zerling
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 28 October 2025 at 3:47am
Topic: zerling
Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Subject: zerling
Date Posted: 19 September 2019 at 11:10pm
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Work in progress of a zerling piece.
opinion / feedback is welcome of course. hope you like it 
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Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Date Posted: 20 September 2019 at 4:10am
worked on it a bit more :
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Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Date Posted: 20 September 2019 at 6:19pm
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Ok here's the latest development.
Not quiet as good as I hoped for, but I cant pinpoint what's wrong. I want to make it pop a bit more, make it more readable. I tried adding an outline but it make it looks so fat. Any suggestion ? 
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Posted By: StoneStephenT
Date Posted: 20 September 2019 at 10:01pm
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Your issue appears to be one of contrast. Play around with the saturation and brightness/value levels of each color in your ramps. See if you can find a specific method of saturation shifting that works in favor of your image. Do saturated highlights and desaturated shadows work the best, or does the opposite method work better? As I did for the chatterbox recently, I'll give you the example for saturation shifting from https://gumroad.com/l/pixel-logic - Pixel Logic : https://i.imgur.com/KKLEqoW.png Play with the colors as well. You may find that hue shifting a little more drastically could result in the contrasts you’re looking for. The overall design of the sprite looks great, by the way. Good shapes, good shading.
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Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Date Posted: 21 September 2019 at 9:24pm
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Thanks for the link !!
I actually bought that book a while ago but totally forgot about its existence ! Gonna give it a thorough read. I think my color skills are pretty weak indeed, I dont really consciously pick the colors I want. I dont really know how to motivate my decision. Although I know the very basics, like shadows should be more blue because of sky ect ... it never really look good in my drawings. Anyway, gonna take a look at that book. |
Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Date Posted: 22 September 2019 at 5:43am
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Hello again!
So I checked out that book again, and restarted the sprite from scratched, thinking about color from the get go. Heres the result, with and without secondary light source. What do you guys think ? 
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Posted By: StoneStephenT
Date Posted: 22 September 2019 at 7:29am
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Oh wow, that's one hell of an improvement! The contrast and colors are perfect, and the overall design looks even better than before. Damn good job there! |
Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Date Posted: 22 September 2019 at 8:56am
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Thanks :D
appreciate the cheers ;) Ill be posting more later |
Posted By: dhaimadoshi
Date Posted: 22 September 2019 at 10:44am
Okay, I felt powerful tonight so I made another little buddy for my zergling to play with ;) Little hydralisk Im pretty happy how it turned out, dont think I can improve on it much. If you think you can give helpful advise, it is always welcome ;D cheers |