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

Inspired by the new Hunting skill (which I'm getting slightly addicted to), I just wanted to have a bit of fun with the uber cool new fire-breathing salamanders. :

Plan here is to have a sort of camping feel to the image, and having me toast an impossibly large marshmallow by the fire - but I seem to have forgotten my tinderbox. Pyromaniacs ftw!

FINISHED! Re-finished, edited according to c/c. Thanks go to dark_shadow for the text placement suggestion. ^^

C/C on the pixel is greatly appreciated. :D

(lets hope I actually finish this one... ;))

nice idea and nice so far, to be honest not much wrong with anatomy that i can see keep it up :D

Cheers for the comment, Tom. :)

I bring you another update! Whoo! No colouring as of yet though, but I've got the basic colours in my head right now, and once I finish up this round of lineart I'll get to work. ^^

Some of the extra bits I'm not so happy with, so I'd appreciate any suggestions to improve it. The pawprints and the box trap don't feel like they're on the right angle, so any tips on that would help a lot. :) The pawprints, I think, will look a little more natural and not as... wonky?... once I add the rest of the ground in.

The fire-ish lines are just to give me an idea on how I might do the fire, and the logs'll be roughened up and individualised so they don't look so uniform back there, and the same with the butterfly jars. Sack-like things beside the person are a bag of marshmallows and a bag of something else you'll have to guess once I get to detailing it. ;)

Thanks again. ^^

BIG* problem...

The marshmellow is the size of your hand

:ohnoes:... :anxious: ... =P~ .. :-X

Otherwise, It's still looking great,but the box trap is looking a bit akward, I don't know how to fix it though...

*Pun intended big problem as in big marshmellow

...having me toast an impossibly large marshmallow...

I did say it was impossibly large... :D I think I might downsize it though... compared to either one of the bags, they'll fit about three marshmallows max at this rate. XD

But yes, I'm trying to figure out how the heck I'm supposed to fix that stupid box trap. >< I'm trying to get a perspective reference from ingame, but still nothing. Going to have to do some major fixing before I colour. Blah.

Maybe I'll try shuffling the box trap and the chinchompa's positions...

hehe, in that case... make a sleeping bag size of marshmellows and incorpirate the size of the marshmellow in the text, something like...

"Faelenof, can tackle challenges of all sizes"

but that's kinda long...

Oh-Em-Gee!!

That is one beautiful sig made of linework... Could i please try and shade it??

I want to make a night scene with it... would you mind... you can have the sig if i finish and all... but i really just want to pratice coloring a bit :thumbsup:

wow great sig!

do it some justice with good shading(please)

lol

keep at it!

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. :D They make me feel all fuzzy inside, like a chinchompa.

Erm... scratch that.

I'll try to do my best with the shading. *salutes* :P

Nazgul, be my guest. ^^ Try away. :P It was indeed intended to be a night scene anyway. :) G'luck with it, and if you manage to fix up that bloody box trap, even better. XD

Good perspective, try to find something to add to horizon. :P

Xman: Yeah, planning to have a nice thick forest of trees that fade into the background (I have a vague idea of how I'm going to do that, but have yet to actually try it out... ><). Hopefully it doesn't look too monotonous, but we'll see. ^^

UPDATE! You know when you start something and say you're only going to do this much and then move onto the next thing? Well, when I told myself I was just going to do two-toned shading for now just to get a feel of it, I kinda... uh... got carried away when I started on the salamander.

Note to self: start on something other than your favourite bit in the pixel.

Anyway, these are the fruits of my labour. Salamander shading, surprisingly, took a relatively little time when compared to the hours I spent on linework (guh, I hate linework). Took about an hour to get the colours and shading to co-operate and look "right", but I'm pleased with the result. The colours picked, now that I see them, look a bit Terley-ish. :P

Shuffled around a few of the pawprint positions, looks alright-ish now on a darker background, but that lousy box trap is still taunting me. It's just asking for a bloody redraw. >> I also downsized the marshmallow to see what it looked like - I think I may have mini-ed it too much. XD

C/C please. :D

EDIT: Oh wow, I do start rambling sometimes, don't I? o_o

EDIT TWO: Hmm... is it just me or is the lighting on the salamander's body a bit iffy?

WOW i wish i could use it when your done!!

please pretty please :)

Mementh, I'm flattered, but I'm long due to treat myself with a signature (can you believe that I've never actually finished one for myself... ever?). Sorry. ;_;

But in consolation, I bring you an...

