Insect Problems
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 30 September 2025 at 10:04am
Topic: Insect Problems
Posted By: DieMango
Subject: Insect Problems
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 10:26am
(still just a sketch) Sorry for burning your eyes... Insects are probably the only thing i can draw wich confidence in RL. Always ahd a facination with everything with 6 legs or more... Once in a zoo the guide was holding a giant tarantula and asked me if i wanna hold it...i said no and he asked ,,you said you are not afraid of spiders'' and i said ,,i dont wanna hurt it''....at the end i hold it and scared of all my friends... Why am i telling you beautyful PJ memeber this? Because i a insect freak so how do the legs look? It is pretty hard to make them look kinda right this sketch and i dont wanna start with problems in the work flow...because i hate redoing things mid work... |
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Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 11:23am
Schome progress 
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 2:38pm
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It looks like as an ant and a bug at the same time :) This is a pretty detailed sketch. Go on, you can more think about position of its paws, it stand so uncertain now as if trying to stand on ice :D https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/130x120q90/923/Yswkgt.png - - As I see it |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 15 June 2016 at 3:04am
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I see...well i will adapt a little...starting to update it here when i have some more progress...
Thanks for the help! |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 15 June 2016 at 7:35am
I hate doing colors... any comments on the shading? I now some places where the lightsource is wrong but am a really not very practiced in that... |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 15 June 2016 at 10:09am
My dithering is back...and its like always to much... |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 15 June 2016 at 12:51pm
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The shape is a bit spikey. Fatten up the abdomen a bit, maybe drop it down at the back a bit. Knee joints are usually kind of like swollen and round in bugs. Color is pretty good you might try a slight hue shift toward a warm color for your lightest color. Get some hard tiny reflections on those eyes, maybe desaturate the red color a bit (unless the red is just where you're blocking in shapes for now) Keep going has good potential. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: TYB3N
Date Posted: 15 June 2016 at 9:41pm
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Beautiful lil buggy. It seems to have one snaggletooth but i think it should have another.
What sort of insect is this based off of, by the way? I don't have much advice because I cannot look up a reference. |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 16 June 2016 at 12:56am
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,,Fatten up the abdomen a bit, maybe drop it down at the back a bit.''
Didt really understand the sentence (bad english + bad visual mind) with ,,warm'' shift you mean? (again...no real idea whatcha mean) Yea didt touch the eyes yet... Thanks for the advise...i hope you can explai it for someone dumb again :D Probabaly things that i know but dont get yet... |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 16 June 2016 at 12:57am
| TBH its based on nothing... |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 16 June 2016 at 1:56am
Added spikey bits...thicken the joints a bit...the ass shoud be a bit bigger (i hope i understand that right) and am using more insect like feet now... |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 16 June 2016 at 3:02am
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Nice update! Make far legs is darker (for highlighted the head and back of this monster). And white color is not suitable (it is too mach brighter than the illuminated areas of the carapace of the monster). You can More think about the color combinations - these are not so successful. More, you can put it on any surfaces (rock, spacecraft, lunar surface ...) |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 16 June 2016 at 3:36am
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Thanks.
Yea i used the hwite color as an filler until i know a better one... lets see how i make the surface...i am not to expirienced with that... |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 16 June 2016 at 7:29am
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This surface can not show completely, but only a small plot illuminated with the same ligght as the monster. What is this creature, what it can do, from where it ??? Think up any surface with anything you associate the creature. for example - https://i.imgur.com/Yb8pTb4.png or https://i.imgur.com/l49bJZ6.png Show us your imagination! :D |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 2:33am
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Finally got time to make something....
30 min of work so its pretty rough and i didt clean up much: 
Not so sure on this one...have made a save file because this doesnt look to great :S |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 3:18am
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You never know what you can do till you try. It looks better than nothing at oll. This is similar to the cracked clay http://ru.stockfresh.com/thumbs/lunamarina/319683_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B2%D1%8B-%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83-%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg - like this Increase some of them, or else it pieces look overly same - it's boring |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 4:10am
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I see...so bigger pieces?
pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25159 these are some tiles that roughly resamble clay...shoud i do something like that? |
Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 7:56am
| Also try to orient most of them horizontally (make most of them wider than they are tall). The perspective on the insect suggests the viewer is not much higher than it, while the perspective on the cracked clay looks like we're directly overhead. |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 8:11am
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coud you explain further?
(as always...not sure what you mean) |
Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 9:06am
 In which of these sketches does the perspective look "correct" compared to the figure? Probably the one on the right. What makes it look like we're viewing it from slightly above the ground/character rather than from a bird's eye (directly above looking down) is that the shapes in the ground are, for the most part, squished-looking vertically, they're wider than they are tall. |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 9:37am
| I see...well that will take a while but i can do that. |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 10:35am
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Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 12:18pm
| I see...i will try to do all things...still not sure whatcha mean by the colors :S |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 12:53pm
| I'm tired of explaining - with experience you will understand that a combination of the more complex colors are more pleasing for your eyes than the pure colors. |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 1:13pm
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Okay..very helpful anyways ^^
Colors are always something very complicated for me because i dont see the appeal of colors most opf the time...i have to make most color very bright or us eblack and white because i have difficulys with contrast...maybe i shoud go to the doctor but i dont think thats anything. Sorry for wasting your time...i am not the smartest and i am like a boulder that needd alot of energy to get going...but someday i can roll with alot of force by myself ^^ Again very sorry for any complication due to my own state of mind...(another word for: i am stupid) EDIT: 
Better? |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 9:59pm
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I will not impose for you my vision - if you think that all is well - finishing it insect and get to the next work. |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 3:33am
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Okay...
is the new underground good? |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 5:24am
What do you think? I feel like its pretty done but the shadow might be wrong 
EDIT: 
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 7:23am
| Looks great, it can still be a little more darken far legs and fangs and it will be very good! |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 8:39am
Shoud be done..thanks everybody for the help :D Learned some and know some more now:P |
Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 8:43am
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Ah, you posted while I was wording my response! Be careful with your lightsource. What is causing those little shadows on the rocks? They seem to be lit by a different lightsource than the bug. Also, since you have that dark dirt colour available, why not use it to AA the bug's shadow? |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 9:23am
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I didt even think about adding AA to the shadow!
I will see how that will look ^^ |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 9:37am
| ummmm...wich color you mean?... |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 9:59am
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Originally posted by eishiya And I like a shadow on dirt - convex plane looks cool.What is causing those little shadows on the rocks? They seem to be lit by a different lightsource than the bug. Originally posted by DieMango #3c2a3f - dark color of dirt.ummmm...wich color you mean?...  AA would be useful :) |
Posted By: DieMango
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 10:36am
better? |