Horny Plantman Thingymajig.

[Jason]

Hi,

So I haven't really posted any original work for a while, except the template that I've still yet to finish (I doubt I'll ever get around to it)

I was just messing around on MS Paint (As usual...), and drew what was going to be the legs of an animal of some kind, but I got carried away not paying attention, and ended up with a ball with legs, so I gave it some arms, and reshaped the top to be a neck. Now, the neck somehow turned into a horn, the hands got cut off and turned into stumps, and a face grew out of nowhere... and it looked odd but cool, so I decided to colour him/her/it in, and voila.... Horny Plantman Thingymajig !



I've also included the pallette I made up so you can give me C&C on that too, are any colours wrong, or are they all fine,

C&C away !

 

[boon]

See my only complaint at the moment is the horn, I mean I suppose you mean horny as in 'has a big horn on his face (dickhead xD)' rather then wants to have sex with everything, but um, that is a blunt, not-so-horny horn there.

I like your palettes - however they could do with some added contrast, and try doing some AA on the edges.

 

[Jason]

So I should make the horn horny (Lol...), and add anti-aliasing around the edges ?

 

[Deranous]

Only AA on the insides though, or you'll have a furry plantman.

 

[Jason]

Upate---

Okay I've added more contrast and made the horn sharper, I've also changed the shading on the horn to give it a top-down lighting aproach (So the lightsource is above);

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How does it look now, better, worse ?

 

[Venetia]

Hey actually this isn't bad! Nice work!
The shading on the feet is too cut-paste-and-flip though, differentiate it up a little from foot to foot (how is the light shining perfectly on the left AND right sides of the left and right feet respectively?)

 

[Jason]

Hey actually this isn't bad! Nice work!
The shading on the feet is too cut-paste-and-flip though, differentiate it up a little from foot to foot (how is the light shining perfectly on the left AND right sides of the left and right feet respectively?)

Holy shit wow, even after getting a telling off from you, I still get a "Nice work", woo !

Y'know, things like that with shading have never occured to me, I guess it's cause I imagine the light source being directly above when I'm applying shading, maybe it'd look better if I made the lightsource hit it from an angle ?

 

[Jason]

Update---

I still can't get the shading to look right individually for each leg, I have however upped the shading, lol;

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[006]

I think you're using too much dithering on a sprite, dithering is usually used for scenes and not sprites. Probably not the best example but this is a monster shaded cleanly: http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/12220.htm . And this is a scene using dithering: http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/5839.htm .
Your sprite just doesn't have enough room for a transaction of dithering, if that makes any sense. Try a cleanly shading sprite then compare the two.

 

[Jason]

I don't know, I kinda disagree with you, dithering can look good on anything IF you make it look right, and I think dithering sort of suits him, lol.

 

[boon]

I don't know, I kinda disagree with you, dithering can look good on anything IF you make it look right, and I think dithering sort of suits him, lol.

I feel clean shading would look better on a monster, sorry.