what do u think about this beginning of a grandpa?

the beard is better than the hair right?^^

i blured the hairs all other is pixeled
should i do a 4 or 3 colour colouring by the hair and the beard?

Edited by chess - 13 October 2006 at 12:52pm

Why not start with the face/skin first. That will tell you how many colors are required on the hair. If you end up with say 5 colors for the skintones, then you can use up to 5 colors on the hair. Play with it.
Blurring is a major NO-NO in pixelart.

PS: Please read the dates on threads, If its over 1 week old DO NOT COMMENT. You are new here and n00b attacks will come your way. ThereIsNoCure just bitched at you and you did it again. Believe me he does get nastier than that. So go pixel, mkay.


Edited by jalonso - 13 October 2006 at 1:05pm

I like the style of the lineart so far. Aside from what was already mentione about the hair, I would reccommend making the bigger eye rounder instead of octagonal. The harsh angles look really odd to me.

Is this your picture you're tracing over?

You're tracing over a picture. The divides in the hair are very anti-aliased... like a picture. Unless you did all that anti-aliasing.

If it's not your picture you're drawing on top of, you shouldn't be doing this.

edit: unless you're pixelling overtop something you drew with tools... also a possiblity. Are you drawing over top of something?


Edited by Aleiav - 13 October 2006 at 5:31pm

yes, blurring makes it look like crap. 

I think this has some interesting promise. I must say however, that the dithering completely ruins it for me, stay away from the dithering. There are other problems but i don't feel like going into it all now.

so far:



what is wrong with the dithering hä?-.-

I don't see why it couldn't be used as another shade. It doesn't bother me, the dithering. We could take a look at Helm's Spartan for 'zamples of dithering to fill a flat surface, couldn't we?

If YOU don't think so then nothing else matters. It's your piece, own it.
Will you be removing the color black? I would suggest you do. dark grey for hair, dark brown for skin. I like it and the dithering is not bad but shading like you've done on the hair looks better. Maybe you can blend the shades with a little dithering if that is a skill you are working to improve on. What will become of the eyes? This overall linart has the look of a piece of Quartz crystal. You could make the flesh more crystally and maybe have jewels for eyes. picture it on a cave wall where this crystal is embedded in the rock wall, maybe

That reminds me sooooo much of my grandpa! |P

Cool stance/composition!
Body armor needs some perspective, IMHO.
Will you draw over the mirrored hand?

Keep goin!

yeah, the composition is a bit odd..

the face was shrinked from the original and isnt finished^^ no i dont steel anything ok?-.-

u dont like it that a "noob" can do good work huh? -.-

so... it is sh*t or what??-.-'

i think that your wrong, because nobody told me sth like that before! what do you mean with your opinion that he looks like a 15 years old boy without chest?! pardon me, but i´ve never seen a boy, who was 15 and had boobs like gina wild! so what´s wrong with you?apart from i cant understand your statement that the structure of his parts of the body are  on the wrong places...it looks like you´re totally against my picture! also´i dont say that it´s finished.

maybe you´re a bit jealous

no really i dont wasn´t very pleased with your statements

next time you better think before you write that kind of ridiculous things

looks like we've got another one ... what's the point of posting a wip (for critique) if you don't want to hear any ...

Why do you feel the need to act so immaturely towards people who are trying to help you improve?

May i know why the guns are at 3x or something.. looks like those guns were ripped from somewhere else, or you simply got lazy and made them small and resized.. either its jus plain fugly.. put some effort..

And snader.. great edit

chess, these people ARE trying to help you. Rethink how you're dealing with it. If you can't recieve critisism politely i suggest you try hard to now. Post your next update and start a clean slate with the members. Explain your image so that no one is confused by parts of it, as in the last one.

Ok. See if you an make those chest plates curve with the ody underneath. Armor is curved to is hugs the body and takes up less space. A dart of missle can easly pierce a flat surface where a convex surface provides more of a challange. Also See if you can't cut a boot out of that cinderblock of a foot. He should cast off the baby pajama pants for shoes and pants. The face llloks like something off a disney movie see if you can't fix the structure a bit. He has little room for a brain with the skull shape. Overall I do see soe willingness to learn. Chess you were almost banned yesterday and the image locked. If you disagree with a critique you don't have to do it but please thank the poster for their time. People want to help others improve and soetimes newer folks arn't used to harsh critiques.

Make the armor bend to the shape of the body that it covers.

Chess, I think you're doing a good job with the constructive criticisms people gave you, and I do think some of these people were a little too harsh in the things they said. I'm glad you're still working on it! It's improving a lot! Don't give up on it, man.

The face is looking a lot better, and I think the armor will improve as you continue to round out those very sharp angles.

One other small criticism: I think the arm on the right (his left) could use some kind of line or shadow in the middle to show where the joint is. Maybe even with a slight curve in the arm, so it's curving outward (like the elbow is sticking out just a liiiiittle bit). Our arms and legs aren't 100% straight even when we're holding them straight.

I'd take a look at snader's edit more closely. It's good that you've rounded the chestplates but now they look like rounded squares. I'd try your best to curve it more, like snader's edit shows.

Sorry but why is the nose Red

Also the handles off the gun could be given a bit more interest, at the moment they just look too flat