One thing I’ve noticed with your sprites is that your shading is very noisy. Try to work on making bigger, less jagged clusters, rather than lots of broken highlights and individual pixels of a color. Don’t forget that you don’t have to fit every color in for the sake of fitting colors in. Learning to work with 3-4 color palettes is what helped me move away from noise/banding/pillow shading, and I think it could help you tooView attachment 214084 View attachment 214085 View attachment 214087 View attachment 214086 Here's some practice palates with their items since I want to get better at those (If you've got any tips for how to get better at palates, let me know)
View attachment 214083 And here's an Exo Weapon called the Grand Finale I made for someone on the Calamity discord, decided it would be good design practice
One thing I’ve noticed with your sprites is that your shading is very noisy. Try to work on making bigger, less jagged clusters, rather than lots of broken highlights and individual pixels of a color. Don’t forget that you don’t have to fit every color in for the sake of fitting colors in. Learning to work with 3-4 color palettes is what helped me move away from noise/banding/pillow shading, and I think it could help you too
Yeah, that’s already a huge improvement imo. Work on texture a bit more too so things don’t just feel flat
View attachment 214096 So I should just practice with simple things like this?
Ok, I'll try that out. Thank you very much!Yeah, that’s already a huge improvement imo. Work on texture a bit more too so things don’t just feel flat
I see that now thank you.But when you scale it down, you will still be using pixels far too small for terraria's style.
That’s the opposite of what you should do- this will lead to mixels or resizing issues. It’s much better to start learning to work small, or you’ll just make the same mistakes over and over again. If you want to make a big sprite don’t resize something to 3x or 4x size and draw over it, instead learn how to detail and make interesting large sprites in 1x1.SO TO THOSE OF YOU WHO COMMENT ON MY POSTS ABOUT THEM BEING REALLY BIG, IM PLANNING ON MAKING MY SPRITES BIGGER FOR NOW BECAUSE I JUST STARTED MAKING SPRITES NOT TO LONG AGO SO IT MAKES IT EASIER TO DO IF THEY ARE BIGGER SO JUST A LITTLE NOTE FOR IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I DO APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK THOUGH!
Not quite sure where the lightsource is on that, remember to keep it consistentView attachment 214185 Boop practice sprite
Ok, I edited it some and tried to make it come from the upper right. Is this better?Not quite sure where the lightsource is on that, remember to keep it consistent
Yeah, but try not having your highlights hugging the edge, and make sure the highlight isn't broken.Ok, I edited it some and tried to make it come from the upper right. Is this better?
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Those feel more like slime than crystal, but the weapons are cool!View attachment 214208
Green crystals
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Colourful version, 2nd one has slightly brighter colours.
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Update to stuff I did earlier.