CHALLENGE 6/7/2010: Creature Comforts
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Topic: CHALLENGE 6/7/2010: Creature Comforts
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 6/7/2010: Creature Comforts
Date Posted: 07 June 2010 at 12:00am
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Posted By: StepDragon
Date Posted: 07 June 2010 at 3:02am
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"real or imaginary (non-human) creature"
Do vampires / zombies / other human-oid creatures count? |
Posted By: Manupix
Date Posted: 07 June 2010 at 1:46pm
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An electrocuted mouse in a fire alarm case where it was planning to rest and get comfy. From life (way of speaking). Scary. |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 12:58am
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Originally posted by StepDragon "real or imaginary (non-human) creature" Do vampires / zombies / other human-oid creatures count? If you're feeling relatively uncreative and wanting to see how far you can stretch the rules without exploring other available (probably more interesting) options in order to achieve a sense of loophole-finding rebellion, then...um...maybe. The reason for non-humans is to encourage a more interesting perspective on getting comfortable/relaxing. Think about the given example of Godzilla flippantly resting his feet on a nearby skyscraper, unwittingly causing massive amounts of damage... ------------- |
Posted By: Ailaik
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 6:49am
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I'm still pretty new at this, and I was wondering if anyone's got some advice for me, about dithering...
Since it's for the weekly challenge I'm asking it here, I hope that's alright. Anyway, I'm working on this one: 
And I was wondering how you can shade/dither something to make it shinier/slimier... Many thanks in advance. PS, the lightsource will be a setting sun, in the middle of the background ------------- <enter interesting signature here> |
Posted By: StepDragon
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 8:00am
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Originally posted by skamocore
If you're feeling relatively uncreative and wanting to see how far you can stretch the rules without exploring other available (probably more interesting) options in order to achieve a sense of loophole-finding rebellion, then...um...maybe. Nothing personal, It was just the first thing that popped in my head. Before I start thinking about the challenge I like to fully comprehend the rules. There's no shame in asking! |
Posted By: Quake
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 10:02am
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Originally posted by Ailaik I'm still pretty new at this, and I was wondering if anyone's got some advice for me, about dithering... Since it's for the weekly challenge I'm asking it here, I hope that's alright. Anyway, I'm working on this one: And I was wondering how you can shade/dither something to make it shinier/slimier... I think it'd be better if you didn't dither, because by dithering the texture made is normally (including yours) more of a gritty, bumpy texture. To answer the second question, look at some references such as: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/15080.htm http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/18967.htm http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/15867.htm They all share similar textures, with high contrast (First two have the lighest colour favouring a whiter appearence, resulting in a shinier more watery-like appearence. Hope i helped :) Good luck... I may participate, thinking of doing a tortoise on his shell whitewater rafting. We shall see :P |
Posted By: Ailaik
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:35am
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thanks Quake, that makes a lot of sense :D
I'm off to try it out now! ------------- <enter interesting signature here> |
Posted By: Red-Error
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 3:19pm
A bat demon resting home. I have problems of readability, with de double-hands, the cup of tea and the claws... And for many other things. ^^ (Want some advice, of course.) |
Posted By: Quake
Date Posted: 08 June 2010 at 3:48pm
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Well, the contrast is a bit low, so nothing really stands out so it all becomes a "blob of colours"... So, increase the contrast, simplify the forms of the cup, and with the double hands maybe make the hand not holding the cup darker, and the one that is holding the cup lighter so that the eye is drawn to that hand resulting in the improvement of readability. I'd also try and not fit as much detail in as you have (especially around the neck area, use "blocks" of colour instead of lines) If you don't get what i mean, i'll do a edit tomorrow for you :) |
Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 09 June 2010 at 1:00pm
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It've been a long time sence I made pixels .. but now I'm back to buisness and I'm going to start with this challenge >> so I thought about a cerberus ( 3 headed dog ) lying alongside with his bowl .. that would be a cute idea XD here's a really fast sketch :  ------------- ░▒▓█▓▒░ ◘The power is in our hands!◘░▒▓█▓▒░ |
Posted By: Sasuke-ish
Date Posted: 10 June 2010 at 12:07am
| Think I might do this one I got a funny Idea. |
Posted By: Ailaik
Date Posted: 10 June 2010 at 2:20am
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orenshtiv:
how about Cerberus chilling while sailing down the Styx himself? Free of charge :P ------------- <enter interesting signature here> |
Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 10 June 2010 at 5:15am
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Ailaik : Nice idea :P , but nah I think I'll stick to the original idea P: thx anyways ~
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Posted By: Setzer
Date Posted: 11 June 2010 at 3:41am
 I always got Aquamentus and Aqualung mixed up. Not sure if I'll get around to finishing this one. Its raelly awful right now and I'm having trouble even looking at it.  ------------- http://sj-gfx.com"> 
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Posted By: IQbrew
Date Posted: 11 June 2010 at 5:22am
| A dragon playing pacman? Nah, too obvious... |
Posted By: PanicBomber
Date Posted: 12 June 2010 at 8:39am
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Here is what ive been planning :D. Jason is not a human, hes an undead creature.  |
Posted By: Red-Error
Date Posted: 12 June 2010 at 2:35pm
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I've seen the final version, quite impressive, good job. Some corpses are strangely lying, but the scenen is strange so... Thanks member_profile.asp?PF=17925&FID=1 - Quake for the tips, I finally decided to add outlines. So the new version :  (15 col)He looks younger  and it isn't more a bat.I think it's more readable than earlier... (But there are always problems.) |