Here he go !

I try my first challenge on pixel joint !

And i'm happy with it

So i give my portrait :



and a version with 5 colors :

@fawful
I'm so glad you kept at this, both great edits, looking a LOT more refined now, the work on the chin and eyes makes a huge difference!

@guest666
I love this character, and your job of him - excellent pixelwork

@IEvangeline
Welcome! Looking good so far, the bands of light on the hair could do with a little more detail/shape to them, blur your eyes looking at some nice manga hairstyles for ideas maybe? Crit is never meant negatively, even if it sometimes sounds that way - we're all just looking to help eachother do the best we can, and as soon as we stop listening to criticism we stop improving, so it's all good really! :)

@Manupix
It's been great so far seeing your workflow, looking good. I agree about the bright clouds, the bottom of your neck looks a little rough compared to the face too I think.


Here's my WIP so far,

I'm afraid it might be too busy and unreadable. Looking at it the dark areas are still a bit too rough too.. A little bit of Andy Warhol inspiration going on here, he was my first thought on seeing the palette for the challenge!

EDIT:
@repstyle
Woah! I love it!

EDIT 2:
I worked on it some more, tidying the shape and dithering a bit more readability into it





Edited by Cilein - 15 January 2011 at 4:06pm

@Guest666 :
Thanks man, but i don't understand what you mean by "banding", sorry i'm new at pixel art (in fact this is my 3rd piece in pixel art).
Nice work on the jumanji's hunter !

@Cilein :
Thanks bro. Nice "art deco" style.

@kiwi :
psychedelic

@misbug:
outch

@Mochimonda :
Miaou, grrr like it

Check out this whole thread but first read the post that starts with 'Banding Primer' about half way thru first page.

Updated:



Decided to get psychedelic with it, hee hee. Played with the face a bit, not sure if it's much better; I'll continue to mess around with it until the deadline. I used onek's amazing 1px font for the text. Hopefully he'll give me permission to use it before the deadline, if not I'll figure something out.

Anyways. . . more suggestions, please? I'm not sure I have much of a chance since folks have already submitted some really awesome stuff but it's a great challenge.

@Cilein, Current is great, try coloring the bottom half of each iris so that it pierces you, mhmmmm

@repstyle

Vous êtes un n00b total pour dire désolé pour expliquer pixelart à d'autres avec des problèmes de communication. C'est pourquoi Pixeljoint existe.

Sorry guys, just explaining to Manupix that he's a loser

I like it how I can understand that sentence just fine without having ever studied French in my whole life. Yay for being a native Portuguese speaker.

I also like how I can understand everything else without taking English classes, but that's thanks to videogames and the internet, and not how similar my first language is to it, so it's pretty unrelated.

daaaayum souly that's hot. great use of the blue as a creepy under-lighting

Been trying to fix things based on the crit, and tried another few ways of blending the colors/their edges, I'm still undecided which way to go on it, I've definitely needed this practice.

#1  #2 #3 #4

#4 Is the current version, I like this best of these tweaks. I've tried to use the dithering better now to differentiate soft and hard shadows too Manupix, thanks for that advice. And thank you jalonso - adding in some shine and lighter color to the pupil and iris definitely de-flattened the eyes!

@Souly
I love it!! Where did that come out of? (imagination, based on a ref etc?)



Edited by Cilein - 16 January 2011 at 5:20am

Well, well, well ...

I re-worked on my piece to fix misatke (AA and banding) stuffs but i'm not shure to get it fine ...

And i added some stuff



@Jeremy : Thank you for more explanation (in french ^^ too)

@all : my apologies for turning this forum into a noob's lesson


EDIT : I've done a 7 colors version (probably the final version:






Edited by repstyle - 16 January 2011 at 7:22am

@fawful :
I'm new in pixel art but not at art.
I'm a concept artist, illustrator with some experiences so i think that gives me  facilities to do and enjoy pixel art (my website: . ).

And i'm motivated by the challenge and the current video game industry can need more pixel artist to satisfy the little-screen's audience.

And it's fun to see what we can represent with only fews colors and in a so little size

Nicely put jalonso, it's about the journey not the end with most things - as soon as you stop travelling you stop improving, and the core concepts are often the easiest to forget about yet most important.

How could i submit my piece here for the challenge ?

Tried to fix suggestions, any last minuite advice? still not entirely sure about background idea

Don't worry about it, if you submit it here and the colours are still wrong I'll fix them for you. Only if you avoid using Onek's font though :P

are you saving it as .png from MSpaint?

because it'll change the colours ever so slightly

my post doesn't appear on the submission
erf ... damn time difference between FR and US ...

Thx jalonso and i've already done  but maybe too late because i don't see my submission in the Weekly Challenge submissions ... I was waiting for how to submit because i didn't get it but it'll be for the next time 

You've got to wait for it to pass through public queue and be checked for the specifications. Don't worry, if it's good it'll be there before the time's up.

@jalonso
by "be more graphic, dramatic and bold about it" were you referring to how I did the eyes? I've blanked, not sure if I prefer #2 or #4 of mine in terms of style. This has been a great challenging challenge, I've took a lot from it :D

@Photocopier
maybe a simple design of squares and such, you don't want to take from your pic but the blue looks a bit lonely. Patch is definitely better placed now, and the folds in the clothing are great. Kudos too for being able to use the cyan color well!

@fawful
Looking smexcellent. Take the shine on the cheeks (lightest highlight) and shift it up a few pixels perhaps to take the thick bands appearance away. Maybe drop that same color from the adams apple, the lighting to me suggests it wouldn't be as bright and shiny. The shoulder on the bottom left looks a tad sparse, some dithering or detail would de-flatten it. It's a struggle to find things though, this piece has come so far (and all in the right direction) :D

EDIT: eek! The checker link is dead/not loading for me, I wanted to double check my palette's correct..


Edited by Cilein - 16 January 2011 at 2:16pm

@Cilein, You have 59 colors o.O
eye edit:

@Manu, just use cyan on the right side of face and see if it works. Lightsource at ear level and strong.

@all, Hatch apparently forgot to update the checker, please bear with us.

finished

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/58921.htm

i found a pretty big anatomy problem and fixed it


Edited by fawful - 16 January 2011 at 4:08pm

This video by Alex Pardee pretty much sums up my creative process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-JAp2HHntA

"I wish I could credit my imagination fully for coming up with the monsters I make, but when it comes down to it, it's just good 'ol fashion research. You just gotta get out there, find them lure them out and take reference photos for later use for scribbling."


Edited by Souly - 17 January 2011 at 10:49pm