This is the current sprite of my game's protagonist but I'm bad at pixel art. How would I fix this image?

This is the current sprite of my game's protagonist but I'm bad at pixel art. How would I fix this image?

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add her girlcock

You don't know how angry I get when I see somebody post a sissy like that. I almost threw up.

learn to shade and also draw.

0/10 see me after class.

I second a big fat girl cock and also black isn't a good primary color for a character unless all the backgrounds are gonna be brightly coloreed

It will take time to learn to draw but shading is a good start.

it's not even "pixel" you dumb fuck, the point of using low res pixels is to stick to a grid which you completely failed to do with those pupils

also read up some color theory, the hair color is waaaayyy too close to the skin color and they blend together.

Sauce

Ya that's true I noticed that. I think just learning how to draw in general is the first step for me :3

than ask someone to draw for you

Give up on your dreams

youtu.be/o2oZWpqtNi4?t=10

Someone is triggered.

i dont get it

NEVER

I'm actually having a lot of trouble seeing that as a guy, jesus he's good at makeup

Drawing is part skill acquired over time and part natural talent. If you're good at visualizing things, just keep practicing and do some research and your art will improve. However, if you're shit at visualizing things just give up now; your art won't get any better.

Let's start with some ground work: What perspective are you going for? Top down? Side scrolling? Isometric?

Also, why didn't you actually draw her using pixels? It appears you tried to simulate the pixel style, but you free-handed it. I can clearly see inconsistencies.

Fucccc I want to suck his cute dick so badly

guy body

Oh boy. I'm not too good at visualizing things but I'm not necessarily bad I know I can still do it I think I just need to learn how to actually draw.

Side Scroll. What actually happened is that I started out with actual pixels then sized it up and then I changed things at a free-hand scale and it became inconsistent after that stage.

Is this really a trap

where nudes at

She is a woman and I know it, she has a YouTube channel

If you're gong for a pixel style, then you should stick to the rigidity of the grid. Because it's the uniformity of the pixels which makes sprite art so oddly satisfying. Because it's a side scrolling game, you might want to draw the sprite at the angle in which she would appear in the game. The straight facing sprite isn't very important. And besides, what works front-facing silhouette, may not be what works in their side silhouette.

>mixels

I need sauce
RIGHT FUCKING NOW

>dat
>pixel

Where is the sauce please gib sauce

Ok keeping it consistent to the grid seems important so I'll try that. Definitely I'll try to do a side profile next then but the original reason I did a front-view image first is because imo it is easier to draw and my side-profiles came out even worse lol. I'll just need to practice more.

of course she is a woman you fucking retard

penis=/= man

Seems like she is Emily Rudd. Not a trap, apparently.

nice bait

Personally, I would ad volume to her arms.
And remember to scale up and down in "nearest neighbor". Nearest neighbor blending keeps sprites crisps.

how was that bait?

Wow.
What a fucking tryhard.

The challenge is I can see what I want it to look like but it's hard for me to grasp it well enough to draw perfectly. This is my issue with drawing. I'm kinda bad at visualizing but ya I don't even think the whole body is too good yet really haha The arms could use more volume to be slightly more consistent to the legs I agree.

That's a gril from LA. When did trapfags surpass furfags in the field of shoving their fetish to everything out of desperation? It's revolting.

Because you said penis=/=man
when in reality
penis = man

He can try my hard any day

nice bigotry there, read a science book ffs

Learn how to fucking draw to begin with.
There's no magic voodoo that applies only to pixel art so spend a decade or two just learning how to fucking draw.

I agree. I'm just asking if there is anything trivial I'm missing that's important.
Learning how to draw will be my first step though lol.

Start over. No I mean seriously. You can do a minimalist and quirky cartoon design but you still aren't doing pixel art with what you have there. Generate detail with your color and shading work.

I'm definitely going to start over desu probably many times. I'm glad I could at least get something so far though.

