Hi peeps,

I'm trying to get out of my low-resolution comfort zone and came up with this little scene.  It's nothing special and I'm interested in getting feedback as to where I can improve.



I used Dawnbringer's 16 colour palette as a basis as I'm still learning about ramping but seem to have messed it up.  It also feels very flat and too cartoonish to me, but I'm too close to working on it right now to make any useful judgement.

I'd appreciate any comments or tips! :-)

Hi,

Thanks for the good advice!  I do have problems drawing hands and clothing in sketches, so I guess this follows through to pixels.  The guy on the right is doing some sort of strange gang handsignals in my reference picture, and he's wearing a puffa-style jacket, but my shading is confused there at best because the reference was so dark.

The white object was just put there because I felt the scene was a little too clinical, I guess its a paper or wrapper :-)

I see now that the perspective is totally weird on that building, silly error that completely passed me by until you pointed it out so thanks!  I will work on the hands more and try for some more definition on the paper.  I am finding that because of some premature decisions on palette choice I am struggling to find good midtones for smoother shading.  Still, it's early days.

EDIT: To avoid a doublepost, I'll put my revision here.  I tried laying out lines to help me with perspective but I'm still not sure its correct..




Edited by beef_x - 13 February 2012 at 7:21am