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A tranquil, almost fantastical crystal cave.
First, I started with simple depth in the scene by layering. You use decreasing saturation and brightness for each further layer. The main problem is that I started with incredibly dark tones.
Saturated colors and brightness make an artwork stand out of the sea of art. In cases where you need to use a lot of desaturated or dark colors, you can balance out the composition with some strong contrasts. Moreover, often when posting my art online, I notice that it's more bleak than what it was while I was painting it.
Secondly, I had to decide what the cave would contain. I considered between a gold mine, underground lake and crystal cave. As I had only few hours to get the painting done, I decided the easier and shiniest option: crystal cave.
As the background is very blue and cold, warm colored crystals will stand out best. I chose pink over yellow or orange, because of my personal preference. Red would look more like rubies, which are different shape and less abundant than crystals.
I concentrated on having variety of crystal shapes over making each look perfect. This makes the cave look more natural and takes me less time to draw. Moreover, to save time I used many layers several layer adjustments. This allowes me to adjust things later and to modify the composition easily.
For the light rays I used "overlay" blend mode as it looked more appealing than just using low opacity. Also it's light blue color not simply white, adding more saturation to the painting.
After the crystals and a bit of mushrooms, I felt the objects were too repetitive so I added a pickaxe. Conveniently it also provides an approximate scale reference for the viewer. Using a human for scale is a common and very useful trick, but using a recognizable object works just as well and it's easier.
Finally, I kept the animation very simple, with only 4 frames. However, a little shine and light dust nicely complete the whole scene.
All of the art in this post was made by me, copyright @kristyglas
Thank you for reading!
Cool, it reminds me of the good old day, where pixel art ruled in video games like Indiana Jones or Prince of Persia
Hey ^^ if you have time please check out the voting for this contest here :D I think you'll enjoy all the artworks. Thank you!
Thank you ^^ There are still many new indie pixelart games being made that are really awesome. So many different art styles too :D
Did it!
Thank you! :D
Do you know like a website where to find them?
Humble Bundle
and Steam :D The best sales are summer and winter.
and some of my recommendations
Thanks!!
Wonderful artwork, the cave looks like it's under water, nice lightning and effect.
Thank you! Now that you mention it, it does sort of does look like it's underwater. Maybe I shouldn't have animated the light ^^
Hey :D my art was picked for finalist here, please check out if you can ^^
Damn you are really good in this pixelart style.
Thank you! :D
Hey ^^ the voting has started here if you can check it out, thank you :D
really good one! I'd love to jump'n'run through it :D
Thank you :D haha
Even before adding the mushrooms it looks like a finished work, great!
Thank you :D Yeah, but extra details help keep it interesting ^^
When will you be making more posts? ^^
Oh, uni got in the way a little bit last two weeks so I kept the pixeling to simple practice sprites. Thanks for asking.
I'm thinking on joining this week pixel contest, the difficulty seems to have risen a lot lately.
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I love all your pixel art! you should get in contact with a programmer to make a game :D
Thank you haha. My husband is a programmer and we are making a game with a couple of other people ;D
Also thank you for voting!