Pixel Joint Forum: help and advice needed

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   im making a game for school and i decided to go with some pixel art because i Love the style and look. im no artist and it frustrates me that the stuff i do doesn't look how i want it to. i have made a character (which im not keen on) and i sword which i like. i would like to know what i should do to them or just any overall advice to help me become better at making pixel art i still need to amke other sprites so it look like he is running. any advice would be helpful :3

Edited by doby - 29 September 2014 at 3:37am

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doby Seaman Joined: 28 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5	Topic: help and advice needed Posted: 29 September 2014 at 3:31am
	im making a game for school and i decided to go with some pixel art because i Love the style and look. im no artist and it frustrates me that the stuff i do doesn't look how i want it to. i have made a character (which im not keen on) and i sword which i like. i would like to know what i should do to them or just any overall advice to help me become better at making pixel art i still need to amke other sprites so it look like he is running. any advice would be helpful :3 Edited by doby - 29 September 2014 at 3:37am
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dyluck Commander Joined: 24 July 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 231	Posted: 29 September 2014 at 4:06am
	I highly encourage you to take a look at basic tutorials here or in any other internet site. Try this: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299 Some quick issues: -The canvas is huge for the detail level you provide. I'm working on a project in wich graphics are quite low resolution ones and are rendered at 4X, but this looks like 16X and aestheticallyit doesn't look good. Try 4X or 8X at max. -Also, the third image is not purely pixelart. It looks like you just rotated in 45 degrees angle the arm and sword with a processing image tool. Try to pixel it by yourself. -The colors are quite alike, try to change your palette of bluish and purpleish one. -Pure black outlines are considered ugly, also. -When two lines (specially outlines) colide and you add 1 or more pixels to the joint/vertex (like at the back of the knee of the flexed leg or in the fist, the helmet-eye, cloak-helmet and cloak-shoe unions, the squared chest...), in the same color... it looks ugly too. Edited by dyluck - 29 September 2014 at 7:59am
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