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[Aprz]

This goes in order from the top being oldest and the bottom being the newest. I use MS Paint to draw things and then fix 'em up and/or animate on ImageReady7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thought this was so cool back then. Ghetto.. Almost embarressing to put up lol, but it is history. ^_^ Almost like first signature made, almost. Didn't really have any plans on making signatures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made this for a friend. Didn't turn out so bad. I thought I was good at it lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made this for myself when I got 80 woodcutting. ^_^ Shading is terrible. :o About this time, in most CC, people were telling me to try and shade and stuff (really had no clue about shading).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made this for two guys who didn't want it in the end. Just terrible. Look at the background and the foreground, it is like the guys are floating or something. In CC, most people hated the harsh lining.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suppose to be a friend of mine banning a bot with a ban stick. At this time period of signature making, I was refering to other people art work and trying to copy how they made it, but with different ideas. After awhile, I began to worry about style here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decided I hated lines. Thought putting a guy in it would ruin it as I almost always mess up on people. Suppose to be sorcer tower and magic trees. Creativity starts to drop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not finished, but this is what popped up my question. Was making a small simple image that was going to be sort of a new signature for me in a odd shape. If you can't tell, it is me wearing full guthix fletching under a semi alive tree. O_o I was about to add grass (pretty much finish shading the ground) and realize it didn't look as what I wanted to come out and be. Out of portion, creativity low, shading needs different color, so on... People like that the coloring isn't harsh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I feel like I am getting worse and worse and I don't know what to do. I pulled up some of the signatures I have made way long ago to now and it looked at one point, I was getting better and and better, but no I think my stuff just looks like crap now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you guys thing? Is there something I am doing wrong or need to improve at something?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: I edited some of the explaining under the signatures so they give you an idea what I was thinking at the time.

[Triquos]

i like the 5th and 6th siggies the most so ur definitely improving, good job! =]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:thumbsup:

[Aprz]

That fourth one wasn't my style. I was trying to be like somebody who had awesome pixeling skills. Anyhow, I saw him post on somebody else post pretty much calling 'em a newb for trying someone else style so I triedI was like "Hey, I'll choose what I like and dislike." Didn't like line, love dithering, like wooden frame, stuff like that. Anyhow, to me, it looks like I am getting worse and I really don't know now lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am glad that at least you tell me I am improving. I havn't showed much pixeling in awhile so I guess I just need more CC and discussions about it so I don't have to get worried lol. That 5th one, I used it as a signature for a week before I was like "Meh.. nobody is going to like it." lol. Almost been using the 4rth one for like a half year or so.

[Dharockslayer]

I like the idea of banning a macro with a ban stick :lol: But your definitly improving.

 

 

 

Maybe make more pixel sigs for friends and such, youll improve everytime if you see what you did wrong.

[Aprz]

Yeah, I try to make new signatures all the time. Hard part is coming up with ideas though. Even then, it looks bad at the end to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, your sig is hawt.

[terley]

well the more you challenge yourself the better you will become, if there's something you've never done of course it'll take times before you learn how to do it, no matter how many previous things you've done before.. You wont be getting worse at all.. for example if you're awesome and drawing characters and all you've done previously is characters with blank backgrounds and you get continuously better don't be suprised when you come to do a background the quality is much worse, the best way is to just challenge yourself in all aspects of your work, just keep going whether you feel your getting worse of not, you'll find that you're actually better than you originally thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also don't worry about style, I read a quote in this animation book im reading atm it says 'don't worry about making your own style, learn to draw first and your own style will just happen.'.

[Wisp]

I think your doing better.

 

 

 

'I like the animation on some of them, even though it's fairly simple

[Lowgravity]

The dragon wearing guy on sig #5 looks suspiciously like one of MXM's sigs :-k anyway you're not getting worse, I thought I was when I attempted a pixel recently and it was disasterous but sometimes they just don't work out and im doing another one and it feels like i've improved alot :thumbsup: so just keep going and eventually you will come out of the dip.

[Aprz]

Yes, the one in #5 was sort of Mxm style. After that one, I began worrying about style which is why in the stuff aftwards, I started to do things such as I stay away from lining because I hate lining, try to put in a basic animation (love animation), so on. Remember, there are more images between these, these are just the ones that I made during like a certain time period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyhow, glad to know that I am improving. Was worried because to me, it looks like I am getting worse in my own opinion. Guess it is because of lining and stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On other forums, people notice that my portions are getting slightly off such as the last one, the legs are to long. They said that when I shade, I need to use different colors rather than the same color with different tint. Stuff like that which I will make sure to do now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, on the 4rth image, I actually made that at level 80, I accidently put level 60 because I was thinking of yew trees.

[dkjestrup]

look if I were you try and finish all your pixels! if they are taking too long make the canvas smaller. the guthix one must be hard cause its soo empty. add a lake in the empty space?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

your improving just mess with different techniques and one day you will wake up and something will click. when that comes everyone else look out!

[Aprz]

Actually, I was going to add an lake to the last one and add grass (Which still going to add lake), but when I drew the lake, the lake was empty then and it was just more open space and I just couldn't think of a think. Was thinking boat, rocks, lilli pads, so on, but when I tried, it just still looked empty so I was like "hey, i'll jsut crop it."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks though. I'll keep trying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some people on other forums said that as a pixeler, I was just being critical on myself to improve naturally, that I was panicing because I am trying my own style and new techniques, along with that my computer I use to use for pixeling died. Use to use MS Paint, but the PC died in a power out (was plugged in to a wall directly with no fuse so mother board took the blow) so now I use just ImageReady or PhotoShop (the programs I use to make final changes and animations).