TUGS - Round 1 - Intermediate WIP Thread

[Chris2Balls [:B]]

I'm changing my design. Trying to get out of my comfort zone :I

Yeah, water, and working on a nice, saturated palette.

[Gors]

scrapped the whole aurora, will start it over

[Rosencrantz]

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WAS BITCHING MY WAY OUT OF THIS



blamo




I'm fairly certain I just broke about four of my comfort zones while doing this



and I'm not sure how I want to shade the dark parts of the clouds so I left it as is until I get some crits on this~

really, I was aiming for something a bit more abstract; I think I nailed this.
Also my dithering job didn't suck this time!!! I'm actually really happy about this~
also 101 32 11 colors. I can probably trim down the number of colors a little more, but I was aiming for 11~

*hopefully* I can submit the final piece by tomorrow. I just need to extend the thing vertically since it's about two pixels short of the minimum, but besides that I just want to get some comments and crits before I can finally say "I'm done"

[Alpha Six]

There are some serious readability issues going on in here.

[Rosencrantz]

Yeah, that was actually one of the things I was having difficulty with

I'm going to play around with it a bit more and try to make everything a bit easier to see. But I'm not sure if it's just the palette itself or if I need to redraw or at least reshade most of it :/

I'll probably do both anyway, haha

but I'll try to fix it all up before I submit it

[Vic]

it's those weird star thingies that cause most of the readability issues
they're all over the place and I honestly have no idea what purpose they serve right now.

[Rosencrantz]

They were meant to be people
but apparently I didn't pull that off properly if that wasn't obvious !!

Oh well; I'll scrap that, since they didn't turn out the way I wanted them to : (

[Ninspriterx]

Here's my simpler one
I still don't have the energy for this.

[Solink]

~Hello gentlemen!~

Still WIP obliviously
I'm quite happy of this so far :]

[GaryASPG]

started over. or not. i dont even know anymore.

[DadNier]

that looks a lot better than the one I saw on skype; the teal outline and brigher colors on the foreground draw your eye to it and it creates a more interesting contrast between foreground and background

[GrooveMan.exe]

They were meant to be people
but apparently I didn't pull that off properly if that wasn't obvious !!

Oh well; I'll scrap that, since they didn't turn out the way I wanted them to : (

Actually it's pretty clear that they're people imo. It's just that there are a few too many, and too many abstract blobs in between. Maybe make the stars that aren't people a darker shade, so they don't stand out as mucvh.

[Gors]

testing

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In case I'm not happy with the aurora yet

[Badassbill]

Nice technique, but the original still works better.

[Gors]

I'll try fusing this technique with the older, then

I like the visual effect of this one and the wavyness of the first