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Playing sailor moon cause why not

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Skip0s Reference Study #1

So I've been searching onto references and Stuff, wanting to get some insights into color and lineart, so this mostly to register and share what I've noticed.

For this one parricularly, Iv'e choosen a panel from Tsuioku a H-Visual Novel for PC98.

PC-98 graphics games mostly used the EGC mode with 640x400 res and 16 colors chosen from 12-bit (4 bits per channel) RGB.

Fisrt of all, I love the colors here and how vibrant they are.

The panel itself has only 480×280 res, and how my target is studying the image, to try to replicate the techniques and stuff to create something like it, we will forget the UI for this study.

Now let's focus and tackle this by parts:

Sky

So beautiful!

Limitations probabbly make stuff more creative. I'm a programmer, not a designer, so I don't have a degree to really tell you about the importance of a pallete. Nowadays, most part of the apps we use have almost no limit of colors that can be used.

But here, in this sky, we only got 3 colors, and that's all. White, light blue and a darker shade of blue, that's all that were used to make a sky that, in not just CRT, but in LCD screens, looks like 9 different shades of blue. Oh, and white was used just for the clouds.

So here we have 9 steps of dithering, or in other words, "pixel gradients" in a pattern that can be translated to:

Keep in mind that this isn't the only way to make dithering.

Now for the clouds, the artist applied a dithering with light blue only if they were into the darker portion of he sky. In the big picture this results in a image with more depth!

Jesus Christ the compression is killing me

Le Lineart 🥐

For some reason, here the lineart is not fully black. Personally, when making it is really hard to choose when to use black or a darker shade for lineart.

So here, I tried to find patterns that would answer the question "when should I really use black as outline?" and noted them down.

Marked some in red & blue so they get easier to see.

After comparing the places where we have black outlines, I've found 4 reasons:

Used when there's no direct darker shade for the color (blue is normally painted as a darker shade for white)

Used to make clear the separation of a whole from it's parts (leg from arm, arm from clothes, hair from face, face from neck etc)

Used to show the darker side of something (less ligh = darker tones = black outline)

Used in background objects (stuff that isn't necessarily the center of the piece but yetneed some highlight)

Palette

As said, PC-98 mostly use 16 colors, I've identified the ones that appear.

From 1 to 16, I checked if they were the same color

This helped me to see (again) how the same color can be used many times, and how they SHOULD be used if possible. I'm thinking right now if would be better to use a pre-made 16 colors palettes, or start the process normally and gradually reciclyng colors until you have 16.

Something to keep in mind.

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Well, this is all I've got to share for now. What I need now is to get some practice and see the results for myself. Then do another study and repeat!

Thank you for your time and hope It helped you too!

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MEGURINE LUKA

I'm probabbly gonna remake miku someday

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WIP Megurine Luka #2

Need detailing shading and etecetera still

Also her arms are so big.....

Welp who cares call it my "artstyle"

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LUKA WIP

I'm so, so sorry guys, but this one will be posted in 3 parts (WIP 1, WIP2 & Done).

At least you guys will be able to see better what my process looks like? Normally o just star with some really crap sketch (not even caring to look for proportions n' stuff, and then while I corret and refine the pose, detsils and composition i also do the lineart. Then glat colors and then shading.

I'm into a realy delicate sutuation right now and wasn't really able to spent my time to my little squares today, and probabbly will be the same tomorrow. But I'm sure stuff will calm down soon and maybe I even will be able to paint one for day! (High hopes huh)

Anyway hope that you guys understand!

Heres a little glow up that I were able to do

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What are you guys insane

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RIN KAGAMINE

I'm so proud!

I love how I was able to use less hard shadows on this one, the way the clothing is easily spotted, and how light and shadow is being showed.

Maybe there's one or two things that I would redo from the start, but as it is I see it as a finished piece.

Anyway, what did you think about it? Should I do who next?

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Rin WIP

I dunno if I'll go back to the last post (almost sure I will...) but for now let's go back to simpler stuff.

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WIP

I don't really like the way this is coming out, maybe I'll go back to 4 colours and stuff.

Hopefully I'll change my mind.

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Miku

Done!

This was my first time workimg with such a limited amount of colours (I usually use like 16 or more) and I liked a lot.

Dithering

I think the most important thing I noticed and learned in this process was the nice and steady use of dithering and how it impact our perception of shadows and materials. It's a great thing to keep in mind for the future.

From other VN references I got, it was something really present, so maybe it's some of the style signatures.

Hair

The thing I like the most in this piece. Especially in the top part of the head. Those old visual novels usually go hard with the highlights and isn't really hard to get it. The real problem to me was doing the shadows accordingly, but jn the end I think I've done great!

I'm actually really proud and think that, maybe, this could be int a vn like an actual sprite for real.

Anyway, I hope you like it!

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Miku WIP

I've spent my share of time playing some old japanese VNs and so I tought to give it a try. I limited myself with the colors to those used by early versions of windows for UI and icons, but I'm planning to in the future try to make stuff as colorful as the games I played.

Still, I guess I'm doing a good job so far with this!!

The Idea is to work only with 4 colours and learn an abuse from techiniques I'm not that familiar with.

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Belobog Heavy Industries Discord Banner Set!

"Our goal is not to build a house, but a home." For now that's it! Ill wait until more characters launch in the game so I can get better images. I'm probabbly going back to doing some pixelart and other kind of edits.

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Victoria Housekeeping Discord Banner Set!

"Thank you for using Victoria Housekeeping. Your wish is our command." While I was searching pics and stuff to put down here, I have found some trivia about this faction. It's obivious the inspiration from the victorian era (like, look at the name: "VICTORIA housekeeping"), in the gothic clothes, presentation and etecetera. BUT did you got the reference of horror media? Corin with those Screws kinda like frankenstein and holding a chainsaw as a weapon Ellen Joe being a SHARK with scissors Von being a lycanthrope (or a werewolf boi) And Rina being spooky like a ghost, floating like one and interfering into eletromagnetic fields or something like that like... well, ghosts.

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Cunning Hares Discord Banner Set!

Here they are! I'll probabbly be making them by factions now! "The Cunning Hares are always available for the right price!". Now their price is free!

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I'm back! (well, kinda). I've got my Notebook broken somehow, and as such, both my artistic and academic needs can't be saciated. But! Trought cloud gaming (god bless tech) I've found a way to lay the new MiHoYo game: Zenless Zone Zero! So here are some edits from characters that caught my atention (more to come soon). Those could also be used as Discord banners if I wanted (after I'm done with all of those plan to edit out my name so anybody could use if they want. Also name your favourite character, so I don't miss them XD

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fast af sketch

quick nazuna since I can't seem to have anytime to do what i want since stuff been crazy

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Tarot gotta wait! Stuff been going on! P3R LAUCNCHED!! Since I loved the menus and stuff, gotten a little carried away in this discord banner for a friend of mine!

So proud of this