Dragonish thingy
 

This is my first serious pixel art since last January so I'm surprised it turned out this well, though I think I'm still a little rusty.

This was originally from a Pixel Joint contest around Halloween for coloring in these cool monster outlines and adding backgrounds but I never got around to it in time, but I wanted to finish it so I came up with this:

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...9_dragon-1.gif
Roughly...3-4 hours of work? Unsure, time flies when you're pixeling.

I like the wrinkles on it's toes and the way it's lower jaw looks/works ^^

Nice coloring job, but the line between the red skin and orange belly looks rather blurred.

I think it's head looks retarded (eyes, jaw). Liking the rest so far.

Hah I had that one too, i think you have slightly too many colors, use them for textures and such aswell, not just plain areas

I think it looks great. It should be blowing out fire, or thats what I think it should be doing when I look at it's facial expression/features. Wings would also be cool, but not required.

Whoa, nice.

I actually don't have much of a problem with the eyes. They remind me of a hammerhead shark for some reason, but I love those, and it's interesting to see on something else. The split jaw is undoubtedly my favorite part, though. Great work.

Looks pretty nice. Great job.

It looks good, and with a background (Volcanish landscape like?) it would look pure awesome. ^^

Very well made. :)

was thinking that too, but the colors are nice.

Keep in mind I didn't design the thing, just colored it. You can give your praise to the girl who made the outline about that. :P

I always use a lot of colors, but I've never really seen a problem with that. *shrug* I'll get working on some things tho, like the line between the belly and the rest of the skin.

I like the coloring.

Good job :)

nice

I've always wondered...what's with pixel artists and using the least amount of colors as possible?

I believe it's from the era where pixelart originated from, the computers could only handly 8 colors or so, and pixelartists try to continue that now. Less colors makes you optimize the use of your colors.

Kind of like how LATs make levels with the least amount of NPCs possible, atleast good ones. Or how scripters try to reduce the amount of lines/redundancy.

Why use more colors then neccessary if you can have the same result

corey used 22 colors already, alot of red tones

i used 32 here

http://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/ohhh9.png

color usage with limited gradients of colors that you need

Wow. :oo:
It's stunning! <3

Elk is good, ja.

Well, it depends on your style, I suppose, Elk. My style usually uses more colors than others such as yourself. By the way, great work there, Elk.

I wanna recolor the dragon, it would be neat if it had a light green version too. ^^

Keeping a low color count is usually a manner of efficiency. If you're manually picking colors, as pixel artists usually do, it's easier to work with similar colors already accessible in the piece than constantly creating a new color each time you need to color something. In the end, it's also easier to manage 8 colors in a piece when you're trying to touch-up and fix something than say, 32. That's only from a 'work ethic' point of view, that's not taking into consideration the technical reasons, even though there are rarely technical limitations anymore.

Reminds me of Joanna from the Rescuers Down Under.

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/914...4057825281.png

Theres some good lines :) I might try my hands on some soon again...had fun doing mine

http://www.retinaleclipse.com/pixela...es_page01.html

http://www.retinaleclipse.com/arachne_line024.gif

this is the dragon

Yeah, that person is amazing at line art. I'll probably do another one of those as well.