I'm posting here instead of the Q & A section since it seems quite dead. Apologies if it's still the wrong section.

Ok so i'll start by saying my main problem is colorblindness. I'm not completely color blind, as I can see most colors, I just can't distinguish them well, and it isvery difficult for me to determine the right shades when doing darker/lighter areas of work, I get colors mixed up easily.

I've been doing mainly pixel art.

This is basically how i've been coloring with shades etc, Using the HSL palette instead of RGB. Then when i've been doing my coloring for the darker areas I have just being increasing the darkness, and for lighter areas, simply increasing the lightness of my colors.

Is this a bad way of doing things? What else should I be doing? Increasing/ Decreasing the hue as well? Although its hard for me to adjust it effectively.

This is a tutorial I've been following: http://kiwinuptuo.deviantart.com/art/Pixel-Art-Tutorial-Colors-184802567

I can't even get the colors to look like what he does in the examples.

Any tips/advice would be great. It is starting to be quite frustrating.

That's not a bad idea at all. Due to your deficiency, it's always going to be difficult for you adjust it, because effectively people without the deficiency are going to perceive some of your colors differently.

I wouldn't get too bogged down about it, there have been plenty of very successful artists with color deficiencies/cataracts etc etc. Monet was thought to have been able to see UV light in his post surgery years...

edit; in the tutorial he describes the relation between the hue and brightness. Read it carefully and you should be able to reproduce his colors - all his values (numerical values) are given in the tables.

This post was edited by CHurley on Nov 27 2012 09:57am

Thanks for your post. That's one of my biggest worries, not being able to get the colors as they are meant to be.

Question for everyone:

Here is an example of how i've been practicing my shading, does it look any decent? How could I improve? Not just the colors, but the actual effect, i'm not sure how 3d my ball looks and the cube etc.

I think I actually messed the ball up quite badly looking at the image on here, same with probably the cube. haha

i suggest using gimp or photoshop, no one wants to look at pixelated images anymore.
to be fair though, you did a good job on the top of the box, and the pattern on the rectangle looks cool.

the guy does pixel art, are you retarded?

not entirely. what is the application of pixel art? the demand is quite low as far as i know.

i think they are called hobbies? not to mention hand held video games...

i guess i prefer hobbies that develop skills that i'd like to have in the future...
newer hand held video games usually have much better graphics than pixel art, unless youre talking about old games like digimon

Pixel art will definantly build skills that i'll have in the future. Every pixel is placed for a reason, it takes lots of perfection.

Stuff like this absolutely amazes me: