Advice wanted- first ever pixel sig

[Joe2142]

Ok I need advice on what to do with this. It's two friends cracking a christmas cracker together. :lol: Please, constructive critizism. Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[terley]

heheh nice cute characters you got there.. Well if you want this to be a signature your best resizing it down to the forum sizes, which is 300x150. without strechting or squashing it you'll have to cut off a bit, like i've done ere for ya.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you've got the right size canvas, all you have to do is go over your drawing in a black line tool and delete any mess. Try not to rush drawing the linework cus you'll make what should be curved lines straight and it'll make your signature look too blocky. I've shown you you need to do with the left character.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you've done that for the whole sig it should only be made up of black lines and a white background, no left over mess (from your scan). should look like this, clean and smooth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After that it's up to you what you wanna do with it, you can simply colour it in, add shade and depth.. There are loads of techniques so to figure out how you wanna colour it its best to look at other peoples sigs to pick out a style you'd like to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and your best sampling your work everytime you post something like you did on that original picture, even linework can be stolen, coloured in and sold off. :x .

 

 

 

(I know im contridicting myself by posting unsampled linework, cus I'm not really bothered, my view is that they're just pictures, I'll only sample something I really don't want people to steal).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope I've helped you start off Joe, gonna look like a good sig :).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pm me if you got any more questions. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Ter

[Joe2142]

Thank you so much Terley! I PMed you something.

[NACHO]

great advice terley

[GonAndGary]

Terley, mind if i practise my shading on that linework you posted?

[Sy_Accursed]

I do not mean this in an offensvie way:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But from the look out that line work so far your not gonna be very good pixeler to start with. As the faces are a tad weird and something about the characters general build just doesn't fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But for a first try it is amazing so far and I hope you take what I have said to help improve your future work

[WeeBoab]

if im correct, he drew it on normal paper with a normal pencil