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Wow, great pixel to take information from. Thanks for the pointer Manupix!
I love this. But I have to say that it doesn't really look like fog; specifically, the light is not fog-like. This is not something that dithering can fix.
It's impossible to have anything black in fog, because there is always an amount of fog between the viewer and anything in the scene, that must diffuse at least a small amount of light. Brightening the shadows would go a long way towards a foggy atmosphere.
You also have to choose between day or night. The fog and bg being rather a uniformly cool bright, you'd think it's daytime. On the other hand, the lit street light means night: the fog bg should then be dark except where directly lit.
You might want to have a look at this ;)
@Jalonso: asking you to show me how you would recolor this is asking too much? Maybe in a forum thread...
create > borrow
Your palette is now almost there and good. I think its just needs polishing and refining what you have.
Yes. I would do that but believe it or not if I or anyone else does it and shows you then you will not learn as much as using words and you making it happen. WIP threads are always good.
"My palette"? What is that? Can I eat it? :P Next on the list: create or borrow a color palette, then repixel this.
oh, oh...here I go again coming down on you >.<
Not a bad effort but you could have been way smarter with your colors. The grey on the left hand side could well be used on the blacks and the lightest yellow on the light could help in other areas too. The single red used on the cigareete could well have been subdued enough to have read as red but dull enough to use on blacks and browns. The glow yellow used on the coat is the only shade that could be shifted into the blue-cast a bit to further read as a misty/wet/foggy environment.
Overall the colors are good tho just not a sphisticated use of your palette ;)
The fog is very well done. Dithering scattered light from the streetlamp clearly suggests twisted forms of mist
the lamp and the color of the background reminds me a lot the venice laguna :)
Thanks for the comments guys. I think the readability issue is somewhat related to both the scene type (fog doesn't help :P) and the style. For sure I want to improve it, and maybe after a bit (lot) of experimentation and training it will improve in readability while retaining the "look & feel".
I have no trouble seeing that it's a man with a cigarette walking in a foggy looking atmosphere. I think it looks interesting.
I disagree with ParkerBabyDiaperCompany fully, I think the high contrast adds to the picture and I think it has great readability.
Readability is very off for the man at 1x. I think the contrast of the highlights is too high.
I do very like the style, though. Great atmosphere. Especially the lamp.
Just maybe more broad areas of color to define shapes for better readability.
