Ok im doing my very own pixel shark! :thumbsup:

 

 

 

I'm posting it here so people can look on the progress of this "shark" so far all i have done is some line art(it's about 10:50, getting abit tired)....so please rate, and tell me where i could improve-except colouring it in because it's obvious. So here it is:

 

 

 

1st go:

 

 

 

 

2nd go(started to colour in):

 

 

 

 

3rd go:

 

 

 

 

4th go(teeth added, and colour has been sorted):

 

 

 

 

5th and fil go:

 

 

 

 

Please rate 1/10 :ohnoes:

 

 

 

 

 

Plus ill make it bigger, but it is late and im being nagged to come off, at the moment it looks like a avvie :?

That actually looks like a decent shark. Needs more colour though.

 

 

 

7/10

Looks good but the nose tips down a bit too much on the right side IMO.

I'm adding colour now, mabye tonight ill extend the pixel and add a diver/man holding a harpoon with some sort of text above. \

 

 

 

Edit: here's it with the shark coloured in ill start on the sea any minute

 

Looks good but the nose tips down a bit too much on the right side IMO.

 

 

 

huh? IMO???

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: Sorry for double post can someone delete this reply?

I like the perspective, good work on that

 

 

 

IMO= in my opinion

 

 

 

i say around 7.5/10, some more detail overall would be good

ok thanks for the info, i'm adding a man in it right now, but can't decide to have him in scube gere or just let him hold his breath.

holdin his breath. the shark needs to be shaded where the light hits him, not just wherever you feel like... then i sugest using more then 3 colors... and do something about his teath. i dont really like people copieing my idea by doing a realistic shark (look at my avvie/sig) but i gotta say, your linework was really good (not the colors)

I dont really like people copieing my idea by doing a realistic shark (look at my avvie/sig) but i gotta say, your linework was really good (not the colors)

 

 

 

Huh? what do you mean?

 

 

 

 

 

I can never get the teeth right it always looks weird when i do it, it looks like he's got a massive grin

i mean ive been on this and other forums for like 3 years and ive neever seen somebody pixel a realistic shark like the one i have in my sig. ever sience ive done that, ive seen like 4 other people try and do it lol... i just find it kida annoying... i dont know whethere its just a rush of shark lovers, or what, but i really think that people should be more orriginal...

 

 

 

also, dither the colors on the shark, and shade where the light hits it. the light should be coming above so the lightest parts should be the top of the fins,the uper part of the body, top part of the snout, and the fin. the darker areaas should be smaller, and should be right where the fin meats the body, all the way down to where the tail starts. then it should go down to the jaw, and go all the way up to the teath, that medium gray color should be in the middle of the shark. not around the dark color... also, you may not think it will help, but i strongly recomend you dither your colors. if you are unsure, save your work,try it, and id you dont like it, just go back to the one you had before you dithered.

Eckered chill out because it's not a big deal if he likes sharks too. His looks completely different from yours in your sig, and people are free to do draw what they want. He didn't try to copy yours so respect that he's trying out his own style please.

 

 

 

Looks much better with that left shortened fin. For the teeth, I'd just keep trying, maybe look up some shark pics and but if I remember right, usually you can only see a shark's bottom teeth from far away.

holdin his breath. the shark needs to be shaded where the light hits him, not just wherever you feel like... then i sugest using more then 3 colors... and do something about his teath. i dont really like people copieing my idea by doing a realistic shark (look at my avvie/sig) but i gotta say, your linework was really good (not the colors)

How did he come yours? They are both very different, the only thing that they really have in common is they are both sharks :x

 

 

 

Anyone is free to draw whatever they want.

 

 

 

I like the shark. I know you said the teeth are hard but work on them, without teeth it's face look empty. I suggest you work on those before anything else. Anyway, good work and keep it up :)

If you want an hardcore, fantasy shark teeth, make them comming from the bottom and the top of the mouth randomly.

Lol sorry eck, anyway this is the first time i've seen your sig/avvie. This was totaly though of by me, i was fishing and got abit bored and the shark just poped into my head :

 

 

 

Kk teeth first man later.

sry if i kinda went a little crazy about the shark idea in my earlier post... normally i would go on a whole rant about how im really tired and whatnot, but i really dont feel like typin it out...

