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[Savage Thinking]

Originally Posted by CelesJessa

Thankya, in all honesty, the colors are really awkward where they are (his face is a weird shade of purple) and it just looked crazily wrong until I finished shading everything. Which seems to be a lesson: sometimes things won't look good until you're done. Because Alphonse's face colored, even with the base layers of everything else colored, still looked really wonky and purple. And it's hard to pick colors that are, say, blue in natural light, but with that amount of purple light, are purple, but you still know that it's supposed to be blue. XD; Complicated! But I'm pleased. Normally I'm not the best at picking colors. Glad you thought the coloring was well-done.

That kind of stuff is my worst enemy when it comes to digital painting. I've even seen Youtube videos of the entire process to be left like "The hell are they doing..?" only to be left dumbfounded at the end because of how well it all came together.

Messed with the coloring on the legs a bit, is this better, perhaps?

Very much so, actually.

... Pants are BORING.

[CelesJessa]

Awww poor pants. It's not your fault you're so boring. You should be more like shirts if you want people to draw you more often/better.

Maybe if you were leather pants...

In other news, being an art student is frikkin' expensive. I just spent over $200 just for painting supplies for one class, and that was on the CHEAP end. I didn't know that 37 ml tubes of paint could be sold for over $30 each. :gonk: Thank goodness I got to buy the $6-$10 37ml tubes instead. But I'll get to officially work with color finally. =O

[TDK]

Originally Posted by CelesJessa

TDK - That is quite the... chainsaw tank. With the handle, I have to wonder, is it small enough to hold?

Nope! Full size. Which makes the pull-start even more impractical!

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by CelesJessa

Awww poor pants. It's not your fault you're so boring. You should be more like shirts if you want people to draw you more often/better.

Maybe if you were leather pants...

In other news, being an art student is frikkin' expensive. I just spent over $200 just for painting supplies for one class, and that was on the CHEAP end. I didn't know that 37 ml tubes of paint could be sold for over $30 each. :gonk: Thank goodness I got to buy the $6-$10 37ml tubes instead. But I'll get to officially work with color finally. =O

My cousin actually got failed in her art classes due to not having the money for proper materials. But her art teacher was a bitch and had everyone buy a new color of a specific brand of paint every week that only came in, like, 10-gallon tubes and cost a fortune. They'd then never use it again. And she wouldn't let anyone make substitutions. Tracy went to her to voice that she was running out of money to buy the crap and the teacher looked her in the face and said, "Well I guess you're just not going to pass this class, then."


On a lighter note, I finally got off my ass and did a sprite of Ben on his Tiger. His standing pose will get some use in the battle system, but only when Tiger is guarding someone.

It also brings to light why Ben takes double damage in this state, because I went and matched up the attack animations through trial and error on Jet and Garrott and found that the best way to handle it would be to toss it into the center. Unfortunately, this corresponds to Ben's head/neck area when standing. >.<;;;

Ben standing, for reference:


Ben as per normal, riding Tiger:



Ironically, in his mounted position, he's a pixel taller (2px at 2x mag like here) than the tall characters. XD

P.S. I do have Tiger done on his own for use with him guarding people. Originally, I intended to use layers to keep the two apart, but with the system as figured out, it's just not possible. It just means I'll have to do a few more sprites.

P.P.S. I'm on Cloud Nine right now. Just realized yesterday that with a bit of tweaking, I can actually use the battle sprites as characters in most maps. The worst issue was dealing with the trees. However, due to the scaling of things like houses and other stuff that all belongs on town maps, towns will still need to be token-based, as the battle sprites are double the size they'd need to be and can't go any smaller.

[CelesJessa]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

My cousin actually got failed in her art classes due to not having the money for proper materials. But her art teacher was a bitch and had everyone buy a new color of a specific brand of paint every week that only came in, like, 10-gallon tubes and cost a fortune. They'd then never use it again. And she wouldn't let anyone make substitutions. Tracy went to her to voice that she was running out of money to buy the crap and the teacher looked her in the face and said, "Well I guess you're just not going to pass this class, then."

Thus is art. Although I have to wonder what the hell kind of paint she was buying that only came in 10-gallon tubes. I mean... that's a frikkin' LOT of paint. I want to know what paint even COMES in 10 gallon tubes.

Very nice little sprite people. It's hard to get lots of information from such little sprites, but you did a very good job.

EDIT: I've been coloring

First time using Copic Markers. Will remain in this state until I buy more colors. XD;; It sucks to only have six colors.

[TDK]

Original picture/idea.

Railroad dragon:

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by CelesJessa

Thus is art. Although I have to wonder what the hell kind of paint she was buying that only came in 10-gallon tubes. I mean... that's a frikkin' LOT of paint. I want to know what paint even COMES in 10 gallon tubes.

I was exaggerating. The point was that the teacher wasn't reasonable about the materials and demanded a specific brand that cost a ton per ounce and didn't come in small tubes, then had them buy a new color the next week and let hundreds of dollars worth of previous colors rot in a corner somewhere over the semester. Like God help her if she actually let people buy the same color in a cheaper brand or mix paint colors.

Very nice little sprite people. It's hard to get lots of information from such little sprites, but you did a very good job.

Thanks.

Really, the biggest thing is learning how to simplify things to get the general idea across. I mastered this with a 3-point font I did pixel by pixel when I was doing Gaia avatar edits. Capital letters only, but got the point across well.

In short, it's a matter of knowing how much information is desirable to convey the whole and how much the eye is willing to fool the brain.

EDIT: I've been coloring

First time using Copic Markers. Will remain in this state until I buy more colors. XD;; It sucks to only have six colors.

[pic]

Nice! Can't wait to see more!

[TDK]

Semi-referenced picture that I think turned out good:



Woo angels. I wanna color this, I think. Gonna try a new coloring method.

Edit: Color fail? Not much effort, but at the least I discovered a way to skip my outlining process basically, and keep the more sketchy lines. Like what khael does. Yay.




(Would've gotten rid of the dots and stuff, but tired and just trying out the basic new process.)


Edit: For boredom (And spartaaaaa!)



New character, Chief-Kills-A-Bear. He's a cherokee. (Though I did draw him before, tackling a bear off a cliff and attacking it.)

I just like how this one turned out, except for he doesn't quite look like he's going to hit the pirate WITH the bear, which was the idea. I think it gets the idea across though. My favorite part of this picture is the pirate looks he's about to wet himself.

...Ignore the sketches up top. XD I was showing the evolution of bears into velociraptors.

[TopHatAssassin]

Woo! Nice job TDK, your semi-referenced sketch looks rather magnificent, I like how it came out (especially coloured). The angle of the face is something I have yet to accomplish, chins and jaws from any angle other than straight on are hell for me. Yay for naked ladies! :p (it's a lady, right?).

And also... it may just be me, but... I'm really picking up some ill feelings towards bears on your part. Is it just me? Maybe?

[Corel]

What is with the bears. BEARS! This thread should be renamed to "Post your Bears here!".

...I will have to draw said animal sometime.

Liking the figure drawing TDK, also your wings are not too shabby. I always had trouble doing non-minimalistic wing drawing... too much detail for me!