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    Posted: 04 June 2005 at 2:43am
ok,here's the first pic,any1 who wishes to try it must:1.save pic 2.edit it (not too much) 3.put it in the fourm 4. i'll judge it & 5. i'll private message the best 1
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Quote Guests Replybullet Posted: 04 June 2005 at 2:44am
Originally posted by supadude

ok,here's the first pic,any1 who wishes to try it must:1.save pic 2.edit it (not too much) 3.put it in the fourm 4. i'll judge it & 5. i'll private message the best 1
ok the pic don't come up,(it's my avatar!!!)go on www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/icons/icons/icon2999.asp that is the page 4 the first pic
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Quote Saboteur Replybullet Posted: 04 June 2005 at 1:21pm

is this a collaboration? are we supposed to see who can edit a topic the best?

If so, this should be a collab, and then in the collab section. And then clarified a bit more.

And your avatar makes me laugh. Don't take offence, it just looks funny, but you could do with some shading and/or effort.

"I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business."
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Quote Garage Inc. Replybullet Posted: 04 June 2005 at 2:30pm

This is what it sounds like to me. You want us to fix it and make it better for you, then you can take it to another graphics forum and try to pass it off as your own.

That might not be it, but that's what it sounds like to me.

For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it.
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Quote Guests Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 2:05am
nope,i just need help,i'll say in description,i made character, someone edited it 4 me (someone means the pixel artist who helped me)
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Quote purple_monkey Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 10:08am

  Well I didnīt do too well a job on this or it will end up not being an edit.

  I put a black ouline as it gives ta cartoony look, but witout using the black lins as line art, Iīll explain, instead of all the lines being black tI only drew the lines on the outside without touching inside the sprite.

 It needed shading as it lookedvery epty without, I hope youīll learn from this.  I changed the leg to tentacles as I thought would go better but itīs now less an octo-man than an octopuss.

  Remember this as itīs the most important thing I have to say here, always and I mean ALWAYS try your best, if you ever want to improve you have to try your best because itīs he only time that you get better is when you try you hardest.

Oh and one more thing,when oing eyes ever use squares as pupils unless youīre going for a uniue style.   Hope this helped youand gets you working hard toiprove. See you around.



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Quote AlmightyB00J Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 10:09am
Okay, Supadude, you're either playing a really bad joke on Pixel Artists. Or you think your drawings.... well... are worth looking at. Think about what your doing when drawing, not drawing splodges, Make outlines, shapes not blobs with whiskers.
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Quote fastshorty Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 10:21am
dude atleast he trys to make something
and you know what they say

Practice makes perfect

so just leave him alone
I'm a work in progress
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Quote Rifts Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 1:01pm
la la la lalalaaa la la la lalalaaa la la la lalalaaa ... soz new soad song
in meh head...

yeh leave him alone, no offence to him but hes not good at pixel art
im shore he knows when he looks at his compared to others, but
everyone has to start somewhere. and i think i know what kind of
topic he is trying to post here so im gunna try define it better and
change it a bit......

this topic is a place where those better at pixeling can help those not
as good, (although not by doing the work for them)

so how are we ament to help the not so good? well ill do an example
by helping supadude here :)


ok now 1st thing you need to do is use the pencil tool only 1 px wide
dont use any bigger brushes or anything, now to improve it supadude
is get a correct shape for the body that you are looking for, for
example if you want a circle for the body start by drawing a black
outline of a circle... such as this..


notice how its done you start off with a horizontal line or say 5 pixels,
then make anotherone of about 3 then a couple of lines of 2 pixels
then a few dots, then make start to make vertical lines in the same
mannor. thats how u do all curves


next thing you might want to do is add a couple of legs and some
eyes, so put a couple of outlines of circles inside and add legs, if you
make them semetrical it can look better, mayb add a smile and some
tenticles or whateva they are, remember ur jus useing the outline! i
just did 2 tenticles quick cos its jus an example.


finaly dont forget to add pupils oops lol, and remember make em
circles, then fill it with colour...


finally u can add shadeing to give it some depth, there are differnt
ways to dither or u can just do cell shadeing which is what i did
here..

now go and make ur own iv shown u how to do it, make a new one
and post it here, i dont want to see and edit of my one, and i definaly
dont want to see this anywhere else apart from here....

heh heh heh he looks funkeh
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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 8:18pm

Let's put the sniping to rest please. 

One thing I would suggest is to go through some tutorials to sharpen some of your skills.  Do as many as it takes until you feel your pixels are ready to rumble.  Start with Rifts little mini tutorial as a jumping off point.

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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 11:13pm
kudos to you, Rifts, for making a mini tutorial for supadude. Sometimes I just don't have the patience to go through that sutff. You rock dude

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Quote iSTVAN Replybullet Posted: 06 June 2005 at 6:48am

I'll only be satisfied when Supadude actually learns something from this.

Supadude, whilst it is good to recieve crit online to aid in your personal pixel skills progression, it is also important to practice at home...privately...without showing everyone. What I mean is, look at how other people work, read tutorials, sketch ideas and put sufficient time into every 'artwork.' Sometimes the only way to learn is on your own. We won't be able to give you any 'magic pixel skills.'  You will, however, find many talented pixel artists willing to help you out ONCE youve followed the above couple of points.

Also, whilst english MAY not be your first language, you HAVE stated that you live in the United Kingdom, so you undoubtedly would require atleast some knowledge of english to get by every day. Please try to muster all your power of the english language when posting....even though the best of us will find we've written impossible to understand and outrageously long sentence without even noticing...it. Good luck here! Communication is very important, especially if you cant fall back on your artwork to do the talking ;)

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