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Description Yes, this icon is for free usage and can be used by everyone on DeviantArt! Feel free to use it as your icon here on dA. But don't edit in any way and don't claim as your own work. Such actions are strictly prohibited.
Giving credit to an artist (me) in signature is not nesesarry, but much appreciated~

Да, эта иконка для свободного использования и может быть использована на ДэвиантАрте кем угодно! Вы можете свободно поставить это в качестве иконки здесь на дА. Однако никаким образом не редактируйте и не присваивайте работу себе. Подобные действия строго запрещены.
Упоминание автора (меня) в подписи не обязательно, но очень приветствуется~


EDIT 31/07/2013
It is actually one of my first attempts to pixel an icon. I'm not sure if it is more or less quality. I have a feeling I failed. That's why I need your critique, guys. I need to know my mistakes in order to avoid them in the future.

Done for the #CuteAvvieOverload 's Avvie Theme Park Summer Challenge . The theme of this month is Fairies and Fairytales.
I thought what can I do about it and the idea suddenly came to my head. I've drawn Cheburashka from a story by Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky. It is a kind of a fairytale for children, so it suits the challenge's theme.
In general, Cheburashka is a well-known character among the Russian-speaking people. I like his appearance: it is simple, but funny and cute. That is a second reason why I decided to draw him ^_^
There is also an old cartoon about this character which is one of my favourite cartoons of childhood. And not mine only, I'm sure.


Enjoy now~


ПРАВКА 31/07/2013
На самом деле это одна из моих первых попыток сделать пиксельную иконку. Я не уверена, является ли она более-менее качественной. У меня такое ощущение, что я зафейлилась. Поэтому мне нужна ваша критика, народ. Мне нужно знать свои ошибки, чтобы стараться избегать их в будущем.

Сделано для Avvie Theme Park Summer Challenge группы #CuteAvvieOverload . Тема месяца - Феи и Сказки.
Я подумала, чего бы такого можно было бы замутить и идея не заставила себя долго ждать. Я нарисовала Чебурашку из книги советского писателя Эдуарда Успенского. Это что-то вроде сказки для детей, так что подходит под тему конкурса.
В целом, Чебурашка - довольно известный среди русскоязычного населения персонаж. Мне нравится его внешний вид: вроде бы и простой, но забавный и милый. Это вторая причина, почему я решила нарисовать именно его ^_^
Также есть старый мультфильм про этого персонажа, который является одним из моих любимых мультфильмов детства. И не только моего, я в этом уверена.


Наслаждайтесь~


Cheburashka © Eduard Uspensky
Art © =Firey-Flamy
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Comments: 40

RoboticMasterMind [2013-07-31 14:47:05 +0000 UTC]

Overall

Vision

Originality

Technique

Impact


Okay I'm going to start with the good first.

The shape or the pixels are very smooth, there is not too many places where it looks blocky. The detail on the character is well done, and the variety of colors was very well chosen. The character itself you can easily see the facial features very clearly.

Now the bad.

The outline for the character you can hardly see at all. Since the flower is white and transparent. It's not very noticeable with the DA color layout. It takes some squinting to try to make out the flower. Instead probably using a color such as a light yellow for either the flower or outline to make the flower more visible to the eye.

The proportions of the arm holding the flower should be a little smaller, like the other arm. If the character were to stand up, the arm would reach all the way down to the floor and almost touch the ground.

The pixels are pretty well done, but there could be more of the gradient effect to make it pop a little more. With adding maybe a little more highlights to it like on the feet, and possibly even the arm.

Otherwise it's a very cute icon. Clean, smooth, and very well done.
Hope you found this helpful e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=" (Smile)"/>

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FireyFlamy In reply to RoboticMasterMind [2013-07-31 15:37:48 +0000 UTC]

>>The outline for the character you can hardly see at all.<<


You mean that white outline, if I understand right? Well, I noticed it on some icons by other artists and thought to use it, too. But, yes, it is hardly visible. Do you think it will be better if I remove it?


>>Since the flower is white and transparent. It's not very noticeable with the DA color layout. It takes some squinting to try to make out the flower. Instead probably using a color such as a light yellow for either the flower or outline to make the flower more visible to the eye.<<


According to my initial idea, Cheburashka is holding a camomile. Because I love camomiles. These flowers look childish x")

Anyway, I agree with you. Not sure about yellow, but maybe light blue will look better than white?


>>The pixels are pretty well done, but there could be more of the gradient effect to make it pop a little more. With adding maybe a little more highlights to it like on the feet, and possibly even the arm.<<


Frankly speaking, I think I haven't got it. ^_^"

You mean, I should add more highlights as I did on the right ear? I had such an idea earlier, but was afraid it won't look well o_O




Aaaaand thank you very much for your critique

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RoboticMasterMind In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-31 16:27:26 +0000 UTC]

You mean that white outline, if I understand right? Well, I noticed it on some icons by other artists and thought to use it, too. But, yes, it is hardly visible. Do you think it will be better if I remove it?

I think it should probably just have a more visible color so you can see it better and that it doesn't clash with the camomile (I obviously don't know anything about flowers :'D)

According to my initial idea, Cheburashka is holding a camomile. Because I love camomiles. These flowers look childish x")

Anyway, I agree with you. Not sure about yellow, but maybe light blue will look better than white?

Since I don't really know anything about flowers or this type of one, I guess it's up to you
maybe tweak it a little a see which colors looks best.

Frankly speaking, I think I haven't got it. ^_^"

You mean, I should add more highlights as I did on the right ear? I had such an idea earlier, but was afraid it won't look well o_O

Trying and testing to see if something would look better is always a good idea when drawing. ^^

Also no problem


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FireyFlamy In reply to RoboticMasterMind [2013-07-31 16:46:19 +0000 UTC]

I'll take this into account (:

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dedsunduk [2013-08-14 16:15:30 +0000 UTC]

Очень хорошая работа

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FireyFlamy In reply to dedsunduk [2013-08-14 16:19:37 +0000 UTC]

Спасибо, я старалась (:

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dedsunduk In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-08-14 17:03:39 +0000 UTC]

И не зря)

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DawnroseofRedwall [2013-07-25 14:49:05 +0000 UTC]

Aaaaaaaaaaaah, my childhood! This and Nu pogodi were like awesum!!!!

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FireyFlamy In reply to DawnroseofRedwall [2013-07-25 14:59:13 +0000 UTC]

Yay! I'm glad you remember it, too Agreed

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DawnroseofRedwall In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-25 19:20:49 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, how can I forget all those?

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FireyFlamy In reply to DawnroseofRedwall [2013-07-28 08:32:29 +0000 UTC]

^_^

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MovieCatMar [2013-07-25 14:18:11 +0000 UTC]

I remember watching that when I was little

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FireyFlamy In reply to MovieCatMar [2013-07-25 14:26:48 +0000 UTC]

Здорово) Я очень рада, что многие, глядя на эту иконку, вспоминают детство ^^

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MovieCatMar In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-25 14:29:43 +0000 UTC]

yea...

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Prettyxmouse [2013-07-25 14:11:40 +0000 UTC]

I didn't even know they had something like this on dA..

I'm Russian and when I was little I used to watch the cartoon so many times, it brings me my childhood memories ;u;~

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-25 14:23:54 +0000 UTC]

Wow, really? That's awesome~

Yeah, the childhood... sweet childhood... :")

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Prettyxmouse In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-25 14:25:28 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thank you darling >u<~
Someone understands childhood! :'D

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-25 14:38:03 +0000 UTC]

No problem

By the way, it's interesting for me to meet English-speaking people who are actually Russians and/or spent their childhood in Russia

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Prettyxmouse In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-25 14:42:43 +0000 UTC]

Is it? Hehe, well I am Russian and I actually moved to England when I was 8.. So now many people say I have no Russian accent and they also say that I am better at spelling than the people who were actually born in England >u<~ It's quite funny to be honest, I am really horrible at typing in Russian than I am in English..

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-25 14:55:15 +0000 UTC]

Lol xD Well, I think it can be, since when you live in environment where the certain language is spoken and written by everyone, you get used to this language faster.

