Who Needs A Tinderbox? [Pixel - Completely Finished. =D]

[rik]

Thanks for pointing that out, Shade. :D Cookie goes to you. At second glance, yeah, it did need fixing up, and I have done so accordingly in this next UPDATE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sasdfwerasdgadjvbidsf. I hate grass so. much. I'm avoiding grass in my next pixel. I can't stand the sight of it anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worked about four or five hours on the grass alone (not straight of course, that's unhealthy. :P), but I couldn't quite pull off the effect I had achieved in the top patch of last update. :| Not cool. Did the best I could with lighter-shaded grass where the fire will be, and around the glowing butterfly jar as well. Will probably re-do the prints again - tried to make them 'spottable', but also inconspicuous, and ended up making them a little too dark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that's back on the drawing board next update, as well as an attempt at the background which will hopefully be a whole lot kinder to me than the grass was. If worse comes to worst, and I get enough "pmg your grass sux0rz", I'm going to have to dive into the cesspool of green again. *cringe*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tips to help me on my grassy problem are well and truly appreciated, and will be rewarded with not just one virtual cookie, but two. Yes, two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know. Wow. ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To be honest the gras looks like u have only used the spray bucket :?

 

 

 

Here is a exemple of how u could do grass, The sig is of Nrzonline but i did the exemple fo the grass, also the second is what he made of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my little edit:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nrzonline's edit:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope this explains something and remember this is just 1 way of making gras.

[Kinslayer777]

Yes that seems like nicer grass^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But how do you suggest it be done? Dot by dot?! Eep, any idea how it was done?

[Fortress2000]

Maybe add a little glow of red through the grass nearest the lizard? Just to make it seem more like a proper fire.

[Faelenof]

Cheers, rik, I'll give that a go if this attempt doesn't do any well either. Sadly, I didn't use the spraycan (which would have saved me a heck of a lot of time if I did, and it would've created the same effect as well... ><)... but anywhoo, last night before I went to bed I decided to have another go at the grass - all over again. *shudder*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've only done a little bit of it, so any comments about it are once again greatly taken in. Fortress, I'll try to put that in - good idea. :D

[misterxman]

The grass is looking awsome, amazing you got the patience to draw it all out like that. :)

[pjb21]

Cheers, rik, I'll give that a go if this attempt doesn't do any well either. Sadly, I didn't use the spraycan (which would have saved me a heck of a lot of time if I did, and it would've created the same effect as well... ><)... but anywhoo, last night before I went to bed I decided to have another go at the grass - all over again. *shudder*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've only done a little bit of it, so any comments about it are once again greatly taken in. Fortress, I'll try to put that in - good idea. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you used zoogles tut on grass tile didnt you? i looks like it. but yeah alot of patience if you did thewm all seperatly, or did use make several different tiles and randomly spread them? what you are doing at the moment is looking good, and kinda long grass style which is cool and different to what you usealy see on here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cant wait to see what you can do with the flames.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i also assume your gonna back the g more interesting. did you say your making a forest or what that another topic?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[pomar1]

I dont really need tinderbox, but i need YOU! Man, i have seen YOUR grass, its cool! Can YOU LATER make the same at my pixel? Please!

[Faelenof]

you used zoogles tut on grass tile didnt you? i looks like it. but yeah alot of patience if you did thewm all seperatly, or did use make several different tiles and randomly spread them? what you are doing at the moment is looking good, and kinda long grass style which is cool and different to what you usealy see on here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cant wait to see what you can do with the flames.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i also assume your gonna back the g more interesting. did you say your making a forest or what that another topic?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darn, caught out. :P Yep, I used the examples from Zoggles for the grass, took a bit of trial and error to change the perspective from what they did (top view) to a more of a side-ish view like what you see on the pixel now. I didn't try to tile them - every time I do that it looks terrible for me. >< So yeah, I did draw them all separately, and it was a very difficult thing to do for a few hours. If it gets too tedious doing them separately, I'm going to have to copy-paste them then edit the copies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I haven't done the background at all yet, but I am going to do a sort of foresty scene - very thick forest that sort of fades into the background as the trees go into the distance. If I can wrangle it, I might do a bit of moonlight peeking through, but not so sure about that. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Pomar, I can't currently work on anything other than this (and Aesahaettr's pixel avatar he won up there... *points*), but I can give you linkage to the grass tut I used and based my grass on - here. :)

[pjb21]

oh sounds set to be very good, just waiting to see it finished =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the foot prints look a bit weird atm, but ill just wait and see how they turn out. and remember with grass that long it will be overlapping on stuffs =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[Faelenof]

I can't wait till this is finished either, and I think I may just tile some parts, as I need to get this done in about a week - just found out we're moving house! And I probably won't get internet access back straight away, and I don't want to leave you all hanging. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Footprints... uh... yeah, I did something with them in the previous attempt at grass (*hiss*), but I'll fix them up once the grass reaches them. ^^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grass overlapping. *notes down* Nearly forgot about that - can't do it straight away though, as I'm using GraphicsGale and the grass is on a different layer from the other stuff like the salamander and the character. :P I'll keep that in mind though - nearly forgot about it. ><

[pomar1]

Thanks! And Your pixel is cool. I love Hunter

[Kinslayer777]

I like the new grass.

