first off, the ratio of replies to views of this thread is 1/21, less than 5%, so if youre going to read, post please!

 

 

 

 

 

this is my most recent attempt at drawing a siggy, i put a lot more time into this one than the last one, i hope thats obvious. post thoughts and ways i could improve, thanks!

 

 

 

~gilf

 

 

 

added some shading, didnt overdo it because im not very good at it.

 

 

 

 

newest sig:

 

 

 

 

older sig:

 

 

rate/hate/negate

 

 

 

edit:

 

i use serif 8

 

 

 

one of my previous sigs -

 

 

 

 

sorry, will crop this asap...or do i have to crop it if im not using it?

 

 

 

 

 

ok, bring on the uncontrollable outbursts of disgust at least! someone! some sort of response!

his neck would snap, have the sring atleast snapping bakc forward and his hand out as if he just let go, and black hide on black bG not such a good idea.

The guy in the last picture has a unibrow.

Oh noes, don't send trogdor after me! :ohnoes: But.. the glory is to big.. you shouldn't be able to see his thumb on the hand that's holding the bow.. his neck is to thin, the bow string shouldn't be straight. Other then that I like it.l

The glory is too big, head is a bit... deformed, and the bow string seems a bit too stiff to have just fired off two arrows. Also, the arm seems like it didn't fire off the arrows. It's put down to the side like it's not being used.

Its pretty good i guess.. But the hand holding the bow doesnt look like its holding the bow, it looks like its holding a fist infront of it.

well you seam to not have much a problem with the poses, theyre fairly good.

 

 

 

anatomy is an issue, at least proportions, the arms are off in both pictures, the neck in the second (flying arrows) is to thin and to short, make it slightly thicker and longer, the face on them is too rounded. not that i can easily tell, but remeber that the legs should be about 1.5 times longer than the torso.

 

 

 

the mouths are too high, move them lower.

 

 

 

shading is non existant on the whole. add some. remember where the light is coming from, keep it the same! and think what parts of the body would fall into shadow.

 

 

 

ill be honest, the glow looks crap on arrows on the new one. just remove it.

 

 

 

or add a glowing trail flying off the back of the arrow.

 

 

 

thinner noses look better, but that could just be me....

 

 

 

the ammy is way to big, in reality it would only be say, 1-2 inches across, thats nearer 4-5

 

 

 

capes are straped around the neck securly. yours isnt. have the chord coming from the far edges of the cape as well as the inner parts, forming two triangles that then meet up.

 

 

 

the hand holding the bow looks dodgy, it needs some high contrast shading there, just under the fingers (remember the bow is holding them out)

 

 

 

dont use blur effect in pixels, the other thing you can do to pixel work without paint is the text (of corse you can do it in a program that isnt paint, but dont use non-paint functions)

 

 

 

um, long hair looks better (but thats just me) :anxious:

 

 

 

dont have a plain black background. pic a colour, low saturation, somewhere in the lower half of the paint colour selector, get about 5 shades of it and make a gradientd bavckground. but make sure the colour goes well with the for-ground (click my sig to see some examples)

 

 

 

i dont think ideas is your problem, but exucuting them is.

 

 

 

try a non range sig next :wink:

 

 

 

PJB21

ok, could i have some replies about my newest sig? this is mostly just a bump...

 

 

 

~gilf

Nice nice nice, keep it up =D>

why is the bowstring still pulled back slightly?

very nice but if i were you i wouldn't always try to be so close to the in game colours and shapes and... just make it look good ! no matter if you're d'hide is dark green and you're amulet in an unexisting shape.

 

 

 

very good pic tough 8/10 ;)

 

Just a little proportion edit. Your person is too large and short. The bow, just firing an arrow, should be somewhat bent and the string should also resemble this. His arms are misproportioned as well, being one longer than the other. The signature is way too bland overall, I would suggest having some people fighting in the background. I would also recommend putting in some grass and using darker soil. Castle Wars isn't a desert, right? The bricks are just lines, no shading=no depth=fake looking.