Korla

i'm surprised noone's mentioned dithering... it's more a technique of cutting down on colours, really, but it's closely connected to shading and colouring in general. like you said when shading the tree, predator, you use a darkening scale, but instead of using so many colours, you can let the colours "lap over" each other. in for example a chess-board pattern. this creates the effect of a different colour in between the two shades, and can be used to great effect. but it's quite an advanced way of doing it and requires ALOT of practice to look good. it does look more "pixel" then, though.

i like it, great sense of depth in it. dunno what to change, i can only say what i think is good, since i've never made an abstract sig in my life.

when i say line art i mean the general outline of objects. i think most people who do pixel sigs start with doing the outline of whatever they're thinking of doing, and this affects the end result greatly, good line art does alot. it can be done pixel by pixel or using the line tool, the line too is just a very slight adjustment to the pixel by pixel tool anyway.

i like it, like usual, but i think you should dither instead of using so many colours. you could also AA the entire pic, her left arm and the beard looks jagged.

what's heappening to the water in the left side of the 2nd pic? cause it looks like it's an ocean, but if it's a (giant) lake then the shore should be visible where it sorta comes towards us or whatever. also, a sun with a black line around it looks very bad.

it's ok, you really convincede me they're in a building, nice reflections on the windows. i just don't like your technique, or lack thereof. it's skillfully not as good as for example jeppoz works, but you have used excellent linework, like always.

i think it needs more contrast. much more. you can barely se that you used 2 different colours for the skin, let alone 11, like you did use. i think 5 is the absolute max you should use, 3 could be enough. you have to dither them abit, make them blend into each other, that was they will get a different look, a more pixel look if you will, which suits this type of pic better. so, less colours, maybe use 2 with the most difference from the normal skin colour to do the shading. i do think this shows potential, though, hence my reply :D

if you would have used nicer colours than RS, atleast changed them around, it would have been better, and more your own work. but it's a nice, albeit skill-less, idea.

No offence but all those sigs are already sold to other people, and that rs2k sig is the one that won gold medal in the pixel oympics. :P Yo Jeppoz I think you'd get more customers to post if you added this thread to your sig so people in other boards and forums can find it faster. :) then i dont understand. he is making two new sigs with starting bids of 500k. the ones posted here are only there to show his skill. just bid 500k if you want one and he might make a new one for you.

very nice sig, oto bad it's a black border, cause i'm on sub-black, makes it look border-less. anyway, i hope some girl gets here soon and takes it :wink: now, discrimination? bah...anyway...

i can't see it, not even the red x hehe

it looks good, but the bg and the characters kinda clash, they seem out of place sorta. but that could also be cause you can't see where they are standing and that is you rstyle, gj :D

nice colours, like always :D i love your new non-line style, as i've said before :P i do not like that you chose a lightsource from straight ahead, though, it makes it look...i dunno, not as good as before, anyway. the cannon is too much of a central figure to have such a shading IMO, that could really do with a more aged-look, less perfect shading. the fence also looks a little too perfect, but all those things together gives it a very distinct look :D i like it as a complete piece, but not really the technique in itself, do you understand? ooh well, it doesn't really matter i suppose... just keep up the good work man

same :? BTW Vmser nice avater and post count only Black Night Trainer 8) i'll tell you about it: he ripped that image, from the top link, which you should see, i do anyway, stuck it on a crappy bg, which i told him, it was crappy, the image was iso and the bg was non-iso...duh what else do you want to know? :D

the bg is very low quality compared to the rest... also the isometric and non-iso do not work at all together. a major rule in Iso pixeling is that there are no horizons...like...ever :D but i like the artistic bits of it very much...

i can't see it :( imageshack problems or my connection problems?

the warhammer looks like an axe. a warhammer is, to me, more like a sledgehammer. ot [bleep]ed, but does crushing damage, flat ends and kinda bulky to use. but they're cool, now make big versions, that's harder :wink:

the lineart is cool enough, i do not get the sahding, though, nice choice of colours, but badly used. choose a lightsource and think where shadows would appear.

nasty MS Paint? have you seen what people can do in that program? it does take practice, though, look up The_Jeppoz works for what can be done in paint, that's a good standard to be working towards. the best on these boards for sure. look up some tutorials on making isometric things, like you tried on the lobster pot.

i like it. as a matter of fact, i'm gonna use it hehe :D i'm even gonna change my scape theme to suit it better lol, i use sub-black atm, and want something more similar. lol, dunno why, but it has something, i might get back to you on that

finally someone hears my prayers! Kudis to you for taking the black lines out and still keeping up the very distinct features you've displayed. the perspective looks great IMO, atleast on the town, the huts on the other side i'm not 100% sure of, but it doesn't look bad at all. but as i said, the town is brilliant. your clear, peaceful colours don't clash and even though there are many of them :D it still looks like one coherent piece. the roof texturing was simple, yet effective, from that distance it really looks detailed. what i do not like is his armour, more could have done with it, alot more detail, especially on his right shoulder, it's a huge part of the image, like 1/3 of the town or smth. the face could use more definition, to add more character to it, it looks abit bland, now, i don't know who you did it after, but in my eyes it looks a little soft, maybe just change the colours and keep the lines. i think the beach houldn't have a brown line connecting it to the water, rather a cyan, also the water should get much clearer (lighter) as you get closer to the shore, not just waves, but also a general lightness when you get closer. finally i don't quite like the texture you've used for the streets and square , it's the same as on the roof...and, i dunno, when you zoom in you keep noticing it anyway. ooh well, i definitely wouldn't have made this post had i not liked it and i gotta say i like it probably the most out of your sigs so far, not that it's the most detailed or has the greatest concept (your current one has both) but cause you finally took out the black lines, did you try to do that with your old one?

there are tons of general advice, but i'd search around on here for others posting their first pixel arts, i have replied to a couple with some hints and many others have also done it. also i would not post my stuff unless i think it's good. look and learn is my way anyway.

very sweet animation, i'd change the colours though, do some shading for one.

I don't really like it, first off, i don't like black lines in a pixel sig, and some of the sahding, like the armour doesn't really look like the shading you'd get on an armour. *... its a pixel sig with paint shading... how culd it NOT look like one... the faces and armour are all different... umm, The_Jeppoz makes completely different sigs, and if you ever visit a pixel board you can see how different pixel work can be...

i think you should try the blue dragon without the bg maybe?