First post here and it's a Santa!

[Ray]

Hey there, this is my first post here 
I was almost to scared to post, seeing al those great pieces of pixel art...
But today i finally gathered all my courage and here's the result:



Ho-Ho-Hope you like it, Cheers

Edit: oh, and if you like this, check out my site for older pixels (www2.hku.nl/~roy)

[thedaemon]

This is a really vibrant cartoon Santa. The color choices look really good to me, lots of colors but it looks really smooth. Great first post. Your art (checked your website) is pretty good too. The only thing I see is that you don't experiment with colors enough. Too clean I would say. I'm not great with colors so I won't give you bad advice but plenty of people here can give you some good advice about palette choice.

[Ray]

Thanx and yeah your right, I'm not to good with palettes...
but that's also why I'm here: "to learn"

[Terley]

I think this is absolutely wonderful, the colours work so well and its put me all in a christmasie mood  

My only suggestion would be to experiment with a different light source because it may look a tad too mirrored, just to give one side more exposure than the other could give this more dimention.

great though, never be scared to post. Id like to think this is a friendly forum.

[Sabata]

great though, never be scared to post. Id like to think this is a friendly forum.

Yea…friendly, its actually very easy to get scared here… in one of my first posts I was accused to steal pixels, but well that was a long time ago, right now some nice people are helping me a lot!

As for the santa, I found it very well done and the colors look fine.

[tenchu]

Yessir! That's really awesome. Keep up the good work mate!

[sharprm]

Thats great. Hard to crit. Maybe try adding thumbs, bigger black boots and an extra shade to soften shadow on nose.

[yosh64]

hey

Yep, looks fine to me also, and I think it has nice character .

cyas

[AlienQuark]

I'm all for cute santas, and this definitely takes the cake! You've got some smoooooooth colouring there, something i must comment you for, it's just excellent.

I don't have any crits, I think you've done a great job, and wanna give you just a warm welcome.

Oh, and your site is pretty too.

[AdamAtomic]

Looks great!  I don't really have much advice, I guess.  One fun exercise to ease into doing more aggressive color mixing is to see how few colors you can use to get a piece that looks almost the same as this one.  E.g. can you get the same basic effect with just 12 colors?

To be clear, this piece is great as it is   But if you're bored and want to experiment, that's a good place to start!

[Dusty]

Here's my edit on the only thing I could find wrong with this. I really love this little piece because it's familiar, but has its own unique thing going on. Anyways, the only thing I could find wrong(and this is a stretch) were the colors. I edited it and brought it down to 14+transparency, and I don't think I made it lose any of its original readability... only problem with this is I guess it makes it hard for you to do the same without basically doing the same thing I did.
Yours     Mines

[Rosse]

Made an edit too (Dusty was faster and more accurate). I brought down the colors from 21 to 16 (15+transparency). Should read as good as the original, but looses some color identity on the nose. You used many similar shades, why I just connected some of them and deleted the left over. Therefore I used you old palette. I'm pretty sure with a slightly altered palette the colors could be reduced much more. But I let this to the pros.

I really like the shading and I don't think the 'mirrored' look is interfering, just a lightsource from the top (I think a style decision).

keep pushing

[FrostPumpkin]

modification on the colors :

[The Lord Noob]

It is really cool
But wat da hell is dat thing in da top right corner! Ive seen replies and i cant tell it is a light source but, 
Otherwise it is sick
And your other pixel art on your website is cool!

[FrostPumpkin]

you mean in the top left corner ? It is the colors palette

[Helm]

Gather 'round the fire because I will tell you a story about.. BANDING.

This is a common error in aa and shading when people try to match each side of their 'lines' with even amount of 'hugged' shading. It's not good. It actually accentuates the breaks in the lines, the 'jaggy steps' as it were, and does not diffuse them. Essentially, good AA involves breaking the lines discreetly, working on the subpixel level, giving the illusion of a smoothness that involves a ratio is smaller than a single pixel. If in this universe the pixel is the Atom, then a good AA technician is working with quanta.

Get?

[Ray]

Get?

Yup, crystal clear

Thnx for all the C&C, I'm gonna use all crits and use them in a new santa piece.
I'll post it in this topic when it's done, since this topic isn't that big yet

[JJ Naas]

How about a tut creating the very common type of a picture which consists of some or all of these elements: a blue sky, mountain range, lake with a reflection, a foreground with a character, grassy ground and a tree?

[eck]

way to bump up a two-month-old post with a totally irrelivent and uninteligent comment.

[Terley]

don't think anyone cares really.. irrelivent? uninteligent? Great community spirit right there eck.

[mattpk]

I personaly think this is because helm is always linkin to this about banding. No offence but there is something called Copy and Paste.

[Cure]

"unintelligent" is misspelled.

as is "irrelevant", but that isn't half as ironic.

[Indigo]

Please don't bump old threads unless the artist has a significant update.  If Ray wants to contact me about unlocking this, please PM me.  *Locked*