This image was rejected for the following...
REASON: Any art you post should be PIXEL ART! Pixel art implies that each pixel is placed by hand (no filters, paintbrushes, gradient fills, etc).

I didn't upload my other image because I used a gradient fill on a part of that image, but the image I submitted (above) was done all by hand. What exactly is the issue?

The picture above was done by drawing the hood and ethereal parts first. Then adding the skull, filling it -- by hand -- all done with changing the alpha and colors to create shading and highlighting while allowing the hood to come through as ethereal. I only spent a couple hours on it and I was tempted to do it as a WIP, but I liked it on it's scale so I am using it and going to leave it as it for now. Hence why it was uploaded as a final.

I only started using paintdotnet a couple weeks ago, and never really did pixel art before. Although I am finding it about a millions times easier than other mediums of art. Mostly because it is so easy to shade and highlight things with the pixel level control.



Edited by Fultrim - 08 March 2015 at 7:22am

This is very far from being pixelart. You can't paint using alpha/transparency. You can't use blur, smear or any other tool where you don't have full and predictable pixelcontrol. You can't scale an image by other than integer multiples (x2,x3 etc) and then only with nearest neighbour. Preferably you should exercise color management and palette control, working with indexed palettes being the best, and always know your color-count. This image has 3558 colors and as such it would, according to PJ standards, disqualify regardless of how it was produced (at this size PJ would frown on any image with more than 50 colors).

Edited by DawnBringer - 09 March 2015 at 3:21am

You’re creating digital art.

Is there a site you guys steer people toward to post digital art when people try to post it here?

That isn't pixel art.