Janobii's Forest

[SassySnivy]

Of course I don't mind! c;
Personally I'm a much bigger fan of the violet one than the yellow one. Both look nice, color-scheme-wise, but the violet makes it look more sleek. But that's more of a design thing and it's someone else's design so yeah!

The contrast with the black is looking a lot better. Even a small change can help a ton. But we still are having some contrast issues with the violet; I'll show you how you can fix that up.

As you can see, I really only made the shades slightly darker so that they don't look like one large cluster of a solid color. That's what usually happens when you don't have enough contrast: at first glance, everything consisting of that hue looks like it's all squished together. You want to make sure people know what they're looking at from the first glance!

Another thing I found kind of odd was how the outline of the farthest ear was outlined in a lighter color instead of a darker one. Another minor thing was that the tail still isn't shaded. Sorry if I forgot to mention that before; I have this habit of only mentioning one or two things at one time as to not overwhelm people with a crapton of different things all at once. It's a habit I probably ought to try breaking, really.

Anyway here's another gif for ya; I'm better at explaining via pictures than via words in regards to this stuff.

With the tail, I fixed the strange jagged lines and gave it more of a swooping curve like how it is in the artwork. Here's a really helpful tidbit about curves in pixel art from arguably one of the best pixel art introduction tutorials online, which you can find here!

Jaggies:
Jaggies occur when a pixel or group of pixels are out of place, interrupting the flow of a line. Jaggies can also occur when a line lacks anti-aliasing. Jaggies get their name from the jagged lines that they create. More broadly, jaggies are the result of any bad pixel technique, but they are most often discussed in reference to line work, so that is the context in which they will be discussed here.
How to fix jaggies:
Changing the length of the lines

That's the most basic way to fix jaggies. Remember when you form a curve with pixels, it needs to be a gradual thing just like if you were drawing it.

Another basic diagram of how curves generally work!

Generally with curves, you want to follow a 3,2,1,2,3 or a 5,3,2,1,2,3,5; like so:


The reason the two patterns are different is because generally you'll want to end a curve with a 3, 2, 1, 2, 3 kind of curve to look smoother / rounder. Here's what the second curve would have looked like with a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

I also added the most basic kind of shading to the tail, since a little bit is better than none!