awesome yay :D

Wait. Real quick. On both sides of the outline or just the inside? I would assume on both sides... but just in case.

Originally Posted by solaria92

Wait. Real quick. On both sides of the outline or just the inside? I would assume on both sides... but just in case.

Both sides :)

Like this? x__x

Originally Posted by solaria92

Like this? x__x

yesyesyes!!!

YES.

lol

Okay - NOOOOW is the time to add just a tiny tiny bit of shade on in there!

In addition - this is the time to edit. If there are places that look like there needs a bit more shading - slightly extend the shades starting with shade three then add the shade 4 in the place if necessary.

Do you understand?

I think so? Lemme try to apply it.

Alrighty - it's all subtle things at this point :)

*crosses fingers, praying to the Pixel Gods*

Originally Posted by solaria92

*crosses fingers, praying to the Pixel Gods*

good good good!!!!! You could probably extend the shade 3 just a tad in a couple places...just a pixel or two here or there. But SOOO MUCH BETTER :D

I would wait until we ask what xuvrette: says before making any more changes :D

GOOD JOB!! thank you for dealing with meeee <3

You were super duper helpful! *hugs* Thanks for going step by step with me. I think I see where I need to extend the shade 3. Gah. You and Shadami and xuvrette are the best. :3

Xuvvie got me started to be honest with you!! I never pixeled before Jnuary 2012....and I decided I wanted to try and she whipped my butt into shape!

But you are really coming along nicely!!! The best thing is to have people to help you and to look at already made items for reference on the shading and the shapes :D

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And now I'm off to bed for the night <3 GOOD JOB TODAY! You are learning so fast!!! O.O

Should I leave that entire side of the sleeve on shade six? @__@

Here's my 'finishing touches' where I tried to smooth out the right sleeve and applied my teachings to the left sleeve (which I hope I did properly...)

Wah, before fix.

Fixed a little bit mooore.



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Have a good night's sleep!

I really don't handle compliments well but I'm learning. .__. haha. I pixeled a bit two summers ago, so it's not like I'm a total beginner, but thank you so much. <3 I really enjoy doing pixel work!

*claps* I am very impress with Mariaria's instruction of step by step.
XD I would get people confuse or worse, getting myself lost because I am so awful in English.
darkRed text is your pixel related comment, black text are my rant.

Actually, the earlier numbers, I am talking about the white colour's outline. XP Because that is the colour I can see clearly, and I assume you would use the same technique on them. Now you got Maria's workflow, (basically, very similar to how I approach it, just add a bit more time I use for useless tweaking as I would tweak hundred times and go back to the first attempt... x.x), try to apply it to the white colour outline.

By the way, I use Black and white and grey for shading. Light colour like yellow, magenta and cyan... is harder to see for me and on top of that Menewsha Palette is very inconsistent.
Each colour in the chart, the distance between the lightest and darkest value is different. You know Hue, Saturation, Light/darkness? Hue is the colour RGB CMYK, Saturation means how true is the colour, Light/darkness simply how light or dark the colour is.
Anyway, give a simple scale of 1 to 10, 10 being darkest.
Menewsha's red colour, the darkest red could be 9 and lightest colour could be 2. 7 shades jump.
Then the orange colour, darkest is 10 and lightest is 5. 5 shades jump.

There is a reason why the colour chart I made, the name of the colour I use the darkest and lightest to pixel the colour. To see the different contrast of lightest and darkest. Obviously, some seemed to blend in, and some stood out. For the one that is blend too much, I do not like it. Of course, there is no set rules about palette, but pixel is a work of meeny teeny details, it is definitely a digital art, and when it is digital, colour value/hex code can be controlled.

Personally, if I am making the whole collection of palette, all colours would be having the same shades value. This is good for recolours. How many colours you play around with recolours? Not every colour fit in the shading you done for one colour.

I think you are ready to see what jellysundae: thinks! Hope you don't mind the ping JellyBelly <3 Solaria just worked really hard on creating this shirt...what do you think?



---------- Post added 07-04-2013 at 01:10 PM ----------

Originally Posted by xuvrette

Actually, the earlier numbers, I am talking about the white colour's outline. XP Because that is the colour I can see clearly, and I assume you would use the same technique on them. Now you got Maria's workflow, (basically, very similar to how I approach it, just add a bit more time I use for useless tweaking as I would tweak hundred times and go back to the first attempt... x.x), try to apply it to the white colour outline.

Aw we have similar workflow! :D ... Probably because you basically taught me to pixel XD

But you are not as OCD as me. x.x
I zoom in and check all pixels~ kinda make me regard the "arting Meave" crazy mad.

haha no - definitely not as OCD as you XD But being that detail oriented is good - because you really pick up on small details!

Sometimes, the mistake of one tiny pixel is not visible for normal size.
I won't care for pixel mistake if I am doing other art, but when come to pixel...:/ It just get into my skin.

I see what you mean though - there are times when just ONE TINY PIXEL makes the difference between something looking good and something looking bad XD

Maria-Minamino: That looks pretty good to me. The only thing that jumps out is the left sleeve being very skinny/tight-fitting. I wonder if it would be worth widening that by just 1 pixel's width.

Originally Posted by jellysundae

Maria-Minamino: That looks pretty good to me. The only thing that jumps out is the left sleeve being very skinny/tight-fitting. I wonder if it would be worth widening that by just 1 pixel's width.

Alrighty! Thank you Jelly <3 I'll let Solaria know and ping you when it's fixed :)

... Isn't the design tight fitting?

Xuvvie - I think that the rest of the shirt isn't as tight though - look at the body of the shirt in comparison to the avatar itself.

Also - there needs to be a male version of the shirt XD

lol. I have seen clothes like that, tight sleeve, but not so tight shirt.
Besides, it is two different fabric so they can have different tightness. *shruggs*

All of a sudden, I am not sure whether is it optical illusion... but. XD the two sleeves seems to have different lengths. Xp one seem to be subtle-ly longer than another.

I'll work on it when I get home! I'm on break at work right now. I'll be home around 4PM EST. :3 Thanks so much!

Alrighty Solaria! Have a good day at work :D