[Thinking about buying a tablet...]

About the programs

 

Dont bother buying oC ( Open Canvas ) or ArtRage

 

oC v4.5 is the latest but costs $69

 

 

 

oC v1.1 is freeware and is available around the net ( googling will do the job )

 

another thing - oc 1.1 has a feature 4.5 doesnt - network support ( doing collaborative work over the net )

 

 

 

I googled for you

 

go to

 

Steps to get oC v1.1

 

1 ) Go to http://www.warpaint.se

 

2 ) Press Download

 

3 ) Press Download Installer

 

4 ) Wait for the download to complete and install

 

 

 

Now you have oC 1.1 along with warpaint server software

 

Check warpaint.se for info about what the server is

[Thinking about buying a tablet...]

i dont suggest shelling out that much on a professional standard tablet

 

go for a cheap local one instead

 

i got mine for Indian Rupees 2,500 ( approx USD 50 )

 

and its not one of those big time branded ones but it is really great. I might buy an expensive wacom later, but for students i recommend cheap ones.

[Thinking about buying a tablet...]

i suggest to make sure u take a tablet

 

trust me, anyone who wants to go into gfx will greatly be benefited by one

 

i know people dont use tablets while pixelling but other stuff sure needs it

 

especially if u airbrush in photoshop

[jagex's big mistake]

they are linked directly to jagex page so i think jagex is not allowing them to be shown

 

here reuploaded on imageshack ( links in quote changed to imageshack ones )

 

 

I beleive that these pictures have quite a bit to tell...

 

 

notice that it never says the character ate in the text box. And yet he's still on tztokjad?

 

and heres another...

 

 

Since when does a castle wars game consist of 5 people?

 

 

The number of rune bolt and arrows are all very precise...

 

I believe that the chat bar at the bottom of the chat box is used to command certain pieces of the game, items skills,ect. Also another hint, when coloring your text the ":" is used to tell the text to turn that color.

 

If anyone puts enough work into this I think you will be able to manipulate your accounts items,skills,and such.

 

 

 

if the pictures dont show right click on the image icon and select view image

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agreed with nardil

 

 

 

too many renders = too confusing and jumbled

 

 

 

in most cases you cant guess wheres the start of the particular render and wheres the end

 

 

 

i did a sig 500 X 200 with a total 6 renders ( was real crappy but who cares )

 

 

 

but to make sure it was not jumbled, i had 3 renders on one side and 3 on the other

 

 

 

and to add up, first side was staring at the second one who was staring back.

 

 

 

So it looked like they gonna jump to kill each other any moment

 

 

 

but still it was not really good to look at

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to end up, i will say "too may renders spoil the sig" ( we cant have cooks here can we ? ) :P

[first render i ever cut]

Instructions on doing good renders

 

 

 

1 ) Open Adobe Photoshop

 

 

 

2 ) Open image in Adobe Photoshop

 

 

 

3 ) Select Filters > Extract

 

 

 

4 ) Learn to use extract tool and use it to smoothly cut renders

 

 

 

5 ) Erase excess pixels using a 1-2 px brush

 

 

 

6 ) Smile because you have a great render

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorials for using extract tool

 

 

 

http://www.bluesfear.com/tutorials/extract.php

 

 

 

http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/extracttool.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or another method

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 )Open Adobe Photoshop

 

 

 

2 ) Open image in Adobe Photoshop

 

 

 

3 ) Learn to use pen tool of Adobe Photoshop

 

 

 

4 ) Make a nice polygon around the image with pen tool using Beizer curves

 

 

 

5 ) Right click ( with pen tool still active ) and choose "Make Selection"

 

 

 

6 ) Press OK on the default settings

 

 

 

7 ) Press Ctrl + Shift + I to invert selection

 

 

 

8 ) Press Delete

 

 

 

9 ) Smile because you have a great render

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorials on learning pen tool

 

 

 

http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/ ... l-Tutorial

 

 