Personally, I'm learning English at school for about 10 years already. I'm sure I still have mistakes, but I don't always notice them.


So, you still remember Russian, right? (:

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Prettyxmouse In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-25 15:30:06 +0000 UTC]

My other Russian friend (Who is also on dA) moved to England after me when she was 11, and she still has an accent and many flaws in her writing. I just think that if you learn a certain language from a young age, you learn it much quicker than when you are older. ~

And yes, I do very well remember Russian, I just can't type very well with the keyboard >U< But otherwise, yes I do remember it like I remember the English language. :3~

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-28 08:47:54 +0000 UTC]

Тогда я, пожалуй, по-русски отвечу, если вы понимаете) А то я всё-таки по-русски куда лучше изъясняюсь, чем по-английски :")


Да, согласна. Возраст, конечно, тоже на это очень влияет.

А писать по-русски вы можете? В смысле, не печатать, а писать, вручную?)

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Prettyxmouse In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-28 13:04:20 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, it's pretty fun to meet someone who can speak and write better than in English, it fascinates me :''D~

Hmm.. to be quite honest with you, I haven't hand-written anything in Russian for a really long time! But I would think that I could still write some few simple phrases once in a while ~

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-31 16:19:15 +0000 UTC]

Надо же. Ну, спасибо :")


Ещё вопрос из любопытства: а используете ли знание русского где-нибудь? Или обычно не приходится?)

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Prettyxmouse In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-31 16:36:20 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, no problems at all my friend ;u;!

Oh yes I do, most of the time it's either with my family or some friends, but sometimes I talk or either use Russian on some artworks, or with my friends on the internet   

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-31 16:49:46 +0000 UTC]

Понятненько ^_^ 

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Prettyxmouse In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-31 17:58:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for taking your time writing me replies! I enjoyed talking to you! ~

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FireyFlamy In reply to Prettyxmouse [2013-07-31 17:58:56 +0000 UTC]

И вам спасибо, я очень рада)))

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Pixel-Nerdess [2013-07-25 13:43:46 +0000 UTC]

Часто смотрела эти несколько мультфильмов в детстве!~<3 А вообще - на Дэве вроде как не очень много иконок/авок с Чебурашкой.Поэтому оно актуально.

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FireyFlamy In reply to Pixel-Nerdess [2013-07-25 14:22:25 +0000 UTC]

Да, реально не так уж и много. Ну, мы немного улучшили ситуацию

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Soul-of-Winter [2013-07-25 12:20:15 +0000 UTC]

Он очень милашный :3 И ромашка радует..)) Молодец ^^

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FireyFlamy In reply to Soul-of-Winter [2013-07-25 14:21:21 +0000 UTC]

Спасибо Убила на это целый день, внезапно настрой возник. Старалась ((=

Пиксельарт - это вообще такое дело... вроде бы и запарное, но в то же время интересно *о*

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Soul-of-Winter In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-25 15:01:16 +0000 UTC]

Даа, бывает такой неожиданный и удачный настрой о3о
Согласна..а ты в какой программе пикселей рисуешь?)

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FireyFlamy In reply to Soul-of-Winter [2013-07-25 15:09:13 +0000 UTC]

Фотошопик, всё он) Что арты, что пиксельарты - всё в нём, родимом х)

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Soul-of-Winter In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-26 17:54:54 +0000 UTC]

Ахаха, наверное мне пора бы уже его скачать А ты каким пользуешься?

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FireyFlamy In reply to Soul-of-Winter [2013-07-26 18:13:34 +0000 UTC]

CS5

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Soul-of-Winter In reply to FireyFlamy [2013-07-26 18:28:48 +0000 UTC]

Отлично С: Оно у меня на флэшке осталось)

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FireyFlamy In reply to Soul-of-Winter [2013-07-28 07:08:16 +0000 UTC]

Это хорошо)

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izzymarty [2013-07-25 12:05:15 +0000 UTC]

My childhood, oh my god. /);u;(\

I love this so much!

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FireyFlamy In reply to izzymarty [2013-07-25 14:19:43 +0000 UTC]

Ага-ага... думаю, у многих возникают ассоциации с детством)))

Спасибо ^_^

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