OK. After that, I then start one one form at a time. I arbitrarily choose the elf form. I copy it out of the previous image (in the previous post), and then I put it in a new image file.


Next I go ahead and choose a pallete. I place it on the image itself so that I can easily pick it up whenever I want. I use the lightest colour to fill up the base. I like to start from the hightone, and then work down to the shadows and detail the object.


I then choose the second darker shade, block out the cell and then begin filling it up, to create the medium tone are on the form. I assume that the light is some where roughly on the upper right of the object, and with that assuption, do the blocking out.


Next what? Well you guessed it right, I go to the darker shade, and repeat the process. I keep in mind how the light creates bright areas on the top and right had side of the object, and at the same time creates shadows to left and bottom.


More darker, and repeat. As you can see, as we do the process, it creates the shapes that were not earlier detailed out in the line art. All the subtler features that requires to be detailed should come out by now.


Next step is simple, but time consuming. There is no necessacity for the outline to be black in colour. I choose the darkest hue of the skin tone itself, and replace the black pixels with it. As you can see, the result is a smooth base:


I pick up two gray tones for the eyeball, and two blue tones for the iris, and tweak it into the little space I have for eyes there.


That nearly seems to be done. But in the next step, I would try to do some Anti-Aliasing and 'Selout'ing (Selective Outlining). That would nearly double the colour count but I am not actually that much worried about such constraints now.

Effort Spent on Basic Bases: 4.5 hr
Effort Spent on Elf Base: 2.5 hr
Total Effort: 7 hr

This post has been edited by Vyoma: Sep 8 2006, 02:20 PM

Wow man, pixel art is something that I wish I could do.

You shold check out, www.pixellife.com and pixelcar.com (I think it's pixelcar). Both really cool, a lot of work in the cars on both of those sites.

CSS ZenGarden also has a style that is made with pixel art, I believe it's called, Leggo My Eggo.

+1 to you man, that takes some serious skill and patience.

No more updates either here or on DA. Did you take a break from this one?
Soon I'll post the update of one of my drawings (gonna have some boring classes). =p

Oh! I do have updates on this one. I actaully finished the finer shading and antialiasing. Hold on... I had uploaded it to ImageShack, just need to get those links. I will upload them at deviant art too.

Here goes:
I start of by taking a mid tone between the two adjacent tones, and applying it to the work I have already completed:




Finally, here is my finished image. Just cleaned up all the pallette, and put another plain background just for the kicks of it. The base is ready, and now, I think, I can use it for creating different elf male characters.


Effort:
Naras Basic Line Art: 4.5 hrs
Elf Coloured Base: 5.25 hrs
Software used: MS Paint, Graphics Gale FreeEdition