Long toddlers are long!
https://opengameart.org/content/12-roughlyanimated-isometric-characters
Also, note how fleshless skeleton lies in a pool of blood.

Just look at teh pillow shading!
https://opengameart.org/content/weapon-icons-0

The skeleton is perfect too!
https://opengameart.org/content/open-gunner-expansion-pack-2

I'm sure, that is how real or magical gems should be textured:
https://opengameart.org/content/32x32-pixel-gems

Best tileset ever!
https://opengameart.org/content/sprites-for-top-down-rpg

Taking a dump on art on a forum for people largely seeking to improve their own pixel art and some of whom are worse than some of the examples you've posted, is rather against the spirit of the place, don't you think? That might be one of the reasons no one else has contributed to this thread.

How about instead you turn this into something constructive and critique the art, explaining what makes it look bad and why, offering suggestions for improvement, pixel-overs (where the licence allows it), etc? That way, people can appreciate the poor quality more and, most importantly, learn from it more easily.


Edit: Wow, all these years and I never knew PJF had a profanity filter.

https://allacrost.org - a great example of what would happen, if you take various art in various styles by various artists from OGA and make a game out of it, without much art direction. The tilesets they used are nice and professionally done, but combining them together, without adaptation and editing leads, to funny result.

Scenery from commercial Lord of the Rings game. Some of it is passable, while other, especially that house, look amateurish. And the pixeling itself is very dirty.

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Why do people watch AVGN reviews, making fun of hardworking people's efforts? And you can learn from bad art too.

After all, my first post on this forum was a complain, that I commissioned one artist animating a few isometric sprites, and he totally botched them, breaking anatomy and attaching tail to creature's anus. And that was an artist with two commercial projects in his portfolio (although these were sideview platformers, not isometry).

Another one from Russia...
https://forum.deviantart.com/jobs/services/2141297/
> Kimyri Professional Digital Artist
> 2D artist with a successful 4 year experience in that field
> can work in different styles and have an excellent knowledge of Photoshop.
> I'm qualified in following fields: GUI, pixel art, icon art (from 24 pixels), avatars, illustrations, isometric houses (farm style games), background, animation and other related.

but well all know, that being modest is frowned upon in Russia, where "понты" decide everything.

And like typical Russian communist, she also appropriates other people's art:
> Do NOT recommend, artist stops communicating if you have an issue then posts YOUR OCs as their own without crediting owner, claiming that since they don't look 100% like your OCs that it's OK. Should be banned!

I'm myself Russian and a political refugee/fugitive from Russia, hiding in Ukraine, after being persecuted in Russia, due to my political opinion on Russian invasion into Ukraine and Syria, and my memoirs book ( https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/one-life-in-russia.md ). Russia seeks international arrest warrant on my head, but Interpol refuses to arrest me.

So I know my kind very well - you won't find more people with horrible attitude towards copyright (and any human rights in general) than in Russia. My compatriots love to pirate stuff, copycat other's work and basically refuse to buy movies and software legally (they even use some anti-semitic nonsense about Hollywood being Jewish to back up their stance for pirating stuff). I'm being a rare exception, ordering DVDs from Amazon and Ebay.

I can justify my generalized accusation with a ton of examples. I.e. Mendeleev stealing periodic table from Lothar Meyer, Russians claiming to invent radio, airplane, and railroads, even math theorems (like Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem) were claimed by Russians, all Soviet computers and software were blatant copies of western ones, and same goes for Russian children books, like Wizard of the Emerland City and Buratino, which are just renamed copies of Wizard of Oz and Pinocchio. Same for "Russian" vodka, matryoshka, balalayka - all are of non-Russian origin.

TLDR: I'm ashamed of being Russian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBoy

This eBoy guy appears to be the most famous and overhyped pixel artist.  In fact, I first heard the term "pixel art" in connection to eBoy. Yet all eBoy produces are these flat looking quickly put isometric views with eye hurting palettes. Dunno, maybe I'm a just Henk Nieborg's fan and don't understand contemporary art, but it looks laughable that eBoy's pieces could be that popular.

Then I just love, how official site represents all arts in jpg files:
http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/2017/10/16/flughafen-ber-berlin/

also, look at that mirrored tree stump with banding in lower left corner

I found a guy today that makes laughably bad pixel art, figured I'd post it here.

Beyond just the basic stuff like lacking originality and style, some of the stuff even misses some of the basic bits of pixel art or art in general.

For example this eye which should be very simple because an eye is just a shiny sphere, but no. This is flat, dull, has banding, and isn't even round!

