Hi AllI've been trying to make a video game and I'm trying to make an adequate Grassland Tileset, and I want to get a similar effect to Kirby's Mass Attack, The Lorax and Cave Story.I feel that when my character walks on the grass it doesn't quite look right, And the Ground and Grass don't look good together, this may be due to the fact that The grass is not as detailed as the ground and I'm not sure what the best way to detail it would be.
And The ground itself looks a little funny and messy.And Suggestions on how I can fix these issue?


Also I'm using the Sega Master System Color Pallete at the moment.

Edited by Turon - 05 September 2014 at 4:47am

What kind of detail? Do I just make it darker towards the bottom?
And what if the sprite could be in front of the top of the grass and grass below the top could be lighter?

just a thought and i am extremely new to pixel art so i can't say my ideas will work at all but i feel first of all the sprite should defiantly be walking in front of the top grass as you stated. I also feel that shading the bottom edge of the grass to look like it is hanging down over the rock may help a bit as well. Im not sure that makes sense... but if it would help i would be willing to mess with it and try and give u a visual idea of what i mean.

How can I re-color the rock and still make it look good with the Master System 
Color palette?

I am about to go insain... every time i click on a pic to enlarge it it also sends me to photo bucket... anyways I'm about to doodle and see what i can come up with to hopefully give u ideas

i just use photo bucket then i copy the direct link to the image as I'm assuming you are doing. but right above where u type on here there is a picture of a tree almost dead center... click that and paste the url from photo bucket.... if your doing that then idk why its acting so funky. if not that may be the issue

Maybe if I continue how I'm going with Rock and give the grass a more textured look....?

Edited by Turon - 12 September 2014 at 12:25am

Thanks Killapeanutz I think I fixed the uploading problem!
    How does this grass look now?
kikiiscoolhi

Hey turon, while putting together a noob tutorial folder for my brother and his friend and I came across this. It reminded me of you and I thought it may be of use.

Killapeanutz I see the tutorial but how is it going to help me make square shaped tiles?

I just realized it isn't 16 by 16 pixels, and my character is not the same height as a tile, so this image was practically a flop from the start wasn't it?