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C&C please :)

Edited by 1luke1 - 14 March 2013 at 10:44pm

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Been working on the bricks.
Not totally satisfied yet.
Comments, Critique, Suggestions welcome.


Edited by 1luke1 - 16 March 2013 at 12:12pm

This looks clean and excellent. If you used reference photos for this, I would love to see them.

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Slowly but surely.
Thanks for the comments!

Looks damn good. Have you thought about the window reflections?

craftypixel addressed an important point- the colors are very boring.  Using realistic colors in pixel art doesn't usually lend itself very well.  You actually have a better chance at reflecting realism with so few colors with more extreme and vibrant colors.  Also keep in mind how much you want your tiles to match your reference photo versus how much you want your tiles to be visually interesting. 
Lastly, the banding on the edges of the bricks is a huge eyesore.  Mainly because it's a triple banding issue. 

Thanks for posting the reference photo. I think you did a nice transfer. I'm also interested in seing the railing done.

I think the stones just lack some shades.

Quick update.
Help with railing would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Your picture seems a bit too clean to me.. First off, there are a couple of design cues that are in your referece image that don't appear in the work. I know you don't have to include everything, but some of them give more character to the building, such as the small brick ledges, and the accents on the windows.

Its also a bit too perfect. Rough it up a bit. Buildings of that style are usually a bit older and outside of culturaly historical cities, they usually are in a bit of disarray... All this added together can add more caracter and depth.

Here's a quick edit illustrating a few of my points. Obviously these can all be refined, but I'm just getting the point across.

Railing complete.

Hm. I'm not really a fan of the style, the outlines and muted colors make it feel rather flat.
But what it is objectively lacking, are a bunch of small details. The metal plates, the lights,
the electric wiring, the parts where the mortar has been replaced.

Slight update.

Some Suggestions or criticism would be great. I really have no idea what I'm doing. A lot of trial and error.

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I'm not feeling the flat, overcast lighting and colors. Try being a bit bolder with your color choices, in ways that might not even seem to work at first. Work in some shadows, and really iron down your form. One place you might want to look at in particular is the dock and the water. It's fairly hard to find negative space in this kind of perspective, so milk it all you can when you have the opportunity to draw a deep, dark ocean right next to detailed, slimy boards. I hope this helps.