Research Phase for Line Graphics

I decided the choose a revolver for my pixel art project. I did this because there wasn't a whole lot I could of used to make into pixel art. The game takes place in the desert so besides a Mesa or maybe a cactus there isn't a whole lot of inanimate objects I could use. I figured the guns were probably the most well recognized and important tools in the game and therefore should be my first priority.

Here is the background image I used:

As you can see it was an Old West style revolver just like the main character uses in The Gunslinger. The details aren't that important but it was this style gun that I want to the main weapon.

I took it and made it into a frame with a palette:

I'm not sure why the image has different lines dark and other lighter. On photoshop it looks much better, I will try to fix it for thursday but for now the basic elements are there. The colors I used also directly correlate to the background and landscape of the game. Much like the environment that Roland is in, the gun has the same basic colors of the desert (yellow, brown, grey, black.) I wanted this to be a direct representation of that.

Here I think I fixed it: