Quote Originally Posted by Sou Cleife View Post
I posted this for the badge thing for one of the gyms earlier, but I was pretty proud of it for not having many shadows. Though that was mostly because I couldnt figure out a way to light it that looked decent, but all in all, I'm happy with it. If it wasn't obvious enough by it, yes I am Team Litten xD

Not bad at all! It seems like you...attempted shading? But didn't do very much, so I guess I'm confused.

If you're going to shade it, make sure you've established a light source. Given your ears, it seems to be coming from the top-front. I'll get to that in a bit, though!


You've also got a few weird pixel stairs that don't quite line-up effectively. I was messing around with it and might have fixed some of it:



I think I got a little carried away though, so I ended up fixing a bunch of curves, too. With the tufts of fur at the top I made the ends squared / right angles since...augh, it's hard to explain. I think you see it? Overall though I tried to make its head more round. I also tried to fix the whiskers because judging by the art, they should be more of something that's jutting out of the head; here, it looks like it's part of the head.

Sorry, not trying to one-up you or anything, it's just so much easier for me to show than tell.

Okay! Now about the shading. I know you wanted to do a minimalistic approach on the shading...at least, that's how it seems. That's totally fine! That's cool. Sometimes less is more. Hell, you could even just go for an anti-aliasing approach (using AA around the lines and not opting to shade at all), but I'm just going to assume you meant to shade it. Like I said, earlier it looked like it was coming from the top-front, so that's what I'll go by! I'm not going to add detailed shading for you, just indicate what should go where just to help a little. (Also tfw you get rid of Litten's head stripes and it suddenly looks almost just like Guntz from Klonoa o A o) Also sorry I just now realized that I corrected the eyes all weird so I re-corrected them. xD

Don't ask about the dithering, I guess I just added that so that its forehead doesn't look shiny.

Again, I probably edited more than I originally intended. Just got carried away! Sorry. But yeah, I didn't choose to shade the lines...so if you want that's not a bad place to continue! :D