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

[tomdavies90]

very nice almost finished now, can't see much that needs improving, i quite like the trees actually

[pjb21]

tbh i dont see alot wrong with the trees, one thing i do suggest however is if you make more trees dont just have it fade to black, but have detail of other darer trees behind thoses youve done, it makes it feel more 3d and gives it depth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i dont know what it is about the persons feet, but they dont look right, i dunno why, may just be me o0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

backto the trees, it looks like youve shown the bottom of some in the backer background, this ruins perspective unless you have flying trees o0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

again with the tent make it more detailed inside its just kinda... brown o0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

love the trail behind the butterfly, very prettyful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and dont forget to do the fire. oh had a thought, you could have a go at doing animated fire, may look cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the persons nose it rather pointy, raise the one part up a bit more, make the pointer taller, smooths it off =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the lizard thingysd nails are at weird angles at the back, group them together a bit more, his frount nails on its right is too spread out, dont be afraid to have them overlapping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

maybe try adding another colour of shade to the humans legs, give it more depth, looks rather flat at the moment. i generaly have the base colour, 2 tones of shade, an outline colour and a colour of highlight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

your doing a good job, but dont rush it =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[dark_shadow]

a lot of my comments are similar to pjb's, but ill say em anyway :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first of all, i love the trees as they are. at night, in a forest, the tree's would fade to black. as the distance between the flame and the trees increased, the light would increase (which im sure you knew lol) so it would fade to black. you wouldnt keep seeing more and more trees. i vote leave the tree's as they are :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the person seems fine to me, except their upper left arm seems 'crooked' oh, and the nose is kinda pointy :anxious:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as pjb said, that butterfly is awesome i love it =P~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a few other things i kinda changed a bit. they may look worse to you, but i thought id try anyway :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to me, the axe stuck in teh logs is too round on the front edge, it looks weird. every time i see this sig, i notice that axe... :-w

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the part of the lizards right hind leg where it joins the body is at the wrong angle. if a lizard was sitting like that, the joint would be more like it is in my 'edit' i think. not that mines perfect, either :-#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also tried to fix the claws on the lizard, as pjb said, they were a bit... bit... 'weird' and made it look as though the lizard had

 

 

 

broken its toes. the front claws on both feet are still weird, the claws should be digging into the ground from the position and pose of the lizard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry if it sounds like im completly wrong, these are just all my opinions.. feel free to pretend im not here if my suggestions seem completly bizarre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

very nice sig, for once i had to look for something to give CC on. well. to try to give CC :lol: very nice job :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tripsis]

Insane amount of detail! :shock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It looks terrific, keep up the good work!! \

[Fortress2000]

Ah, much better! Gives the whole piece a setting. The old ones looked like he/she (not sure... :-s ) was in a big grey room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congradulations. =D>

[Faelenof]

alksjbckjbnleiubcksjdbkfjhsdfsdf. I can't believe I didn't see the C/C up there. X_X I only saw Tripsis' (grats on mod-ness. ^^) and Fortress' comments. Eeek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks, PJB and Shadow, you both get cookies. ^^ I'll try to fix up the stuff pointed out. :) Cheers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's possible that my next update will be the second-to-last one - next update will just be finishing up what's in the tent and the fire (and the stuff pointed out by PJB and Shadow), and the last one will likely be just fixing up whatever's C/C'd in the previous one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for your support - I think I'm finally finishing a sig! :D

[beesafree]

the only thing i see needing done is the fire....and forementioned things....

 

 

 

but i found the perfect picture for the fire

 

 

 

 

 

 

i think your fire should look something like that....if you look at the bottom it kinda curves constantly and makes bumps....also i would take the color directly from that picture

[Faelenof]

Cheers for that, Beesafree, I've been looking for a fire reference pic that fit what I wanted. :D Saved me a whole lot of trouble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, everyone, I think I've finished up with this piece. Quite proud of myself, actually. :D Here it is, in all it's fiery glory...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, I spot iffy bits a little too late. XD The fire at the salamander's throat looks a little weird, must fix that up (maybe if I make the fire 'darker' there?).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't ask what's in the tent... I had no idea what to put there so I just placed vague shapes that could be interpreted as some camping gear and dithered it so it looked like it was in a dark place. XD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My last request of all of you: comments and c/c on the finished pixel. Thanks again. :D

[dark_shadow]

as before, its still awesome, lots of detail. two things i see wrong; the fire dosnt seem to move much, it seems like a dead straight unmoving line of fire, yet when you watch real fire it flickers, moves etc...

 

 

 

yours dosnt :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that and i dont really like the font/its size/its position.. dunno what font you could use, what colour, size or position though -.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also.. last thing.. the lizards right back leg still looks rubbery and broken, cause of the way its joined to the leg... did you see how i thought it should look, on the pic i edited? (btw hope you dont mind me editing that? :-X )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice job :)

[Kinslayer777]

My only complaint in the lower righthand leg. Too stretched, appears rubbery and long. Otherwise, brilliant - i love it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good theme, and high quality :)

[tripsis]

That fire is amazing :oops:

[beesafree]

on the fire make it end a little earlier, before it hits the mouth....

 

 

 

also mabye edit the text, make vines wraping it, leaves coming out of it, to give it a better "nature" look

[xxbamxx]

wow AMAZING,

 

 

 

But i think you should add a border and a bit of a better text.

 

 

 

Maybey pixel yourself one just to add a better touch to it. :D

 

 

 

You've done very well on this piece. Keep it up. =D>

[beesafree]

hmmm...i tried fixing up the fire...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ummm...i tried...

[Faelenof]

Thanks everyone for the extra c/c and compliments. :D I've touched up the pixel according to advice. I got lazy with the border. :| Don't eat me about it. ><

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have no idea where to put the text - in my latest update the left side seems really empty now. :-k This pixel is not text friendly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, it's 50+ kb at the moment. :| Anyone know how to downsize it without losing quality?

[beesafree]

it's already saved as png....

 

 

 

it's as small as it will go...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: of course besides jacking it up with jpeg or a bit-map monotonous thingy

[Faelenof]

Hmm...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you tell any difference in quality between these two versions?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[misterxman]

The second one looks slightly brighter in some spots but it still looks awsome and I wouldn't notice anything wrong if it was the only version I saw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very cool border too.

[beesafree]

Hmm...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you tell any difference in quality between these two versions?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i tried saving it as gif but it got it up by like 50 more kb....strange...

[Faelenof]

Excellent. I thought I might try converting it into .gif because I only used 117 colours... and yays, it didn't muck it up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm happy now, I finally have a signature. ^^ Thanks to everyone. :D

[dark_shadow]

i really like the border, and the fire is MUCH MUCH better IMO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cant honestly really see a differences between the two file types, though as MXM said, the bottom one seems slightly lighter, but not really noticible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

last but not least, if your still looking for some place to put the text, maybe you could do something like this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it kinda fits into the theme of the sig, isnt too obvious but isnt too discrete either.. eh, trying to help, failed miserably :oops: hope you dont mind me doing this..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also i just noticed something :shock: between the char's front of the shirt and the thigh, theres a white patch... is that.. supposed to be there?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

once again, as youve heard plenty of times, fantastic job :D

[Faelenof]

Thank you so, so, so, so, so so so very much for the text position, Shadow. :thumbsup: And errm... I have no idea what was with the white spot. o_o Fixed it up in the current version. *points to siggeh*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks. :D

[Kinslayer777]

I love it :)!

[Dharockslayer]

Very nice. Love the idea.

[dark_shadow]

glad i could somehow help :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

congrats on starting, and finishing a great sig :D