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Top Pixel Art - May 2012 (#1)
I be lurking! Eeesh I reread my comment and it seems unintentionally negative. I do really like this piece! I hope you are continuing to make personal artwork.
Just noticed this comment and how constructive it is. I'm glad to run across this so many years down the road. Hope you're doing well Big Brother! A true legend that I had the opportunity to come across my work
Great piece! I love the little detail of the tail slapping one of the background trees. It's a nice touch :)
Ah dude this is awesome! Looks like fantasy is gonna win out on this one ;)
woah, how did I miss this? awesome stuff man! I feel like the sky is too cluttered, which takes away from the focus of the dragon, though. favorite part has to be the neck
I am very disappointed we never finished any of our collabs, sir. we'll have to start another one sometime!
Lovely style. To me it sort of manages to captures both essences of pixel art- the sharp crisp vividness, and the painterly aspect. Awesome
I love the appealing style and movement in this piece!
The proportions of the dragon feel very uniform, almost derivative. If you varied them more you could play up the contrasts between thick and thin. This would give more personality to the negative space.
The colors are nice -- very customized to the piece. The lightest blue shade seems like a bit of a drastic jump from the next lightest shade. Adjusting the darkest shades of green to be more neutral and closer in hue to the blue of the sky would help unify the piece. As it is, the piece seems divided into two very distict planes. This color adjustment would also help provide a grander sense of scale with atmospheric perspective on the dragon. It may lessen the cartoony vibe, but the piece seems conflicted on that already with the intricate detailing on the dragon, the mountains, and the clouds.
In regards to the composition, I would be tempted to move the dragon a tad more to the right so it's not exactly in the center of the piece. You could even add a slightly darker cloud in the space that opens in the upper left-hand corner to balance it out.
Anyways, these are just some nitpicks that occurred to me. Great work!
I always enjoy seeing your work. I actually preferred the pose in the original sketch and I'm wondering why you changed it. Looks like you have a few stray pixels at the bottom of the central section of the dragon's left wing. I think those 3 pixels were supposed to be 1 pixel to the right. I do have one little suggestion as well: I think changing the reverse side of the dragon's wings to green would improve the readibility.
Ah! Thank you Thumbtacks. :)
Thanks iLKke!
Perhaps it's a bit cluttered? The red mixed with the dark green might be a bit gritty though, which could also make it seem some-what messy.
I appreciate it. :)
Totes awesome!
For some reason it seems to me more 'messy' than your regular fare, but I can't put my finger on it, as nothing is actually messy :P
Perhaps it's just the colours, a bit more dirty and gritty?
Anyhoo, great job. Glad you managed to finish it.
A big thumbs up buddy. I always do love your color choices.
You're probably my favorite pixelartist on this site, and this does not dissappoint bro
I loved the progress thread at tSR :)
Brilliant work, there's definitely some movement in this picture!
Ah, nice edit Slym.
Yes, the green was intentional to limit colors, but I suppose it's worth changing if more people seem to dislike the green because of the landscape blends with it.
I appreciate the small tutorial as well, Dawnbringer. I'll test er out when I get time. :)
Wow. Been looking forward to this one being finished. Really great job.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/73544729/dragonrecolor.gif
This is kinda what I was thinking. It brings more importance to the dragon. But I understand if the green was intentional.
edit: Lmao I didn't notice that DawnBringer made the same edit!
In Grafx2:
1. Pick up a brush of the area with affected colors to NOT be remapped (the grass and trees)
2. (for convinience) arrange the palette so the color the be changed are sequential (use X-swap in the pal editor)
3. Copy the original color selection to another place in the palette (also best set all other unused colors to black)
4. Brutally change the original colors and use "recolorize" (brush effects menu) to remap the brush to the copied colors.
5. Undo the color change.
6. Paste the remapped brush (grass & trees) into its place.
7. Now the dragon uses unique color indexes and may be tweaked independent of all other gfx.
Ok, that seemed like a lot when it was written done, but point 1-6 can be done in 10 seconds when you know how.
I love you.
I do think that making the dragon purple would help the overall palette. I keep thinking the dragon is made out of grass.
Thanks everyone, did a few more edits.
Dawn: True. How did you go about editing that? Selected the area and shifted the hues around? I'll see if I can come up with something better for the dragon color because I do agree that the vegitation blends in a bit.
Thanks for the edit!
Very nice, looks like the dragon is about to whip that spaceship out of the sky with it's tail!
It's just great! Nevertheless, the anatomy on the "bottom" part of the dragon is very, very weird. Change it and you'll have made a brilliant piece, as you usually do!
DawnBringer: Wow, very good! I have to agree that these colors work much better than the green ones.
don't like the position of the dragon and spaceship it's kinda akward.
Great ! I want to see the end of this battle 
I didn't read it as negative, it all makes sense and I really appreciate it. I can see what I'd do differently now and it corresponds a lot with your comment. Thanks man! Also, I'm trying - These days it's been hard - Hope the same for you!