Falling in Love~

gosh i'm falling in love with pixel art :D

I spent my day helping nic with Pixel art (he's still trying to get the correct size for environment before getting down onto painting~)

soooooo... I did some character designs! :D it was fun! I have never created pixel art before till this past week and omg, i'm falling in love with it ~~

so here is my pixel art for the main character (Ray)

So we wanted Ray to look really simple and the way he would stand out was that no other creatures he meet will have his simplicity. Thus every other creature will look very different and also very vibrant as compared to Ray. (ironic XD)

But nic thought it was too simple so he wanted a sort of medal that was slung across his neck. I added the chains and also put on glow efx for the small medal to make it look coooooool :D

I thought it was still too plain so I added a scarf. I realised that the scarf did not make any sense and was not mentioned in my plot so I might not use it in the final art.

Then we move on to his pet! Kel!

Kel is a huge ass wolf/dog (looks a little like a cat. dammit) kind of creature :D It's really huge (slightly larger than Ray in terms of volume. But Ray would be taller *unless Kel stands on two legs*) I wanted Kel to share the same fate as Ray. (monochrome) but the eyes would change according to its mood. Blue = calm. Red = anger. so on and so forth. :D

I thought of doing the angry variation of Kel but I guess I should do at least one other creature that the player would meet. So... 

MEET SQUIDDY

I took one of the quick draft nic drew on his drafting session and turned it into pixel art :D (edited parts of it along the way) I added two extra limbs so it looks 20% cooler :D

The main idea Nic was going for when he drew the draft was that he wanted a merman kind of creature. I added my own take to it and made it more of a Squid-man kind of creature :D 

My main goal is to create one island/continent that only inhibits man+animal creatures, so I thought it would be a cool idea :D Obviously merman is also a man+animal creature but I thought the squid head looks kinda cool ~

Then i thought of inventory which means that all characters can wield weapons or sorts. I gave him 4 katanas at first but nic suggested two shorter daggers for his shorter limbs so he could handle close combats too. I thought that was pretty neat so I changed the two inner weapon to daggers :D I added blood to make it look more menacing and dangerous XD

After that I took a squid photo from google and stole some of its colors and splashed them onto a layer~ after experimenting and asking for advice, I was informed that the colors are too equal in terms of tone so I exaggerated some of the colors and made it more saturated. :D

So this is one of the drafts for my Squiddy :D I will try out more color tests in the future but for now I'm kinda happy with what I've done today :D (Oh btw I removed 2 eyes so it looks more "cute" IMO) I think I still need improvements for this art tho D: Buttttt, i'm tired so I'll take a break!

Gosh I'm really starting to like pixel art :D I'm gonna start creating more in the future! 

CIAO~