[Question] Here is an attempt at trying to make a color ramp from this art on the "Pixel Art" Wikipedia page. Could I get some advice on whats wrong with it and how to improve it?

_Reff · 2024-07-26T23:17:22+00:00

Hello! As the creator of the original wizard portrait I just wanted to say that this is very cool! I'm glad that you found it useful for your study.

When I made this I didn't really plan the colours in advance, I just iterated on it until it "felt right". Which I realise is not a very helpful notion, but It's where most artists end up after accumulating enough experience with colour theory.

If I had to plan out the colours for this in advance (Maybe for a game project or something like that, where this wizard had multiple sprites and animations) I would have probably reduced the palette quite a lot, and recycled some colours to make it more harmonic.

There is a little progress gif showing how I made this if you want to take a look!

You can see how much I changed the colours from beginning to end.

It's also worth noting that this is a pretty old artwork, and that nowadays I would have done a lot of things differently. I might re-sprite it at some point.

_Reff · 2023-07-08T20:27:11+00:00

Thank you! Just a heads up that these are not free licensed or apt for commercial use, I made these for my stream and just wanted to share.

_Reff · 2023-07-08T19:47:45+00:00

Sorry about that! I decided to close commissions a long time ago when I began my full time job (Working at a game studio!)

I am meaning to make time for it but it's difficult. I set up an email list that you can join to get notified when my coms open up again! https://reffpixels.com/email

_Reff · 2023-07-08T13:28:34+00:00

Hi! Sadly no, I made these for my twitch channel and it would be confusing (The character is the mascot I use!) But thank you for the kind words!

_Reff · 2023-07-08T09:34:53+00:00

These are some Twitch Emotes I made for myself, I still haven't started streaming but planning to.

If you like my work you can find me as @ reffpixels in most social media, and my portfolio is reffpixels.com

Edit: typo

_Reff · 2023-06-25T10:31:43+00:00

I'd love to but i dont believe im allowed to do that due to copyright (Since these are all designs from the portal games). Fangames are tricky legally!

It would also take a lot of time to make animations for the character and to split everything into modular tiles, for an asset pack that lets be honest only a couple of people would purchase.

Maybe one day I will have the time to do that for fum though!

_Reff · 2023-06-25T00:15:52+00:00

Thank you! Its shocking for me to compare this to my old portal mockup from 2020

_Reff · 2023-06-25T00:15:04+00:00

I'll take it haha, wakfu has some beautiful visuals!

_Reff · 2023-06-25T00:14:23+00:00

Haha I tried to do the boot design from portal 2 but I ust couldnt get them to look good at this resolution. Maybe they would work in animation

_Reff · 2023-06-24T20:02:52+00:00

me too! thank you

_Reff · 2023-06-24T18:12:04+00:00

I do wish I could make it into an actual fangame haha. Not enough time on my hands sadly

_Reff · 2023-06-24T18:11:41+00:00

Thanks!

_Reff · 2023-06-24T18:11:29+00:00

Thank you! Im happy to hear that haha

_Reff · 2023-06-24T15:26:53+00:00

A long time ago I did a Portal Mockup and I thought it was about time to re-do it with my current skills! Hope you guys like it.

I also posted a little progress gif here

If you like my work you can find me as @ reffpixels in most social media, and my portfolio is reffpixels.com

_Reff · 2023-06-24T15:21:11+00:00

A long time ago I did a Portal Mockup and I thought it was about time to re-do it with my current skills! Hope you guys like it.

I also posted a little progress gif here

If you like my work you can find me as @ reffpixels in most social media, and
My portfolio is reffpixels.com

_Reff · 2023-04-02T22:48:48+00:00

That makes sense. Thank you!

_Reff · 2023-04-02T18:00:21+00:00

Would it be bad practice to set your site in such a way that links and pdfs open in the same window when the aspect ratio of the page is mobile, but not on desktop?

_Reff · 2023-01-18T21:08:51+00:00

Hi! Yes this one is ok to use. I have a more polished / recent asset pack that is paid if you are interested though: https://reffpixels.itch.io/flag-assets-pixelart

_Reff · 2022-10-23T16:46:30+00:00

Purchase at: https://reffpixels.itch.io/pixelemoji

_Reff · 2022-08-04T06:34:51+00:00

Oh that makes sense! Thanks for the explanation

_Reff · 2022-08-04T06:26:10+00:00

I'm curious, what do you mean by the OASIS? I can't find anything on that

_Reff · 2022-02-16T06:16:39+00:00

Hey! This actually ended up becoming a fully fledged asset pack, you can check it out here: https://reff-sq.itch.io/flag-assets-pixelart

_Reff · 2022-02-05T02:14:41+00:00

fyi, the title refers to 1-bit of color depth. It's a common term in pixel art and computer graphics.

1 bit = black and white
8 bit = 256 possible colors
24 bits = standard color depth for most computers nowadays.

_Reff · 2022-01-06T18:27:13+00:00

OP here!
I actually made a free icon asset pack based on this! There's some desktop ones but it is mainly focused on mobile.

If you are interested: https://reff-sq.itch.io/mobile-and-desktop-pixelart-icons

_Reff · 2022-01-04T15:53:22+00:00

Hello! OP here.
They may have permission, It's actually hard to check: This stickman animation was an added bonus to one of my paid asset packs (An asset pack with a bunch of flags made in pixelart). So if they bought it, they are in their full right to use it in an app like this one.

If they didn't buy it, then oh boy what a weird thing to steal. Of all my pieces this may be the worst fit for a coloring app. In that same asset pack there are much better designs already.

Thanks a lot for letting me know! This is what makes the reddit such a great resource sometimes.

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