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well, in australia, in most places, they park on the street in a lot of areas. lol ill add some garages and drive ways. i take it you dont like it, despaxes, if that was your only comment? :( small update:

lines as in... perspective lines, show where the house/ chimney recedes to? i know, still havnt done those yet. theres something wrong with the perspective, think its the angle of the footpathes on either side of the road, but cant figure out how to fix it

update:medium sized update. started making linework for an approx bg. angles need to be fixed, lots of stuff looks wrong. going to add gardens, finish the houses, trees, maybe a dog, some mailboxes, rubbish bins, and a mountain scene behind, gonna have snow on the ground if i can master doing snow.. i know its a dodgy idea but its all i could come up with, considering the really dodgy angle of the sleigh and deers. as you can see, its no longer sig-size...

wewt starts on the 15th.. gives me time to finish my xmas pixel!

to be honest, you need the guy who made it to change it. without the PSD file someone would have to try to repair the area by cloning it or hand brushing it in. we cant just select the text and change it

ok. turtle situation is under control, sorry for the delay. and yeah the turtle in my sig is mine on topic; the darkness of this sig really suits it; its kinda misty, and i love it. IMO the text is really simple, but it matches the sig perfectly, especially with the slight blur. not sure if its better than your current sig, cause i love it as well, but its still awesome. very nice work nadril

not worried about aaing atm, cause the bg is going to change. i know, the deer look cloned, though i did do the second one seperatly. will make the one in the bg with its head down, as if its maybe pawing the ground

but id do the dragon so id make it eat you :lol: personally i dont think itll be fair if there are selected topics to do, if its 1 pixeller vs 1 pixeller. if a theme, say, portrait, is chosen, what happens if one person sucks at portraits? the other pixeller will automatically win, but its not fair cause theyre good at different things.... just my opinion, i dont mean to be having a winge

alright, ill enter the comp and not be a judge. i see im not wanted to judge them. just joking :) hope theres a themey thingy with an animal in it...

updated! tried to make the santa look fatter, added the second deer, tried to make the sleigh more 3d. added the dark blue bg to make it easier to see the sleigh and deers

i know i cant be a judge and enter the comp at the same time :wink: i meant if youd rather i was a judge, id be a judge instead of entering the competition. i dont mind being a judge but if you dont want me as a judge ill enter lol.

i tried to pixel turt, but it did her absolutly no justice. turt looks better not pixellated. my beautiful turdle :P thanks for the comments

i vote ayers rock! (maybe cause im biased and im an aussie...)

im in. also, when choosing the judges, is there some way to make sure the judges DEFINENTLY arnt biased? cause... cause... hate to say it... but everyones a fan of MXM and ter, so... yeah.... i mean, i love their/your work guys, but... yeah. um.. ill shuddup now :lol: also, for the comp, can we do animations if we can make it fit into the topic/theme of the pixel? oh, and another thing... if youd rather i judged instead of entered the comp, i can judge i dont mind. going to get owned anyway

:lol: :lol: version wars. lol. can you guys explain why you like either V1 or V2?

awesome thanks again for the tips and ideas. shall cont working on the xmas siggie tomorrow, im tired and going to bed now :) aussie time, i know you guys are probably just waking up now, for the 11th of dec while im going to bed on the 11th.lol ill see if i can lessen the density of the fur, and the rigidness of the ear, see if it looks better. shall also try intensifying the glow around the moon :) unfortunately with the xmas sig i did it at the WORST possible angle, without thinking. i just kinda.. started the linework for a sleigh with no actual idea of what i was going to do. but i still love how my reindeer took. theres surprisingly a lot of different colours, and i had to try to blend them quickly, cause if you look at a ref pic of a reindeer the colours kinda meet abruptly. ah well, think i succeeded to the level i was hoping to! gnight all!

ill AA the moon. never tried AAing before but nows my chance :) ive drawn this wolf twice in rl, both times in colour. the second time i did it, it looked better. i know its kinda overkill; how unusual- a wolf howling in front of a moon. wow-o-wow, how original! lol. its just i love the colours in it, not sure why. ill see if i can fix the chin, eye, and fur up. try to make the fur less... 'carved' and more realistic, and join it to the head properly :oops: thanks for the CC guys! oh.. and part of ma xmas siggie which i started working on again... feel free to suggest anything for it too.. still stuck with a bg.. i kno i still have to make the santa more santa-like, the sleigh more 3D... and yeah.. um.. yeah :-# when i fix 'ze wolf up a bit, ill re post it edit: the re-done wolf is on the first post. any better?