Pixels are too big

> Too flat, no variation in color: looks like something an absolute newbie would draw
> Too cartoony; again, amateur as fuck
> Too many straight lines
> No shading

What does variation in color mean?
I can see 6

It's because I didn't add any detail. Normally you would add a lot of detail which requires many pixels but my sprite so far has almost no detail making no need for more pixels.

It is an amateur who made it though..

Are you saying he should hire a freeloading artist for his game?

Why are the pixels so big tho

You're obviously supposed to do pixel art 1:1

you would fix it by not making it pixel art
this meme has to end

>How would I fix this image
THICCKER
THICC!

I'm definitely not hiring somebody to draw it for me don't worry. Once I've learned how to draw properly it won't be as hard to start making detail and start using colors correctly.

LEARNING PIXEL ART
Shit, you don't need to know how to draw to do pixel art, that shit is more a craft of hard work than art, so just visit the several tutorials and sites on the internet, study hard for 3 months or so, and then you'll be ready to make some pretty good 2D graphics.

At least three tones (where the light hit, the shadowed zones, and the normal ones) for those 6 colours.

Wait a sec, this isn't an inflated image of actual pixel art.

This is normal "art"in the style of pixel-art.

fuck you OP.

What I'm saying is, it shouldn't LOOK amateurish.

A few simple techniques can elevate your game from "8-year-old Minecraft fan art" to "Pretentious", which is a massive difference. You'll never get to "X-Com: UFO Defense", but remember that first impressions matter and "Pretentious" is far, far superior to "Minecraft Fan Art".

More tones, more noise, more lighting. Break it up. Learn from the greats. Look at old games with excellent pixel art and try to work out how they did it. Get a consistent color palette.

lol omg. I changed a few things after it was finished in pixel-art.

Originally it was pixel-art then I changed somethings at the inflated scale so yes you are correct. Initially I drew it in pixel-scale though.

Keep in mind I'm just an amateur anyways and it's gonna take some time to improve. The one chance I've had to talk to a god-tier pixel artist the only advice he gave was "hate humans" which I still don't understand.

Just fucking learn how to make pixel art.
opengameart.org/content/les-forges-pixel-art-course
No, no, forget what I said, do some researches and learn what is pixel art

>Initially I drew it in pixel-scale though.
you moved the eye after you inflated it?

is this fucking b8 or what

That's definitely good advice thank you. I think detail and shading are the most important issues right now but I'll see what other games did for a starting place.

Did a little edit. Don't think too much about it. I don't know what specifications the sprite needs to be in, and it's influenced by my own style, so it might not be useful to you. But maybe it'll give you something to consider.

I actually moved the eyes after inflating yes. Since I was using very low detail the iris was only 4 pixels so it looked to derpy to have a pupil in the corner so I just made new ones after inflating. This is an older version of the sprite but it's more pixelated.

omg thanks that is so awesome. it looks so cool I will use this as inspiration for the future. saved. nice work.
Thank you I will check this out!

ya'll gon get sued

dis roastie be normie af

Oh fuck. How do I delete my post?!

This is much better than Neither look alike really.

IDK what the fuck this barbie doll thing is but lol

Thanks again this is really cool!

>ITT OP can't take criticism and takes any constructive comments as "I'm an amateur leave me alone pls only nice comments"

Literal sub human

Some more tips I learnt myself:
> Avoid patterns like the devil. If you can spot a face, a repeating pattern where none was intended, or anything like that, change it
> Ratio is extremely important. It doesn't matter if some proportions are wrong so long as it doesn't make you run in terror or think "Midget".
> Cut corners mean something is round, square corners mean square
> Try and convey as much meaning in as few pixels as possible
> Practice, practice, PRACTICE.

On an unrelated note, r8 these

No no no you have it all wrong. I understand this is bad but in reality it doesn't say much about me I just need to work hard to make it look better in the end see?
I take criticism, just not personally. My drawing isn't good but it will improve.