UPDATE! Shaded and pixelled the character to the right. Had a terrible time doing so - I found out today that I can't pixel any sort of cloth-like texture... at all. As you can probably tell with my attire in the pixel, it's not quite Runescape-esque as she's wearing sneakers. :P

As you can tell, I changed the lighting on the salamander and it looks a bit better this way, in my opinion. Also shuffled the box and the chinchompa around (I did this last update, but forgot to announce it)... doesn't look as wonky as before but still looks a bit iffy. =|

I'm quite happy with the hands, actually, which is new considering I always detested pixelling hands. In this pixel, I'm not happy with the aforementioned cloth texture and the eyes... I can't stop myself from looking evil in pixels! :cry: I'm not evil... ;_;

Once again, C/C's are appreciated. :) Next on my agenda: the background stuff and the bags of marshmallows and the something-else-you-have-to-guess that I took out of this update as it was obstructing the view of the character. They'll make a return next update though. :D

And once again, I've rambled... I really have to stop doing that. ><

reguardless i am gonna steal it and post it on my blog as a good pic and a link back to this thread :) and then save it for use next year or so :) (if thats ok)

Wow.. It's comming along very nice. I like the colors you used for the salamander. I can't wait to see the end result. :P

~rEcK! :-s

Oooh, you are sneaky, aren't you, Mementh? :P I guess you could stick it into your blog (with due credit of course... ;)), but I'm afraid my greediness strikes on the second request - I'd appreciate it if you didn't use it. Sorry mate. =| Hope you understand.

Reck, thank-ees, I like the colours also. I think I might have to attempt my first anti-aliasing with the salamander though... seems like it's going to contrast too much with the grass. ><

Regardless, I give you all another UPDATE!

Yay, updates! I've slowed down a little since yesterday as my inspiration is running a little dry at the moment. Had a very difficult time shading the tent as it either looked boring and plain or it looked tacky. Hope I got it right in the end though. ><

I loved doing the butterflies in the jars, though, it was great fun trying to make them 'glow' in the jars. Any comments on this?

Did some basic colours for the chinchompa/box trap (which still isn't looking too good, but hopefully it won't look too bad once it's fully shaded), and the bags of stuff beside me. Will finish those tomorrow and begin on quite possibly the thing I'm dreading most - the grass.

Yet again, C/C's are rewarded with cookies. :D Thanks!

:shock: You have some amazing talent there

ohmahgawd

that are teh secks

good job! loving the newest update on it...can't wate to see the bg :ohnoes: \ =D>

Aw, making me feel really good, Bloodredsword and Reddawn. :D

And because of that, I've gotten myself together and got some work done, so here is the resulting UPDATE. YAYS.

Not much development this update, did the box trap and the chinchompa at the back, albeit not very well... may fix that up in the future. Also did the two bags, one being a bag of marshmallows (as labelled... ;)), and the other, now that it has some vague details, you should be able to hazard a guess at what it is. First person to guess... well... gets something special from me. :D

As you can also see from the middle of the pixel, I've started a little bit of work with the grass. Used two slightly different techniques for both the top and bottom patches of grass, and I'd appreciate any opinions as to which you think is the better looking patch.

I swear, grass is quite possibly the hardest thing to pixel. X_X

Yet again, C/C's are very gladly accepted.

Thanks for the support, everyone. This piece is well on it's way to being finished. :D

Very nice and Runescape-like, apart from the trainers the character seems to be wearing :P

It is looking very nice so far.

I'm certainly no pixel artist, for the grass though, I'm liking the top patch more. Though the spaces in-between peices of grass seem a tad large?

I love the way you managed to capture the glow with the jars.

Also, I do believe the red bag is a bag of Doritos? Hehe.

The grass was done very roughly, didn't catch most of the massive in-between spaces. :P I'll fix that up, but thanks for your opinion. ^^

And you got the bag guess correct! You win... a free pixel avatar! PM me with some specifications and such, like what you want in it or whatever. It doesn't have to be at Tip.It's avvy specs if you want to use it in another forum instead. :)

There is some small print to this prize - send me a bag of Doritos... We're Dorito-deprived down here! XD

Looks really nice, but I don't think that's how the hair will hang.

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. ;)

It could be like a stary night or something and i know what you mean about the grass looking a little "off". I can't seem to get the grass on mine right either.