First few textures from a novice pixel-artist. My sand looks great from afar, but crappy as heck up close. Is that normal?
I will definitely be fixing stone brick.
First is sand, second is some wood-related block (not sure which yet), third is temporary stone brick.
Not bad for someone who doesn't normally do pixel art. However, your stone brick and mysterious wood block should have defined outlines since they're man-made blocks that are pieced together rather than natural ones. As for the sand, I think the problem might be that you've sort of just added random noise. It should be dithered in some way or other, even just having a few lumps of one colour inside another ones looks good.
Anyway, sort of but not really on topic, I've tried my hand at a 32-colour palette and come up with this:
AARGH MY EYES ITS SO BRIGHT
...which is why I'll call mine 'Lit Magnesium'; because when you light magnesium on fire, it burns so bright that it damages your eyes...
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There arent much purples lol
Left to right, top to bottom: Wool, planks (birch, oak, spruce, acacia, jungle, dark oak), birck log, stone bricks (normal, mossy, cracked, chiselled). I may make more random CTM varients for the chiselled stone brick.
That orange-to-grey colour ramp is very useful.
EDIT: Just in case, this is the order of wool colours:
AARGH MY EYES ITS SO BRIGHT
...which is why I'll call mine 'Lit Magnesium'; because when you light magnesium on fire, it burns so bright that it damages your eyes...
24x24
There arent much purples lol
Left to right, top to bottom: Wool, planks (birch, oak, spruce, acacia, jungle, dark oak), birck log, stone bricks (normal, mossy, cracked, chiselled). I may make more random CTM varients for the chiselled stone brick.
That orange-to-grey colour ramp is very useful.
EDIT: Just in case, this is the order of wool colours:
So I finished the swords,picks, and shovels.All the tools have a theme:Wood = Natural with vines and stuff.Stone = Round and smooth stones.Iron = Based off of default.Diamond = Larger.Golder = Thinner.Heres a preview:Edit:Bigger preview.Thoughts?
So I finished the swords,picks, and shovels.All the tools have a theme:Wood = Natural with vines and stuff.Stone = Round and smooth stones.Iron = Based off of default.Diamond = Larger.Golder = Thinner.Heres a preview:Edit:Bigger preview.Thoughts?
Not bad... However, they seem a bit... simple, to put it in the least mean way possible. They would work better with a bit more dithering, blending or noise... ;/
I have an issue with the fact that people are strictly following the colour ramps. This is a challenge, the colours are bright and not-so-amazing, get some creativity with the colours. Bluberry, for instance, has too saturated colours for stone. Dragonoid's stone matches the wood colours.
Unrelated to previous note, Sam, you should make the moss go up a bit. It looks like it's coming from behind the top brick and hanging over the bottom one, which looks quite offputting.
I believe that they look very nice! Good job. Not that I am actually entering, but I thought I'd share my own attempts of my palette with you guys! Stone Bricks(x4): -snip- Thoughts?
The shading looks a bit unusual on the chiselled stone brick, but other than that, amazing.
I only used those colours for wood because they are the darkest colours I could find that didn't look ridiculous in wood, And I don't really want my stone things to be bright blue or anything.
Yes it is... For that reason, I have chosen these specific colours to provide a challenge and bring out the creative side of the texturers'. I do agree with what you are saying, but this is a challenge; therefor, there must be some way of giving one... Thankyou for the input though!
Anyway, sort of but not really on topic, I've tried my hand at a 32-colour palette and come up with this:
...which is why I'll call mine 'Lit Magnesium'; because when you light magnesium on fire, it burns so bright that it damages your eyes...
24x24
There arent much purples lol
Left to right, top to bottom: Wool, planks (birch, oak, spruce, acacia, jungle, dark oak), birck log, stone bricks (normal, mossy, cracked, chiselled). I may make more random CTM varients for the chiselled stone brick.
That orange-to-grey colour ramp is very useful.
EDIT: Just in case, this is the order of wool colours:
Um, no, I'm not using yours, I'm using the palette of the actual challenge.
I thought some of the colours looked unfamiliar
I really like the stone brick!
Preview:
Bigger Preview:
Thoughts?
Not bad... However, they seem a bit... simple, to put it in the least mean way possible. They would work better with a bit more dithering, blending or noise... ;/
The ores need a bit more embedding. Right now they look kind of pasted on.
Looks fairly good,if your going for a realistic style,I'm going for cartoony.
Stone Bricks(x4):
Thoughts?
Unrelated to previous note, Sam, you should make the moss go up a bit. It looks like it's coming from behind the top brick and hanging over the bottom one, which looks quite offputting.
I only used those colours for wood because they are the darkest colours I could find that didn't look ridiculous in wood, And I don't really want my stone things to be bright blue or anything.
I think they look quite nice actually!