Ok thank you that is helpful.

First of all, her pupils aren't the same size as the rest of your "pixel"s so the whole pic looks wrong.

Upon closer inspection the white parts at the bottom of her pants are a pixel and a half thick which doesn't make any sense.

The fact that the dimensions of the pic aren't both multiples of 6 (which is the size of one of your pixels) is also concerning.

Strictly limit yourself to working with individual pixels, don't just arrange a bunch of squares and break the rules whenever you think it looks good.

You need to learn some kind of shading, for sure. Also everything is too square, just because you're doing "pixel art" doesn't mean that organic shapes should be made square past the pixel level. Her shoulders, most notably are guilty of this.

Something like pic related would be the right direction to go, though I'm not exactly a professional at this either.

YOU DIDN'T R8

I WANT FEEDBACK TOO GODDAMN IT

OP, do you have a steam account? I want to gift you a game

OP why don't you just hire this user to do your game's art for you

it's shit user, outlines are so 5 generations ago

Because that looks horrific

looks much, much better
Reminiscent of actual 16-bit games

It looks very good I'll give you that. Much better than mine, I do see the importance of sticking to pixels now though so I won't edit it after inflating anymore. It will take time to improve but this advice is a very good start. :D

I got it!
You don't understand the differences between "pixelated art style" and pixel art.
Pixel art is an art about crafting detailed pictures with a limited color palette and where every pixel count, you'll NEVER grow the sprite afterwards to add details.

Also, in pixel art, sometimes, you should do manual AA.

"Pixelated art style" is just an art style that come from people who don't understand what pixel art was, what AA is and that sprites looked different for the screens they were built for.

Sorry, the guns are very good i'd say 8/10 and the guy is lesser like 6 or 7 the plane is 6 or 7 too but I'd say it's much better than anything I could do now so good job XD

>nice bigotry there

Get a load of this faggot

What game? I don't have a steam account so just tell me haha.
Good point, that probably is the main reason.

> Don't have a steam account
So, what games do you play

This could be important

I'm surprised people have drawn two parodies of my character. They both look incredible to me although the second one is more professional. The first one is still better than the original lol so I give it that.

The dilemma with eye position in low res pixel art, is a tough one. What most artists found out, is that you can draw the pupils taller than normal, in order to make the characters gaze appear even level. And then use blending colors to kind of shift the gaze up and down slightly.

>penis=/= man

I want Caroline Petit to leave

It would be best not to say what games I play for my own credibility but on the other hand I don't like any of the games I play anyways and think their shit so I refrain from gaming recently not because I don't like it but because most of my games suck

Learn to scale your shit, that's cancer to look at because some of your pixels are getting scaled to 2x1 instead of 2x2
Overall not awful but the people in the middle are pretty iffy. The shading isn't bad but could use a highlight color and more/better/consistent anti-aliasing. The face would look better with 2-3 skintone shades instead of just black facial features.
Not really sure how to rate it since you're pretty much an amateur from the looks of it, 3/10 I guess?

Needs more curves

Look at a game with a simplistic style and try to mimic that.
You can't go wrong with Mother 3's style, if you can't think of anything else.

that's really interesting I like it. Thanks for that tip!

Thanks

Pic related, actual pixel scale

Comes with bonus content I just did, rate that too

>looks much, much better
>Reminiscent of actual 16-bit games
No it doesn't. It looks like someone trying to draw a minecraft character

I honestly like the guns a whole lot I think you did those very good. The person is what's killing me.

I too think the first one looked better. Although the second one is more professional and less personalized.

If you don't plan to sell it and just put it on your blog with a mega link to download then I recommend you to steal sprites from other games and recolor them like me dunno maybe you can even avoid lawsuit by giving your stolen characters pixel caps and say they are not stolen and completely original and you can defend yourself too saying is a parody or some other bullshit excuse

>A-user please stop hitting me...

hahaha that's an option too I guess.

omg