going to try to make my first pixel signature.

[steveinater]

Well i have been doing a lot of photoshop work lately im still new to it and

 

 

 

have improved a lot from when i first started :D , Well i have been playing

 

 

 

runescape for many years now probably a lot longer than most of you :-k

 

 

 

but have never got big in the fan site forums scene. =;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well i have had a look around at a lot of runescape pixel signature tutorials

 

 

 

and think i will give it ago i know it is very different from the filters and

 

 

 

brushes #-o of my photoshop work i have done before but i want to try and

 

 

 

have a go, i was wondering if you guys could give me sum tips :XD: ; on common

 

 

 

mistakes :evil: people make on there first attempt, ways to maximize the

 

 

 

signature to it's fullest :D and...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what i would like most is help on coming up with a scene i could make i

 

 

 

have been thinking for a couple of days now but can't think of anything

 

 

 

really good or original. :D :XD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s. i was looking though the forum to see if there was a place to put a

 

 

 

topic like this didn't really find any better looking that this so if i have

 

 

 

posted it in the wrong forums im sorry and plz move it if needed. :ohnoes:

[limpbizkit]

Good luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and for an idea you could do a battle ground or a world war style scene?

[pjb21]

this is the right forum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ok starters, idea, what is your rs charachers main skills and what do you enjoy doing? always a good place to start, rather than making another cliche sig (like i so often do :XD: )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

once you have an idea from that (i can help with the idea if you wish) youll probably want to draw it in pen or pencil, just to try different angles, check you can draw it well and it all works, best to do this quite a few times untill you can easily do it =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now you open paint, personaly i do straight into linework, but thats me, if you want sketch the drawing in say light grey, just basicly (you can use pencil for this) next grab the line tool and the colour black =) basicly trace over the grey lines you drew (if you didnt then draw with the lines) when using the linetool, make lots of little lines, nothing says crap than really blocky, oh and when doing lines, never have them straight, so you wont be needing that shift button *rips it out*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

once you have your lines you may be left with grey inside it, this is the cool part (or atleast i think its cool :wink:) load the fill tool and select grey as the colour. then left click in one area, and right click and repeat this untill the area is all white (or whatever bg colour youve chosen)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you saould now be left with some nice clean lines =) next selecting colours, i suggest you do this yourself, makes it more personal, rather than stealing someone elses. in my works each colour has 5 shades, highlight, base, 2 shades and and outline. fill your base colour in each section, then add your first shade, this should take up around 50% of the area, then do your second shade i the really darc areas, after this add the highlights where you feel apropriate. once finished you wont want those black lines, so use that final 5th colour (it should be darcwer than the darcest shade) and use the pencil or fill tool to change the sorounding lines to the right colour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that more or less covers the basics, theres dithering and AA but dont bother with them, they arnt needed and are a waste imo :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

good luck and share your progress =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh and your welcome to view my gallery (click sig)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[steveinater]

thx pjb21 for all the info real big thumbs up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

well my best skill is woodcutting i think at the moment, with fishing close up

 

 

 

behind it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

maybe a fishing guild theme with someone trying to woodcut away at the

 

 

 

fishing platform or maybe someone woodcutting one of those stands

 

 

 

with a shark hanging down off it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

has that idea been used up before i don't like using up a very old ideas i like

 

 

 

having something no one else has, if you know that that idea has been used

 

 

 

up any ideas on an original woodcutting/fishing theme?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i have been told it is realy help full that if i have photoshop to still use it for

 

 

 

it's layers option so i can change 1 section of the sig without having to re-pixel

 

 

 

the whole background around it do you agree with this i alreadyhave photoshop

 

 

 

so it dosen't mean i am spending any more money?

[pjb21]

well, the good news is your english =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a comical idea could be harpooning a log out of a bush or something, or trying to hack down a fish, heh... i make myself laugh, how sad is that :XD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the idea of cutting the platform is good and hasnt been used, however it may give the wrong impression. the shark hanging has been used, and it was done fairly badly imo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hmm, any more ideas that come to mind?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if your any good at firemaking you could be catching a fish while cutting a fire, dunno, that probably doesnt make sence. erm... dunno, if you like any of the ideas just say, or try think up some more =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[steveinater]

im guessing you don't get many English people here? im usually rubbish at

 

 

 

spelling really using a spell check hard to keep from going wrong, im 16 and

 

 

 

rubbish at spelling almost everything lol. :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol i like the harpooning the fish out of a bush made my laugh. may consider

 

 

 

that if you don't mind? :lol: \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my fire making is not very good i haven't trained it since the rs classic days.

 

 

 

(obviously not called rs classic back then but you know lol) :notalk:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

can't think of any other ideas but will be shore to post them up later if i can

 

 

 

come up with something i like

[Smapla]

For your first work i'd suggest something simple, like just drawing your character standing up, in your favorite outfit.

[pjb21]

too boring, if he (im guess your a he) can draw then let him!

[steveinater]

lol yes i am a he, im not the best at drawing but im not a total novice at it lol

[pjb21]

as i said, check you can draw the pose using pen or pencil (im a clasic bic fan myself) if not change it, if so go for it, simple really =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what year are you in? 11 or frst of 6th form? or left?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

im currently in year 11 =)

[steveinater]

im in my first year of sixth forum taking economics, Geography and English

 

 

 

i am only staying until the end of this year (that being only AS not A2's

 

 

 

aswell) i am going on to a colage course next year to do computer systems

 

 

 

support i am really big into building of computers and stuff so i decided to

 

 

 

take a course in it and make it my future carer. \

[pjb21]

cool goodluck with that, i planning to do something graphics or media related, hopefully taking media, graphics, photography and maths next year getting a full a level in all but photography. after that a uni corse in something based upon that =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways, back to your pixel, hows it going?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21

[steveinater]

Well i have been sketching out a few of the ideas at the moment on a peace

 

 

 

of paper at the computer i will prob scan them onto the comp tomorrow and

 

 

 

see what it looks like on the comp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

im not going to do anything else 2night i got some h/w in for 2moro i will try

 

 

 

and post up a sketch of it 2moro hoping my scanner isn't broken haven't

 

 

 

used it in a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

well thx for the help be shore to check back ever now and then to see how

 

 

 

im doing.

[runescape_rocks]

it seems like the "making first pixel" idea is becoming like the diary of a noob. it was cool at first and then boring.

[pjb21]

its good to see how people progress and its good to help them along the way as much as you can, if you find it boring or tiresome, then dont look at the topics...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

steve, im guessing youve finished school, or near abouts now, so im guessing it wont be long before you come on. so on to my point, i wanna see your linework, so i can continue to guide you along =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJB21