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   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!

/David

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Kensei Seaman Joined: 02 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Topic: New member 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! /David
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d-p Commander Joined: 17 March 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 144	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. Add a ride! Remove black outlines if possible. Don't use too many colors. Colors in your image: 22 Colors in my version: 13

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Kensei Seaman Joined: 02 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	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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Kensei Seaman Joined: 02 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	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 David
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d-p Commander Joined: 17 March 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 144	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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