Lulu - Want to Improve
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: 26 February 2026 at 8:36pm
Topic: Lulu - Want to Improve
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Subject: Lulu - Want to Improve
Date Posted: 08 June 2012 at 5:25pm
I was supposed to draw myself as the last character I'd played in a video game. It was http://riot-web-static.s3.amazonaws.com/images/news/March_2012/2012_03_16_lulu_reveal/Lulu_Splash.jpg - her . |
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Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 08 June 2012 at 8:22pm
| Improve on colors. Give it a try on the colors from your source! |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 08 June 2012 at 8:43pm
That's the in-game color pool. 
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Posted By: Gamamoto
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 2:17am
| Lulu's hair is darker and her robe is kinda purple not red that's all the differences i can see. |
Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 10 June 2012 at 7:58am
| well thats the ingame, you shall pick the art spotlight one. Also, you didn't picked the correct colors from the shot. Go for the purple ones. |
Posted By: Zeratanus
Date Posted: 11 June 2012 at 8:56am
| That hat is the wrong shape. It curves in as it goes up. Yours bows out as it goes up. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 11 June 2012 at 11:49am
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@Gamamoto: That's the lighting, her wand and Pix (the fairy) both shine purple. Also, it's supposed to be me dressed as her, which I stated in my first post.
@philippejugnet: Well, if you look at the reference closely, you'll see that the colors won't work at pixel level smoothly at all. 
@Zeratanus: You make a very good point, I tried to fix it here: 
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Posted By: Drazelic
Date Posted: 11 June 2012 at 6:43pm
Let's make the expression a little less south-park and a little more animesque like the original source, shall we? If you want to take it further, you could work on consolidating the palette. Your two red ramps are similar enough to be fused into one so that you'd get more space for magenta-pink for robes and hair. |
Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 11 June 2012 at 7:13pm
Going for drazelic's edit: You shoudnt be that closed minded. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 17 June 2012 at 7:21pm
You guys are great. And yeah, I'm pretty closed minded...
I tried to make it more like Lulu than me, why not? And I noticed that you guys tried to make it a bit less symmetrical, so I tried that as well. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 19 June 2012 at 9:30pm
Saw some issues with the hair and ears, so I fixed them as best I could. Oh, and I also needed a bump :p |
Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 20 June 2012 at 3:08am
Snap! I made her look like a top-down sprite :( Well I'm not really a sprite artist but here are my 2 cents. As you can see I went for dark hairs without details to make her face popup more. I hue-shifted dark red - which is kinda brown on your sprite - towards purple so it can work better with dark purple outline/hairs. You could use different shades of yellow on hat and clothing ornament to give a sprite more volume. Also I'd hue shifted darkest yellow shade towards red |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 20 June 2012 at 10:17am
Woah, a3um, you're so skilled! I way admire your work. I tried to change some of the colors to fit your work a little more. I darkened the hair, but I don't like that pure black :( Also, loving that angle, but I don't quite see a reason for me to change it like that? |
Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 21 June 2012 at 1:11am
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Originally posted by xxmantisxx
Also, loving that angle, but I don't quite see a reason for me to change it like that? Of course you don't have to, it's just I got carried away:) |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 21 June 2012 at 11:11am
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Oh, haha, good to know people can get carried away helping :D
Anyway, I think I'll post this now. It's a ton better than it had been, all thanks to you guys. Next time I'll try to pose it some... |