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Published: 2017-01-10 21:33:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 2710; Favourites: 521; Downloads: 20
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a soft rib cage for the chittery. i keep making assets for the group page that i end up not really knowing what to do with.Βedit: ok i feel better now that it's cleaned up + I added a version with the sternum. i kinda like it better without the sternum anyway tho lol...
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oh god I love the colours in this and like... the simplicity I guess? OR LIKE how you have detail but it fits into a streamlined silhouette, idk, REALLY GOOD THO I appreciate good pixels so much *o*
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oooooh this is so good... really good use of solid outlines on the outside only
if you're ok with critique i have a bit of advice abt the colors but i know a lot of people aren't, just lmk
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ok so my big thing w/ the colors in everything pixel I do is consolidation!! you want to try and cut the colors down as much as you can while still retaining the original intent/design, shading, visibility, etc. for the most part your three colors for the flower, bone, and leaf are all different color "ramps," with seperate shades for each. Instead of doing that, try using colors from one ramp for a different part of the image, IE making the highlight on the leaf the lighter bone color (which i noticed already has a green tint to it,) or the shadow one of the dark blues, or make the outline on the ribcage the same as the flowers.
Here's a real good example of what I'm talking about with the color ramps:Β riftstalker.files.wordpress.coβ¦
Another thing I noticed about the colors is there are a few superfluous colors that don't have much contrast and don't really seem to cause any issues to the larger image if removed - one of the blues was really close to the other one but it might just be my monitor, i took it out and it looked fine.
i made an edit to demonstrate some changes i'd make to cut the color count, i hope that's ok - it's 100% just replacing colors with ones already in the image, i didnt touch anything else:Β imgur.com/a/kWx2c
I'd personally also remove that very darkest brown shade inside the vertebrae, it looked so similar to the one I replaced with the dark blue...
Um, anyways, this is all just an opinion. Opinions on pixel art have been shifting a lot within the past few years and I fall more in the "purist" camp than most people on dA, but I really think color consolidation and the use of a limited palette gives pixel art a lot of its iconic "look," even if it's a massive 20color portrait like my "Codex" or something super psychadelic like Helm's Star Witch pixeljoint.com/pixelart/85481.β¦ (warning for nips)Β or some of Frost's work (pixeljoint.com/p/10385.htm ) it's got that "look" to it.... I don't think I'd call it retro at this point, since that implies something different, but it's that same sort of media signature that something like watercolor paintings have.Β
Anwyays, I hope this all made sense
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Thank you so much! ;W; )
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AFDHSF i love the pale colros that you chose for this!! they blend super well ;0Β
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Thank you!! I'm really loving pale pastels rn.
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how are you so good at everything x____X
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LOL THANK YOU FOR THAT Β cos after i finished this i was like "wow.......i'm really shit at pixels" lmao. I'm actually kinda redoing it atm OTL
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well it's better than I can do at least. I just like the way you compose and color it but damn it still looks amazing in my eyes
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