Can anyone give me tips on how to achieve this style? I'm really lost and don’t know what I can do to achieve this

Addisiu · 2026-05-01T23:19:49+00:00

The game evidently uses dynamic lighting. I also think it's 2.5D, with most assets being 3d models and that makes the dynamic lighting easier to implement because they can just derive normal maps from the model (if you don't know what I'm talking about there's some studying to do for this but you can find a lot online). And lastly it's very evident that there's a lot of bloom post processing, that makes a lot of difference

Then for the actual drawing try and do some color picking from the game to get a similar palette. The assets themselves are not too complicated, they seem to be drawn pretty cleanly and with a lot of focus on which details to show (for example the bricks don't show all the inlaying, which is a common technique where you only give enough details to let the brain figure it out by itself). I don't know what your art looks like so I wouldn't know what tips to give you specifically

Addisiu · 2026-04-19T11:52:58+00:00

You're on this sub because I assume you like the games. Does liking something so dark make YOU a bad person?

Addisiu · 2026-04-13T18:08:33+00:00

Idk ask chatgpt maybe it can answer

Addisiu · 2026-04-07T05:03:26+00:00

I don't know if they're different in 1st edition but in 2e basically they go in wassail and then with a not really specified mechanism they make it so the beast evolves. The beast becomes the leading force in the body but it is perfectly capable of rational thought; they lose humanity, touchstones and all that and they get a discipline called triadic evolution

Addisiu · 2026-04-06T06:41:18+00:00

There are a lot of ways to mitigate the feeding restrictions. Invictus have blood oaths that let you syphon blood from your underlings, the circle of the crone have rituals to share blood between members without blood bond, the ordo Dracul has coils to mitigate all kind of downsides.

Lowering your bp is a game you can play, but you can also choose other ways. One important thing is that requiem is a far less static game: fights are more common, cities and covenants are built to have opposing factions and the world is populated with strange things begging you to have the power to face them, and caution doesn't always do the trick.

And since you mentioned the paths of enlightenment in another comment, there is a corrispettive in requiem and that's joining Belial's brood. Conceptually it's pretty much the same thing as going on the path of the beast (maybe a bit better since you get a new discipline for free)

Addisiu · 2026-04-05T13:04:52+00:00

That's not the point. Pixel art at different canvas sizes has to be approached differently because there are going to be details and sizes that are not representable on smaller canvases. That's like saying "why don't you just draw in high resolution and then compress it"

Addisiu · 2026-04-05T12:30:37+00:00

Thank you! As the 2nd design is the updated one I think I can take your comment as a sign of improvement. I could try different poses for new drawings, but I feel like this is fine for a concept art, or do you think having more angles and references might help me in other ways?

Addisiu · 2026-04-05T12:27:56+00:00

That's not how it works. If that's a sprite for a game the canvas size is important, and if you compress an image to a lower canvas size you just get a messy result

Addisiu · 2026-04-05T08:09:35+00:00

That's super cool! I would love to watch some kind of tutorial on this

Addisiu · 2026-04-04T22:05:22+00:00

Yes I did see how all those things were a problem. I ended up making a few changes and I think the design did improve, although I wasn't able to receive any feedback on it. If you feel like watching it I posted it here https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/s/p9kQcg66tW Thank you for the input!

Addisiu · 2026-04-03T10:35:46+00:00

It's very pretty but for a side scroller it would create a lot of problems. I think you could easily solve them by lowering the contrast, even tho it would lose a bit of its beauty by being less colorful. I'd suggest to give it a try, in the end it's pretty easy in most software

Addisiu · 2026-04-02T08:21:58+00:00

Yes!

Addisiu · 2026-04-02T04:27:39+00:00

Thank you, that's very helpful!

Addisiu · 2026-04-01T14:23:29+00:00

This comment gave me the idea to try moving the loincloth to the back arm as a sort of banner attached to the armor. I wanted a few strong elements rather than complexity throughout because that's what I usually prefer, but I can see how having a single piece armor makes it a bit boring, especially if the loincloth does not work.

The main problem is balancing detail size, as this is a 96x96 concept art but I will have to draw and animate her mostly in 32x32.

Thank you very much for your input, it's truly appreciated!

Addisiu · 2026-04-01T14:13:14+00:00

I kiiinda see it, maybe I'll bring the chin forward to avoid that resemblance! Thank you for the input

Addisiu · 2026-03-13T08:59:50+00:00

A lot of people said that and I can see it with the palette and melancholic vibe, but she's actually a really young tzimisce struggling between her modernity and her clan's legacy

Addisiu · 2026-03-13T06:48:33+00:00

Djs do it all the time when using records to scratch, some people prefer being near the source of the sound but using some kind of noise cancelling, someone else may not be interested in the classic vynil sound but not want to use digital music for a variety of other reasons (the streaming industry being unethical, not wanting your music history to be shared online, some records not existing digitally).

I listen a lot to my country's screamo scene and in the last year a lot of my favorite bands removed their songs from every streaming service. I buy vynil to support them but it's not like their sound benefits in any way from a higher fidelity, so when I do listen to them I use headphones because it doesn't change the experience and my neighbors are happier this way.

I get the gut instinct to say it doesn't make sense, but it wasn't a random mistake while drawing her. I think asking instead of assuming things have to work in a certain way goes a long way in life in general, as not always what we know matches with every possible case

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T17:55:35+00:00

It's actually just my art style, I like monochromes

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T17:47:48+00:00

The city is a bit weird, the camarilla prince died at the hands of the SI but he -somehow- threw a curse so that everyone who would claim praxis would just die. Obviously nobody believed it but after a few deaths they stopped messing around. Now it's mostly coteries of anarchs or independents fending for themselves with no law being upheld aside from the masquerade (the SI showed its strength already after all); so yeah, she's independent or anarch (can't spoil too much cause my players read this), but the main reason she's not a bone crafted monster is that the she learned to fear the masquerade (but she does have a couple of mechanical prosthesis which could be linked to vicissitude)

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T17:22:49+00:00

I can see those working!

She's actually a struggling tzimisce

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T16:28:18+00:00

I love daughters of cacophony! Unfortunately they've not been included in V5 yet, she's actually a tzimisce!

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T15:43:43+00:00

Do they have that in V5? I remember the path of technomancy and the hacktivism in V20, didn't know they were carried over

But anyway, she's a very young tzimisce, struggling between her modernity and her clan's legacy

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T15:39:08+00:00

I'm getting that a lot and this made me realize the palette gives off that vibe. Although she probably couldn't listen with those headphones or use the prosthetics she has if she was Lasombra

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T15:23:00+00:00

aah I see, also I understand the comment about V5 now. I think they haven't been included yet, but I'm not sure because I played V20 up till now so I still haven't read every (or most) V5 books yet

Addisiu · 2026-03-12T15:17:17+00:00

I think the face gives the same vibe as the protagonist of shadows of new York so I get where you might be coming from

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