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Ok this will be the post I keep editing. So far so good :) that center mountain that uber pointy is a little unrealistic but it will work. Itll look fantasyish

My vote goes to Iglw. It may have some human anatomy issues and the dragon may not look as fierce as it could be but its got the most detail in it out of all the entries IMO. Its got attention to detail in even the little places :)

I have an idea, start a new one. Every time you finish a step post the new progress in your comment (keeping editing the comment every time you improve) Every time you finished a step from the guide ill tell you if it looks good, what needs improvement and then you can move onto the next step :) Good plan?

It just takes time :) Ill try to find you my first pixels and youll see what I mean. They were terrible :D

Im going to give you a tip that helped me a ton starting out. Secret method (kind of cheating but nobody will get mad at you for this method); -Find a simple-ish landscape picture -Save it and open it in paint -Color over it with the paintbrush until its all covered and theres no remains of the original picture and its all broken down into solid colors you painted That will help you get realistic landscapes down :) I did that for a while. I did this really quick to show you what I meant. I took the image, shrunk it down (too much but you get the idea) and then filled it in with solid colors. Now all I have to do is shade it.

If anybody wants to use this as their siggy let me know what you want in the thought bubble and ill type it in and send it your way :)

Dont worry about expectations :P I want to help you get better! I had pixel artists that used to frequent these forums help me alot when I started out.

I can confirm it, its one of the ROW drops. Its not unique to greater demons as it is a new (been out for months though) drop added to the new rare drop table. Greater demons just happen to drop items from that said table.

I dont know why but the Mark II has such a unique style to its photos. You can look at pictures and almost instantly know it was taken with a mk II. Im Nashville by the way if you didnt already know

Ew what a creeper you take pictures of random strangers :lol: -I hate you and your expensive camera. -Nice photos though. -The first 1 seems like the people werent entirely focused. Lrn2ManualFocus -All kidding aside, theyre really nice B&W's. PS. I bought a Canon T3i. PSS. I dont have photoshop because im a poor man. Whats a free program I can use to open up/edit my RAW photo files. -C14

-I was 10 when I started playing. -Ive been banned for botting because I was using hot keys to talk in world 2. One key would type a whole sentence; not botting but they still got me. -I was 12 when I got perm banned for it. -When your 10 the sexual stuff goes over your head. -Your nickname on here is the "Dirty Devil", does she know you like to be a dirty devil? -I dont know you, so I cant knock your parenting methods but ^ that speaks volumes.

I dont know why but I like those corny pictures people post in threads to troll with things like "dont feed the troll" or "lolwut" titled at the bottum. So I figured itd be cool to make a pixel one. I dont really know what to post in the little text bubble so if anybody has something funny for me to write in it please tell me :thumbsup: . Otherwise here it is; C/c and all the jazz :cool: -C14 EDIT: Added a smiling one.

^ I talked to Tripsis about it and if all goes well we'll have an announcement for the voting :) I found this at PixelJoint, thought id share it. This is incredible :blink:

one of the frames is too long. I dont know if you did that intentionally but when the figure points the sword straight up it lingers for a long time. Looking forward to seeing this :) If you ever need help with the game let me know. If it ends up being that 2D style like Maplestory perhaps I could help you with the backgrounds? ;) Cant wait to see what you come up with.

Hey I made a rough WIP and I have no plans on finishing it all the way but ill give you this option. Ill call this 1/3 finished, if you can get it to 2/3 finished ill help you get it 3/3 finished if you send it back to me :) That is of course if you want it :P If he doesnt want to collab this with me and somebody else does just pm me if your interested!

Omni: Its been taken care of. Vroqren: No I didnt just leave ive been busy. Tripsis: Sorry Ive been kind of swamped with IRL stuff. VOTING TIME Everyone is encouraged to vote for their favorite pixel art from the first post! Everyones vote will count at 1 point. I have however selected a few people who shall serve as "Official Judges" and those peoples votes count as 3 votes if they so choose to participate in the voting :) Rules: -If you have entered in the contest you cannot vote! -You MUST have at least a post count of 50 (to avoid anybody making fresh accounts and voting for themselves) -If we find anybody is cheating through creating multiple accounts or any other method we feel inappropriate then they will be removed from the contest. Official Judges: -Myself -Tripsis -Sam -Shiny -Pat_61 Voting will end June 18th. Goodluck everyone! PLEASE CONSIDER THESE BEFORE VOTING: -Overall time put into the piece (yes you can tell who spent more time) -Depth (Is there a foreground, mid ground, background) -Detail (amount of colors, shading, attention to anatomy are some) Please dont vote on a piece because you "like it" or because its "badass". Try to vote on the best artistic work.

Wow everyones are looking fantastic :D IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO ENTER IT MUST BE IN BY THE END OF TODAY. Then the voting shall begin :thumbsup: Thanks everyone for helping fire up the gallery. If youd like to be awesome x 1000000, you could make a thread in the gallery and give away the sig you made in this contest. That way more sigs made in the gallery can be used around the forums and less of those ugly stat generator sigs :shame:

They should make a much bigger tutorial island, something you actually play on for level 3-10 or something. Kind of like how maplestory and WoW (for the night elves) have it set up. That would make the new players work together to learn the game, and then if your not new and just making a new character you can just walk to the town on the island and take a boat off it to the mainland.

Looks good thus far :) my only suggestion is if your going for a sunset sky, make the mountains dark blue, purple or something other than orange. that way they contrast with the sky more.

the guy reminds me of Heman :lol:

I extended the dealine to give everyone a solid month from the start of the contest :) So you still have time!

^Id say the body is out of proportion. The legs are huge, but the heads tiny, and then the bandos shoudler pad is tiny too. But still, one of the better ones ive seen :thumbsup: nice job shading. The shading for me is really what makes the sig look superb

Looks good for being your third pixel :) My only advice thus far would be to lose the runescape locations. Jagex pretty much sucks when it comes to geography and the game looks like it was mapped out by 3 year olds. Try putting your own spin on the locations to make them more realistic/fantasyesque Love: The Cape The Text The Trees (although they could use a smidge more bark-like texture) Needs Improvement IMO: Try different shading for armor as that gradient trick doesnt always work goodluck :) -C14

I just figured he saved it as a .Jpeg and thats what made it that way :P I guess ill take him out then.

Is it an overhead "birds eye view"? If so, I think the rocks were copied and colored over from rs too. Youve got the right idea for lava flow and everything but id suggest doing a different perspective. Maybe have it from the ground view or even just eye level.