Faelenof

Haha, it finally got chosen! :D It's about time, too. ;) Congratumalations, xman, knew it'd get picked.

I'm impressed, I actually laughed at most of these (a rare thing for me to do online). :lol: Keep up the great work, I adore #7. :D

To Doom: It is saved as a .png. ;) Aaaand... because it's saved as a .png, that raises a whole different issue. It looks like you've brushed it a little (in Photoshop, I mean), to be honest, or used an obnoxious amount of colours to get teensy-tiny little blendings. From what I can gather from looking at it and zooming in, it looks like you made a shape of a jagged fire initially from a base maroon colour, then used something along the lines of the 3px soft default brush and coloured it that way. Because you used a soft brush, it tends to blend into whatever it is that's underneath it, meaning you get a bazillion more colours than you originally intended - and because this looks technically brushed, it's not a pixel, I'm afraid. :? BUT, if you can actually say you put 1656 unique colours using a 1px hard brush on Photoshop, then I'm proven wrong and it's a pixel. There's another possibility that you initially saved it as a .jpg, and then saved that as a .png, which means your colours were blended due to the .jpg. BUT, that doesn't explain the odd light-shaded bits that come out of the base maroon colour. Good luck. :)

It's 'cause it's true - your pieces all show you, if ya know what I mean. :P And you didn't want crits on this piece so I didn't give you any. :P If you wanted to I know you can explode this with awesomeness but it's up to you. :D

Could I be a judge please, PJB? :) Sounds like an interesting little comp, I'd love to see some good work. :D I'd join myself but I don't have much time at the moment to pixel/digipaint anything great. :( If you don't have enough contestants and too many judges (as that happens a lot during these comps that ask for judges), I may be able to scrounge something up. :P Thanks mate. :D

Good job, PJB, solid style as always. :P The chickens are kinda sorta cute. :D

When I was a member, I used to do a lot of small time merchanting as well, as you put it, although I didn't actually actively say "Selling rope 5k" or whatever. I had a lot of random junk in my bank that just started accumulating, but it certainly saved me a lot of trouble when I needed something odd for a quest (ie, by the time I was up to that huge list of 50 items we needed to give that dwarf for ME2, I already had about 25 of them). I usually just jumped to my bank whenever someone said something along the lines of "Buying molten glass 10k", pulled it out of my bank and sold it to them. I must have made around, oh, 200k doing this all in all in the space of about three or four months of members. Law runes (tons of people buy law runes for 1k ea in members), ropes (once someone offered 10k for one), duelling rings (usually at least 5k ea), the list goes on and on. Tons of people stand in banks selling stuff for outrageous prices, especially when a new quest comes out and the buyer can't be bothered getting it for themselves. I just sell the random junk to people that offer the price. I think it's a waste of time to stand in a bank selling random junk for huge prices (ie, in F2P lots of people sell laws for 1k ea). I just do small time merchanting when there's an opportunity.

Hey Gehackte, Good try for your first pixel, though it looks like you've based it completely on the little icon in the actual Runescape game, though. :( It doesn't look like you've put much more effort than maybe five to ten minutes at the most on that. I suggest you go take a look at the tutorials in The Gallery Rules, FAQ and Resources announcement, and have a read through several of them like Terley's, DementedHero's, etc etc. There's really not much to comment on other than that. Pixel us up a bigger image of something maybe more adventurous than that, then we can give you some tips on improving. Best of luck mate. :D EDIT: Erm, edited a typo out of mine; it made it sound hostile when I really didn't mean it. :P

Beautiful stuff, Cat. :D I've said this once and I'll say it again, your work is amazing. Adore the lighting and colour choices in the new image, the sky and the tree. Also, nice little variation on the blue mask in his pocket; everyone always bases it on the ugly old RS version but I like that one better. :D Hmm, crits... crits... I'm usually able to find at least one thing to point out but at the moment I can't. ;_; Love looking at your work (pixel and non-pixel, because those are amazing too :D), hope to see you pop in more often in the future. :D

Looks great mate, love Starcraft. :D If only my computer was able to play SCII. :( Only little concern is when the Starcraft logo comes up, there's this square around it while it warps in. I guess you can't really do anything about it though. Good job. :)

Underground Pass? I did that at, like, 26 agility, but man, was that painful. I suggest maybe 40+ agility to be safe, but it's easy to do it in the 30's - but there's really no point in not training agility as high as you can, because it helps in everything anyway. :) Good luck with the quest! That was one of my favourites. :D

Locked on request. :) - Faelenof, Tip.It Forum Moderator

Hey mate, good job you're doing helping out Runescape, I wish you the best of luck. :D This topic is in the wrong forum though, I believe, and belongs more in BlogScape than in General, so I'll move it there for you now. :) Please remember to post in the correct forum in the future. :) Thanks, - Faelenof, Tip.It Forum Moderator

Doesn't seem like this thread has a point anymore, as it was 'old news', whatever it was. :P Thread locked. Thanks, - Faelenof, Tip.It Forum Moderator

Heya Kashi. :D Check out The Gallery Rules, FAQ and Resources announcement in this forum and have a read through the tutorials there to see how pixelling is done. :) Also, in the future, please remember to post questions in the Ask your questions or sig resizing here! sticky in this forum also. :D Thanks, and good luck. :) - Faelenof, Tip.It Forum Moderator

Yep, leg armour looks much better, great job. :) Also, nice work with the sword. :D One more thing I noticed: the light source seems really iffy in places, such as the right shoulder armour (light's coming from the front) and the left shoulder armour (light's coming from the side). Granted, there could easily be two light sources, but I dunno, the right shoulder armour bit looks really odd.

