axeraider70

Ah the buddys drew my attention away from the excellent backround! Please take out the buddys and you'll be in buisness. I see a pixeler in the making! Too bad he didn't draw the background...It was made by Aznbulldog, someone who makes buddies (actually makes them, not assembles them) with the skill of almost any pixeler. well see i like it better when they get into the biz and fail because their talents were stolen. Or in my case just not good.

There are three kinds of people in the world. The ones who gladly accept free gifts, the ones who look a gift horse in the mouth, and the ones who shoot the guy giving away free horses because he has nothing better to do. Guess which one Axeraider70 is? :roll: So this helps me go away?

Great photomanip, i wouldnt even begin to know how to make something like that. its frikkin awesome.

Personally, he looks like a monkey but dont take that personally or as cc lol. ANYWAY, Make the shield sideways so you can see the rest of his arm, otherwise hes holding it awkward. I wouldnt hold a shield like that. The eye has no sclera (white part of the eye). i like the body, the whip is nice too. The dragon is good but something about it ruins the sig for me. take out the text, you ruined the sig with it. Instead put it as a quote neatly toward the bottom left with your name on the bottom right corner. make a shadow on the ground by his feet and establish a more "Cavish" lightsource in the cave. brown part of the sign should be shaded as well, dont think you can get away without shading it. Make the string darker, nothing should be that bright in a cave unless its a light source. (same with the walls, cape, and pretty much everything else thats bright) This is just to make it look more realistic, dont follow it if you dont want to. what you need to do is take out the text and fix the shield and youll be in buisness. Thanks.

Alright bro, glad you like the CC! Glad to help artists in the making. Yes the circled area is what i was takling about. You may disagree but it was bugging me. See that kind of corner on the bottom left of the bright area, it goes from light to dark a little quickly. Maybe dither it a little bit with a shade or two to make it flow more. Good job on the border, its one pixel off the bottom but its painful for me to scold you on that lol. Anyway its just a little thing that you can always fix later, right now lets focus on the shading then we can move on to the flame.

Thanks, can we get this thread locked please?

You should rename this to "Shading Tutorial" as i dont see much about sigs. If you taught (spelling?) how to draw people doing certain actions etc, then it would be pixel. i like making small problems known, sorry. Good tutorial, i learned some things about dithering/shading techniques.

Ahem, i should have been more specific. He has no CHIN. Its so lightly shaded that i cant tell the difference and looks like a big thing of skin. and he IS slanted. His arm is turned to his right while his legs and torso are station, whats he looking at? I dont think hes pointing at aything or saying "Voila i killed it". good for considering adding a nose though.

We dont need to gang up on him guys. we know what hes doing wrong and he doesnt want to hear it, so why dont we just not help him at all/ not post/ no cc? he's sinking his own ship here so leave him out to drown.

Ah the buddys drew my attention away from the excellent backround! Please take out the buddys and you'll be in buisness. I see a pixeler in the making!

we dont need to get into a flaming match, my comment upon retrospect was unnecessary to the purpose of making this better. I suppose the idea is too far-fetched for me to give acurate and executable cc.

it looksl like you took a crayon and scribbled, it looks incredibly 2D and has no depth or significant shading. Just alot of unneccisary detail. Its plain and unentertaining, make a sky too. Work on your shading then we can worry about detail.

Yea i suppose the fire does look a bit... dead. Not very lifelike. I will work on it a bit more to see if I can fix it. Any more comments and or criticism? I'm still concerned over his face, so I was wondering what you people think about it. Is it fine? Or is there something I can do to fix it? ~Many thanks Sorry but i just love this piece, so i must crit on it to make it MORE LOVEABLE! lol. anyway, make the white lines at maximum 2 px away from the edges. If you didnt save a copy without the border then SHAME ON YOU. but you can just copy and paste from earlier posts in this thread so no worrys, make the stats closer together (1 px apart) in the bottom lefthand corner The name and face are fine as is but the bright spot on his jackt fight by th flame needs to have more colors fading to dark toward the bottom and those little [bleep]es that protrude from it (towards his torso and lower. Make it likeyou did near his arm. Either that or youd have to make the robe lighter. Dont worry about his face, it looks fine and if you try to fix it i afraid that you might mess it up. But experiment and you might pull off a better one. Thanks! let me know if im getting annoying lol.

you spelled "Maul" Wrong, there already is a Dragon Scimitar ingame, they dont look real and more like a "Vegietales" kind of style. Work on your realism.

It certainly blew his mind though i said my mind. Meaning im giving you my opinion.

nice job copy and pasting a bunch of mis-shot arrows. Dont be so lazy next time and draw each individual one. The archer is flying and the guy's arm is slightly raised meaning he's still alive. You made the cape a gradient, even though it might be shaded its not right. it needs more natural shades and flows.

dont be so cruel monkey. Dont just go over him in hue mode, go over him with hue AND multiply. If its still too dark lightly screen him with an opacity of about 20%. Make it smaller and give it a better border too. Welcome back unknown friend.

in english please, were dealing with newcomers here. But EP gives good advice, yes its bad for a first try but most are so dont let that discourage you.

a good technique is too look at others pixel sigs and fuse them with your own style. copy and paste a sig into paint and zoom in on the shading to see how the effect was so perfectly executed.

too big, too bright, too metal.

Good enough, i can tell your a perfectionist. Thats good, i encourage it. Id say your ready to finish up the sig with a border and some text. But thats your decision. EDIT: AHH! i just noticed. The fire, its icky. Make it taller, more wavy/[bleep]ey and free. The light glowing around it should be bigger too.

such a square body. use more curves and give him depth.

The backround is ruined by the char. Im sorry but you need to recolor those eyes... actually no just take them out please. Hes chubby and has no neck, has no nose, and hes standing kind of slanted like hes leaning on something.

That guy freaks me out.

i believe i made a dragon helm and plate many months ago too... ill try to find the topic..