 

http://www.tutorialstreet.com/tuts/drawing-paths/

 

 

 

http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/pentool2.asp

 

 

 

http://www.phazongraphics.com/forum/vie ... php?t=2380

 

 

 

http://s11.invisionfree.com/fantazydezi ... wtopic=318

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS : The instructions are so step by step because I expect some hopeless cases to come across my post

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That was for dietokill2 and other people who want to learn to cut renders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now about the image

 

 

 

1 ) Too rough, use small brush sizes when cutting around small/smooth parts

 

 

 

2 ) Post the original as well for people to see how much work it was

[W00t - Some drawings from me]

I have just added a new photoshopped version of Look Behind

 

 

 

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/52247121/

 

 

 

Its fully colored, shaded and highlighted now

 

 

 

Check it out and tell me what you think

[W00t - Some drawings from me]

Thanks for the comments

 

 

 

got rid of it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more comments plz :D

 

 

 

they cant be that bad

[W00t - Some drawings from me]

These are 2 of my old sketches

 

 

 

Drawn with an HB pencil

 

 

 

Then inked with a regular black pen and pencil work erased

 

 

 

here goes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note : The "Original Image" means the well, original image, but rotated and cropped, without change in dimensions.

 

 

 

The "Resized Image" is a resized, smaller version of "Original Image"

 

 

 

And the "Photoshopped Image" is a modification of "Original Image", not much modified, only removed the paper and other stuff, kind of like every stray thing removed, and a minor cropping. Just see and u will understand lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 ) Take A Look Behind

 

 

 

Original Image ( 1.11 MB - 1708 X 2188 ) :

 

 

 

Resized Image ( 562 KB - 800 X 1025 ) :

 

 

 

Photoshopped Image ( 231 KB - 1672 X 2184 ) :

 

 

 

Description : A dragon sitting on a rock kind thing, and a warrior kind of guy jumping out of nowhere from behind to slash him down :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 ) Beat Me Up

 

 

 

Original Image ( 1.48 MB - 1600 X 1716 ) :

 

 

 

Description : A cyborgish guy at the verge of slashing down a noob :D

 

 

 

I seem to have lost the resized and photoshopped one of this one :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yea, i love making fantasy and fights

 

 

 

Well thats all for now

 

 

 

Made them way back ( not enough time to anything else than study these days - exams in march :D )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Out of the two, i like the first one

 

 

 

And they took forever to upload on my ultra slow connection :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C/C Pl0x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

 

 

I just photoshopped the Look Behind and it came out pretty good :D

 

 

 

Here is the deviant link

 

 

 

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/52247121/

[Sketches ( Lots of files! May take a while to load!)]

u sure know how to do some good graffiti

 

 

 

and yea, i do it all time while taking notes :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the only c/c i have is :-

 

 

 

use color and make em in a drawing file instead of notebooks

 

 

 

and yea , study :P

[Did a vector poster - Plus a pixel version 19/02/07]

great vector

 

 

 

and i agree with tjbart - shade and highlight the hair a little.

 

 

 

[offtopic]yea i saw his myspace, and his avatar is a rough portrait of him :D

[A knight to celebrate with.]

first off...

 

 

 

CONGRATZ :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now bout the image

 

 

 

well its messing around so i cant give much c/c on it

 

 

 

yea but i can say its a lil nice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but i sure expect ur future works to be like ur awesome pixels

[Goblin Painting and a wierd alien head]

oh.. come on

 

 

 

it cant be that bad

 

 

 

oh.. and btw

 

 

 

i just noticed that the nose of the goblin looks a lil wierd around the middle

[Goblin Painting and a wierd alien head]

Hi

 

 

 

I thought i will try my hand at painting

 

 

 

made a nice little goblin

 

 

 

no tablet - mouse only

 

 

 

around an hour or less

 

 

 

heres the original goblin i came up with in the end

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

after tweaking of the hue, saturation and brightness a little, heres what i came up with. looks better according to me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh.. and the wierd alien head

