting was what i assumed. not color-reduce or auto-aa, but "pixel" tools that function like transparency within a palette. the mods have allowed some of that in the past, but i don't know that this hs the same type of pixel-level attention/revision as those pieces. i feel like this is at the stage where you spend another while making it back into pixel-art and undoing the machine functions.
Did you use the indexed paint mode then? I'm just wondering. :B
yeah, it's supposed that she's in a 'flashdance' pose, with a light source from above.
I didn't use a reference, and certainly i didn't use transparency layers, nor reduce colours.
I only use available Promotion's tools, pixel by pixel.
Erm... is she balding? Her hairline starts waaaaaay back. And the anatomy of her right (the front one) leg is all kinds of wonky. ):
But still pretty nice! Though I'm also getting the vibe Skamocore is. :\
I think the face could use more detail...
Do you have a reference picture?
I'm getting a semi-transparent-overlay-then-colour-reduced vibe here.
Bottom left and upper right must be transparent for the challenge :) please fix.
Sexy indeed ! That noir style sure turned out well !