How should I go about this? More blue-ish?

Icey · Mon 20/02/2012 01:10:43

I got this picture here that I think looks good however I'm having trouble with character color.

You see I ended up using Falling Skyward as a base a color example thinking that I can change it with PS. Only problem is I don't know how to produce a better color or if I'm to blind to see that I got a good color.

Construed · Mon 20/02/2012 12:44:17

The center character looks like the best fit

Icey · Mon 20/02/2012 12:50:49

Alrighty then, I guess I'll play around with that one a bit more.

ThreeOhFour · Mon 20/02/2012 14:19:08

Instead of starting with a highly toned base palette, I usually start with a fairly standard palette, then adjust it later on to fit with the background. You're starting from a very strongly tinted palette here, which kinda inhibits your ability to get detail in from the start a little, I think.

Seeing as you mentioned Falling Skywards, here you can see the way I went through the character design process. I always start with black outlines because I want to get the form of the character right first because I worry about shading and colour. Then once I had a design I liked, I coloured in standard colours, then adjusted to be really warm and fit the backgrounds. Finally I took away some of the less necessary outlines. I think some parts of your character lack contrast and this makes it hard to see anything clearly. The head particularly suffers from this, I'd say.

Dualnames · Mon 20/02/2012 15:05:10

I have to say that besides some flaws, I really like the background. It has a Ben304 vibe.

Icey · Mon 20/02/2012 19:33:24

@Ben304, Ok I see what you mean. I thought you just drew it out like that cause I never knew you did the outlining thing! As for the face, I think maybe after I fix it up a bit it will look better cause he has this asian facial structure.

@Dualnames, Thanks. I had a ruff time trying to get it close to his style but in the end I seen it came pretty close and I'm happy with. Ben's style is very unique and it's hard for me to imitate like I can sorta do with a few other things.

I will re-upload the edit's later today.

Icey · Tue 21/02/2012 05:11:21

Hows this? I think the 4th one is the best.

cat · Tue 21/02/2012 08:41:47

I like the head and hair of number 4 best, but the clothes look boring. Maybe using the blue pants of number 2?

Icey · Tue 21/02/2012 09:17:52

I rather keep the gray shorts for story reasons

However I do find the blue rather nice for a shirt/boots.

TomatoesInTheHead · Tue 21/02/2012 16:22:47

I like it!

Icey · Tue 21/02/2012 17:49:21

Thanks, Well I guess i's time for me to start animating it. If there is any thing else someone thinks should be different then post it and I'll see what I can do.

Khris · Tue 21/02/2012 21:52:18

He needs a chest and some shoulders...
Also, his face is really flat while the back of his skull is huge.
You do have a great anatomy reference right in the image you posted, use it.

And the lighter spots on his arms and legs look like actual spots, not shading.

Corby · Wed 22/02/2012 00:50:47

I must say Icey, your art is becoming quite impressive. Keep it up!

Icey · Wed 22/02/2012 02:09:50

@Khris: I wanted to use Ben's style while blending my own to make me feel less "tense".
uhh that isn't the back of his head in fact it's this wide spike that sticks out on both sides of his head but I see what you mean in size/spots so I will fix that.

@Corby: Thank you. :3

Khris · Wed 22/02/2012 10:17:42

Did a quick paintover:

Icey · Wed 22/02/2012 19:34:11

I see what you mean and the head now fit's with the body however his look is to "strong". It's not a bad look tho however it's just not the right one for me $:-\$

However in his edit you can see I fixed his spots and wide spike.

Khris · Wed 22/02/2012 20:39:46

Do you want him to look like King Kong squashed him in his fist?
I'm sure you can find some healthy middle ground between my suggestion and a serious developmental disease.

(Also, how do you still screw up the IMG tag parameters...?? If you left out the height parameter, then the picture would at least retain its aspect ratio. But how do you get from 38x106 to 75x200? After all these months and me pointing this out I don't know how many times?
And what's up with your avatar picture? It gets resized to 60x60 no matter what the original dimensions are.
How can you still screw this up? I just don't get it.)

Icey · Wed 22/02/2012 23:47:55

I completely see what you mean but I sorta like the style I go with for my art.

Don't flame me or talk about the stuff I like cause it wouldn't be fair as I don't do that to sierra fans

(It's not that I'm ignoring you cause I would like to do it that way but I completely forget how to do it some times and I feel kind of embarrassed to ask something someone has explained plenty of times now.

Anian · Thu 23/02/2012 00:11:57

Icey, ThreeOhFour was trying to show you what you should do - draw a figure in different tones and try how it looks on the background, in each step of the process and then decide if and what tone of the character looks good on the background (remember that you asked that?). So why not overlay the 4 versions of your character on the actual background, I am seriously doubting you did that.

And if you feel embaraced about asking about something that was anwsered before, then go and check the thread that was mentioned in, the search function of the forum has been fixed.

Quote from: Khris on Wed 22/02/2012 20:39:46
Do you want him to look like King Kong squashed him in his fist?
I'm sure you can find some healthy middle ground between my suggestion and a serious developmental disease.

(Also, how do you still screw up the IMG tag parameters...?? If you left out the height parameter, then the picture would at least retain its aspect ratio. But how do you get from 38x106 to 75x200? After all these months and me pointing this out I don't know how many times?
And what's up with your avatar picture? It gets resized to 60x60 no matter what the original dimensions are.
How can you still screw this up? I just don't get it.)

...oh, poor, Khris.

I gave up trying to help Icey develop his skills a few weeks ago. The way I see it, I can really not care for somebody who doesn't even sometimes read what they've written in a message (checking for stuff like typos and grammar and sometimes the basic information that's being sent).

Khris · Thu 23/02/2012 02:10:34

Well, it had to be said.

Icey:
I'm no't going to flame you for liking a certain style. That would be ridiculous.
The problem is, your sprite look's nothing like the style of The World Ends With You. It jus't look's like a guy with a really thin torso.

You'll also notice that Neku's chest i's indeed at least as wide as hi's wais't:

The thing is, hi's body still follow's some basic anatomic principle's. It's just like with DotT and perspective, the game's background's are still following it, not abandoning it completely.