 

 

 

 

 

 

another with transparent bg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for info on how to make those curvy lines in the alien head, check here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c/c plz

[Drawings I Have Done In School Or At Home (Warning- Big)]

the only one i like is the boney hand

 

 

 

i dont mean to be rude but the others look like drawn by a real young kid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the dragon one, he looks like a kid coz his face is too big compared to the rest of him

 

 

 

the wings look like fixed instead of being able to make him fly

 

 

 

click here for help on making wings ( i did not make the tut, its a demon wing tut but works for dragons too )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the strongest man alive, the anatomy is too off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the expressionless warrior, his anatomy is a lil better, but only of the upper body ( except face of course )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is all the cc i cud give

[|\/\/| Um trying to digi paint....Done!]

wow

 

 

 

great for a first time at digi painting

 

 

 

ur prev work was awesome

 

 

 

I really like the hair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice work on the hue shifts on highlighting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but around the shading, u have just darkened it, i mean if u have added hue changes while highlighting, there shud be some for shading as well

 

 

 

a lil will do

[Pixelers School (no student spots left)]

edit : nice idea

 

 

 

( wrote some useless dumb big text earlier )

[|\/\/| Ze Werewolf Attacks!]

great one but i meantt the full size one of this one and not the drawing topic one

 

 

 

anyway i like those big ones :D

[72 new mini pixels and mini font. UPDATE 37! (21-07-07)]

always admired your pixels

 

 

 

but after going through them i must say one thing

 

 

 

your style of anatomy is a lil wierd

 

 

 

almost all ur characters' upper - upper body is way too wide and lower- upper body is way to thin

 

 

 

i mean the area around the chest is wide and around the stomach is way too thin

 

 

 

gives a fall sense of huge male breasts lol

 

 

 

think you should start working on the anatomy

 

 

 

i mean its not really that bad but needs to shape up a lil

 

 

 

best of luck

[|\/\/| Ze Werewolf Attacks!]

Yup i play cs too :D

 

 

 

but Gunz The Duel is gettin a larger part of me these days :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ontopic]Great work on the saliva of the wolf

 

 

 

When i look at it in the details thing, it looks great ( and scary :P )

 

 

 

after reading your "how i draw" topic, i must ask, did u resize it down ?

 

 

 

As in there u mentioned the nice lil proportions you use

 

 

 

So did you resize this down after making it ?

 

 

 

If yes, it would be great if you would add a link ( a link, not img - will kill dial-up users ) to the full size one

[Dragon W.I.P]

c/c already here

 

 

 

DONT use the line tool that much!

 

 

 

dude there are no curves or nothing

 

 

 

So its too well, too straight

 

 

 

Heres how i think the wings should look

 

 

 

[|\/\/| Ze Werewolf Attacks!]

amazing art

 

 

 

love ur style of mixing anime and realism

 

 

 

the only part that bugs me is that at some places the highlighting is too intense, giving a false sense of plastic

 

 

 

and the dude's fingers look more like rubber ( left hand )

 

 

 

but still its amazing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and i had a look at ur gallery as well

 

 

 

some great artwork

[|\/\/| How I draw (Not a tutorial)]

For those who dont have a Wacom this tutorial might be useful ( shameless self-promotion ) :P

 

 

 

Jkin

 

 

 

I think you could link it up there where ur telling em to use the pen tool - my tut has instructions on how to make those sexy curvy lines with varying widths like when u ink drawings on paper for making a comic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh.. and by the way nice tut ( though the jest's legs are a lil too long )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my tut works for photoshop 7 and above ( coz the particular featuer used is available in 7 and above only )

[3d model - dragon hatchet re-vamp]

nice but i would increase the polygon count and make it smoother

 

 

 

in the render it is too boxy

 

 

 

heres my c/c ( In jpeg form :P )

 

 

 

[Easytoon, i love it..]

Something i tried because of boredom and hapiness of my new ipod :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol its pretty crappy :P