Trying out different shading styles

[.:Melissa:.]

Nice! *claps* your getting better thats good!!!

 

[Smarties-chan]

Thanks for the comments ^_^ Here's a little something I made yesterday when I was bored

don't even mention the stomach, I know it looks horrible and I'm going to fix it once I get in the mood for pixel art again. But I just lost something I had been working on for two hours and I'm definitely not going to open paint for another three hours -_- And the nose or whatever it is where the String shot comes from is yellow, because that's what it was like in the first episode of the anime with Caterpie. I also have one with the newer Caterpie

 

[Forest Grovyle]

Awwww, what a cute Caterpie! ^^ A rarely-drawn Pokémon, too! I think you've done a great job with this! I agree with you that the stomach is a little off, but the rest of it looks great! I like the little highlight on his antennae. :D Awesome work, and keep it up! ;)

--FG

 

[Esupio]

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I think it's great that you're experimenting with some shading. At your age, many kids don't even know what shading means. O_o And it looks like you're playing around with highlights as well as shading, that's cool.

One of the things you should try is to increase the contrast between the different shades. For instance, on your Raikou, there's a big difference between the main yellow and the darker orange. That helps it stand out. If you apply that same concept to your Sableye, it would greatly improve the effect since right now, it looks rather pale.

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I be tweleve and I know what shading is.


You main problem is your line art, it needs to be more steady try using the line tool to round off thing. Also try dithering makes you look more profesional.

 

[Smarties-chan]

Ha! Re-posted my post to keep this thread alive to tell everyone that from now on, I'm going to start shading using photoshop ^o^ Here's my first attempt

so, what do you think of it?

Awwww, what a cute Caterpie! ^^ A rarely-drawn Pokémon, too! I think you've done a great job with this!

Cute Pokémon (not all of them, just the ones no one bothers using >.>) are always rarely drawn, sad, but true ;_; But I never get inspired to make pixel art of over-drawn Pokémon -_- And you don't even want to know what things I have tried to make without being inspired look like *shivers*.

I think you've done a great job with this! I agree with you that the stomach is a little off, but the rest of it looks great! I like the little highlight on his antennae. :D Awesome work, and keep it up! ;)

--FG

Thanks ^_^ (the 'Thanks ^_^' part sound familiar somehow, I wonder why? XP)

I be tweleve and I know what shading is.


You main problem is your line art, it needs to be more steady try using the line tool to round off thing. Also try dithering makes you look more profesional.

Thanks for the (constructive) criticism ^^ I never really learned how to use the curvey line tool, everything just turned out weird when I decided to try it out. Maybe I just need more training. Yea, I know I should use dithering, I don't know why I haven't, though O.o

 

[Esupio]

YE UN PIXEL ART'D IT!
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Pixel Arting with paint is the real way.

 

[Smarties-chan]

I know it isn't pixel art anymore, but I'll always have pixel art versions of my works, so don't worry.

*Edit* I was in the arty mood today, and I love photoshop shading so I re-did another one of my art pieces and made a completely new one too.

Ugh... the one I shaded on paint looks horrible. The outlines of the body are a little wobbly, but I'm really statisfied with the wings on the photoshoped one ^_^

I also made a Photoshop version of the Misty pixel art I made quite a while ago

There's something about the hair that bugs me though...

 

[Esupio]

its saved as JPEG aswell doesn't make it pretty O.o;

 

[Smarties-chan]

What? I saved it as png, but my stupid computer must have changed it >.<