Sweet! I've got a bit more time this week, so hopefully I'll be able to take part :). So now I've got to come up with a concept...

My vacations finally started, so hopefully I ll be able to actually finish something this time... xD

man that took long

well it is misterious, HOW DOES THE MOON GLOW!?!?!??!
yes i know why it does, but you could act really stupid and say that.


Edited by minipuck - 29 June 2009 at 6:29am

here's a WIP:

I'm thinking make it an alien,that would be cool..
so...what do you think?...

My WIP.
Don't ask why there isn't any glow. There is going to be a moon soon.

C+C

I did it!, I finished :P

Up to now, I have this. I make it smaler



Edited by Lahra - 29 June 2009 at 10:04pm

@Someone - An interesting interpretation of the challenge, but I think it would be a good idea to remove the text, it doesn't do anything for the piece as the ant's thoughts are clearly implied.

@Celri, I can't understand why you are saving these WIP images as jpegs, it only serves to make it harder for anyone to give any kind of reasonable critique on your pixeling techniques.

Also, I suggest you consider reducing your canvas size. I know the challenge calls for at least 100x100, but I think it would be beneficial if you limit the canvas size in order to gain greater control over individual pixels.

save it as .gif or .png

i'll join, progress:

update:

Burnthemdown ::
You can use tons of dithering on a picture but when your dithering
cirtain surfaces you could reduce the dithering to help make it look shiny
or smooth.

Check out this picture
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/2812.htm

notice how the plane has WAYYYY less dithering then the clouds, smoke, glass, ect ect
but still a little.

Lahra ::
When your doing the lighting on the hands remember that light shines threw your skin.

Check out this photo.

http://wysewomen.org/iStock_000000153526Small%5B1%5D.jpg%20holding%20light.jpg

Minipuck, i love it.

Like this?

Anyone has any ideas on what I could improve on mine?

And Lahra, I think your picture has too little contrast in it. You could try adding some, otherwise it gets a bit boring.

Dennis, I really like yours so far.

Kinda like this?

You could move him to the right more and add a secondary light source that
reviles his dark side.
you could even make the secondary light source have color.

like this..





Edited by God_Is_Evil - 30 June 2009 at 3:50pm

Yah,
that's the general idea of what i was saying.
Just whatever you think of, i was just suggesting
a direction you could take the picture if you want to.

there is a unlimited number of directions you could take the picture.

You could have the dark side turn into a crazy star field and have his
eye by the north star.
You could make the dark side be a robot and the shinny eye be
light reflecting off of his robot eye lens.
whatever works.

Lots of directions I could take, yes.
Slym: Not bad. I am guessing that you still havent added the glow? And what's your avatar doing? x)

@lucas

Looks pretty nice, but it doesn't really make sense. (If it doesn't bother you, then by all means, keep going.)

If light was hitting his face, as we on the left of his face, naturally, the skin color would be shown.. in color. (Unless he was really pure white for some reason.) Thus making me believe that the black-and-whiteness is more of a stylistic choice. Having color on only one part of the picture kind of confuses that.

Anyways, the contrast between b-n-w and color is nice.

@God_Is_Evil

Looking GREAT, keep it up.

@slym

I think maybe you're trying to apply a little too much detail in such a small space. Increase the size, maybe magnify the picture a little. I assume you're going to add the glow inside of the hole in the trunk of that tree, that would be a nice place for it, but if you do, I feel that it would be too small. In fact, I think the picture is too small altogether. I'd love to see your work in a larger area.

Keep it up.

@Dennis

Also looking great, I seem to be enjoying the drawing more at this point, but I'll say that's just due to the WIPiness. You seem to know what you're doing, I look forward to a finished version.

@lahra

Much too dark, and too little contrast, like was mentioned. You could probably do without the dithering, too, just use some extra colors, and shade some folds into the fabrics, and extra details, to make things less flat. Shade according to the glow.


Edited by Dr D - 30 June 2009 at 9:14pm

I'm not sure if this works for the challenge or not, what do you guys think?

It's just an early wip.