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Eirian's Pixel Castle looking for help and suggestions please!
Welcome to Eirian's Pixel Castle! I've been playing with pixeling on and off for a year or so now, and at the urging of a few people (thank you!) I decided to open up a room here. All input is very welcomed! |
Works in progress 2013 Autumn Pixel ContestDresses |
Works accepted |
Works Rejected |
Pixeling Tips If I get good enough to develop some pixeling tips, I'll post them here. I'm still very new at this though, so nothing here right now, lol. |
Now open for posting!
Here's my first try at the female part of some items for the Autumn contest. Candy Corn Top: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/9...40d0cbf1_o.png Candy Corn Crop Pants: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5466/9...0250b76a_o.png Hopefully the links work, I decided to use Flickr because of the terabyte of space, lol. Yahoo is getting rediculus though for making a new account, I actually had to give my cell number to verify my account. o.O |
I like the top, your pants seem a little plain (kinda like my pumpkin set) but their nice.
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Yeah, I need badly to fix or use another design on the pants, getting the shading right was hard with those.
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I adore the candy corn top! I like the pants, too. But I think the last layer needs to be more white. [yes] Keep up the great work!
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Thank you! The top is my favorite too. The pants.....I know they have a lot of work to go, I'm finding them much harder to work with then the top.
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I can't relate at all, lol. I wouldn't know the first thing about this pixeling business. [sweat]
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Lol, I only know a little bit, so I know what you mean. It seems really easy on the surface, but it's a lot harder then it seems.
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Psshh, I imagine it being way to hard for any amount of brain power I have left over at the end of the day, lol.
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Pixeling isn't too hard, its just like drawing, only with squares [;)]
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It's drawing dot by dot. I think the hardest thing for me is shading.
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Is there a reason why you didn't imagetag the links?
:/ Do you want my critique? I have 3 modes. Sugar coat, CSI and Brutal. |
I couldn't seem to get the image tags to work with flickr, I need to play around with it. And please be brutal, I have no idea how to make them better, but I know somethings off on them.
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Before all that, I would like to know your idea and target.
What inspire this design. what you WANT to achieve. Style? elegant? fun? Design wise and skill wise. or you just want to try the simplest of all? |
I was going for a fun, whimsical kind of feel. One of the first things I look for near Autumn in the stores is candy corn, so I wanted to try a design using it. I've also had ideas for doing designs with fall leaves, multi colored corn, pumpkins, and apples too, but not sure how to implement any of them in a design as of yet.
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very cute! is there a way to post the item instead of just a link? |
Fun and Whimsical -> this will be your direction of style.
Candy Corn is your main idea. I would suggest start with one single idea, before bringing in other things. Harvest as much element as you can from the candy corn. Looking at the candy corn shirt and pants. Tell me do they look fun and whimsical? I think they look kinda plain... it is just candy corn print on it... just like other tshirts with printed images or message. What fun is that? As for the pants, the colour division may be fun... but straight and tidy division is... boring. Your shirt's candy corn print at least have the charm of random candy corn in different angles, like rain of candy corn. Now, what I mean by extracting candy corn ELEMENTS. Observe the candy corn closely, what makes it a candy corn. 1. the colours. orange, yellow, white. Which you got right in the pants. 2. It is triangle! in 2D. Don't stop here, what it means by triangle? pointed, slant and angled lines. 3. in 3D, it would be like a flattened cone. So it does have some kind of curve. You definitely have the colours right. Now is the matter of making it FUN! From number 2, slant, pointed and angled lines. Your pants, instead of a straight horizontal division... make it slant! simple change like that makes a lot of difference. You may even try uneven lengths. The pants do not need to end in straight cut, it can end in an angle. Same concept to the shape. You can have a asymmetry shirt... with a huuuuuge candy corn shape dangle in slant. Imagine the pointed bit on one side of the shoulder, and the rest of it drape to the other side... You can have a under shirt in it too. Don't worry about skills, if you are worry about shading, then make your clothes tight fit. This is a contest! It seems like idea/design comes first? At least in my opinion anyway. I would surely scream if someone won with a plain orange t shirt... design~ design~ design~ |
@Hummy: I haven't figured out a way yet, I ether can't post from Flickr in IMG, or I'm missing something.
@Rette: Thank you! I'll try to play around with it. |
O.o Played with her flickr link a bit:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/9...b1f1c4c3_s.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/9...40d0cbf1_o.png [url =http://www.flickr.com/photos/102021773@N02/9788764075/][img ]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/9788764075_3240d0cbf1_o.png[/img][/url] <---this F Candy Corn Top full view by Princess Eirian Hikari, on Flickr <--part of it but not needed |
Yay! got the IMG working, thanks sis!
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Your welcome :3
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