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Psittacosaurus pixelart portrait
🕑 Added 2015-06-21 02:25:25 +0000 UTC Hi lovely patrons! Here's some work for a card game. This is my workflow for an actual, professional deliverable asset.Step one: The game is a card battle with dinosaurs in ancient egypt. So I scour google images for psittacosaurus and the pyramids until I'm satisfied I have enough references (I try to limit myself to 30 minutes)
Step two: I set two layers up, one for the background and one for the dinosaur. My limitations are 60x60pixels and a gameboy 4-gray palette. Which - for my patron who asked about how I select color - is *very* good exercise. Rendering in only four shades teaches composition, shading and negative space like nothing else I know!
Step three: I get to work directly in this magnification ( 500% ), making sure to check the final result at 200%. This is the .gif
Feel free to ask any questions :)
If you decide to do this exercise yourself, don't hesitate to ask me for c&c.
More of these are coming up.
