Portrait in Progress
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
Forum Discription: Get crits and comments on your pixel WIPs and other art too!
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Printed Date: 18 December 2025 at 4:27am
Topic: Portrait in Progress
Posted By: bobusdoleus
Subject: Portrait in Progress
Date Posted: 21 August 2011 at 7:05pm
So, I'm-a try real hard to learn pixeling some more! For practice, I present the following beginnings of a portrait:

EDIT:
Cleaner version:
 Lights and darks painted in: Check. I welcome all advice and critique at every step of this process so's I can steal your excellent pixel knowledge. Maybe I'll learn a thing or two!
EDIT MORE:
Some highlights I guess:

MORE EDIT:
Angried him up some. Ignore the text, that's just for funzies.

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Posted By: bobusdoleus
Date Posted: 21 August 2011 at 10:25pm

Assorted minor edits. It's at around this point I start being unsure as to what the next step is. And that's in a monochrome image; Palette choosing's a whole other can of worms. I've somehow utterly failed to hammer a practical grasp of color theory into my brain at school.
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Posted By: bobusdoleus
Date Posted: 22 August 2011 at 4:20pm
No comments, huh? Have I offended somehow? (Also, I'm allowed to self-bump if there's updated content, yes? That seems to be consensus?)

Now it's been some dental work and vague attempts at dithering. Alternatively I could be adding more shades of value, not sure which the correct direction is.
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