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    Posted: 02 January 2006 at 6:01am
Hi guys,

A couple of weeks ago while surfing the web for kendo-information I stumbled upon a site wich had awesome graphics.  I did not know what it was called but it resembled old computergraphics.

ANyway, today I made some internet searches and found ut about pixel-art.
I decided I wanted to learn more so I drew my first self portrait ever.

I understand it looks completely lousy too you, but I was hoping to get some pointers to what I can do to improve.

Feel free to edit the picture if you want to.
The picture is supposed to be me, in my grey hoodie w red university text, my thin black knit hat, and my brown pants and white sneakers.

Thanks for your help!




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Quote d-p Replybullet Posted: 02 January 2006 at 9:18am
Hi David,
welcome! Your image is quite amazing for a first piece work.
A forum hint, you don't have to upload an enlarged version of your picture within this forum, because I think sedge added a feature. You just can click on an image to enlarge it.
Although your image is quite nice, I think there a some common ways to improve it.
  1. Add a ride!
  2. Remove black outlines if possible.
  3. Don't use too many colors.
Colors in your image: 22
Colors in my version: 13




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Quote Kensei Replybullet Posted: 03 January 2006 at 7:14am
Thank you D-P!

For the comments AND the sweet ride!

Ill continue to experiment.  Its really fun, but difficult. 


I have downloaded graphicsgale and it works good.
Going to post some pics of my room in the future.

Take care!
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Quote Kensei Replybullet Posted: 03 January 2006 at 7:19am
One more Q,

What is the best way to add small animations?

For example making the mouth of the picture move.

Cant get it to work in Graphics Gale

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Quote d-p Replybullet Posted: 03 January 2006 at 1:01pm
Mh, I don't use Graphics Gale, but they say you can make animations with it.
I worked with microsoft gif animator, ulead gif animator and ImageReady. The workflow was always the same, you have to make different frames and get them organized.
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