Pixel heads
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 05:26
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pixel heads of my OC's
please critique! I'm new to pixeling and i wanna improve
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Well, gotta first say: welcome to OGA, have fun! This isn't the best place to start doing pixel art (I would recommend PixelJoint), but whatever.
Have you checked out our tutorial on pixel art?
Now to the critique.
First of all: you seem to use straight lines too often, and this makes your characters look weird. You shouldn't be afraid to use curves. (I tried to remake one of your character's ears to make them somewhat curved - see the attachment below.) Of course, you should be careful with curves, too — check Chapter 2 of the tutorial for an example of a well done and a badly done curve.
Secondly: you seem to have used a lot of different colors and shades for your shading. Just as with outlines, shading in pixel art is done with limited colors and without any fancy brushes.
Talking about shading, your shading is bad. I'm not that good at shading, either, so refer to Chapter 4 of the tutorial above.
To avoid using lots of colors for shading, I'd recommend you to try doing something with a limited palette in the first place. A popular palette on OGA is DawnBringer's 32 color palette, also known as DB32. You should try using it with your images.
Thank you so much for the critique! It's really helpfull! (ofcourse)
On deviant art you'll only get 'omg so awesome' and nothing more, which isn't going to help me much.
So really, thank you so much! I really hope the next time I make a pixel drawing, you'll critique again. :)
It's the first time I tried my best on pixeling so, The next time I'll follow your advice <3
Also the tutorials are very helpfull! I've been reading them all, and a lot of things are becoming more clearer for me now :)
and about the shading, I really didn't know xD I looked at other people's pixel art on deviant art and because it's new to me, i really didn't have any clue on how to get certain things the same as they did.
Don't be afraid to use other people's stuff as reference for a bit of practice. There are also tutes on youtube, I have a couple for Gimp.
https://www.patreon.com/PlanetKiller
https://www.youtube.com/user/PKFacade
Look for the gimp tutorials on my youtube and search for others because I'm still a noob. Don't be afraid to use a brush.