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Shiranui @ 12/3/2012 05:02 commented on Vlad

 Lovely.



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Shiranui @ 12/3/2012 05:01 commented on Ferran - Toormix

 Yes, it's a bit rough.. Could be improved



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 08:58 commented on Corb (crow)

 ups, I deleted the piece and now  i think i can't update it... 



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 08:48 commented on Corb (crow)

 Thank you for your comments jalonso. 

I'm really surprised that kind of control about "true pixel". I understand there's a lot of pixel artists out there (myself in my weekly work) who work with RGB draws and then they just index the color. But my pieces exposed here are not worked in this way, just simply because is not the way I like work pixels. So, pixel purity is also important for me. It's easy to prove what I'm saying if you open my piece with photoshop and watch the pixels and the number of colors (Iris Toormix fire is easy to see that it has not been made by pre pixel effects, but frame to frame and I would add that her fierball has a very simple and basic pixel treatment). About Corb (crow), the piece here, I must say that thanks to all these users worried about colors number I realized that there was an error in the file (the color profile changed because my new screen and i did not choose the correct choice but the default one, change profile). So I update the picture and now it can seen it has 52 colors.



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 04:04 commented on Self-portrait

 Thank you! :)



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 04:02 commented on Corb (crow)

anyway, I will check it out why it has so many colors. To be honest I think is too much, too. i think now there was some kind of error saving the file, like if it was saved as jpg (what was not) but colors multiplied i don't know why. I will restore it.



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 03:59 commented on Corb (crow)

 Haha, people on rage mode. Interesting. I was expecting something else from a site like this one...

I do not tried to blend anything and all gradients you see have been done pixel by pixel without any transparency. You can belive it or not. I couldn't care less. The reason why the piece has so many colors is because I wroked it without worring too much about colors, and probably I selected different colors that could be the same. The purple stripes are hand made as well and they are not example of anything of what are you trying to prove. Even her boots and her gloves are hand made too. You may not like my work, what i can understand perfectly, but do not try to lie just to degradate what I made.

And I did not try to mimic Street fighter new style because it's 3D. The style is inspired by The King of Fighters XIII characters treatment. A great work of pixel art I really admire.

And 



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 01:50 commented on Iris - Toormix

 thanks! 



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Shiranui @ 11/30/2012 01:40 commented on Corb (crow)

 Gradients are hand made, not with photoshop gradient's tool (they are made with around 5-6 colors). It's the style I choose for this character, trying to give it a "3D" lighting treatment but all is hand made. I didn't know styles are censured here and everything has to have 2 colors of lighting (light and shadow). 

Maybe 192 is too much. I'll try to reduce them and see how it looks, but I'm not going to change the style of this work.

 

About the thing with the neck DrD comments, you may be right. Neck is covered by a black choker, probably this is why her head looks like attached, but is not. Before add clothing I drawed her nude and she had neck! :D 

The thing she has around her mouth is a metal beak mask, inspired on Tengu's mask (this kind of masks, japanese, are always beaks). Since she is a ninja and is very rare to see female ninjas with Tengu's clothing i thought it was a good choice to make her unique. But maybe is not clear in my work... I'll will try to improve it. thanks.



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Shiranui @ 11/29/2012 12:24 commented on Corb (crow)

 Thanks. Colors could be reduced, but I worked the piece without worry about colors number. The sprite has some gradients, I guess this increases the number of colors.