Gothic Place Thingy
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 16 December 2025 at 10:48am
Topic: Gothic Place Thingy
Posted By: Quickie
Subject: Gothic Place Thingy
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 9:53am
i got really inspired by jalonso's backgrounds (especially the gothic-ish one, so it might look a small bit like that one :P) so i decided to make one myself :O so far i got the ground and part of the heaven done and i just decided to use 16 colors max. anyways, here ye go: i will probably add some house thingy or something in the background too. and this isnt for some game or anything, i just felt like pixeling something >_> crit away :D |
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 10:41am
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nice work so far. :) I really like the background.
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Posted By: Quickie
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 2:39pm
update: more clouds! there will be some kind of building on the right side.. but i dunno what yet.. maybe some mad professors castle would fit with the swirly dark clouds.. well, i dunno yet :P ideas please :) |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 29 June 2006 at 3:02pm
Hey, that swirly cloud is quite impressive  I can't think of anything to go on the right... perhaps a power station, and it could be producing those clouds.
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Posted By: Quickie
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 5:36am
update: added a castle (still wip), bushes, rock and some more clouds. still 11 colors. (i still have the version without castle and stuff in case i wanna make something else instead of a castle :P) |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 5:45am
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Looks awesome, Quickie. Can't wait to see more, no crits from me. -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 6:01am
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 8:19am
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Looking so great already. The only thing that stands out so far is the
door on the castle which seems very flat. A little bit of shadowing on the left side would fis that. The sky on the first is random and interesting. The update sadly seems to have taken a "black hole" or vortex kinda look on the update which is a bit distracting. The colors are perfect! ------------- |
Posted By: Skull
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 9:43am
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Oooh.. it's looking so evil and dark.. amazing work.
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 10:30am
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Look great and coming along nice. But I would make the bricks smaller on the castle.
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Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 11:33am
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because the swirl is "awesome" [lots of alternating contrast between the shades] that's going to be your focal point; almost anything else you put on the canvas will be lost in comparison. I didn't even notice antyhing other than a door and part of a castle until my 3rd time looking at the image. you need to make the foreground [bushes, ground] pop alot more; be that adding shades with more saturation or whatever, because otherwise it really wont matter what you put there; because with the hues you have now you can't even see the bushes. [edit] After taking another look, it came to my mind that it's quite possible you worked on this at 8/10x zoom, and haven't really cared how it looked in 1x view; or anything below 8, because while the details are not lost zoomed that far in, I doubt many people will actually zoom that far. ------------- http://sj-gfx.com"> 
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Posted By: halfDemon
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 11:58am
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Looks great so far, and I love the sky. But the bricks on the castle do need to be much smaller. ------------- Every pixel counts, even the dead ones. |
Posted By: Quickie
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 12:49pm
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thanks for all the crits! really giving me inspiration to continue on this piece. i dont really know if ill continue on the one with the castle tho (i still have all crit in my mind so i can make it better tho), so ive made an alternate version which will focus more on the sky. the other small details i put there will hopefully still be noticeable :P  might change some of the clouds there and might change the ground to just a hill or something (i think that would fit better on this one) and i hope you can all see what the little glowy thingy on the right is :P its still 11 colors btw |
Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 1:12pm
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nice! :) is there going to be a HUD of sorts? If you're making a zombie like game, the hangman could be an extra life or something like that. :P ------------- |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 1:24pm
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This new take is interesting. I just think the sharpness in the lower floor bit doesn't really match the softness of the hanged man, or the clouds for that matter. The glow around the man is nice and mysterious though.
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Posted By: Quickie
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 1:36pm
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@Aleiav: probably not, since im not planning to make a game out of it. unless someone wants to program it for me :P @Lawrence: i will most likely change the ground to some hill or something.. i really feel like continuing on it now >_> *vanishes like a ninja* edit: the style of this piece just pretty much changed quite a bit :P  i dont know about the shadow on the hill.. it doesnt look very good to me. and i might change the detailed clouds and then make all clouds fit the new style more. and then add a moon instead of that swirly vortex/tornado whatever its called thingy >_> meh ill see what happens |
Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 30 June 2006 at 4:21pm
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I love those speckled highlights. even if they look out of place on grass. they seem more fitted for a rocky road or something, but they still rock.
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Posted By: Quickie
Date Posted: 01 July 2006 at 10:45am
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@Setzer: well, i didnt really know how else i should highlight the grass since i want it to be simple.. couldnt really get anything to look good. and ive changed all the clouds on the left side but theres no moon yet meh.  next up is the moon and then detailing on the clouds. theres 8 colors now (i dont think i missed counting anyone) |
Posted By: Zlothien483
Date Posted: 02 July 2006 at 11:36am
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Looks really awesome quickie Is this an actual game you're doing? |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 02 July 2006 at 12:42pm
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The way the grass is highlighted makes it look like it's very wet. Perhaps you could work a rainy theme into this?
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 02 July 2006 at 3:24pm
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I personally like the light highlights in the sky that you originally have, you just need to continue them throughout the whole sky. The grass looks alright, but I perfer the castle setting personally. Can't wait to see how this ends up! ------------- |