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I feel as though you may have started out in the wrong end at this project. When making an icon there's a bit more to take into consideration than just how accurately the drawing is full-scale. Chances are, an icon will most of the time be smaller than 100x100 pixels, which means a lot of the detail will lose significance or disappear entirely.

Instead, the focus should be on the basic composition and mood. Additionally you may want to aim for making it distinct, memorable, and significant to yourself. Sort of to compliment your online persona, so to speak.

At 8/26/13 02:53 PM, xLawliet wrote: Tips are welcome.. :P

My first tip would be to make use of the remaining 34 500 pixels

At 8/26/13 11:34 AM, TheMAM wrote: Maybe we could ask Tom Fulp to make an announcement addressing the issue?

Sure, we'll file this thread in the urgent to-do inbox.
It'll be be next in line after number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10

At 8/26/13 11:30 AM, TheMAM wrote: All I'm saying is, this site would have been a lot more fair if we had more people voting on submissions

Okay, how do we solve that?

At 8/26/13 10:18 AM, mim31 wrote: I've been making some pixel concept art for a game my friends are making, I just want some feedback.

I'm having trouble making out the different elements of your composition, so you may want to make that clearer.

From what I can tell the game is about a dinosaur? or possibly a robot? or maybe a no-hands, square-hatted person? I can't really tell much about who they are or why they're important.

I like the idea of the three coloured background, as well as the icons, but is there any reason as to why they're cut unevenly? Additionally the robot's leg cuts right in the middle of an icon, so it's hard to tell what that is supposed to represent as well.

I like how you did the "cables" or whatever sticking out of the robots back - the ones with no black border. I think you may want to consider sticking to that style with the rest as well for more consistency.

Something between Jon Hopkins - Lost in Thought, and Röyksopp - The Drug possibly?

Or alternatively Oscar Peterson's take on Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Wave"

I don't wish death upon anyone. If you held a gun to my head and forced me to pick I'd sooner take the shot myself

I prefer ales and lagers over distilled beverage.
My go-to brand is Nøgne Ø, as I have yet to taste a beer style they've failed to excel in.

I brew my own

Found it here, in the general forum, though I'd repost it here.

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012

Mostly I think it's because they can't be bothered. They might have a story idea or two or perhaps an unique game concept, but without the skills or motivation to start a project like that it will never get done. I also believe a lot of the BBS regs don't dwell much further than the BBS, so making flashes aren't really relevant and without any incentive.

I respect those who actually make their time worthwhile instead of mindlessly lurking the BBS.

1. Under judgment flashes are too hidden
Agree 100%
The classic portal was much better at attracting attention towards new flashes.
The colour system especially meant that a new users attention would always be drawn towards the left side where the new submittions were lined up.

2. No incentive to vote
Absolutely!
Your vote power reaches the ~5 pretty fast, and after that it feels like it doesn't really get much more powerful for each level.
Similarly, the level icons doesn't feel as powerful as they used to. When they were in the place of ones icon it actually had some sort of significance as it was at the time the most distinct personalization you could get on the BBS.

3. Under judgement flashes are not attractive anymore
To build on your point addressing submittions being FP'd too quick, I think the FP should change more frequently. It should be a place to showcase the best of the newest, and not the best of all time.

I think changing the FP more would be of encouragement for new artists, and at the same time give some incentive for other users to visit the FP more frequently. As it is now, Madness:Project Nexus is the biggest offender staying on the FP for around two years, give or take.

I realize this would mean the overall quality of submittions on the FP would drop, but isn't that some of the charm of NG anyway? Seeing new artists rise and put in some real effort to get those few days of FP fame?

4. People who like to increase their stats don't care about B/P points anymore, or less than in the past
I think this somewhat falls under the category "No incentive to vote"
A lot of features that revolved around the level system was removed in the redesign. Secrets, and the importance of the icons and aura.
These days the level icons are barely noticeable and everything but the piss aura is just uninteresting.

Before I got to NG I understand that the aura was based on how you voted? That seems like a decent concept. If not going with that, how about setting aura that boosts your vote power when it meets certain criteria.
Evil could be something like +20% negative vote power when submittion has a score less than 3
Natural could be 10% boost in votes that bumps the submittion towards score 2,5

Perhaps perks could be unlocked as you level up, allowing you to customize the way your vote works in different circumstances.

Can we expect there to be more tags in the future?
I just don't think it makes sense to have it restricted at all, and especially not as few as four tags.

At 8/19/13 07:28 PM, Gagsy wrote: NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF NG LIKES THE 'MAD AS HELL' EMOTICON.

"THE" MAD AS HELL EMOTICON? THERE'S LIKE FOUR OF THEM!!

Perhaps they were making animated emotes and decided fuckall

The tools in the brush panel under "brush tip shape" should get you the results you want!

I wish people didn't act so shit to new users.

At 8/18/13 01:33 PM, supergandhi64 wrote: why is six afraid of seven

--supergandhi64

Because seven was convicted for sexual assault and manslaughter, and is also currently emotionally unstable?

Did I get it right?

An insufferable prick.
If I ever met someone like younger me, I'd probably feel an urge to punch their face.

Depends entirely on the user in question.
Some users I'd be very interested in seeing, some I'd very much rather not.

I guess preparing for an apocalypse isn't that high priority for me

At 8/17/13 07:23 AM, ramart wrote: Second project:
[...] it will happen randomly. [...] again in here there will be rankings

Why would you want a ranking system for random events?

At 8/16/13 06:38 PM, Damien wrote:

The golden rectangle I got from various classes at school.

The BBS image post limitations are readily available next to the upload button, and the art portal preview size I believe I found by inspecting the page with firefox' "inspect element" tool.

Now of course those aren't by any means the absolute and only solution in all cases, but I reckon it's an alright size to work with both for the artist and the viewers - regardless of what monitor they're using.

Can't go wrong with the golden rectangle!
Though your panels doesn't have to be absolutely static, I'm sure there's a place for just about any size and shape if it's done right.

The specific size of your panels depends on a few things. Where do you intend for your webcomic to be read? If it's on a page with limited sizes (e.g. NG bbs, tumblr images, etc), you might want to match their requirements. NG BBS has a max of 720 px wide, and the art portal "preview" size is 590 wide.

If you have your own website you can decide everything yourself, but you might want to take into consideration mobile and tablet users experience.

I'm no expert, but I imagine fitting golden rectangles within your 590-720 pixels should be alright.

At 8/16/13 05:39 PM, FlakJaketPro wrote: Sekhem or Colonel Sanders.

RIP colonel sanders

Supergandhi64 vs Slint

At 8/15/13 08:38 PM, Scarface wrote: I love Kaizers Orchestra. It's good to see that they're not entirely unknown to English speaking people.

Actually not an example of that in my case, Norway represent

Cool

At 8/14/13 09:39 PM, Elitistinen wrote: What I'm talking about is do most people know how to troubleshooting shits without "Googling"

To be fair, proper google-fu can solve just about any problem.

Probably something silly, like drawing mickey mouse!

Most likely so that words make sense phonically

My favourite NG user is someone whose posts are always interesting. I'll always check a thread if I see this user was last poster, and never ceases to amaze!

This poster also never boasts or brags about themselves, and is generally humble and pleasant to other posters!