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And, yes, sorry I forgot, what "other pixels" were You refering to sir, if I may ask?
First of all, thanks for the comment, I appreciate it, while it's not particularly constructive, I appreciate all comments!
You're right about pillow shading! But Y'know I've spent so much time avoiding the pillow shading just because someone somwhere said that it's a "no-no". And I would do so in places where my mind would suggest to use exactly the "forbidden" pillow shading. Then I observed stuff around me and came to a conclusion that a lot of things out there can be best pixeled pillowshaded. The eyeball piece is basically pillowshaded too, only it's masked with heavy dithering. Anyway, You're totally right saying that Draconian warrior piece bursts with pillow shading - this is the way of the lazy I think, when You don't wanna think too much pillow is the way You slide... But whenever I hear someone say "Good example of pillow shading" in the cynical way You did, in a way like saying "good example of bad manners and ignorance" makes me laugh, I guess people should be careful about writing down tips which if repeated enough times become 'rules of art', they're just not for everyone, some people are just bound to make a religion out of them, and proclaim everything that doesn't comply a sacrilege. Art isn't about rules - it's about finding out what works and what doesn't - best on Your own and not heavily based on 'rules', it's exploration. Imagining Earth as round was a big no-no once too You know. Anyway - as I've said before - in this particular case - I agree to a certain point. Cheers!
Good example of pillow shading. Hard to believe you made the other pixels too.
Finally! You couldn't be more right. I was suprised no one said this before. When I look at it, it becomes very obvious very fast that some parts had been focused on while the others are just blank. And that's the main problem IMO - the contrast in detail level from one part to another. Thanks for pointing it out Yourself, I like seeing that people actually look at stuff being posted here. As for dithering - it's a style (and a must with C-64 palette), so the right argument would be that in someplaces the dithering is just plain lame and lazily done, but too much? No IMHO.
too much dither is not a problem IMO, but parts of this dragon warrior look a bit flat to my taste
"they have different flavours, and it's up to you to decide the ones you wan't to take"
Yes it's on a rough side, I'm not that crafty with C-64 palette, I don't think I've used it since KoAlapainter days and that was a loooong time ago.
It's hard to believe you did that and now you did this.
It's a shame it isn't as smooth as your avatar piece.
Way over dithered. It defeats the point of dithering. Without dithering, you could probably even drop the color count.