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First Attempt at Pixel Art!

Jason

Awesome Bro

Hmm, can you post it in IMGZOOM tags instead please ? As it'll be easier for us to give you C&C with.

However, from what I can see at the moment, you don't have enough contrast between your colours...
 

Jason

Awesome Bro

Well I was going to do some visual edits to it, but whenever I try colouring over it, the colours have like a dark grey tint, what filetype did you save it as ? I wasn't checking o.O

But as I said, not enough contrast, everything seems too straight, where is your lightsource coming from too ? Cause I see it on the right of the body, but top of the head and arms o.O

And remember;

Light tones should be tinted yellow
Dark tones should be tinted blue
 
I used GraphicsGale, but its saved as a png.

Light tones should be tinted yellow
Dark tones should be tinted blue
I'll remeber that...

I couldn't decide because it looked strange were ever I put the light.
 
For a start, your line art isn't great. There needs to be some form of anatomy, even if it is an alien/monster thing. At the moment, it looks like it has spaghetti for it's arms and legs. Take a look at some reference pictures, and other people's work. Secondly, never use solid black or solid white in your work. It tends to look messy.

Finally, as Jbrist said, your palete is very bad. Try using the HKCP clothes pallete until you find or make a better one. Or just have a look at it and see how the different shades work:

ClothesPalette.png


Hope that helps.
 

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