Gray workout

Soala · #1 02-18-2010, 09:09 PM

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All type of comments on this are welcome.

I'm trying to work a lot with gray colours on my graphics since I've never done anything using that much of gray, so I figured I'd try and make something out of gray only !
I am trying to keep quite a classic style, and got some inspiration from pics1 castle tiles.
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(The top of it is supposed to hold some "magic" fire by the way, which is why I made it like a plate.)

DustyPorViva · #2 02-18-2010, 10:07 PM

Gray is bad

Soala · #3 02-18-2010, 10:22 PM

thanks ;_;

This will be used in some ruins tho, or an underground dungeon, so I can't see why I'd make it in any other colour.
There will be lights npcs on it anyway.

SalfordJamesBoii · #4 02-18-2010, 10:24 PM

Nice. It'd look good in a castle or something too.

DustyPorViva · #5 02-18-2010, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by alexandralove

thanks ;_;

This will be used in some ruins tho, or an underground dungeon, so I can't see why I'd make it in any other colour.
There will be lights npcs on it anyway.

Gray is just dull and lifeless, no matter where you place it or what you do it it. If it's going in ruins, better to give it the slightest tint of brown to give it some life. Gray is just not a color you should be using much, if at all.

Crono · #6 02-18-2010, 10:55 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...kyrkan2007.jpg

am i doin it right

Cloven · #7 02-18-2010, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Crono

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...kyrkan2007.jpg

am i doin it right

Excellent realism!

Immolate · #8 02-19-2010, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Gray is bad

Yeah, I agree. Even objects with a gray colour will have some of the ambient colour blended with it, no matter what.

tempandrew · #9 02-19-2010, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by alexandralove

thanks ;_;

This will be used in some ruins tho, or an underground dungeon, so I can't see why I'd make it in any other colour.
There will be lights npcs on it anyway.

It'd be a good idea to have vines of some sort if it's a ruins. If it's an underground dungeon, a brown tint would be nice. Though I disagree with these guys, gray can look good in dungeons as long as everything isn't gray.

Gray torches kind of make sense. So just give it a small amount of brown tint and I think it'd look fine.

DustyPorViva · #10 02-19-2010, 09:36 PM

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Though I disagree with these guys, gray can look good in dungeons as long as everything isn't gray.

And I have to disagree completely

Gray has its uses rarely, but should hardly ever be a base color, no matter if it's dominating the scene or not.

tempandrew · #11 02-19-2010, 10:29 PM

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And I have to disagree completely

Gray has its uses rarely, but should hardly ever be a base color, no matter if it's dominating the scene or not.

Really? I feel that Grey works good with a bronzish (like castle tiles) background. Like say, the castle staircase top tile used as flooring, with Gray torches lined up to something would work pretty well.

EDIT: That being said I would consider a brown tint an improvement.

DustyPorViva · #12 02-19-2010, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by tempandrew

Really? I feel that Grey works good with a bronzish (like castle tiles) background. Like say, the castle staircase top tile used as flooring, with Gray torches lined up to something would work pretty well.

EDIT: That being said I would consider a brown tint an improvement.

Typically you'll want to add a tint to go with whatever you're doing. If it's going to be with bronze, aka metallic, usually a slight blue will make it look more specular, like silver. Red in gray portrays a rusted hue, green can look natural... so on and so forth. These are basic color theories from the colors themselves(brown is earthen, blue is metallic and cold, red is warm, green is natural... so on and so forth), that is just expanded and should be molded with gray. However, gray is naturally a neutral color, and if you're looking for something neutral than by all means... but by itself is a very boring thing to look at, especially if not used efficiently(see Delteria's port town).

There was a link on pixelation a while ago that had a bunch of colors and what personalities and such they were most related to... wish I could find it.

WhiteDragon · #13 02-20-2010, 01:10 AM

I think grey can be a really powerful color when used as the neutral, and I don't think it needs a shade to it to pull off that role. This is primarily because a lot of other colors stick out real well against a spectrum of greys, so it can be used to provide emphasis to a specific part of the work and at the same time change the ambiance.

anubis_wing · #14 02-20-2010, 03:22 AM

Gray isn't bad, it goes with almost any colour and can really make the other colours around it pop, giving it more character.

Demisis_P2P · #15 02-20-2010, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by anubis_wing

Gray isn't bad, it goes with almost any colour and can really make the other colours around it pop, giving it more character.

like when i wear my grey jeans with my green tshirt. poppin fresh brah.

Imperialistic · #16 02-20-2010, 04:45 AM

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like when i wear my grey jeans with my green tshirt. poppin fresh brah.

.... really

Crow · #17 02-20-2010, 11:14 AM

The problem is that people tend to use too much gray. There isn't really pure gray in nature, either. Usually, there are always some green or brown bits on things like stones, they are mossy and so on. And shadow's are not black either, they are mostly blueish, which takes away from the gray in nature even more.