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Old 09-03-2011, 06:14 PM
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5 Color Soldier project

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I took photoshop out this week and started playing around and gave myself a challenge: Making a soldier scene with the use of only 5 colours. I will be posting my progress here for critism/comments.

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[Edit] Will add the progress as it goes
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Old 09-03-2011, 07:18 PM
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Your color ramp is quite boring so far. You should add some variation.
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Old 09-03-2011, 07:36 PM
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Okay I'll play around with the colors when I am done, since I really suck at finding a good palette and it can take me a while

But here is the work so far
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Old 09-03-2011, 10:13 PM
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Just out of curiosity, what's the apparent obsession graphic artists have with using few colors? Is it just for a challenge or...? I've seen a lot of graphic people tell others that their graphics had too many colors in them.
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Old 09-03-2011, 10:42 PM
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Just out of curiosity, what's the apparent obsession graphic artists have with using few colors? Is it just for a challenge or...? I've seen a lot of graphic people tell others that their graphics had too many colors in them.
Not sure really, perhaps it makes the stuff look more pixel artish xD
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Old 09-04-2011, 12:11 AM
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There was a point to it when working on an 8-bit tileset(because you can easily run out of colours and things start looking yuck) but now that graal supports 32-bit I don't beleive there is any point haha.
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Old 09-04-2011, 12:22 AM
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It's generally good practice. Limiting yourself to a smaller palette will help you understand how to use colors better.
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Shading on the neck is weird
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Cute! Way better than I can do, so I think it looks uhmazing.
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Added some dithering.

Before --> After --> Update (avoiding double post)
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Started working on the background using the 5 same colors. Not a finished product yet though.

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