First try at pixel art in more than 10 years
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Category: Pixel Art
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Topic: First try at pixel art in more than 10 years
Posted By: brunosxs
Subject: First try at pixel art in more than 10 years
Date Posted: 30 May 2015 at 12:51pm
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Hello, I've been using this forum as a reference for about half a year now. I'm really amazed with what the people here can do with so little dots.
I always liked the aestetics of pixel art, being born and raised in vg's pixel era of the 16bits and loving what now we call retrogaming of the 8 bits. I have quite a story at ripping sprites for recreating engines in some game making softwares of the mid 2000's. But at most I did some edits and never tried my hand at creating because, well, I sucked like any newbie and this wall I created myself stopped me from learning it. Well, I'm giving it a try and now it's a point of no return (pun intended). I hope to learn a lot so I can make amazing art like y'all. I decided to register mainly to say my thanks to an user but sadly, I couldn't post at the foruns as I registered. His username is DawnBringer and I was amazed by his color study and the composition of his DB16 and DB32 pallettes. I was trully in awe when I saw what was build from it thanks to very talented people of the forums. Art 1 
About it: Well, this is an iconic album art from a band which I really like and listen on a daily basis for almost 10 years now... I did this in an app called pixly that's still a WIP. I looked at the original art from my mobile and drew it on my samsung galaxy note pro 2014. I don't remember how many collors I used, but I tried to keep the number as little as possible. Art 2: The Chivalrous Pirate 
This one is proving to be a really stressfull and fun learning process. It's hard to try to represent a person that has personal characteristics and feels alive. This one is for now a mockup(thanks to my lack of skills) for a game I'm making. I'm gonna use him as the standard to create the world of my game(I'm thinking about 32x32 tiles). It will be, of course, a platformer and it will have a sega genesis/megadrive feel. Even in soungs I'm making it using samples of instruments from games I like. Well, I'm not satisfied, I wanted to represent more details on his clothes but at the same time I feel it will be too messy. This is even more amazing to me as I've seen here people creating animations of characters of just 16x16 in canvas size.  I could feel personality and a sense of uniqueness in each and every single one of those and it really amazed me... it pumped me to work and see if I can get that far.
Bear in mind that I have no experience of color composition, pallette or anything(just color psychology thanks to my college). I'm still learning by doing and reading things here and over the internet in general. I bought a bunch of courses on pixel art, some at cgcookie and at udemy, other from drububu which seems really good but too advanced for me. I'm a little overwhelmed. What can I do to improve? Simply continuing the way I'm doing? Any tips from you guys are really appreciated. Thanks :) |