Final A3 Drawing sheet.

I have finished my final character and object sheets. During this time in drawing, I have seen improvement in my technique and speed. My final character piece is similar to my re-skin. There is a difference however, my final piece is taller and has the correct colours with some added pixels to make the drawing seem more symmetrical. The object I have used for my final piece is from my thumbnail sheet. The colours have changed slightly and it is much bigger.

I was inspired to draw this character and object by researching different pixelated characters and objects inspired from RPG games. The sword I have drawn is a recolour of the sword from the Legend of Zelda games. Instead of blue, yellow and silver, it is purple, yellow and grey.

All of the drawings are on a much larger scale than the ones on the thumbnail sheets.

My techniques in drawing has improved from what my skills were in the previous blog. I have learned to draw much smaller pixels in a neater fashion and colour more neatly. This makes the drawing look more appealing to the audience.

I have also seen that my lines are much straighter and are more precise, this also goes with the colouring too. The colours do not go outside of the lines and are the pixels are evenly shaded.

I would like to think my drawings have improved since my first drawing done in this class. I am proud of my improvements and hope to get even better throughout the year.

Thumbnail

Thumbnail sheet and final thoughts

Final design (Megaman/Mario)

In my thumbnail sheet I can already see an improvement he way I now draw pixel art on paper. My first drawing was simplistic and with little to no detail. Now, in the rest of my pixel drawings, shading, more precise colouring and a range of different sizes of character are seen clearly. I have seen improvement in the last few drawings as I have used much smaller pixels and gone out of my comfort zone to re-create the characters I have wanted.

On the thumbnail sheet you can see the difference between the first and last drawing, with the new pixel techniques used to allow the character to stand out and become appealing to the eye. This is a huge difference as my first drawing was light with colour with only 2 shades of green and black for the eyes.

My latest drawing uses multiple shades of purple, grey and black. The shape is unique to the rest on the thumbnail sheet.

Thumbnail sheet

However there is still room for improvement. I would like to be able to do more complex shapes with a range of colours that haven't been used on the sheet yet. My colouring could use improvement as I struggle with colouring whilst using coloured pencils.

I am going to go out of my comfort zone which consists of using pencil to shade and begin to practice on shading using coloured pencils instead.

Overall, I think I am up to date on my assignments such as the research, re-skinned character (including the concept of the final character) and now the thumbnail sheet.

I look forward to doing more complex work such as using game maker.