Posted by LavaClaw

Love PoeticFolly the most

FTFY
I remember wearing that melon hat when I was an admin. I loved that thing, hahaha.  

Added more contrast and made a spear version of it.



@PoeticFolly yeah I remember you always wearing it lol  

The amount of colors used could be reduced, 19 is a ton for a lil sword.  

Posted by Dylan

The amount of colors used could be reduced, 19 is a ton for a lil sword.

What is the point in reducing colours though?  

Posted by Cure

You may find that pixel artists often advocate a low color count. You might assume that this is just a tradition leftover from the olden days of pixel art, back when video game consoles could only display a certain amount of colors.

If modern computers can easily display hundreds of colors, why shouldn't you use them all? In truth, using small palettes isn't an outdated tradition of pixel art, and there are very logical reasons behind this practice.

Cohesion- When you're using less colors, the same colors will reappear throughout the piece more frequently. Since the different areas of the work share the same colors, the palette ties the piece together, unifying the work.

Control- The smaller the palette, the easier it is to manage. You may, and probably will, want to change adjust a color later on. If you've got 200 colors, it's going to take you a lot longer to make the adjustments, because by changing one color you've thrown off its relationship with the colors neighboring it on its color ramps, and adjusting them means changing the relationships between those colors and their neighbors! You can see how this quickly adds up to a lot of work. With a smaller palette, the effect of changing a single color is more substantial, and there are less micro-relationships to worry about.

 

Thanks Dylan, makes more sense now.
I used 8 colours on this sword, the blade itself looks a tad plain, any ideas?

 

Posted by LavaClaw

Thanks Dylan, makes more sense now.
I used 8 colours on this sword, the blade itself looks a tad plain, any ideas?

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I did a bit of an edit and added more contrast/hue shifts to the colors.
 

Oh that looks great, the shiny effect especially.  

Wow Cool Stuff LavaClaw  

wowow nice job!!  

Nice!  

Water sword is sexy. Same with steam punk goggles. Nice work (:  

Posted by LavaClaw

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A water-style sword, wasn't too sure how to shade the metal though.

Use blue to shade metal  

awesome! go to loki and get part of the gfx team rather than the pr team!  

Thanks everyone for the comments

Posted by cache

Use blue to shade metal

I did lol

Posted by callimuc

awesome! go to loki and get part of the gfx team rather than the pr team!

Thanks, I don't think i'm quite that good though. Plus, I'd rather not have any commitments around my pixel art just yet.