Pixel Art Details

Title:	Yeti
Pixel Artist:	andrae (Level 1 Rookie :: 3872 points)
Posted:	5/14/2015 04:00
Palette:	16 colors
Statistics:	5 comments 7 faves 0 avatars
Another piece for pixel_dailies

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Ego (Level 6 Commander) @ 5/15/2015 01:12

Yo phil, great to see you around here again! I've missed your presence. Everything you say is right-on.

@andrae: I actually really like this piece. It's not a technical masterpiece, nor would I expect it to be for a pixel_dailies piece, but it has great gestures - everything is clear and understandable, even though the clusters are sometimes shaky and jagged. The intention and feeling of the piece come through loud and clear, even without refinement. One note I WOULD give would be to mess with the contrast of the the brightest yellow and the background blue, they're very close.

My favorite part is how, despite the lack of AA and the rampant imperfect curves, the shapes feel right and the clusters still communicate their forms. Nice job! But totally think on what phil said, it's all good stuff.

andrae (Level 1 Rookie) @ 5/14/2015 19:50

Wow. thanks phil! It's my first time to receive an indepth crit.

This was the initial sketch I made which I think has a better storytelling - A hunter hiding from the yeti http://i.imgur.com/tLRfoBS.gif . I planned on making some of your suggestions such as:

the warm and cool colors to separate the foreground (hiding man) and the background (yeti).
foggy colors on the yeti to establish the big size of the yeti.
angry-faced yeti
more colors in the palette. The subject is merging with the background

but, as usual, failed to execute them on this piece.

When wil I stop being lazy

philippejugnet (Level 6 Hitman) @ 5/14/2015 17:19

Looks like my message was ~way~ too long, here is the rest of it :p

well, if I had all of these in mind I would try something with a completely different composition, but that depends on what you want to achieve with your piece and how much of a story you want to tell with it.

So here is a really BAD and QUICK edit, which is not meant to be perfect just to enlighten you about the ideas you could have when creating your piece.

Edit

philippejugnet (Level 6 Hitman) @ 5/14/2015 17:17

Hi there andrae!

before everything in this post, I dig what you managed to get with you piece and I liked it very much, but well, i'm not the best with the composition and concept ~~shit~~ but this could come in handy.

Why are you saying this Phil?

Because I kinda get the idea you wanted to share, so I ask myself, what do I see?

Its defintely a yeti holding a piece of a trunk, so I suppose you wanted to show strength and maybe the view of the person which is looking at him * maybe exploring and found him somewhere, and running might be what you want to do next*.

ok, lets break this all down.(Concept / Story telling)

1. First of all, he is obviously ANGRY, but why?

2. What is he holding? a piece of a trunk, well it looks something really primitive, maybe something primate-like, which induces that he is strong, muscular and DUMB.

3. Where are we at? somewhere in the snow, we don't know, thats why it looks a little more like walking alone lost in the snow.

So ask yourself, how can this be more fearsome?

1. Make him angry for a reason.

2. Why does he need to look dumb? what if he was like a smart yeti with strengh? then you should fear him more right? he looks very "trickable".

3. defining a place where you are might help add stuff to your story a little more

Fine that's right! asking questions is a great way of creating a mindset for rockin' em' pixels.

What is my piece about?

Composition:

Well this is not at all about a mindset, this is pretty much techniques, which can be study from the cinema/old classic art pieces etc.

Colors:

Its really cold and chilly, yet you used really strong bronwnish-red colors, which kinda contrast way to much.

maybe a more foggy-like palette should work nice aswel.

Adding blue to everything is a great idea, when you study color theory, you'll see that more bluish/ grey colors are great for cold environments, so if you wanted to depict him red, maybe think this:

Cold = blue/gray

He is red, how to make him "fit 'round"?

well or use low saturation red or add red + blue.

BUT I WANTED TO ADD SOME RED TO CONTRAST IN THE PICTURE.

Then you can use some other techniques to create contrast or add stuff to story telling.

Cropping:

Honestly everything looks a little squeezed in the picture, give the yeti space to breath! so crop it with care!

I keep looking to his ABS because of the golden ratio if you want to tell a story with you piece then you should focus on what is important, maybe keeping the focus on his expression could be great.

Solving the problem:

If he had a torch would that induce you to think he is dumb? no, he knows how to make fire, which will add contrast to blue, a secondary lightsource and great in composition.

Why is he mad? maybe you disturbed him somehow, what if you were exploring and you found a cave? but later on you find out it had a owner, which is the Yeti.

well, if I had all of these in mind I would try something with a completely >*** Message truncated (4000 chars max) ***

Stava (Level 8 MS-DOS) @ 5/14/2015 04:23

Cool stuff. Great clusters :- )

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