(06-17-2010, 07:07 AM)Innocence Wrote: Added more anti-alias, and softened the "pointy areas" that I saw.

(06-17-2010, 08:53 AM)Iceman404 Wrote:
Added some AA for you on places that needed it, and fixed up somethings.
Dunno about the crystals on her back though.

(06-17-2010, 12:33 PM)GrooveMan.exe Wrote: do I make myself fucking clear

(06-17-2010, 09:25 AM)*Gorsal* Wrote: do you know

this is the thing that bugs me the most

your outline is made up of regular lines, and places that are meant to be smooth... well, aren't.

here's a visual aid to help you out



I copied the outlines from two places that stands out the most: Cirno's head and her bow (1). Notice that the curve (2a) isn't smooth enough: it's easy to know where it bends (2b). This gives the sprite a rather blocky feeling (3). To counter-attack this problem, you'll need to use antialiasing in the broken spots (4).

Iceman Wrote:

(06-18-2010, 10:17 AM)Iceman404 Wrote: Wow, really good! I've always liked the Classic Sonic better than the new one. Looks very "AoSTH-y".

The red circles are what needs to be fixed.
-There should be shading at the top of his eye's since his skin hangs over a little
-The shine on his stomach shouldn't disappear so immediately.
-The shading on the lower part of the shoe closer to us's light-source is backwards.
-His right arm's middle finger is flat on one side.
-The end of his second spike is a bit too lumpy.
-The furthest ear should be shaded towards the bottom since his head blocks it a bit.
-The shading on the top of the ear closer to us is messy. Too much AA.
-The shine on his right eye should be moved a pixel down, and a pixel towards his left.
-The shine on his eyes shouldn't be shaded since, they're...well...shines.

I used the crits. above and fixed up most of it for you as an example.

These are looking really great though!

(06-17-2010, 11:12 AM)princaipal wailson Wrote: Stop doing cutesy things. Seriously. Stop it. You're holding yourself back so much by confining yourself to the "tiny bodies, big heads, animu uguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~" style you do with literally everything. You've shown you're more than capable of doing other (infinitely better) styles, creatures, people, etc(the orange thing in this thread for instance). Yet you continually do this cutesy garbage. And don't even try to kid yourself, it is garbage. You have a solid grasp on art, but it's like you've dug yourself a pidgeonhole and strapped yourself in to make sure you never have to come out.

(06-20-2010, 12:45 PM)princaipal wailson Wrote: also

another problem i have with your stuff


you never shade to show depth, you do literally the exact same thing that everyone new to art(i know you're not new but you've made this mistake for years) makes: you're shading for literally no other reason than to shade
stop that

also because you seem to have ignored me

(06-17-2010, 11:12 AM)princaipal wailson Wrote: Stop doing cutesy things. Seriously. Stop it. You're holding yourself back so much by confining yourself to the "tiny bodies, big heads, animu uguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~" style you do with literally everything. You've shown you're more than capable of doing other (infinitely better) styles, creatures, people, etc(the orange thing in this thread for instance). Yet you continually do this cutesy garbage. And don't even try to kid yourself, it is garbage. You have a solid grasp on art, but it's like you've dug yourself a pidgeonhole and strapped yourself in to make sure you never have to come out.

i'm not saying you can't do little loli girls
i'm not saying you have to stop being weird like that
i'm saying to stop doing it in such a blatantly obvious attempt to be lazy
your "anime" art is always the most boring thing because its literally the exact same person with different hair and clothes
all the time
every time

Dex Wrote:Might I also point out that when you're having trouble AAing small things and getting the curves to look right, doing something six times larger isn't going to fix that. The line art on your newest WIP still contains the same problems that the smaller pixel art shares. The curves and bumps in the line art along with inconsistent AAing make certain areas lose the smooth curvature that you're aiming for.

It might help to look over this thread in order to fix some of the line art issues. Proper AAing can fix them, but that only comes with practice.

You're doing good, but there a good number of things that could be fixed and that could make this a ton better.

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Here's a few areas that I quickly edited to show what I mean. You need to be precise with your pixel clusters and your AAing. Try your hardest to avoid banding. Practice, practice, practice! Smile