Guitar WIP
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
Forum Discription: Get crits and comments on your pixel WIPs and other art too!
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Printed Date: 09 April 2026 at 3:05pm
Topic: Guitar WIP
Posted By: Game & Watch
Subject: Guitar WIP
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 1:29pm
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I was playing my beloved guitar when I decided to make a pixel art of it. Been working for about one and a half hour:  But then I came to think of something... Is this what you call pillow shading? |
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Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 1:32pm
| When your shading is just lines around the lineart instead of showing the actual shape, or something. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 2:16pm
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Yes, that's pretty close to pillow shading. Any time you light something head-on its pillow shading. Pillow shading carries a bad/amateur connotation in pixel art and is never used unless its something like a tiny light/lamp/candle, usually seen in platform video games. The lighting on the metal indicates you shouldn't use staright head on lighting on this anyways. ------------- |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 3:38pm
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Darn.. I more or less finished the image:  I'm happy with the result, even though I use pillow shading. I will try again later, with a more experimental lighting, but I'm submitting it in its current state for now. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:14pm
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k, but don't be surprised if you get comments about this. Pillow shading is a reason for rejecting art so it will sit in the queue for public voting longer than normal. Pixelart is way more about technique than artistic expression. ------------- |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 12:25am
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Well, ok. Another question: This is not pillow shading?  |
Posted By: smk
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 12:29am
| Nope, 's not. A much better start, now smoothen it out and you'll be near done (: |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 1:27am
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Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 2:37am
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The guitar looks round. Have a look at internet pix of guitars (Or a real life one) under light and copy.
Here's something I (Very quickly) whipped up: (It's exaggerated)
 Mind the fugly shape :D
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Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 2:43am
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My guitar is round. That's what I'm trying to achieve. Dithered the image:  |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 3:00am
| Round as in spherical? 'cos that's how it looks. |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 3:57am
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Well, not really spherical. Here it is: http://www.iaza.com/work/090611C/my_guitar67950.PNG - http://www.iaza.com/work/090611C/my_guitar67950.PNG Yes, it's a little dirty at the moment.. I'll mess around with it some more, try to make it look less like a ball. |
Posted By: smk
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 4:38am
| I think Jeremy is right, the shading at the moment makes it look a bit spherical. Also the lowest point (lowest pixels, bad at guitar anatomy) looks a tad flat. |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 7:33am
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Went to prsguitars.com to get some inspiration, and found a picture of my guitar with a very interesting lighting: http://prsguitars.com/standardsatin/index.html I don't really like copying others, but I copied the lighting:  Yes, they're very similar, but I assure you, The only thing I've copied from the image is the lighting. Them being almost the same size is just a coincidence. |
Posted By: asukicco
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 8:00am
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Relax, no one will accuse you of stealing/ripping I think, but remember to link the reference you used for the piece. Now, what you need to do is to smooth it up, and work more on the body horns. Also, I think there are some unnecessary colours... for now it's a waste of resources. ------------- |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 11 June 2009 at 9:39pm
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That's looking much better :)
as asukicco said, work on smoothing it out. There's also some banding on the highlights, work on that a bit too.
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Posted By: hyperbear
Date Posted: 14 June 2009 at 6:54pm
| Lookin' pretty sick, though the shading in the indents around the knobs and switch could be fixed up |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 14 June 2009 at 11:44pm
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Thanks! I've removed many unnecessary colors now, thanks for reminding me Asukicco. Colorcount was 46, now it's 33. I have also improved the knobs a little. Update:  |