a lot of my comments are similar to pjb's, but ill say em anyway :wink: first of all, i love the trees as they are. at night, in a forest, the tree's would fade to black. as the distance between the flame and the trees increased, the light would increase (which im sure you knew lol) so it would fade to black. you wouldnt keep seeing more and more trees. i vote leave the tree's as they are :) the person seems fine to me, except their upper left arm seems 'crooked' oh, and the nose is kinda pointy :anxious: as pjb said, that butterfly is awesome i love it =P~ a few other things i kinda changed a bit. they may look worse to you, but i thought id try anyway :) to me, the axe stuck in teh logs is too round on the front edge, it looks weird. every time i see this sig, i notice that axe... :-w the part of the lizards right hind leg where it joins the body is at the wrong angle. if a lizard was sitting like that, the joint would be more like it is in my 'edit' i think. not that mines perfect, either :-# also tried to fix the claws on the lizard, as pjb said, they were a bit... bit... 'weird' and made it look as though the lizard had broken its toes. the front claws on both feet are still weird, the claws should be digging into the ground from the position and pose of the lizard. sorry if it sounds like im completly wrong, these are just all my opinions.. feel free to pretend im not here if my suggestions seem completly bizarre. very nice sig, for once i had to look for something to give CC on. well. to try to give CC :lol: very nice job :D

i frequently draw animals in rl; mostly horses, wolves and tigers.maybe the practice has worn off on my pixelling? thanks for the comments :wink: and to be honest, somethings bugging me about the wolf picture. havnt worked out why either :-s

very VERY nice, DH. excellent quality, lots of detail, a great sig. cant really give CC, not many faults to pick. keep up the great work! looking forward to seeing it finished.

made a new avvy. saw a post in the art bazaar about a wolf, so decided to make myself a wolf avvy cause i like wolves :P CC and ratings requested. also, is it better or worse than my current avvy? edit: which is better? V.1 or V.2? V.1 V.2- not much difference. changed the eye a bit, shortened the ear, tried to make the fur look less carved-like and more realistic, tried to make the fur look like it was more attatched to the wolf.

id like to know as well. when i post here, ill get say 5 replies now, and maybe one will have some decent CC in it. 1.) Is there anyone at all left in this forum that wants to do pixel work for free? I started one a little while ago, however it was for a specified rs related signature. i LOATHE having to be told exactly what someone likes (within reason) and having to copy an exact style already made (ie, copying rs pictures and making them as pixel sigs) if i see ideas that i like, i will make free pixel sigs. and i think mine are classified as semi-quality? no offense, but better than most of the ones being posted in the gallery now? 2.) If you answered Yes to the first question, then please answer this too. What motivates you to make a pixel work for free, even though there are other forums that you can go and sell your talent? Well, believe it or not, i like to help people. if someone sounds honest, helpful and like a cool person (IMO) id like to help them. if theyre rude, demanding and selfish, i will refuse to help them, IMO they dont deserve it. for me, if someone says "thanks for the sig, and for helping me" or something like that, or just a simple 'thankyou' its enough reward for me. 3.) If you are able to make other types of signature, like abstract, or vector, etc... Why don't you make some for people for free every now and then?[/b] only just started with abstracts, so theyre not good enough to make and give away at the moment 4.) Is there anyone in here interested in bringing back the Tip.it community Pixel signature collabs? if someone starts it, ill pitch in as often as i can. How do you feel about the general atmosphere of the Gallery and the Art Bazaar? Hostile? Welcoming? Boring? So and so? please post anything you feel describes your perception of it. Not sure. lol :oops: How do you feel about the quality of work being posted at the forum? when sig selling was still allowed, the great pixellers were here, and when they posted for CC it was WORTH looking at. now, no offense, a lot of the work here isnt nearly as good, yet people are giving say 10/10 for a piece of work which would have recieved a 1/10 ages ago. the quality of pixels has declined signifigantly IMO. however the abstracts etc have improved, i prefer them much more now.

do you mean the neck of the reindeer? i used a reference pic of a 'deer to see where the different colours start and stop. if the harness wasnt there it'd look better.. i think.. lol. considering doing a reindeer without the harness cause i like how it turned out :)

its a pupil, not a retina :) the char seems to have small eyes and a large mouth? or is that me? :-s and im glad my neck isnt that narrow! my head would fall off :shock:

i love it :P ah cant comment now brb turtles trying toi get outa her tank