Castle Paradox

[Newbie_Power]

[TwinHamster]

[Newbie_Power]

Doesn't sound any different from ditching pillow shading entirely, which is what shading it properly does.
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[TwinHamster]

[Joe Man]

That means:
If an object is pillow shaded, it could look better if the shading were corrected.
So you are in fact in agreement. It's just a backwards case of "agree to disagree," where you seem to refuse to agree that you are in agreement. And by you I mean Newbie_Power.
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[Newbie_Power]

I understand that it's an agreement. The reason I'm saying that it's pretty much the same as removing pillow shading because there's no reason to pillow shade so in the first place, much less claim that it's a style (which actually offended me).

Actually, it's probably not the same, starting the shading over, maybe refining the lineart as well first, is most likely going to result in a better focus and direction one wants to go with.
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[Baconlabs]

[Ronin Catholic]

Here's my pixel art advice:

- Never use shading.
- Never draw anything to scale.
- Use only MSPaint's Basic 16 for the original drawing.
- Never use more than four colors per object.
- Gotta have blue hair.
- A cat is fine too.
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[Ravenshade]

[Sh4d0ws]

I've noticed that I tend to use several minute changes in shade, with several different shades on maptiles, to give them a more "Realistic" but less distracting look.

But with, characters, I usually use a large variety of brighter, and higher contrast colors, to help distinguish the walkabout from the maps, and to give it more personality.

I'd say I use about 4-8 colors on maptiles, but with characters ( Because there's so much more diversity between the different parts of a single person, I'd say ) I've sometimes used as much as twelve colors.

I guess all I'm trying to say is: It's important to take a look at the context, too, because no single rule ( Or set of rules ) can easily be applied to every part of pixel art.

[Bagne]

I say that more colour is better for maptiles.
If you have many kinds of trees or doodads, each with a different hue, you can really enrich the look.
Heros and characters can benefit from having a single prominent colour (supplemented by other colours).

@Ravenshade
Dude - I'm right with you on the multi-tile objects.
Nobody wants a tree or house to be the same size as the hero. Any game that tries to do storytelling needs an immersive environment - and you can't give a map any personality or flavour with ultra-simple graphics.
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[Momoka]

Are there any tutorials for the OHR specifically? I'm having a lot of trouble drawing walkabouts of people, and most tutorials are for different sprite sizes, and I mess up a lot when I try to convert.

[J_Taylor]

None yet, but I could probably make one for the NEXT next edition of the OHR mag.
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