What should I do, I just colored my first pixel ever.

 

 

 

And now it needs shadow. Dithering or Normal?

It helps if you post a picture of it. On the shadow issue, it depends on your skills, if you're good at dithering use that, if not, use the normal method.

the material of the shadowed area is important. regular and smooth surfaces look better with normal shading. irregular things look better with dithering. on your pixel you could experiment what looks better

Dithering is just a sprite art trick to blend colours without actually using any extra tones. This was useful back in the day where GIFs had to use minimal amounts of colour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up to you to decide which you'd rather, it's mostly personal choice. Some find one easier or nicer than the other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I personally like the look of dithering. Here's one of my favourite pixels that heavily relies on dithering.

 

 

 

http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/pixels.asp?img=415

As Venomi said, dithering was a technique developed to reduce colores, while still having smooth transitions in shading. It is usfule to smoothen out transitions in tone, but not always nesscecary, use dithering where is is nesscecary in a peice to smoothen out the transitions, and use normal shading when it is not nesscecary. Now, do not do what I have a tendency to do, and go crazy with dithering (I tend to forget it's not needed, and jsut go wild :oops: ) use it here and there. Also, dithering is a good technique to add texture to things. Look up the different types of dithering, because there are many.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT- did some mess with the filter to change "t" "h" "e" to teh? :x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT EDIT- the the the the

 

 

 

yep, it appears that way :x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT EDIT EDIT-nevermind, april fools is t3h suxz0rs k@y nu85?

Dithering is my favorite but it takes more time. It will look more 'pixely' if you use dithering, and I like that effect.

Dithering can potentially improve your piece, however considering this would be your first attempt at it, it would probably be detrimental. I suggest you just shade it normally for the time being.

dithering can give 2 effects

 

 

 

it can eaither make it pexely,

 

 

 

or it can make the image look smooth

 

 

 

i wish i could help on shadowing but i have no bloody idea what you mean by that

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i would dither but thats just my style