Pic i have been working on

[Maddavy2004]

WHat do you think so far? i know its not done ><

 

 

 

V1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V2

 

 

 

 

 

 

^^^the one gem i missed is supposed to be black^^^

[swordwindtrtrtrt]

Exellent so far. I assume your going to finish "bricking" it? Id also add some spots of colour to the gold piles to represent jewels. Should make a nice siggy.

[Maddavy2004]

thanks, i am going to finish the bricks later i just got bored lol and i will add jewels to thx

[Magma_Surge]

i dont have much experience with these sorts of things but from where i stand i say it's awesome.... i agree about the jewels but otherwise it's great \

[elmo_killer6]

You saved it as a Jpeg use PNG.

 

 

 

As for the sig, it's pretty bad. I don't know if you were going for a pixel or not, but it's just not very well executed. First of all the color choices are horrible, pick colors that are lower down on the palette. Also maybe try to put more realism into it with shading, anatomy, perspective, etc.

[Viktorkrum77]

It's too square, to blocky, to naÃÆÃâÃâïve. Add texture, the mountain of gold coins is just some simple line work, coins aren't blocky, they fall over, the hills should be round, they are textured depending on their positions.

 

 

 

Everything just looks too juvenile, too basic.

[Maddavy2004]

sigh thought good comments wouldn't last i have no idea on how to do almost all of what your recomending :XD:

[Maddavy2004]

treid to make the hills more round im gonna add jewels and finish bricks then show updated pic

[Maddavy2004]

fixed it up and finished it hows it now?

[Star.]

Everything is too square! Like Viktor said, make things rounder. It seems to me that you are trying to make things too even. There's a guys head on the coins. Get some shape into it.

[loaf2000]

you should look at some of the tutorials for pixeling in the Gallery rules,faq,and recources sticky. there are some pretty good ones, and they will explain most of the stuff people are telling you about here.

[Maddavy2004]

sigh and here i thought it was pretty good the guys head is in the coins because he is burried in them.

[deloriagod]

Let's see what I can do for you..

 

 

 

-Choose some darker colors. Tone things down a bit. It looks like a brick room so I'd suppose there isn't an amazing light source. Also, pick some more colors. I see a lot of yellow, red, and grey. Yellow and red are colors people don't like to look at for a long time, and grey is dull/boring. Have fun with your colors, don't be afraid to try new ideas.

 

 

 

-Shade! Make sure your colors blend smoothly and look nice. Make things look more reaslitic/3D. Right now it looks very flat.

 

 

 

-Use more asymmetrical shapes. Don't touch any tool but the pencil. Blocky shapes aren't very appealing to the eyes.

 

 

 

-Fill in some of that empty space. Don't mess up the composition by crowding too many things in there, but the lack of things happening makes it boring.

 

 

 

-I'm supposing all that yellow is representing coins. Define some of the coins, but not all of them (composition).

 

 

 

Hope that helps.

[LeonardMart]

i dont have much experience with these sorts of things but from where i stand i say it's awesome.... i agree about the jewels but otherwise it's great \

 

you need to look at other pixels to know if its awesome. believe me, it aint as a pixel that awesome

[Lovelydude]

It's not a competition.

 

 

 

I've seen pieces that are awesome, yet the techniques involved are far below the skill level of many older and better artists.

 

 

 

Awesome is an opinion.

[swordwindtrtrtrt]

I like v2 a lot better, it looks great. Dont listen to any of the guys who say its bad, and victor look at your own siggy.

[Nadril]

Why is there a guys head sitting on a pile of sand?

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to be blunt with you, its bad. Heres a rough laydown:

 

 

 

- The bricks. Bricks are not uniform like that.

 

 

 

- The linework. You have a basic idea out but its poor. Especialy the lines of the top of the gold pile (which, looks like sand btw) are way too jagged. You need to clean them up.

 

 

 

- Colors. The money nearly hurts my eyes to look at. Coupled with the grey brick background and it is just not something I would want to look at.

 

 

 

- Shading. Well... lack of shading. There is perhaps 2 things that look semi-shaded, the 'gold' and one of the hats in the background. Everything else is very two dimensional.

 

 

 

- The overall deal. Really overall it just looks like some poorly done dodle in MS Paint. By any means it does not look like a 'pixel' piece.

 

 

 

 

 

Finaly a minor detail, but as I said the gold looks like sand. You need to actualy make it look like a bunch of gold coins and not one pile of yellow.

 

 

 

 

 

Read up on tutorials here and on other sites. Practice basic techniques before trying to tackle another sig, or try to finish an avatar first.

 

 

 

 

 

I like v2 a lot better, it looks great. Dont listen to any of the guys who say its bad, and victor look at your own siggy.

 

 

 

People like you are worse than the flamers, btw. Telling him LOL ITS AWESOME is not going to help him in any way shape or form improve. At least someone flaming him will hopefully make him want to get back at them.

[swordwindtrtrtrt]

 

I like v2 a lot better, it looks great. Dont listen to any of the guys who say its bad, and victor look at your own siggy.

 

 

 

People like you are worse than the flamers, btw. Telling him LOL ITS AWESOME is not going to help him in any way shape or form improve. At least someone flaming him will hopefully make him want to get back at them.

I didnt say "LOL ITS AWESOME" or insinuate that it was awesome. I was just trying to give encouragement, and once again doing something helpful is turned around and made out to be bad. Lets not flame this guy's thread.

[Nadril]

 

I like v2 a lot better, it looks great. Dont listen to any of the guys who say its bad, and victor look at your own siggy.

 

 

 

People like you are worse than the flamers, btw. Telling him LOL ITS AWESOME is not going to help him in any way shape or form improve. At least someone flaming him will hopefully make him want to get back at them.

I didnt say "LOL ITS AWESOME" or insinuate that it was awesome. I was just trying to give encouragement, and once again doing something helpful is turned around and made out to be bad. Lets not flame this guy's thread.

 

 

 

Ok, you didn't say it was awesome -- you said it was great.

 

 

 

Still baseless comments like that aren't helping.

[terley]

if your going to give an opinion about someones work, give your likes and your dislikes..

 

 

 

If you say it's great, of course you leave the artist feeling good but you aren't doing him/her any favours. Your comment won't leave em with something to build on, he might as well assume it cannot be improved.

 

 

 

I think it's a good start, just keep at it Maddavy and don't expect too much of yourself in one go, work on improving all areas of your artwork bit by bit. transfer what you learn outside pixel art into your work, It always helps to learn more about positioning, perspective, lighting, colour etc. they're all things you need to consider in any piece of art.. But most importantly dont make it a chore, some feedback i've read makes you feel overwhelmed with jargen. Just make sure you keep it constantly fun for yourself and challenge yourself, the better you get the more you'll wanna do..

[reddawn509]

Anatomy, Saturation, Attention to detail, Shading, and Origionality, are all things you could use to work on. Look at other pixle art, and use that for reference to practice with. Practice your lineart, just do some doodles to get used to doing lineart. I would also recommend going outside of runescape forums for pixelling advice, if you want to be serious, find a pixling forum, you will get better critiques there.