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5/12/18 and Art Progression

Added 2018-05-12 22:34:45 +0000 UTC

Hey peeps, it's been a while.

I've been stewing over school, planning for the game, and working on the art style for SQII. Between those 3, it's been hard to focus on one thing and show off any substantial progress, but here's something. Some of you might have seen this on the Aotk discord the other day where I posted it to the WIP section. This is my attempt at a high-res anime style for the artwork for the game. Originally for Discipline Delivered, what I did was draw all of the art in resolution. Since I'm such an art novice, I didn't realize how much better things tend to look if you just draw them in higher resolutions and scale them down. So that's what I decided to test with this picture. The one I posted is about 800x800 pixels, while the size of the face in the game is about 200x200. This picture shrunk down to that size loses a lot of detail, but it's still way better than the hot garbage I had originally.

I had originally wanted to improve all of the art in DD to this degree, but I figured that skipping that and going back to SQII would be a better use of time. So either later tonight, or tomorrow you can expect a similar preview of the main character from SQI which I plan to use for the demo I have planned. It won't be in the same style as above, however it will have about as much detail.