Not a serious thing / for a challenge, but I was messing around with the DB16 palette in grafx2 (which makes you cool, im pretty sure) and doodled some stuff.



Not a scene so much as an example of the things put together:



Criticism / pointers would be very appreciated; I would like to be able to get some form of these sprites onto the site eventually. Thanks in advance!

Thanks Limes, and yeah I think of Sonic's arms as being pretty much jointless...and rabbit's arms as having joints wherever, apparently. Lol

Small update, with (suggestive?) mushrooms



and, WIP for the weekly challenge:



It's meant to be a brain with arms/legs, in a room, in one of those chair/desk things. I'm going to add robot parts on the outside, so like, the robot is powered by the brain's +/- energy? Or something.

EDIT: It's too wide at the moment, but I can make the right arm shorter easily, and I was more worried about height anyway, which has turned out fine (<128px). CC/help with problem areas/pointers/everything all would be very appreciated.



EDIT: Width of the thing itself is exactly 126px.



Currently at 15 colors, probably going to zap the red/green to go down to 11 (including transparency.)

EDIT:



11 + transparency. Could reduce more, but not sure it's worth it; I think I'll just keep the background.

(Palette is DB16, same as the Sonic stuff.)

Edited by bittersweet_batty - 15 January 2015 at 6:52pm

Thanks Superturnip. It definitely is messy, I'm trying to go over the brain/desk/chair area and clean it up a bit, less dither vomit and more clusters/definition.

The arms and especially the claws were definitely rushed, I tried to clean up the shading but I think I might need to scrap the claw hands, maybe replace them with pincer fingers that wouldn't be so reflective? The light source is meant to be vaguely upper-leftish, but it is very inconsistent at the moment.

Small update based on your feedback and some from someone on reddit, some changes to the brain/desk/chair area (shading, outlines, clusters, still working on that whole area) some changes to the arms/claws (but still not at all happy with the claws), and I changed the brown to a more pinkish color to make it more brainish? Also, experimented with making the interior of the room more yellow-lit, and changed how the bulb/lamp looks:



Thanks again for the help, it's very much appreciated. :)

Edit: Also, guy on reddit suggested a head to make it more "bot"-like and less of a room with limbs. Doodled one quickly, plus wires:



edit: just slightly more fiddling



Edited by bittersweet_batty - 16 January 2015 at 6:14pm

More DB16 silliness. The righthand guy is just a doodle, the brown creature and lower man are more serious tries.

Haha, thanks Hapiel! I like the edit a lot, adding purple to the skin tones really works well, the shirt arms and jeans look more formed, really nice. And the less thick border seems to work well.

Just another quick thing, more normal-looking attempt at a guy. I'm going to give the jeans another shot, I hate their shading, but for now

Some changes to the tree, based on reddit's feedback. Changed the shading and outlining up a bit, and tried to remove some jaggies.

The pixeling on the tree and grass needs some tender loving care. You've certainly got the ability to draw well, but you should go back and clean up your work so it's well-done on a pixel level. Take some time to fix the jagged yellow/white areas, which don't add to the look or help break the leaves into more interesting forms.

As for the moon, it looks great for now, just watch out for jaggies. :)

I like your style man. Very weird.
Maybe we could collaborate on something...
I'm currently making a game called 'Cocoon' and it could use your obscure art style...

Email me at admin@eclipsejapan.jp if you're interested and we can talk about it.

Sam Jones

http://eclipsejapan.jp/
http://healingprocessgame.com/

Mario! CC would be very appreciated, I think I'm going to make companion Luigi/Bowser/Boo/etc.

also done for pixel_dailies #masks eyyyy: https://twitter.com/superlushfever/status/578063593817526273



palette is db16!

Edited by bittersweet_batty - 18 March 2015 at 12:45am

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