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Title: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: Recluse on Thu 26/07/2007 23:29:44

I'm having a difficult time getting my bald African-American character to look anything like a bald man.

Here's what I've got so far...

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/baldie.png)

I'm having troubles with the head, as you can see... What I have currently is an alternative to the single-shade head, which simply looks like way too much space.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could get a really smashing looking bald head in the very very small amount of pixels I have?

Title: Re: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: pslim on Fri 27/07/2007 01:19:04

If you want him bald, rather than having a buzzcut (which is what it looks like to me, now), I would suggest shading the head, or at least giving it a highlight. Unfortunately this would necessitate one extra shade on the whole sprite, though.

Maybe I'll try a paintover and see if it's useful at all.

Title: Re: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: Recluse on Fri 27/07/2007 01:49:42

Hey wow that looks LOADS better...

Is this what you meant?

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/highlight.PNG)

P.S. Yeah... some how it looked to me like he had some sort of beaded headdress looking thing on his head. Which is totally not what I was going for :-\

Title: Re: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: pslim on Fri 27/07/2007 02:23:31

That's pretty much what I meant, yeah. Bald heads catch a lot of light unless they're covered in makeup or something.

I made a paintover, but I hesitate to post it because what you have there pretty much gets the bald thing across with no problem.

I'll post it anyway, just in case it's useful at all. I monkeyed with the skin tone a little to get a higher contrast, and added a darker shade to the outfit.

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/baldieyo.png)

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/baldieyo.png)

Title: Re: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: Recluse on Fri 27/07/2007 23:05:53

That looks awesome!

Unfortunately were I to use the high-color version I would have to upgrade all my other graphics :o Such much work. I'm satisfied with the lower grade, but you get kudos for completely outdoing me :P

I'm so not an artist :-\

Title: Re: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: pslim on Fri 27/07/2007 23:24:07

For what it's worth, I think your sprite is perfectly serviceable. It looks like what it's supposed to be, and that's all you really need, right? Everything else is just a matter of style and practice.

Believe me, I wasn't better than anybody when I started posting stuff here, and if I'm better than anybody now it's only a little and it's a complete accident. :=

Title: Re: Making Baldy Look Bald
Post by: Recluse on Sat 28/07/2007 16:28:47

Thanks for the support!

I'm trying to make the focus of my game more on the storyline and game play anyway. So as far as I'm concerned, serviceable is AWESOME. ;D

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