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I was supposed to draw myself as the last character I'd played in a video game. It was her.

Edited by xxmantisxx - 08 June 2012 at 5:27pm

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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Topic: Lulu - Want to Improve Posted: 08 June 2012 at 5:25pm
	I was supposed to draw myself as the last character I'd played in a video game. It was her. Edited by xxmantisxx - 08 June 2012 at 5:27pm
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philippejugnet Commander Joined: 21 April 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 459	Posted: 08 June 2012 at 8:22pm
	Improve on colors. Give it a try on the colors from your source!
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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Posted: 08 June 2012 at 8:43pm
	That's the in-game color pool.
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Gamamoto Seaman Joined: 10 May 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 26	Posted: 10 June 2012 at 2:17am
	Lulu's hair is darker and her robe is kinda purple not red that's all the differences i can see.
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philippejugnet Commander Joined: 21 April 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 459	Posted: 10 June 2012 at 7:58am
	well thats the ingame, you shall pick the art spotlight one. Also, you didn't picked the correct colors from the shot. Go for the purple ones. Edited by philippejugnet - 10 June 2012 at 7:58am
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Zeratanus Commander Joined: 03 December 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 576	Posted: 11 June 2012 at 8:56am
	That hat is the wrong shape. It curves in as it goes up. Yours bows out as it goes up.
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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Posted: 11 June 2012 at 11:49am
	@Gamamoto: That's the lighting, her wand and Pix (the fairy) both shine purple. Also, it's supposed to be me dressed as her, which I stated in my first post. @philippejugnet: Well, if you look at the reference closely, you'll see that the colors won't work at pixel level smoothly at all. @Zeratanus: You make a very good point, I tried to fix it here:
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Drazelic Midshipman Joined: 25 February 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 42	Posted: 11 June 2012 at 6:43pm
	Let's make the expression a little less south-park and a little more animesque like the original source, shall we? If you want to take it further, you could work on consolidating the palette. Your two red ramps are similar enough to be fused into one so that you'd get more space for magenta-pink for robes and hair.
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philippejugnet Commander Joined: 21 April 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 459	Posted: 11 June 2012 at 7:13pm
	Going for drazelic's edit: You shoudnt be that closed minded.
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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Posted: 17 June 2012 at 7:21pm
	You guys are great. And yeah, I'm pretty closed minded... I tried to make it more like Lulu than me, why not? And I noticed that you guys tried to make it a bit less symmetrical, so I tried that as well. Edited by xxmantisxx - 17 June 2012 at 7:25pm
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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Posted: 19 June 2012 at 9:30pm
	Saw some issues with the hair and ears, so I fixed them as best I could. Oh, and I also needed a bump :p
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a3um Commander Joined: 25 June 2022 Location: Russian Federation Online Status: Offline Posts: 244	Posted: 20 June 2012 at 3:08am
	Snap! I made her look like a top-down sprite :( Well I'm not really a sprite artist but here are my 2 cents. As you can see I went for dark hairs without details to make her face popup more. I hue-shifted dark red - which is kinda brown on your sprite - towards purple so it can work better with dark purple outline/hairs. You could use different shades of yellow on hat and clothing ornament to give a sprite more volume. Also I'd hue shifted darkest yellow shade towards red Edited by a3um - 21 June 2012 at 1:12am
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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Posted: 20 June 2012 at 10:17am
	Woah, a3um, you're so skilled! I way admire your work. I tried to change some of the colors to fit your work a little more. I darkened the hair, but I don't like that pure black :( Also, loving that angle, but I don't quite see a reason for me to change it like that?
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a3um Commander Joined: 25 June 2022 Location: Russian Federation Online Status: Offline Posts: 244	Posted: 21 June 2012 at 1:11am
	*Originally posted by xxmantisxx* Also, loving that angle, but I don't quite see a reason for me to change it like that? Of course you don't have to, it's just I got carried away:)
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xxmantisxx Commander Joined: 03 August 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Posted: 21 June 2012 at 11:11am
	Oh, haha, good to know people can get carried away helping :D Anyway, I think I'll post this now. It's a ton better than it had been, all thanks to you guys. Next time I'll try to pose it some... Edited by xxmantisxx - 21 June 2012 at 11:13am
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