MissMel's practice (Updated 8/17)

About 2 days ago, I learned about sprites and such and was told to go for GFX (Akihiko........ rawr~). In order to do that, I'm pretty sure I'll be needing lots of practice .___.
[Note: I'll be making Persona 3/4 characters]
This took about 1 and 1/2 days. Don't mind the sun lol The sword..... looks like a regular sword. o.O I wanted to make the blade longer, but it looked.. crooked.

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Update (8/17): Here is Akihiko Sanada. A few things I did not add were his gun, belt, bandage and dagger. Hoping I improved a bit on my outline and colors :I

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Would love advice/tip/etc. :3

The hair looks bad (inb4gradientshading) the blade looks awful,the shoes looks ok and the suit looks also ok.

The hair wasn't gradient shading.
It need more contrast on the hair, the hair is too tight for a maple head. (LOL)
The shirt shading is fine but need to improve.

Bad Hair Design. Don't try working on the shading itself first. Experiment with the outline of the hair.

God why do i get my rep lowered that much i think the community really hates me.

Revenge wrote:God why do i get my rep lowered that much i think the community really hates me.

She asked for Advice not if you liked it or not. lol so give her some advice?

i really like the concept of this but the execution is a tad sketchy. unlike the persona 4 arena hair, which lacks actual highlights, maplestory hairstyles usually employ at least 1 shade of highlighting. basically, what i'm saying is instead of just adding shadows to the light gray you use as a base, try and add a lighter shade of grey or even white from the direction light is coming from. other than that, the outfit and weapon look really nice! please finish this, i want to see how it'll look like

†Decimo wrote:Bad Hair Design. Don't try working on the shading itself first. Experiment with the outline of the hair.

darkrown wrote:i really like the concept of this but the execution is a tad sketchy. unlike the persona 4 arena hair, which lacks actual highlights, maplestory hairstyles usually employ at least 1 shade of highlighting. basically, what i'm saying is instead of just adding shadows to the light gray you use as a base, try and add a lighter shade of grey or even white from the direction light is coming from. other than that, the outfit and weapon look really nice! please finish this, i want to see how it'll look like

These are helpful :3 Thanks guys, I'll work on it more

Hair looks a little too flat. It looks like you just colored the head, and added some lines. Sword should maybe be a bit longer?

You could use some more shading as well.

But taking the "2 days ago" remark, you're off to a good start I guess. Keep practicing!

Abstractly wrote:Hair looks a little too flat. It looks like you just colored the head, and added some lines. Sword should maybe be a bit longer?

You could use some more shading as well.

But taking the "2 days ago" remark, you're off to a good start I guess. Keep practicing!

Yu's hair is a bit flat, without much spikes in his hair. If that's what you meant? Maybe if I used this kind of reference for the hairstyle?

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As for making the sword longer without it looking crooked, Akihiko said to make it straight instead of going diagonal.

not bad, except for the hair.

i think it needs more detail and yes it does look a little flat.

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Abstractly wrote:
Yu's hair is a bit flat, without much spikes in his hair. If that's what you meant?

i think he meant 'flat' as in 'lacking dimension/definition'. even hair needs to look a bit 3d to give the impression of bangs/curls/whatever you're going for xD

I didn't read that until now, but I see what you mean. c:

[Update: Added Akihiko]

I can see that you improved but there's some instance that you used the brush tool. Also more gradient shadng.

What is gradient shading?

Its The most hating enemy of spriters. So what is it?



This is an example of Gradient shading, its what you do when you keep changing a color contrast from bright to low too many time, so lets start like this.


SAY NO TO THE PICTURE ABOVE


If you are asking your self how to avoid it? lets me show you how.


3 or 4 layer of a color is enough
I hope this will help you get better kthxbai.

†Decimo wrote:I can see that you improved but there's some instance that you used the brush tool.

Brush tool? Hmm... Are you meaning the x part of the hair where his hair fades? Or something else?
Because I've only been using the pencil tool set to 1px on Photoshop. :U

TheDevilHeart wrote: What is gradient shading?

LOLOL You mind reader! Thanks for showing me