my first pixel

Dont_Hurt_My · **Posted:** March 29th, 2006, 6:54 pm

ya this is my first pixel art so please don't be too harsh in your commentary. i spent almost 2 weeks on the 2 men alone

Adbot · **Posted:** March 29th, 2006, 6:54 pm

drewdawgg · **Posted:** March 29th, 2006, 8:23 pm

not bad for the first man seriously

Dave · **Posted:** March 29th, 2006, 10:47 pm

This one doesn't sit right with me. Why, around the two people, is the image distorted? The ground looks very strange. It is fuzzyish if you know what I mean. This is good for a first one though, better then I could do in a million years atleast.

Dont_Hurt_My · **Posted:** March 29th, 2006, 11:39 pm

ya i saved it as a jpeg -.-

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** March 30th, 2006, 12:10 am

Dont_Hurt_My wrote:

ya i saved it as a jpeg -.-

Aaah! Rule of thumb: only save photos as jpegs. This would have been best saved as a gif or png. You spent a lot of time on the characters, but too little time on the background! Take your time. Things come out a lot better when you're patient with pixel art.

Robbie · **Posted:** March 30th, 2006, 3:26 pm

I think the sun could be a touch more yellow

Adbot · **Posted:** March 30th, 2006, 3:26 pm

Dont_Hurt_My · **Posted:** March 30th, 2006, 5:31 pm

its a moon -.-

o ya i tried to add some animation to the art today but i cant get it out of imageready since it will only save as a psd... anyone know how i can get it out?

rikusora321 · **Posted:** March 30th, 2006, 6:29 pm

not bad for a first... i'd say 7/10

MattVortex · **Posted:** March 31st, 2006, 7:21 am

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Dont_Hurt_My wrote:

ya i saved it as a jpeg -.-

Aaah! Rule of thumb: only save photos as jpegs.

Rule of thumb: save nothing as a jpeg. Unless you're using Photoshop to save it and have set the quality at 12. But that means absolutely no compression whatsoever.

Nice blending, but I dont like the style. Some people have a good style and do horrible shading, some people have a style that isnt too good, but brilliant shading; some people just make plain awful pixel sigs, and then very rarely, there's good shading and good style. I know someone who does this, and there are about three people on the tip.it forums who do, but it really is very rare.

Im afraid you have good shading and a not so good style. Sorry.

The people just dont look very convincing. They look like a small child drew them, rather than a professional cartoonist. I appreciate you spent ages on the shading, but the sig overall doesnt look very good.

And the tree looks awful. Sorry. It just does.

Im going to give you 5/10. Work on your style and it could shoot up to 8. Then all you need to do is make something happen! Kick out the boring sky background and make a wilderness castle.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** March 31st, 2006, 12:06 pm

MasterOfTheVortex wrote:

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Dont_Hurt_My wrote:

ya i saved it as a jpeg -.-

Aaah! Rule of thumb: only save photos as jpegs.

Rule of thumb: save nothing as a jpeg. Unless you're using Photoshop to save it and have set the quality at 12. But that means absolutely no compression whatsoever.

Saving photos as JPEG is just fine, perhaps PNG would be sufficient also but.. JPEG has lower file size and more compatibility.