Adam007

In adobe imageready, it has a few frames of one with a regular party hat, and the other with a hat with black around it. It switches back and forth so it kind of pulsates.

But it gets harder than that. Like in some sigs, the middle part of everything is the brightest. I usually shade the bottom of everything the darkest, but for example, the mammoth in my picture. I only shaded from the bottom up, going slightly lighter in color til I got higher up. Seems like the really good artists don't do it that way.

Welcome to the shop. Graphics are no longer free. For paying customers, I'd prefer to do avatars, as they take less time to do, and I'm better at them. Please try to include as much detail of what you want in your avatar, and screenshots also help a lot. Here are some samples. Put up your requests.

Thanks. It just takes so long making em though. I don't mind making the basic stuff, but shading irritates me because I can't visually see shading like everyone tells me to, and takes so long. Maybe I'll start with avatars, that seems easier. :D

This better? The shading on the mammoth was the best I could do. And can you tell there's a penguin in there? Nobody noticed the little guy.

Palm tree shadows are great. I think the shark needs shading though.

Well the grey stuff is kind of the smoke behind the fire blast, and I used it to show the fireball's speed too. Does it look too much like snow shading?

Thanks, I'm gonna have resize it again though, when i fix the mammoth. Did you save it in photoshop, and if you did, what setting did you save it as?

Yeah, I looked at some of yours for inspiration :wink: I'll shade the mammoth, fix the cape, and then save it as .gif. How would i have blood from a spell hitting the mammoth though? It's not like it's pierced. And what other parts of the mammoth should be shaded? I shaded some of the bottom of it, but how should i texturize/shade the body? Thanks for the help.

Ok, first here's my sig. Only problem is that if you check properties, it's over the 30k sig limit somehow. I saved it in photoshop, but it still looks bad as a medium quality jpg. Here it is in a high quality jpeg. If anyone could format it to fit the guidelines, and not lose quality, that'd be great. I worked on it for a long time, so I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me with the size limits. Oh, and let me know how it is for my second pixel art. :D

Yes, it's a lot better now. Just maybe add some dimension to the larger text if you've got photoshop.

7/10 - Kind of plain, just my opinion though. If you want constructive critisism, I don't think the green works too well with everything else. Maybe have the text at the bottom the same color as the green text and it'll look better? The background is pretty cool though.

Yeah, pixel art's the new trend around here. Just wanted to try it out to see if I have the gift or not. :lol: Started with this - I didn't want to do any backgrounds or have him do anything really. Just some stuff I regularily wear in rs. How is it, and how can I improve? Tips from seasoned pixelers would be great.

I like that, but they usually choose letters that they'd be able to have a witty response to. See, with your letter, it's a great idea, but the only thing he can say is 'great idea. Maybe I should do that.' I might not make sense, as it's entering the wee hours of the morning. I did write Sar. a letter once, but I don't have it anymore. Btw, you've been making some high quality posts I've been noticing. :D

Nice doodle. What'd you make your sig in, and did you create it just pixel by pixel?

Hmm, it's hard to explain. I'm kind of saying you're generalizing one scenario and thinking that will effect the prices of them because that statement is true to all mages, which it isnt. Try rereading what I said, I guess. It isn't that clear, but I'm tired, so give me a break.

See, you're looking at it as a very basic cause and effect kind of way, which is incorrect. You (vaguely) think runecrafting --->more runes----> cheaper runes... Not exactly that way, but in that kind of mind set. You can't set up that scenario and generalize it over the whole economy of runes. Not all mages runecraft their own runes. I'd imagine only a small percentage only use runes they runecraft.

Nah, in mass they're 300 minimum now. I pay 325 each, and some people pay 350 each now. If you're lucky you can get 250, but that's rare now.

Honestly, runecrafting doesnt effect rune prices at all. While most players would disagree, as they see the prices of everything as a cause and effect rule (somebody quits and has a phat set, they go down), it's not really as simple as that. Although tons of natures are crafted, it hasn't made prices lower. Nature prices have went up since rs1. Since they're half xp now, we will double the price of a nature which is 300 now, and that's 600. We paid 450 or 500 max on rs1 for natures. There's a huge demand for nature runes right now, because they're really one of the best ways to level up magic and alch bows people fletch, so people will pay whatever it takes, and they pay the amount they can afford without losing too much money. That's 300 gp each. Anyways, runecrafting probably has an effect on the amount of runes brought into the world. It lowered cosmic prices a whole lot. But there's just too much of a demand on some runes for them to change in price because of runecrafting. People will pay the most money to get the trade when competing to buy. So they won't drop that much, if at all.

Most everything you said is pretty true and informative, but when people say that phats will become rarer because people quit, and phats get alched, that's not as true as you'd think. If a phat gets alched, or someone with a phat set quits, it doesnt make much of an effect on the market at all. There are bigger things that effect prices than the rate of them leaving the world. There's already thousands of hats ( I believe), so people quitting doesnt make too much of a difference. Things that do make a difference are dupes, psuedo rares that take away demand for hats, people not merchanting, people buying other things than phats, and domino effects on phats(when everyone sells em).

I have a weird thing about vomiting. I fear it so much, my throat tries to hold it back from coming out, and.... well, i'd probably gross you out if I went into detail, so I won't. I'm just glad I rarely do throw up, because I hate it.

Usually the dwarf, or swarms. There's a lot of random events I still haven't gotten.