[Critique Please] Chibi Town

[Andii]

Hi, I'm new to this website, but I happened to stumble upon it looking for pixel arts. I notice that people here are really friendly and give constructive criticisms unlike people from another forum >.> Will not mention lol. Soooo, please kill my pixel art! I really want to improve.

Truthfully, I really hate my trees. I feel they are really weak.
The sprite was inspired by Poke'mon

Edited: June 18

Edited: June 16

So, yeah, please kill it while I find the introduction forum!

 

[silver wind]

your trees need more contrast, all the greens look the same. I like your cliff, but make it less straight on the top. The grass looks very nice, it's interesting and not too busy.

 

[bacon]

I like the HUD, its simplistic and the colors are pleasing to the eye. It also doesn't look mundane as well. Your character sprite is cute, but it almost looks like he is leaning backwards. This may be due to proportion or shading. I agree with silverwind on the trees, more contrast will do it wonders. I understand the simplicity you are going for, but without proper shading, your trees look flat. The cliffs are good, I like the design and feel of them. However, they are too blocky in my opinion. This may be due to the part where the grass meets upper cliff. You block it off some reason. Instead, use the dark green as move grass like you did in the color above it. The chimney on the house looks flat as well. It doesnt fit the perspective of the rest of your objects. I do like your fence and grass, the are simplistic but aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

 

[Perihelion]

Very cute! You could stand more contrast, though; the lack thereof makes everything look flat. Also, add some shadows on the ground around the various items.

 

[Andii]

Thanks a lot everybody for the critique! :biggrin: I don't know if my improvements and edits are up to par, but hopefully they are. I made slight changes to the sprite to make the head look more align to the body.

I forgot to edit the top of the cliff though, will do soon.

Also, can someone critique this? I have a dilemma here though. I've been trying to make the palm tree look similar to the other tree, but it's turning out to be very difficult. I'm thinking of either continuing to do this or shade the palm tree the way it should be shaded, then go back and redo the other tree. What do you guys/gals think?

No shadows yet.

 

[bacon]

Dear Andii,

I like you. You actually took what we said instead of blowing us off and telling us we do not know what we are talking about.

Sincerely,
bacon. c:

The only thing I can find is that the green on the trees look really saturated. I think it may look better if you made the colors similar to the ones one the cacti. Other than that, its nice. c:

 

[Andii]

You DON't know what you're talking about! Jk lol. Thanks again for the suggestions. Really helped. I'll post the reedit of the sand when I'm done.

 

[Andii]

Kay, here's my new one for the sand.

 

[LaDestitute]

Wow this looks good. Maybe once your done with your project, you could release your materials as autotiles, character sets, and tilesets? Just saying.

 

[Andii]

Wow this looks good. Maybe once your done with your project, you could release your materials as autotiles, character sets, and tilesets? Just saying.

Lol, thanks for the compliment. I'm not sure, but most likely not, since I wanna do a harvest moon-inspired game with these. Just started learning C++ myself.

 

[regi]

Though dark outlines are generally looked down upon, these look decent. I would suggest losing the random black pixels in the trees though. They're not terrible, but shading right now makes the trees seem like solid blobs. I know leaves are pretty difficult to pixel, but if you could define them individually, it would help a lot.

PS: use the

 

[Andii]

Okay, thanks for the suggestions I'll get right to work now lol. I'm new here so didn't know how to do it. I've seen the x1, x2, x4, etc, but didn't wanna ask.

Here's something just for fun while I work on the tree . . .again lol.

 

[Light]

Hey Andii, by the way are you lawzile from vbgore way back when? If you remember me I'm Light/Hikaru. I also saw you hanging around the Eclipse forums... anyways I'm glad you brought ChibiTown back, it's looking great!

 

[Andii]

Hey Andii, by the way are you lawzile from vbgore way back when? If you remember me I'm Light/Hikaru. I also saw you hanging around the Eclipse forums... anyways I'm glad you brought ChibiTown back, it's looking great!

Hey Light, I was at vbgore, but I never made an account hahaha. It seemed really dead that's why. My only aliases were levelized and snys. I've seen you around Eclipse too. Your Merrimint, right? Pretty awesome work in progress, especially your combat system.

Btw, just finished editing sands mockup again
I'm okay with it, just okayyy.

 

[Bird Eater]

Looks very nice!

The only things bugging me in the last picture are the shadows... they should be a little sideways if you know what I'm talking about... I'm quite bad at explaining :blank: .

Anyway, good look with further pixeling!