It's not really random if you're putting effort into it. 

But it seems... interesting. Trying new stuff is always nice, good luck with it.

it is clear that is a very abstrac picture, ad you have to find the dog, even when there is no dog there(technically). even with all the 'mess' there, the dog's features are visible. at least in the first picture they were, because in the later edit they aren't that evident.

but, you know what? i would be interesting that the picture woul be slowly morphing into something completely diferenet(preserving the original shape) by just reorganizing the pixels into it. in a sort of trasition process. because where i saw a dog in the first picture, now i see a a head with a big pair of eyes...

Did you put anything in there or is it just random lines and doodles? Because I see a guitar... or a bottle, I can't tell which.

I really connot understand modern art

I see a masked guy holding either a chainsaw or a large carrot peeler.

I'm with Greeny on this one

I am trurly impressed by peach's wit.

rene magritte

the translation is "This is not a pipe"

but apart from Magritte the dog work reminds me a lot of the pointillisme movement (apart from the fact that pixelins is some sort of)

really nice.
I should notice also that here the colors are more well balanced and soft. While the first version of the dog, which btw I like the most, the color is more rough and bluish (in a way "cold") and seems like very "impulsive".
instead I think you tried to adjust it for a more "normal" looking in the third version of it. Have you though instead of softening it with yellow and magenta?

this is more of an experimental Wip threadrather than something strictly desider to be in the gallery. more like Dogmeat sharing his own exploration with us.

wich is great.  

anything is better than those generic mario/sonic sprites.

first one shows more life, while the second one shows more volume.
you rejected the idea of abusing of blue, didn't you?

Hmm Oekaki, or whatever the hell it is called, caused a huge blowout and was deemed NPA. This is even more abstract.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 31 May 2008 at 10:03am

*just lurking. I shall comment once you hit the "Helen Keller' moment. I do admire your challenge to yourself and others.

That looks like a tomato with a small dagger and a shield. o_O

Thistopic has a whole "downward spiral into madness" kinda feel. Which may or may not be a good thing. Only time will tell. XD

he's a happy little furball!

Just edited the shading under him and the highlight on his nose.

I agree with Souly I like the later ones the most, especially the blue one, the smoke one, and Steddly he may be my favorite character. :)

Something about all the bright purple and bright green seems... I dunno, clashes with each other and takes away from the main object in the picture.

yeah man, no harm intended at all.  I'm sorry if I came off harsh.  I'm actually a fan of the process if it were only with a controlled palette.  In fact I liked your black and white one you did early quite a lot.  if you apply that same theory to different palettes - defining a good value ramp - you might like the results even more than what you've got going at the moment

dogmeat:

you should craft the palette to what suits your piece in particular.  Relying on a pre-defined palette (namely the MS paint palette) you're giving up a piece of your art.

An experiment I did earlier shows that you can maintain unity even with a ridiculous range of highly saturated colors - but you have to control it via another means.

Example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/calypson/mrparrot10.png

With my parrot, I controlled it using a value range as the anchor, but you could probably do this with any sort of range; saturation, contrast, hue, etc.  (value is probably the easiest to deal with)  I also used a grey to help bridge the warm and cool colors.  This was pretty important for dealing with such high saturation.

Its things like this which you should constantly be aware of while you make your art.  I'm interested to see what you come up with...  But by all means dont just use random colors :P


Edited by Indigo - 03 June 2008 at 11:02pm

Just dropping by to say I reeeeeeeeeeally like the last version of the doll. 

:O Met's a ballchinian

Arrrh i reaally like this! :D