[Vito_Blade]

The shading and texturing on the tent is by far the best I have ever seen for a canvas like fabric. Its great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also love the grass you are doing now. If you think about it, when/if you are camping, you are not going to see mowed grass much (well, unless you're car camping :wink: ) at all. The grass you have looks uncut and all over the place, much like a field-ish setting would have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great pixel, and good shading on the lizard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wonderful piece.

[D3M0NX]

The grass is looking awsome, amazing you got the patience to draw it all out like that. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dude, its amazing you had the patients to make your sig :shock: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On topic: The grass looks great but the fire that the "THING" is shooting looks like string.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other odd words: I like it.... :thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:^o

[Faelenof]

*celebrates*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got the grass to look right in the latest UPDATE! Oh, man, I'm so relieved right now. You have no idea how much trouble I went through to get it right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ignore the dark splotches to the left of the sig, as that's unfinished pawprints that I got too lazy to fix up for this update. :oops: I did not end up pixelling each individual strand of grass - just randomly spread them as PJB said earlier. Yes, I got lazy... >> I did edit the copies to make them flow into each other better though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will touch up the grass that overlaps the other bits in the sigs next update and fix up the pawprints, and maybe make a start on the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D3mon, the reason the fire looks like that is because it's not yet properly pixelled. ;) The lines are there to show me where the fire's path will go, and where the light source is coming from.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other, slightly unrelated news: I have cookies owing to people for C/C and such. :D

 

 

 

- Cookie to Rik for the grass advice. ^^ I didn't end up using it, sadly, because like Vito pointed out, she's a-camping and that grass looks mowed-ish. (that's not to say that your grass is bad - it's excellent. :D)

 

 

 

- Cookies go to Cool, Xman, PJB, Pomar, Kinslayer, Vito and D3mon for the support. Helped me get through the sheer terror that is pixelling grass. *shudders*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I still have bags of cookies - if you want some, C/C, plz. ;)

[D3M0NX]

I like how you still managed to make the shading on the grass without ruining it. LOVLEY!!!!! =D>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do you shade on grass? :-k

[Faelenof]

Well, if you look, the darkest shade on the 'dark' grass is actually the middle grass shade in the shadowed grass under the salamander. :D I just replaced the colours, really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've put off lunch for long enough, must eat... Hungry. ;_;

[D3M0NX]

Woah, here in B00BLand, its 12:00 at night :shock: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dont belive in B00bLand eh shuny??!!!! EH?!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well its a real place like the place where those orange things from willy wonka and the chocolate factory come from. Except were not midgets :evil: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And were not orange either!!!!!! :notalk: :shame: :notalk:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you make fun of us midgets.... i mean B00B People :evil: then how does this sound to ya;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One day a B00B citizen was walking off into the street when he got hit by a car. The end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poor little B00B citizen. :boohoo:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But dont tell his family,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was driving the car! :twisted:

[Vito_Blade]

The shading and texturing on the tent is by far the best I have ever seen for a canvas like fabric. Its great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also love the grass you are doing now. If you think about it, when/if you are camping, you are not going to see mowed grass (well, Unless you car camping :wink: ) at all. The grass you have looks uncut and all over the place, much like a field-ish setting would have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great pixel, and good shading on the lizard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wonderful piece.

[Qwality]

wow this looks like it's going to be an amazing sig, keep up the good work

[pjb21]

oh yum yum cookies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with the fot prints you have, made it look either like flattened down area, or like big heavy foot prints going right down into the mud, not easy im awre, but it would look better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

did you say the character was a girl? if so make it more defined, i always thought it was a guy by defalt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not alot more to cc however i can think of one thing, thats whats it next to the box trap has rather contrasting shadding, very black on one side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh the front of the tent, make it more defined as to whats happening there, it just kinda goes. if its closed make it so, or if its open drawsome more detail like bed, pots pans, whatever your likely to have on a camping trip i guess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just make sure you do a good job on the bg and keep us posted so it can be in the best posable shape!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[D3M0NX]

Woah, here in B00BLand, its 12:00 at night :shock: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dont belive in B00bLand eh shuny??!!!! EH?!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well its a real place like the place where those orange things from willy wonka and the chocolate factory come from. Except were not midgets :evil: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And were not orange either!!!!!! :notalk: :shame: :notalk:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you make fun of us midgets.... i mean B00B People :evil: then how does this sound to ya;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One day a B00B citizen was walking off into the street when he got hit by a car. The end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poor little B00B citizen. :boohoo:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But dont tell his family,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was driving the car! :twisted:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did anyone even giggle?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D3M0NX 0ut

[cadburys_egg]

Pity laughter, maybe.

[pjb21]

ay cad said it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and thats only in the imature visiters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you have to admit it was fairly imature and off topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so lets stop the offtopicness and return to the item in queestion please.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[Faelenof]

Major apologies for the overdue update - been terribly busy with ingame stuff (stupid treasure trails) and RL stuff (auditions for a musical... :o Hope I get in. :D), and just general lack of interest in anything artistic. But here it is...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see I did a little bit, put up the trees in the background (not too impressive, I know... sorry to disappoint you, if you're disappointed. X_X). Will probably redo the trees again because I'm not too happy about them either. More cookies go to PJB for the C/C - I haven't gotten around to fixing up some of the bits (those footprints are evil, evil, I tell you), like what's happening in the tent, and now that I look at it again the hair isn't separated from the trees in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, as I keep looking at it, I'm really not too happy with the trees. Any suggestions to help their detail, shading, etc, is greatly appreciated, as well as any suggestions as to what to stick into the tent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, thanks for looking at my work, and sorry for the late update. :P