I wouldn't say this is manga pomar, learning how to draw manga wont make this any better, he simply needs to develop his skills of drawing the human body. I do believe he's had some strong improvements, and is most likely well aware of any tutorials out there..

 

 

 

I do agree that the gold should shine, a quick look through gold references wouldn't go amiss..

 

 

 

your character skill lacks depth in places, Im getting the impression that he's flat.. Think of the light source, for example his jacket would cast a dark shadow onto his shirt.. simple things that are missed can give the wrong impression.. Just really try and imagine what would be lit up and what wouldn't.. were no light can reach should be incredibly dark, and anywhere that directly is hit by the light should me much lighter.. The face follows this but I think parts of this image is missing basic lighting.

 

 

 

The gold snake statue thing is blocking the light to the two other object right of it, so why are they lit up?

 

 

 

my advice would be to just go mad lookin for reference images..

Well, I can't really comment on the artistic style to it, as I'm really not that talented in drawing (I'm extremely good at clay though : )

 

 

 

But you certainly got the egyptian style right. I see the eye of Horus back there (although it might be the eye of re, they both look the same to me).

 

 

 

You should add the crowns of lower and upper egypt onto it :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, but for what I can say about the art, I like it, but I think the collar of the jacket could be a little more defined.

Thanks for the posts everyone, and deiphobus, that is indeed an eye of horus :P I have learnt a fair bit about each symbol lol :P The top left is the Ankh one, the stair like one is the throne of Isis, the Infinity symbol stands for just that :P, The eye of horus as you know, the R symbol is the sign for Rx, and I can't remember the other one :P

 

 

 

Anyway, I've tried to give the character a bit more dimension. It's not finished yet but I thought I'd show you guys anyway :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

More comments would be appreciated :P Thanks :)

The guys eyes look a little big, and if the stuff on the table is meant to be gold, maybe make it a little more gold in colour, and a little more rough and shiny? Right now, it looks like clay... :roll:

 

 

 

Other than that, it's turning out pretty good. :thumbsup:

Thanks :P I'll be looking up some tutorials/reference pic's later on. And I'll change it in good enough time :)

Update on the gold everyone :P What do you all think of the colours? I can work on dithering, etc to make it look smoother, mostly asking bout the colours :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks again everyone :P

I like this piece, the theme is sort of pyramid plundery.

 

7/10

 

 

 

Veitchy~

nice piece till now, i have followed every update, but sicne there was alreayd enough c/c i haven't said annything untill now...

 

 

 

The thing i would mention the first is that the gold needs more contrast, just like the table, the guy and the wall... The thing i always notice is that u never use realy light and realy dark color on the same piece, what i think u should do.

 

 

 

If u chance that i think its an good pixel :

So pretty much just have more difference between shades? If so, I can pretty easily change that. I'm pretty sure that's what you mean :P I'll get on that when I have some spare time :)

 

 

 

More posts are appreciated :P

 

 

 

~Hiimben~

simply raised the contrast in PS. may be too contrasted now, but you get the idea :wink: nice job so far. still think you should re-work teh eyes, they look.. strange and too large.. kinda like he's on drugs.. lol

 

 

 

looks great now =D> ide have to say 10/10

Thanks for the replies. Tried to fix the eyes? Which is better?

 

 

 

1)

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

2)

 

 

 

Also, I was wondering if anyone knows of any free programs that can save animations as .gif files. I recently downloaded GIMP, thinking it could do so, but I don't think it can. Feedback would be good :)

GIMP can save as .gif files.

look in the FAQ i thought there was the link to a program named something like: GIF animator somthing...

 

 

 

and darkshadow has the right thing, but thats a bit to contrasted yeah :P

Thanks everyone. By the way, I have made the background a tad darker, I'll show what I mean later.

 

 

 

@skullie- Oh ok, I will have a bit more of a look into it today.

 

@Rik- Yeah :P I have gif animator and it kinda messes up the image, but I'll try it again.

Hey all, Tried to fix the eyes, and what do you all think of the background?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments appreciated :P Thanks everyone :)

 

i still hate the mouth makes him look all puffy, plus considering he's just found all that treasure i think he would share a moment with himself to smile after all his hard work :D i like the background

 

EDIT: that was just an example of what i think motuh should be like, it's kind of wide.....lol

jay for the big mouthed treasure finder :P not realy... i realy think hiimben's mouth looks better...

hahahaha.. tomdavies90.

i know the mouth looks bad it was just an idea but seriously is it just me who thinks his at the moment looks really weird? it's the "creases" at the side makes him look either really old or like he's got a massive ball in his mouth

yea those creases are too strong on the face, it should really be toned down a tad, good observasion by tom, just looking at references can help point out where you may be goin wrong, we tend to draw what we think a face looks like rather than illustrating what it actually should look like.

 

 

 

http://www.ohlalaparis.com/photos/uncat ... e_face.jpg

 

 

 

I further editted my edit to try illustrate how I'd go about softening the creases, had a go at the eyes if that helps atall. Also reduced the light around the jaw to create the illusion of stuble haha.. Fixed more AAing, but didnt do too much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

dont think the smile should be soo OTT as what tomdavies suggested but maybe it was too stubbern looking, it'd be interesting to add a bit expression to the character.

 

 

 

Hope im not concentrating on the characters face too much, I just think you should work on this section by section. The face is a crucial part of this image, your eyes drawn to his face expression instantly.

 

 

 

hope that helps.

Thanks again everyone, Got a bit of an update here. Tried something different with the hair, I can always switch it back if no one likes it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think? :P

 

 

 

~Hiimben~

ok the mouth looks fien now but i still hate the puffiness of the face, looks like he just ate a wasp, i tried fixing it, not perfect but looks less inflated

 

Thanks for that :P

 

 

 

Anyways, I won't be working on this piece for a short while.

 

Anyways, have some pixel WIP's to show you-

 

 

 

Tennis Pixel Wip-

 

V1-Short Extras

 

 

 

 

V2-Extravagant Border

 

 

 

 

And my first Runescape related image in a while-

 

 

(This was rather quickly done, much more effort can be put into this one :))

 

 

 

Edit- + My new sig :)

 

 

 

Thanks all :)

I like how its turning our so far :D

 

 

 

And, I like that last picture with the shark, sometime I'll get you to make me a sig :wink: