Gift Box Rainbow
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 17 November 2025 at 1:49am
Topic: Gift Box Rainbow
Posted By: Bisque
Subject: Gift Box Rainbow
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 11:02am
Blegh I'm becomming rusty on certain things haha! I dont ask for critique very often, but I think this needs improvement, so..here we go ^^; the tape! the tape looks wrong to me, haha. Suggestions? Also, the green palette is..off. I've tried fixing it, but have not had any luck as of yet.. And ofcourse, anything else you think I could do better on, let me know xD ------------- Poor Alice is dead. They cut off her head. But we'll be okay, didn't need her either way. |
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Posted By: brianna
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 11:13am
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The tape is neat. Just a little small and *maybe* too straight. Your other pallettes get cooler in the shadows and warmer in the highlights, so yellowing the highlights of the green one and heading a tad toward blue on the shadows should make the green pallette work better. Composition wise the seems bring our eyes to the tape, so I think if the boxes were shorter so that area were closer to the bows/tags our eyes would pull back up to them -- where all the good stuff is. Plus that would fix another issue I see: the top part of those triangles of giftwrap on each side is taller than the bottom part. |
Posted By: Bisque
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 6:14pm
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Originally posted by brianna
The tape is neat. Just a little small and *maybe* too straight. Your other pallettes get cooler in the shadows and warmer in the highlights, so yellowing the highlights of the green one and heading a tad toward blue on the shadows should make the green pallette work better. Composition wise the seems bring our eyes to the tape, so I think if the boxes were shorter so that area were closer to the bows/tags our eyes would pull back up to them -- where all the good stuff is. Plus that would fix another issue I see: the top part of those triangles of giftwrap on each side is taller than the bottom part. I cant do anything -right now- as I am at work, but I'll try an edit when I get home :)
I'm not so sure about the palette suggestion though. I mean I understand what you are saying, it's just that the shadows are already going into a blue hue and the highlights are already yellow haha ^^;. So maybe I'm missunderstanding something. ------------- Poor Alice is dead. They cut off her head. But we'll be okay, didn't need her either way. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 6:23pm
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Quit Ripping your own colors! ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: Bisque
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 8:21pm
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw
Quit Ripping your own colors! uhhhm what? *blink*
i didnt rip palettes from myself xD. I started with a single random colour and went from there. ------------- Poor Alice is dead. They cut off her head. But we'll be okay, didn't need her either way. |
Posted By: Anlina S.
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 8:38pm
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These are very cute. There are a couple of things bugging me. The shading on the inside of the ribbon loops is so dark, it doesn't look like in inside view is part of the ribbon at all. I really get no sense of scale for these boxes. The size of the ribbons makes me think they're fairly small packages, but the tape and tag are so tiny that the boxes must be huge for them to be proportional. The disparity is just hard to wrap my brain around. I'm not sure what you dislike about your green palette. It looks quite alright to me. |
Posted By: brianna
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 9:33pm
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Originally posted by Bisque I'm not so sure about the palette suggestion though. I mean I understand what you are saying, it's just that the shadows are already going into a blue hue and the highlights are already yellow haha ^^;. So maybe I'm missunderstanding something. You're right. On my laptop it was a monochrome green -- so I assumed that was your issue (forgetting I was on my laptop). It looks fine now, so I don't know what's bugging you about it. Looks good to me. |
Posted By: Bisque
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 9:39pm
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I dunno there is just something about the green that is bothering me and i cant figure it out, haha! Anyways, here is an edit :)  ------------- Poor Alice is dead. They cut off her head. But we'll be okay, didn't need her either way. |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 9:54pm
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I think it might help immensely if you had a different colour of ribbon on these. That might make the green one specifically not look so vibrant. I like your style as always. Makes anyone wanna give in to the cuteness.
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Posted By: Omegavolt
Date Posted: 20 November 2006 at 5:39am
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The light green looks more saturated than that of the other colors. It may have the same saturation level in MS Paint, or whatever program you use, but visually, it looks too bright.
Could just be a property of green hues perhaps. Or yellow. I would say drop the saturation on the light green a touch and see if that helps.
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 20 November 2006 at 1:13pm
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Well green is the most destinguishable color perhaps that has something to do with it....Yellow is the most visable with pigment colors. But the human eye can distinguish green the most. If not use some math to find the equivelants of the shades using the HSV modle. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 20 November 2006 at 1:19pm
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OR just use MSpaint and check the values of the colors that way. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Bisque
Date Posted: 22 November 2006 at 3:17pm
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw Well green is the most destinguishable color perhaps that has something to do with it....Yellow is the most visable with pigment colors. But the human eye can distinguish green the most. If not use some math to find the equivelants of the shades using the HSV modle. Math? You want me to do math? xD How about no thankyou hahaha. Originally posted by Monkey 'o Doom OR just use MSpaint and check the values of the colors that way. MSP is the devil. To me anyways. Sorry I'll always stick with photoshop, haha. ----- Anyways..I think I'm done this. Probably some other things I could do to it, but I've got other things to do. finished piece will be in my gallery in a bit. ------------- Poor Alice is dead. They cut off her head. But we'll be okay, didn't need her either way. |
Posted By: Stitchy
Date Posted: 22 November 2006 at 3:48pm
| Hmm, I would lower the shade on the ribbons that hang on the front by one pixel. It wont look like the ribbons are part of/stuck freakishly close to the package. And as for the tape... I dunno. D: |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 22 November 2006 at 6:02pm
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MSP FTW!
i lik em, especially the red one. got the nicest hueshiftiness ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |