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you ruined my not drawing for months streak, i hope your happy

the heart at the bottom corner is severely burning my eyes, shits bright and over saturated

smudge and blur = bad
abstract art = usually bad

but it has colours, and finished, and quite clean might i add, line art, why leave the hardest bits till last, hands are hard, and if you cant get it right, your gunna have to redo the whole arm to position the hand how you can draw it, i do it all the time, its a pain

i prefer using my mouse for isometric pixel art, its more precise, and yeah, your going to wanna go with graphics gale, best free pixel art program your gunna get

At 4/7/11 03:39 AM, falz3333 wrote: It seems like some of the best art is posted in the lounge... which is weird :P. What, are you guys too cool to make your own threads, lol?

we all have threads, joe has dozens, we just never use them, after being here for a while you dont bother with personal threads :P

At 4/7/11 01:09 AM, Glacier wrote: Turn's out that the only thing I like enough to work over 5 hours on is Assassin's Creed fan characters.

with no face, i am dissapoint

At 4/7/11 02:14 AM, maficmelody wrote: Oh cool, I remember seeing this on that NG Stickam thing. Didn't you say there was a problem with something? somewhere. It all looks fine to me.

you go on stickam?

we have a collab forum thread now, to drum up extra participation

that is all

The Idea
just under a year ago, Charlie started the pixel poster collab, it got off to a great start, got a fair few submissions then sort of fizzled out and never saw completion, my aim is to get this done

What you can do
theres 2 things you can do for this collab
make people to populate this pixel cityscape, for this there is a few templates you can use
Hand down
Hand up
Both down
Both up

or

you can make isometric buildings/scenery for this collab, size should be proportionate to the people so keep that in mind, heres an isometric grid to help out, and heres a huge one, light source should be from the top left to fit with the rest from the old thread

-all work must be your own
-post work here, and link to a higher quality version in the dumping ground if necessary
-PNG would be the best bet for high quality, with transparency on
-if not jpg or gif at full quality in the dump
-pixel art can be done in any program, photoshop is the binary brush, flash has a plugin for it, or even ms paint
-graphicsgale would be the best free option

the work will be compiled into a flash poster, similiar to this

Deadline somewhere after pico day, since iv already got a few submissions but need more

heres the art forum thread that i started a few weeks earlier

At 4/6/11 07:56 PM, BizarroJoe wrote: So I've just taken a breather playing some game... Guess which?

HINT: FONTPAGE. Duh.

this is at least 10 times better than the games, but thats not saying much, because well....theyre shite

i....still dont get it, speak better english...please

since this is animation, youd probably have more luck in the animation forum

At 4/6/11 02:54 PM, Ef-X wrote: Another sketch I did while practicing perspective.

drawing perspective with just lines and stickmen kinda defeats the point of it, doesnt it?

deadline extended till sometime after pico day, by request of nae

At 4/1/11 12:07 PM, ForNoReason wrote:

At 3/31/11 10:20 PM, mr-johnson22 wrote: Did you have any trouble getting my .fla files to work? If not, does anyone here have Flash CS3?

I am going to download a trial version of CS4 to put this collab together. I have used it before so it should work out =p Don't want to bother Nae and her kindness with all the files I need converted! So everyone send me your FLAs already! <3

bother nae, shes very kind and itll give us more time to do stuff, and you more time to get more parts :D

At 4/3/11 10:48 PM, Luxembourg wrote: I'm an idiot sometimes. I figured something out.
Here's my simple little entry. Just a big cardboard box.
Dump.

yeah thats fine :D

scelestics people are in too

also, wip

At 4/5/11 02:44 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: But no, it's because of the reference he used. In the reference, there are only 3 legs visible due to the angle and size of it's belly. In his, though, you should be able to see a 4th leg.....

considering the professional original artist fucked it up, ill ignore that and let it slide, but really.....thats a fail.....

also, your drawing from reference, use the reference as much as you possibly can then

he only has 3 legs?

At 4/5/11 02:05 PM, MasterMerol wrote: Dinosaurs

i prefer this to anything thats been suggested so far

get a film grain texture from somewhere, cgtextures may have some, set it to multiply or overlay, each is different slightly choose which one you want, then mess about with the transparency/alpha of that texture, for flash, making the texture a movie clip would probably help and make it easier to do these modifications

At 4/4/11 07:57 AM, PigeonOnAStick wrote:

At 4/4/11 07:48 AM, Ashman wrote: tl;dr

lol, how much do you have to write before you think people give up reading it?

its me, i just assume people skip my posts if they know what im like

also i wasnt serious, i just wanted you guys to feel guilty

we're all terrible people

especially you kinsei

and we should make an effort to welcome new users, regardless of artistic ability

especially you kinsei

if people want to showcase their art why should they be treated differently because of their quality, or the arts content, we're an art community to try and help and improve peoples art, not flame bad, and mindlessly praise good, i see mindless praise more than flaming and trolling, and it annoys me more

tl;dr i hate mindless praise with no criticism more than flaming

At 4/3/11 08:07 PM, Spysociety wrote:

meh, it's a little dull. The pixelated lighting isn't helping.

Well in my opnion the lightning sounded much more realistic pixelated then vectors, because generally the Flash vectors in .jpg looks a bit unreal or fake. Having it pixelated gave it much more atmosphere in my opnion.

no it doesnt, it looks pixelated and bad and more fake than if youd used vectors, also the clouds are pixelated....and bad, and most of the picture has bad jpg artifacts

At 4/3/11 07:33 PM, ScelesticFish wrote: I can't really do buildings :( I'm not very good

isometric grid in the first post, just follow that, and use the people template as a size measure, and you cant go wrong, anything will do, simplicity works :D

also im working on a comic con type thing, as an explanation for all the anime characters and stuff

At 4/3/11 07:31 PM, Luxembourg wrote: How do I make the texture, though?

just get one you like from somewhere, google images, cgtextures, deviantart, iv got a folder with hundreds of em, open that in your drawing, and do what i said with multiply and whatever

At 4/3/11 07:10 PM, Luxembourg wrote: As I've mentioned before, I'm slightly retarded when it comes to many of the actual digital aspects of digital art. I'm starting to really want to learn how to touch up on my pieces, though, and add a little bit of extra flare to them.
One thing I've always wanted to learn how to do is give entire pieces a kind of soft texture, like the one present in this piece. How exactly does one go about doing such a thing?

overlay or multiply, and making the overlay/multiply very transparent so its not too prominent, grayscaling the texture helps aswell so it doesnt add any unwanted colour to the piece, i use that technique quite a bit, adds that little something to a boring piece

learn how to use flash or photoshop, and youll figure out the technique to it pretty fast, everyone has different ways, failing that, go look up some tutorials

At 4/1/11 05:39 PM, DemonWolfBlood wrote: really it's more random boredom than anything

hey thats the only reason i ever draw

ok, since thats old ill ignore it, but if your gunna post everything, get the old stuff out of the way first, then post your new stuff, so we can see the change and gauge your improvement, id rather see more and newer stuff before i tell you what needs improving, and give you tips and whatnot

on a side note, starting the thread of with an anthro piece probably wasnt the wisest decision, newgrounds isnt known for being the best lovers of that, and being open to new things, and you just brought the trolls down on yourself D: haters gunna hate

iv got nothing against it myself, im the good guy here.....i swear XP

At 4/1/11 09:37 PM, XWarrior61 wrote: Neither am I

guile?

At 4/1/11 03:39 PM, Zanroth wrote: good news, I'll be able to join in and upload in time after all.

2 hours, i probably wont

At 4/1/11 09:08 AM, Luxembourg wrote:

At 4/1/11 12:05 AM, M-Vero wrote: the joke is there's no joke
Surprisingly, the only bookmarked website (of which there are many) that I checked this morning that I wasn't disappointed in for jokes was Bulbapedia.

minecraft did a pretty good joke, at the expense of team fortress 2