 

the reason i get mad is because i always try to think of an origonal idea to pixel, and when everybody does teh same thing, its not original anymore. as youve probably seen with terlies(sp) "coin room", there have been TONS of people using his idea... then theres the classic pking sig... first, only a few people, maby for a pking clan, now you see the art bazzar flooded with requests "pmg i want teh p00nzerz d00d in ahr3ms kaasting ice b4rrag3"... im sure you dont need me to tell you abour how i hate rcing sigs, coin pile sigs, throne room sigs, and all those other un-original ideas...

 

 

 

aside from that.. the colors on the shark are looking great :thumbsup: :thumbsup: i really think it looks much beter with the new colors. the only other thing i recomend now, is add a slightly lighter color twards thej top of his body, and extend the darker color on his body (twards his tail) all the way to the tail, and then curve up slightly. great job on the eye and the teath :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Lol i know what you mean with "teh poonage sig's" Thanks :D Yea i started a tiny bit on making it abit more lighter but there's along way to go. This is getting longer and longer in work lol

Well I don't think it's fair that because you pixeled a shark no one else can, it's not like you've dibbed the idea. A few people making sharks doesn't effect you in any way, also sharks are probably the first animal that would pop into my head to draw/pixel, because they're fairy straight forward animals to draw..

 

 

 

looking good but I do think the shark needs much more work, the line on it's nose just looks oddly positioned, and for a shark his nose is kinda flat. everything else is great, but for his left (our right) flipper you've used totally different colours to what you've used on his body, there's just no need. I understand it's underwater but there still should be a light source, yours looks pillowshaded.

 

 

 

I also don't understand why you've used white to draw in his eyes, mouth and gills, they should actually be much darker.. The linework doesn't say, cartoony to me..

 

 

 

With the water the dithering is a good idea but feel free to dither it further into each colour, and don't be afraid to break out of the pattern, it looks too standard and gradiented..

 

 

 

Here's a quick edit to show ya how I would approach this, I'll remove it if you ask, cus It is your thread.

 

 

 

At the moment it really depends what approach you want to take this.

 

At the moment the shark looks really nice, it's a sort of cartoony feel to it.

 

Now if you wanted a more realistic version, Terley provided a good example. His has a feeling of rough/rigidness and feels more 3D.

 

 

 

The water is the main thing that could do with some work. It looks very gradiented and not too realistic. (Doesn't look too clean either :-$)

I want to do a more realistic shark but i'm scared when i get to drawing the man, he'll turn out rubbish. So that on one side i have an ok shark then a rubbish man next to it

ugg... terly makes everything cept the best pixels look like crap...

 

 

 

and its not like i dibbed the idea, its more just the idea that after seeing him do this, somebodys going to be like: i should try pixeling a shark!!!... then he goes and posts it on his clan forums... and a bunch more people get the same idea... thats how it works...

Hopefully everyone will be good and not copy it

ugg... terly makes everything cept the best pixels look like crap...

 

 

 

and its not like i dibbed the idea, its more just the idea that after seeing him do this, somebodys going to be like: i should try pixeling a shark!!!... then he goes and posts it on his clan forums... and a bunch more people get the same idea... thats how it works...

 

 

 

why should you care? as I said, it doesn't effect you in the slightest.. :-k

 

 

 

are you going to search the web for any shark picture now and critisise their reasons for drawing a shark?

 

 

 

Just take your time preditor, if you're not happy with it you can always edit your work, if the shark looks too realistic compared to the guy adjust it so it looks a bit more cartoony, if the guy looks way too cartoony try look for references to help you see why.. And you've got a whole forum of people willin to give their opinions.

Kk thanks glad to know that :) , im going to stop for today ill keep going tommorow.

ugg... terly makes everything cept the best pixels look like crap...

 

 

 

and its not like i dibbed the idea, its more just the idea that after seeing him do this, somebodys going to be like: i should try pixeling a shark!!!... then he goes and posts it on his clan forums... and a bunch more people get the same idea... thats how it works...

 

 

 

why should you care? as I said, it doesn't effect you in the slightest.. :-k

 

 

 

are you going to search the web for any shark picture now and critisise their reasons for drawing a shark

 

 

 

first, i know it doesnt effect me, and i realise that you man not feel the same way, but it annoys me when i do something and everybody starts doing it.

 

 

 

and second, yes, i think i will go press charges on anybody who put a picture of a shark up on google.

 

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and third: predator, i think you should take terlies advice on how to do the water (and while your at it ter, teach me too :XD: )

 

 

 

edit: (yeh, posted that after i lost an (american) football game 42 to 14... so i was kinda mad)

 

 

 

if you need help drawing people, i can proably help you. just pm me if you find yourself in need of some help.

I won't be starting the person for a while.