Ok I have been doodling these doodles for a month now, working with the Full cga palette/standard ega palette/ http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4652

Probebly there are coming more of them, I want your idea's, but more important, your critism, how I have to improve them, what to change, what to not change, etc.
edits are welcome as usual :)



Edited by Lollige - 04 November 2007 at 1:47pm

I think a more consistent outlining would help improve the look of these .  For example, the guy with the bad posture and hat could be quite a nice simple cartoon character if you continued with it, but the outlining doesn't match between the head and body.  I don't think the broken outlining on the lamp works.
I can't really comment on the palette usage as I don't know exactly what EGA is .

i would work more on outlines first, and then move to the the palette wondering. it seems that almost one of each three things you've made here(on this 'project') lacks any kind of solid shape and its just the extentended version of a doodle. it doesn't mean that its bad, but i would expect more from you lollige, I know what you're able to do. the book and that ninja are the best of this.

with 'solid shape' i mean they need a structure. even when they are doodles in a cartoonish style, they need some kind of structure or solid shape in order to doesn't look like bloobs of colors. for example, the lamp, that blue monster, the green face and the sword of the running guy, they all lack a solid outline or shape, therefore looking like a careless doodle. even when, technically, your outlines are 'clean' under pixel art terms, they look messy... like natalie's drawing from that challenge. not saying that you draw like a 5 year old girl, please no, but that's mainly the point i'm trying to show you. your colouring/shading is quite good (that last piece you submitted is the proof), but you still need to work on what you're actually drawing. improving... the only way i could think, rigth now, is to create more linearts. take a look a that thread, get some inspiration, study, and practice. for you is only a fact of practice.

Ok please tell me now, Witch ones of these are good, witch ones bad, why, and how to improve
Greets,
Lollige

as being good or as beig bad?

Earlyer I tried to do a whole body with that as base but that did not work out.. now I tried to clean up the lines but that did not work out too! I tried it with some others I liked too, but I deleted them all again..