Request for opinions: More colors or fewer colors?

[Nathaniel3W]

Hi everyone. Which version do you like more? Does the template look better with sharper 3 colors or with several shades in-between?

My game's armor sprites are going to have about 4 shades per color, with 2 main colors. Hair will mostly be 4 shades of 1 color.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Sated]

I honestly think that both look fine. I would just pick one style and then stick with it.

If you're only uses 4 colours for the armour then only using 3 (or 4) for the skin tones is probably best.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Thanks Sated. I appreciate it. I guess consistency is the most important thing. I'll see about settling on one.

 

[tooktaloud]

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[fucbillgates]

I would say stick with doing sharp defined color regions, But that's just my opinion.
In pixel art people seem to use just a few colors and the divide between them to define shapes at a distance
and having too many shades makes things appear to be merged.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

I think it fewer colours makes it cleaner.