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Love it :) He's got this smirk going, like he knows exactly what he's going to do at the top of the stairs and how he's going to do it.
A question, however: what are the rounded squares doing in the background? I see hints of two of them. Is it the texture of the wall behind him?
One more thing - the light source seems to be staright over to the right if we go by his clothes, but the shading on his body makes it look like it's to the right and towards us a little bit.
If that's the case, then shouldn't the front of the staris (the part we see) have some definition?
Over all I really love it. Anubis is hotttt.
Crisis //
Fontes: A good critique is hard to find. Thanks so much for your clear critique!
I've just done a basic paintover with some framework lines and confirmed some of the things you mentioned. At the time, my anatomy skills were quite lacking, so I didn't necessarily interpret the lines correctly (in terms of shading and line weight) (though I wonder about the original right (our left) arm -- i think it looked wrong in the same way in the lineart)
I'll do an update as time permits.
Very nice piece indeed. The shading and overall coloring is plain perfect.
However, there is something that bugs me, and that's the body itself. Anubis, like any other egypcian god, had a perfectly normal (visually) human body, and this piece shows little knowledge from you in human anatomy. The muscle lines are overall messed up, specially the thighs, which look pretty much like lumps of meat, instead of actually thighs. Specially the right (his right) one, which seems like someone has taken a chunk off of it. That, and by the right leg, we can see a rather odd connection between the legs and his hips, which is a tad too low.
The same can be said about the upper arms, specially the left (stretched) one. I swear, at first I thought the elbow was the shoulder/upperarm intersection. If you ignore the forearm, you can notice that the bicep area resembles more the muscles of a forearm, which is what confused me. Then I noticed the bandages, and thought "hey, that's for much for the wrist!", hehehe...
Also, the weapon's stick... Cross a line along is, and you'll notice parts which should still be visible from behind his arm. Sorry, i don't think i can explain this one very well... ^^;
Still, as I said before, the shading and coloring are top notch, which is why I'm shoving this one down my favourites list! ^^
Ooh, the texture of those stairs...I LOVE IT! :D 5/5
this is legend...u got alot of patience
i love it
Must've taken for ages, Outcome is briliant though :D
Excellent to hear from you!
I've updated the blurb accordingly :)
Oh wow. Ok I wasn't expecting to see this ever again!
I should explain, I'm 'Archer', or used to be. I drew the original lineart years ago - 5 years?! I can't even remember where I posted it, perhaps it was over on the Gamemaker forums? It's so great to see this again! Neota you did such a fantastic job, I remember you asking if you could colour it. I agree with all the comments here too. You deserve that award!
This brings back many memories.
Of course if nobody believes me, that's fine. Craziness I know. Although, I'm an Illustrator now, perhaps that helps prove my claim somehow?
Mike
Nice one, you didnt overdid it with the dither it's perfect ! I like it how you made the muscles flow in his bodyparts, wonderfull man !
That is So. Awesome. I love the stairs.
The cloth behind him looks...odd. It's flowing/moving (I think?) but the front part isn't, along with anything else that would move (hair/tassle-thing, for one). It almost looks like it's coming toward us, as well. I'm not quite sure. But...yeah, that is so cool looking. XD
^
Gamma adjusted now I'm using an LCD monitor and can see details better. Tell me if you think the above version is better or worse.
o_____O!HSHAJKS!
that is AMAZING! the detail, and his weapon--! the walls and the colors---...just breathtaking and aweinspiring *bows*
Thanks!
"random lines, near his ear"?
An optical delusion.
They're brick outlines.
The best I have ever seen of all Pixel Art! I'm oddly impressed by the colors and feel of the whole thing, not to mention the pose is amazing and Anubis is my favorite icons of all.
Wait a minute, what are those random lines I see on the wall, near his ear?
In the case of this picture, though.. Yes, it was done with quite simple tools, manually. The most unusual tool used was the clone tool (for the dither patternings). The background gradient -- I could have made it smoother, but I decided it was better as it is -- the roughness implies some texture that would be absent with a completely smooth gradient.
Things that I would change if I was redoing this from the start:
* Use add/sub drawing mode to do the AA and steps
(thus, save on time eyedropping -- you match the resulting colors to the intended palette later.)
* Try automatic dithering for the shadowing, and maybe for the back wall, using a custom dither matrix to create texture.
* Use more accurate coloring (normal skin, black head.) which would probably also save colors.
In general, these kinds of solutions as they relate to pixel art, require more technical thought to turn out a superior result.
