@Wuhu - Great expressions :)

@Mrmo Tarius - Kinda weird RPG party :D

@Chibiwing - nice, but I'd suggest add more contrast to define objects' volume. I made an edit to illustrate my point:


1. Darken the background. 2 Brighten the metal highlights, made them almost white. 3, 4 added shadows to the lid and casing to define shapes, and make it pop out. 5. Darken the casing color on the shadow part of the chest. 6 Darken the bottom of candle so it doesn't look flat.
Also, imo, those lines on chest are distracting from actual contrast and volume. I hope that will help :)

UPDATE: Luckily, Mrmo Tarius made an edit regarding table stuff :D

!emit etadpu, oslA



Edited by a3um - 08 September 2011 at 7:32am

Well, I submitted mine.
Also great edits there, a3um. And your piece is shaping up well, I love how the wax looks like... wax :D

a3um, that's very awesome.

@CELS: i expected the hood to be left black, or showing only the eyes...

You guys are epicly amazing; thank you soooooo much for the help!  I have close to zero experience with shadow and I'm afraid of contrast, so this is extremely helpful. *ten billion hugs*  Do I just use the edits or something, or how do I do this?  I mean, I'm not, like, plagerizing or something if I use them, right?

Hi guys. can the candle fire magic missiles that when exploding creates fluorescent tubes that enlight the scene? :D Damn, the challenge is looking so normal now..
Anyways i'm not sure i'll have the time to end this for the challenge but here's the wip.
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Not so readable yet...

Man don't be discouraged like that, search for refferences when you don't know how to continue. and simpler things helps you to learn, but sometimes the complexes ones teach you faster. Also don't compare your work with the ones of people who may have many years working on graphics or even pixelart. compare it with your previous works and try to improve. I'm not seeing nothing wrong with your work except that the guy is holding a dinamite instead of the candle required in the challenge :D you can fix it easily by adding a candle to ignite it. anyways the wicks don't light almost anything. i'll see if i can find the time for a quickly edit but go trying something ;)
And sorry.. my english must stink..

Muiriled, I'm very glad that you posted your early WIP in such an unpolished state, so I can learn how good pixel artists start their work process. Your use of colours is also very fascinating, I look forward to seeing the next update.

The only things I would do different are the nostrils of the big creature. The nostrils are so big that they look almost like ears. It's a stylistic choice though.

Sure, drlemon. Ok, if you have a candle in the middle of the room, which is brighest? The candle, which is the lightsource, or the room around it? Why is the candle yellow/red and its glow white? It makes no sense. Check photo references on the internet, and then come back and choose gradated colors, going from yellow to black. 4 or 5 should be enough

@Muiriled: thank you for your encouragments... I got again my hand on the image, but as i said earlier all in it is fake : dynamite and "head" were made with the raytracer PoV, then dithered with a homebrew program and reworked a bit by hand. The background is also processed with my program. But you're right, even if it's disqualified for many reasons (dynamite whom i was quite proud of as a "last light", using programs...) i'll try to finish it.



You're also right when saying i should not compare with others' work, they are simply IMPRESSIVE (yours included)!


Edited by baah - 09 September 2011 at 2:58pm

Woah!!!!
Awesome!

Flame look a little too small and subdued for the statue of liberty. From looking at the different WIPs here, I would say that the main focus should be the candle itself. Try to make the torch a little more outstanding: pull the focus back to the torch and off of lady liberty.

@Alex Pang Thanks. =)
Another wip.
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edit*
Never mind, I am probably going to finish it. :P

Edited by LBpixels - 10 September 2011 at 2:57am

@CELS: Thanks man, but i'm a newbie at pixel art yet, I just have some background in other graphic arts that helps me here. I need a lot yet to acquire an accuracy level such as Tarius for example. As for the colors I take as a base this workof tomic and added some others to fit my own insanity :D Also i'm a very disordered worker so i'm not sure that's the appropiate way to do it, but again thanks .I'm glad to receive such a comment for a skilled pixelartist like you. Your work is looking relly good so far too.
@baah: Hey your work is looking good. I don't know how raytrace works but i supose it makes the dithering thing. you can use it as a base for doing something by your own. As i say before 'search for some references' for dithering in this case. just keep in mind that giving up is finishing behind the last. other people won't but you'll know it and that's worst. Sorry i didn't had time to make some edit for you but i'm glad (and you may too) to see you don't really need it isn't it? I didn't had any time to pixel until just now. Anyways let me know if you need some help. So far the only thing i'd add in your work is a little bit more of lighting in the dinamite's corner as a spark's reflection. Good luck and keep the hard work!

@Alex: very nice light effect!

Edited by baah - 12 September 2011 at 1:07am

Chances are I won't get this finished: