this is my first semi-finished attempt at pixel art, a street scene i put together in a few hours over the course of a week. i wanted to make a lo-res/obviously pixellated image to use as the cover for my facebook timeline, hence the dimensions. cover image measures 851*315, so i reduced it by a factor of 5 to get a resolution of 170*63, but i'm posting it here zoomed to the scale that i intended it to be viewed at. any and all thoughts and comments appreciated. thanks!



edit: i should add that i do see this as a work in progress, there are quite a few things i would like to change or tweak, but i'd like some outside perspective before i do.

Edited by echocharliepapa - 06 March 2012 at 11:04pm

added brick texture to the graffiti and lightened the mortar between the bricks a bit. don't know if i can bevel the bricks without losing something as they're only three pixels tall to begin with.

yeah, i linked to facebook for the first image, but everything on my computer is png or an app-specific file. the second image is png.

Edited by echocharliepapa - 07 March 2012 at 1:31am

I like the design of this piece, and it's looking good already. I'm no one to judge, but I think that you can have more variation in the palette. This method is called "hue-shifting", and involves changing the hue slightly (or greatly, depending on what you're after) to create a palette. You can read more about it in this post.http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299&PID=139392#139392

changed the shadows a bit more and made the newspaper machine look like a real vending box and less like a washing machine. =] also playing around with AA on the pavement but i'm not sure i like it much. might also add some single pixels of the next darkest shade for texture on the sidewalk, but i'm worried about it just looking noisy if i do. opinions? feedback?