Got the lines done and a little shading.  I wanted to block in the colors so that it's easier to see that it's a pie.  I eventually want the red part of the tentacles to look like the inside of a raspberry pie.

Remembers me of Ultros.

Concept is great and colours are good too, but I really really think you should make the sprite bigger.

Little more work on it, mostly the texture of the crust.  I'm trying to make it look like the pie tin has a lip, but I'm having a little trouble.  Any advice?

Little more editing.  Working on getting some texture in the tentacles.  Haven't addressed the pie tin lip.  No, I don't have a life, thanks.



Also, should I put vents in the pie?  Like real pies have.  And if so, should they be down below, or on top of his head?


Edited by littlesapphire - 30 November 2010 at 2:06pm

I think this is totally awesome!

Decided to try H|F's idea about cutting out a piece of pie.  I think I have just enough room to include the pie piece at the bottom.  I changed up the colors of the tin and I hope it looks a little more life like.  Let's see...  worked on the tentacles as well.  I drew a black outline around them but that made them way too bulky.  Gonna try to preserve the shape and colors I created but also have a black outline. 

Or should it be a colored outline?



Man, I hate how Firefox makes pixel work look so fuzzy in this forum.  It makes me feel like I'm going blind.


Edited by littlesapphire - 02 December 2010 at 9:58am

The yellow could use a more golden brown maybe? It doesn't exactly look baked. Darkening the colored outline might be good. I feel like the shape of the head could be a bit more octopus-like though. The head of a real octopus usually droops down a bit at the back. Perhaps the eyes can be a bit close as well. I'm loving the idea though. Keep it up!

Little more fiddling.  I fixed the lip of the pan a little (I hope), and darkened the outline of the tentacles.  I think the last thing I want to try is a dollop of whipped cream, but I'm A) not sure if that's a good idea and B) scared to try.  But I guess I'd better give it a shot!

It kind of loses the distinctive silhouette with the cream and makes it harder to read as an Octopie.

I think you could still make it a little bit more golden brown. Also, the pie tin seems a bit out of shape on the left.

Yeah, the very left. To me it just seems like it's going off on an angle and not quite circular.

Also, yep, more saturation and darker, I think.

Anyway, looking good, can't wait until it's finally finished.

Reverted the pie tin to the way it looked before, more or less.  I think I'm happy with that.  Also, the more I look at it, the happier I am with the whipped cream.

I think you need more contrast, and there's a color on the pie pan highlight that you only used once.
Here's a quick edit:

I don't know what program you use, but all I did was scroll through the pallet increasing/decreasing value in Gale. I also made a few modifications to some of the tentacles, the head, pie pan, and whipped cream.