Or this 'face', at least I think that's what it is supposed to be. An amorphous blob whose mouth sticks out further than the nose, mister fishlips HAHA. Also look at the macaroni cheese hair. Terrible. Triple terrible.

Maybe if he tries to make smaller
things? No. Even with less pixels it is just as ugly. How do I shade a sharp, hard metal sword. Yes! Five lines! This looks very sword and not a soft foam swimming pool tube at all.

You want to know the funniest bit? He goes and talks about other of how bad it are! HAHAHAHAhahaha What a pathetic! He name is Sadkov, more like just SAD.

Two circles do not make a sphere.

Oh well. Taking critique is hard.

If you're interested, take the eye to the WIP forum and I'll help you make it round :)


I feel kinda bad for having to explain this... But you do realize that the art at OGA and Crossfire was made for free by enthusiasts who tried their best? The reddit upvoted stuff was by amateurs, although the work can be improved on, it sure is appealing. And the professional stuff? I don't find terrible flaws in it. Sure some things are more to my taste than others, and none of the titles you mentioned got famous for their great art, but considering that the developers had limited resources, and were only human, I don't think they did a bad job.

I do hope that you'll be able to read all our critique in this post as well as you're able to write your own, and I hope that this will be the time I'm tempted to leave a reply in this topic.

Re: circles, I think you misunderstood the critique. The circles are round, but your sphere is not spherical. You've not shaded it to look spherical/round.

Found astonishing story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana#Legal_troubles

TLDR: person got criminal charges for "bad" art. Guess bad pixel art could be a felony too. Pick wrong palette and you're in jail :D

Actually, I am saying that the eye isn't round, as in a circle. Your two overlayed circles sometimes outline the eye, sometimes they are on the outermost pixels, and sometimes they are on the inside.

Here is a simple representation of your eye:

With 3 different colors because the rear side of the sphere is a bit unclear so you get some wiggle room there. Still, neither of those colors form a proper curve. And the right-hand side of the eye is both clearer defined and worse shaped; the mostly-1-pixel-wide grey line there is more like an octagon than a circle.

You might have started off with two circles, but you didn't end up with two circles, nor a sphere.

And what I'm seeing is that you like to kick down on others, but can't take the heat. So listen to yourself:



You can't.

Be humble.

I hope there comes a time when you will be able to read back this post and see what a complete fool you're making out of yourself.
:(

Eishiya is being so patient and friendly, and Snader is being so crystal clear that I can not understand how you can still keep on trying to defend your ridiculous positions.
It makes me sad to see people who honestly try to help you, and you being unable to process any of it.

By your positions I mean the following opinions which you've expressed (as I interpret them from your posts):

You think it's funny to show off "bad", and keep on doing so even when you only receive discouraging replies

You believe that your eye is alright, even when Snader clearly points out that it is not round.

You believe that your eye looks spherical because different light conditions have different effects on shading

You believe that you're justified to make negative generalizations about Russians

You believe that you're not an artist

You believe you don't need to be humble

You believe you need to defend yourself against the critical comments you received in this thread, rather than considering if they might say something valuable

You believe you're doing nothing wrong

Art isn't holy cow. However exhibit other's artwork in a bad light without their permission is not nice. It is actually just plain rude. And it is actually pretty respectless too.
However I am too good to being petty picking in his thread to point out the double standard in your art isn't that much better than those you posted here.
- Nidding, now sounding like your old strict auntie(if you ever had one)

So just because other is rude, you mean acceptable and justificied to be rude too? I can't change those people, but it would definely help if you stopped being acting like I/everybody harassed you. And there you are pretending to better, because your lack of self confidence. It is whole thing about others being bad, but in reality the whole thing is about you, because you don't feel good enough. That is you trying to make up with saying everybody is just as bad or worse. I can't argument with somebody who taking everything personal and the same time trying to objective.

There is a big difference. Others typically use logically inconsistent argumentation, like personal attacks and ad hominem against me (i.e. you have no right to criticize art, because you're not an artist), which is really rude, while I've just pointed examples of funny art, which is not rude.


I mean it is good enough for serving as placeholder art, which will be replaced when I find a way to pay real artists for proper art. I currently cant get a job or open bank account, because I've no documents - Ukraine is not America, where you can do bank operations or do business without any documents.

I know you're not being serious, but I want to bite anyway.

That particular image obviously would not be, since it's a photo of a painting and not pixel art. A pixel art version of that piece with emulated brush strokes using pixel art exhibiting decent pixel art technique would be, sure. The pixel art equivalent of that (pencil tool strokes not exhibiting good technique) would not.

A low-effort piece would fall into the last "category" I described.