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New Style?

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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 23 October 2025 at 5:25am


Topic: New Style?
Posted By: Bloo
Subject: New Style?
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 2:02am
Hi guys! I'm about to start a new style on Pixel Art. I'm wondering if it's good to use black outlines. Here's an example:

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What's better? The left one, or right one?

thanks 4 da help.



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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 2:04am
for god's sake, remove the hyperlink and don't link it directly from your gallery!

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Posted By: purpletree
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 3:16am
hmm i was wondering.. how is it a new style???


Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 4:17am
I would say, black outlines are only good as the most external outline.

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Posted By: Garrett
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 5:45am
I think black outlines are quite always useless, I'd rather do just darker outline colours.


Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 8:25am
I dunno, black outlines could be good if you're making cutscenes for an anime game. Or for things that might need to stand out more.

It really depends on the situation in where the sprite is going to end up.


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Posted By: Skull
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:31am
I mainly use black outlines.. they can be quite handy is used right.

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Posted By: Peach
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:34am
I think it depends on how much you want to separate the figure from the background. infact a dark outline with a dark background is quite useless.


Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 6:04pm
in resume: dark outlines are used either to buff the contrast or to give a catoonish appearance. but these are just two applications for this.


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Posted By: QuaziGNRLnose
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 6:10pm
how is this a new style?


Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 7:35pm
we already discuss about that :/     

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