here are a few of my things sorry, there really bad! but you have to start somewhere. just some positive / constructive feedback please :)


















Edited by mashimi - 18 July 2010 at 3:40am

yeah don't resize the image. We can just click on it and it makes it bigger. I thought your volcano peice was the most interesting, so I just played around with it.  I might as well post it here, it could help. It's very sloppy though.



you should add more chaos, makes it more interesting. Also, I wouldn't use black lines, it makes everything look cartoony. You might want to practice traditional art like drawing and painting. Your pixel art is a lot better when you are decent at traditional art.

if ur upscaling stuff, make sure u use even numbers... otherwise u cant really scale it down again (i.e. up: 300% -> down 33,3333333......% - doesnt work....)

anyway... look up tutorials on pixelart...there are lot around.. also practice traditional art.. especially shading.. now ur pretty much just putting darker pixel underneath the inner outlines... its not as simpel as that. many beginners think theres some kind of formula for shading, like what ur doing or more commonly 'pillowshading'... proper shading is somewhat like sculpting light, feel the object, feel the shapes with ur eyes
what ur doing is not at all an 'organic' way of shading its just increasing the blocky feel
keep practicing...

heres a take for fun on the 'mashimi!!!' piece, using the lovely NES palette...kinda inspired by this weeks challenge ^^.. maybe its of some help
(remember u can enlarge the pic by just clickin on it...ALT+ click makes it small again (at least with my browser....)

just search google....
here it is anyway ......

thanks ^

ninja