(for example, dithering alignment -- it may work better to offset the dithering in some areas. Normally you'd just draw it slightly differently, but in the generated case you have to mark which areas you want with which offsets/alt dither patterns.)
They also work better for larger artworks. Using them on anything smaller than 32x64 final size would probably generate more work than it'd save.
You also tend to get a far better result if you decide on your palette in advance (though of course this can be changed after downscaling.)
Finally, you have to consider the factor that you're downscaling by.
If it's 2, Linear interpolation is ok; If it's 3 or 4, cubic is OK.
if it's > 4 then you need to divide it up into chunks (for instance, 8x downscaling would involve 2x linear shrinking, 4x cubic shrinking)
The reason is that not all pixels from the full size image are guaranteed to contribute to the result.
In the case of linear, up to 4 pixels
xx
xx
from the source go to compose a pixel in the destination.
In the case of cubic, up to 16 pixels
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
go to compose a pixel in the destination.
As such, some source pixels may be entirely ignored when the reduction factor is (>2 or >4 respectively for linear and cubic.); thus it's better to divide it up into 2 or more steps.
Trust me Mathias A LOT of people take shortcuts like that :D few would confess tho lol
it's especially spread in commercial pixel art, since you have to meet deadlines and all that :D.. plus you're not really obliged to strictly conform to classic pixelart techniques when making commercial projects.. even tho people won't let you post it at pj maybe LOL
Whoa. First I must say this is incredibly impressive. Way to go!
But, it's pieces like this that make me wonder why pixel art was chosen as the style. Now I am new to pixel art, but not digital drawing/painting in general. I know that if this was just a normal raster digi painting you could've had a much smoother gradient in the bg. Also, did you really manually aa this!?
I'm just getting into pixeling, but I think what would help a novice like me to acheive this kind of appeal would be to actually paint the image like this with all the digi painting tools and filters in Photoshop, in RGB mode, probably as a larger size. Then scale it down to the correct size, which tremendously increases the detail. Then I'd change color mode to indexed and let the colors get knocked down to 16-32 or so, take that and start pixeling over it on another layer. This way I'd only have to pixel certain parts. The difficult aa would be done and only need cleaned up. Anyway, at this point in my pixeling, that's how I'd go about doing this sort of realistic pixel image. I'm sure that's probably unnacceptable to the elite here, but right now, for me, I think that's a method worth exploring. And I beleive I will, in the coming weeks.
Again, great job! I enjoyed looking at it, man!
Keep up the good work!
Kawichan in this picture (straight from Egipt) Anubis has a axe head on the staff. 
Well, thanks.
-Mart-: yeah, I agree the dithering on his body is better than on the wall.. I just don't relate enough to this pic anymore to consider redoing the whole damn wall, heh. Hum, just noticed, there is an radiosity error on the far side of the second-from-top step.
Frankly, your pixel art rocks.
(or, viewing it after I've just turned on my monitor.. though that makes everything look faint.)
Maybe this is a misunderstanding and you meant something other than faint?
What the hell?
Well, it's faved now!
Anubis is my favorite! This is absolutely stunning!!! + Fav
I'll make the simplest change (the hand needs to look more like it's gripping at the right angle, which should help significantly). I might try a more ambitious change later.
Adarias:
Nahh, not gonna change the colorscheme that much. I've tried various schemes and like the absence of blue (and carefully limited contrast) in this case.
I second Adarias' point about the colors and the position of the weapon hand/arm. It does appear that the axe he's holding has a long handle (mostly hidden by his arm). The angle of it is a bit visually confusing, especially the way it lines up perfectly with his arm.
Good job on the interesting lighting.
Beyond that, there is only a single problem i have with this (some things could be more realistic like the anatomy, but they do not detract form the piece.) The problem i have is not with the technical skill or the presentation, but with the raw form of the axe and axehand. The haft does not follow the shape that the hand is gripping (the shape contained within the palm goes back away form the viewer and bend downwards in realtion to the axe-haft). Also, the hand has twisted such that the wrist looks broken, which is a little bit strange and it fails to compensate for the position of the axehaft which still is not aligned with the hand. Lastly, there is a word for people who wield and axe from the end of the haft, and that word is "unarmed." If he intends to have any control over the weapon for fight or for show, the handle either needs to be lengthened or he needs to move his hand up. Here is an example of how the hand might be better shown, forgive the .jpeg format i just hit the wrong button in paint:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4537/anubis9kq.jpg
(retarded messagelimit XD)
The whole piece is so...perfect
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wow, one of the best pic i ever seen...