11-27-2012, 06:43 AM
Well, for usual sprites and pixelart, we use MS Paint. It's more than enough to place pixels, so I'd reccomend it.
Talking in a pixelart sense, this has too many colors (generated by program algorythms instead of manually thought and placed), lack of sharpness (too blurred) and contrast. I'd suggest to work in a way similar to this:
Basically, draw the pixels by yourself, with a good contrasting color ramp and sharp shapes and lines, for a more pleasant graphic set. Of course, your style and feel is much different from the example above, but sharp, readable graphics are good no matter the feel you're trying to achieve.
If you don't wish to do pixelart, you still need to clean it up and increase contrast anyway so please work on it.
Talking in a pixelart sense, this has too many colors (generated by program algorythms instead of manually thought and placed), lack of sharpness (too blurred) and contrast. I'd suggest to work in a way similar to this:
Basically, draw the pixels by yourself, with a good contrasting color ramp and sharp shapes and lines, for a more pleasant graphic set. Of course, your style and feel is much different from the example above, but sharp, readable graphics are good no matter the feel you're trying to achieve.
If you don't wish to do pixelart, you still need to clean it up and increase contrast anyway so please work on it.