How's it looking?

some mutant lollipop... :P

Slime swamp creature WIP.  There will be more slime. 

update with some color testing...

--> edit: new one:



Edited by jazcks - 17 August 2010 at 6:18am

I've been trying to nail down the whole transparencty thing, and failing at it.  It's more difficult than i thought. Nice challenge.
I'm having trouble conveying trancelucency and depth in the smaller areas.  I have no idea how i'm going to handle the mouth and eyes. and the shins look horrible.

Just a WIP (that's hideous ><).


FrostPumpkin, the right part isn't finished ?

Edit :
New version :
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Edited by Erowel - 17 August 2010 at 2:35pm

Hanny's Voorwerp.

Vertigo: you're making it too small, that's why it's hard. Make better use of the canvas.
FrostP: awesome!
Erowel: good start, I like the simple shape.

Thanks Manupix (:

Adcrusher : I really like it ! Needs to be smoother though.




Edited by FrostPumpkin - 17 August 2010 at 4:33pm

Looks really beautiful! Is it finished?

Mine, again but resized and a little bit modified:


Edited by EdJr - 17 August 2010 at 5:16pm

Wow, that pumpjelly is really amazing!
Ok, now's mine...
I've done it really quick, its a blobfish monster kind of thing :)
I need help with the pallete btw...

This is supposed to be an original creature. You copied a real animal, the blobfish.

Good catch HCGamer.
Jaker Pot please adjust to create an original creature. Being inspired by a blobfish is cool but make an original creature...on the bright side, this solves your whole pallete question


 No call it a Chia Pet


Edited by jalonso - 17 August 2010 at 7:58pm

Its no big deal or a problem if you misunderstood the rules call for creating an original creature. What I meant was that now that you have to modify the art itself the color palette is not yet important.
If you want its skin to have many colors like a shell has or a pearl you'll most likely want to use a lot of dithering so you can smoothly change from one color to another. Using a neutral color will help, see the feature interview with adarias to further understand this or check out what Jinn does with dithering...©Dithergasmic.

Well that's all about color choices mostly but the first 2 depend on dithering to further combine colors. Why don't you work on your piece so it fit the rules and lay in colors that are near the shades you want to have and roughly where they will go. Post it here (or make a WIP thread) and I'll help you develop the palette for it :)

(not tonight tho, I'm off to bed soon...tomorrow.)

_hey! you're the underwater forest guy, hehe. You pixel well but as you know its your color sense and color selection that seems to be the biggest obstacle for you.


Edited by jalonso - 17 August 2010 at 8:18pm

You have never done anything 'wrong'. You are new to pixelart, Pixeljoint and the ways of the pixel and are going thru what everyone else has who enjoys pixelart and wishes to improve has to. Everything in life has a learning curve and whether you go slow or quick nothing is wrong as long as you behave and respect others, which you do. We all like helping and supporting each other...really :)
I generally hate going OT but I'll make an exception here:
You try and try and on that alone I respect you. However, you are slightly spastic and still run on the quantity vs. quality. Not anyone else's quality but your own quality as it is today. Pixelart by its nature is a detailed activity, rushing pixelart when you are new to it is a stumbling block. Patience is the key to it, you have yet to make this discovery. Taking some care to choose colors is important too when Pixelart is about low color counts, not every green is the right green. You have to experiment and try new things all the time. All these hurdles should be a fun learning process. Until you make some of these leaps in progress you may encounter resistance and rejection. Ignore it and move on taking knowledge with every piece. You'll get there if you try. We have all been there.


Edited by jalonso - 17 August 2010 at 9:07pm

Thanks, but I only said that as a little joke. I already know I'm not the best nor worst artist on here.

No! Not a JPEG!

Also, way too many colors and that background should probably be transparent, since it doesn't do anything for the piece.

Edited by ev149 - 18 August 2010 at 5:28am

What yah's think? The hole is meant to be a mouth and the orb was originally going to be an eye but the pupil made it look horrid.
I'm not too good and I just got my net back again.

Oh and I didn't dither, In fact I used no single pixels what-so-ever all pixels are attached to at least one other of the same colour.

Looking great, guys. I really like that pumpkin jellyfish.

This is what I have so far, I'm not to crazy on some parts such as the outline on the water. Any suggestions?


Edited by Delicious - 18 August 2010 at 3:27pm

Thanks. I agree, it doesn't look slimy enough, so I added a bit of slime dripping down from it's body (Sexy, eh?). I also agree with the whole lower body being visible, however I'm trying to figure out how to do that. =P

Anyways, here is the current one:



I will be updating my gallery as I go along.

Edit - kinda like this, maybe?


Edit 2 - Here is the most current one.


Improving?

Edited by Delicious - 18 August 2010 at 7:02pm

Here's mine so far... I'm not really good with the whole slimy effect, any criticism/advice?

Who said slimy creatures couldn't be sweet and loving?

jalonso: Thank you! Hah yeah the border's just bad.. So I'm gonna take that out, and I'll change the background. The mouth is already dark purple but I guess it's a bit too dark.

Great edit, thanks :)
And ohh I was wondering how many colors I was at.. didn't feel like counting :P

But yeah, I'll definitely do what you said, thanks again :)

that change?

I changed the colors a tad, and made another slime creature. (I still need to add a fork though.)

&

(too lazy to add a detailed background to the second one)


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Edited by Rostii - 19 August 2010 at 3:12pm