Great job so far, I especially like what you did with the fire and the firewood. Not much to crit on at the moment, it seems, as all the glaring problems (ie, the dock perspective) have been pointed out already and I'm sure you're working on it. :) I'll be keeping an eye on this and crit-ing when I can, but overall I like it a lot. Can't wait to see how you do the water, rocks and clouds. Remember there's a little bit of a light source in the right boat so take that into account when you shade the water there. :D Best of luck!

Speculars? This beautiful, beautiful tutorial Venomai indirectly linked me to explains what speculars are (with spiffy pics as well!): http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm Just scroll down a little to get to the specular section (it's the first one with an image to look at). Go nuts. Lovelydude is right, speculars will make your armour look spiffy. :)

Going to have to vote for Age of Empires series (although I've only actually got the original AOE from 1997... yikes, has it been that long?), and StarCraft (quite possibly the most brilliant RTS game I've played). StarCraft II is coming out soon and that looks amazing. Wish I had a computer that could play it though. :P

You're not alone here, I've also got a Belkin wireless router (but a different ISP, Telecom) and the same thing happens to me from time to time, but not as frequently anymore. I've found that whenever our microwave is running the connection loses signal (interference, I'll warrant). Fortunately that doesn't happen anymore as I've shifted my computer to another side of my room where the microwave doesn't interfere. But yes, any answers would be appreciated here as well. It seems that whenever I'm reading some sort of long post or whatnot and I don't open any new pages for a while, the next time I try to go to another webpage the connection cuts off and I have to wait a minute or so for it to reconnect again. It's a major hassle, but I've learnt to live with it - any tips to fix it would be brilliant though. :P

I'd like to see a tutorial on brushing (ie, blending images to the background and whatnot) and 'effective' brushing, to be precise. I keep hearing that term everywhere but I never seem to get to what seems like 'effective' brushing. Thanks muchly. :) By the way, just had a look at your DA, absolutely adore "Roots of Emotion". Great job.

'ello Doomred. :) Good job for a first, and thank you for reading a tutorial - first step to good pixelling is to learn from others. Many first pixellers simply flag reading the tuts and just dive into a shoddy piece. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And now in defence of the first time pixeller... He followed a tutorial. He posted it here for constructive criticism so he could improve. Why shouldn't he post it here if he's trying to learn? I won't critique the similarities between this and DH's as, as has already been stated, you've used his tutorial so obviously you'll come out with a similar piece. I suggest you don't, to be honest - step out of your comfort zone early and try new things all the time until you're sure you've found the style you like. I myself haven't found my preferred style in pixelling and digital art yet, and I've been at it for well over a year (almost two!). Experiment with different styles, it's a fun new challenge and a great learning experience. Alright, enough pep talk, now onto the C/C. My biggest problem is with the scribble-shading. I myself did that at one point and I thought it looked good too - in moderation. Copy my signature into Paint and zoom into the trees in the background. They were scribble-shaded, to an extent. But I knew what I was after and had a definite look in mind. Try to have a specific goal when shading - that's essentially what pixelling is, putting each pixel in a specific place for a specific purpose. You have potential. Now explore it and practise. Look at other tutorials, and study the more experienced pixellers' pixels and try to find out why their technique works. Then develop your own. Best of luck, Doomred. :)

I don't think I've commented on one of your pixels before, Destro... here goes nothing. :P The penguin looks obscenely plastic at the moment. Maybe a bit of dithering might do the trick. If you click here, you'll find an image of a few emperor penguins from Wikipedia (gotta love it). You'll also find that their skin (not just the white/orangeish part) has texture and a bit of definition of muscles or whatnot in their shape. They're not just a plastic tube, which is what your penguin, I'm sorry to say, looks like. Things you could do to improve it are to give the face more definition. Right now it looks like the eyes and beak are sticking out of flat tube, when, if you look in the reference pic again, they don't come out of a tube but the face moulds outward into the beak. As Mitsu stated above, the hat is made of cloth and not metal - you need a bit of texture there. I reckon your main problem is the general texture of things. Your pixels generally look really flat because there is very little. My opinion on the eyes: try to make them look more like beads than sudden black holes sinking into the skull. Give them shape. I'm sorry if I sound a bit harsh, but I believe you're an accomplished enough member of The Gallery to take a bit of criticism and step out of your comfort zone. :) Good luck!

I think I've lurked for long enough. :P Definitely a good piece, just like your old ones (I haven't seen your work in far too long :P), just a bit confused about the leg armour - is the skin supposed to poke out like that (left leg)? It just looks a little odd. I'm sure you'll get the sword figured out, nice shape at the moment, can't wait to see it. :) No major problems right now. Good luck with the rest of the piece. :D

Aaah, tttia, I've missed your beautiful work. :) Not much to add, really... just the fact that it doesn't look too mech-y other than the nice little metallic shine. Keep posting, seeing your stuff makes me smile. :