NPA mermaid and crab WIP
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Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 5:01am
Topic: NPA mermaid and crab WIP
Posted By: Saiklor
Subject: NPA mermaid and crab WIP
Date Posted: 07 July 2005 at 7:55pm
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Hey guys! Want to help a girl out (yes, I AM a girl!) and give me
useful critiques on this work? It's not pixel art (I'm using 100%
msWord if you believe it!) and I really want to make it GREAT! So be
critical!!! Thanks!  |
Replies:
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 07 July 2005 at 9:43pm
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What do you mean you are using MSWord? One of the things that helps when using this vector style is to use different line weights to show depth.
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Posted By: jujucece
Date Posted: 07 July 2005 at 11:40pm
You use MSWord as a vector drawing program ???  You should better use something specialized like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape (an open source product very impressive... working under Linux or Windows). For the picture, it's a very nice picture. For my point of view, some shades are missing, and different line weights will be good too... Nice work ! But still needs enhancement... ------------- Jujucece |
Posted By: Saiklor
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:39am
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sedgemonkey: below is a screenshot of me working on the piece
(recolouring the tail actually, see how it's selected and I've opened
the format autoshape menu?), hope it helps clarify how I'm doing it. jujucece: please don't tell me to get "better" programs or make disgruntled faces at me, some of us can't afford to buy AND aren't allowed to download new programs, we have to work with what we have. alright, I'll hop to work on some different thicknesses of lines. :) thanks for the input.  |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:48am
Wow, never knew you could do such things with MS Word  Did you even do the sky background in Word? ------------- |
Posted By: Saiklor
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:54am
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the sky, lol the sky, what hatred I have now for that damn sky. It's
about 3 different textures made semi-transparent and then grouped, with
a transparent texture overtop and some random wiggly shapes that are
gradients within themselves scattered around so it looked "uneven" It
took me longer to do that I will admit. Stupid sky. and yeah, you can do almost anything with msWord, it's fun that way :-) |
Posted By: jujucece
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:55am
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saiklor: I'm very sorry if I shocked you... But I didn't know that you had such restrictions... Sorry again... But if you can download and try a litte bit inkscape, I'm sure you'll be impressed... ------------- Jujucece |
Posted By: emiko
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:59am
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*high five to Saiklor* I used to use Word97 to do this stuff all the time when I took Comp Ed in high school, but my stuff was never quite this good.... you totally win a million cool points for doing this (I hipe you put it on DevART or something when you finish).
As for C/C, I think you should add some textures to the water, like a squigly wave formation? I like how you did the sky, so dont leave the water with just that gradient! I will cry if you do ^^ |
Posted By: Saiklor
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 9:36am
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emiko: I wouldn't want to make you cry so I'll be working on that next :) and YAY! someone else uses unconventional programs! YAY! *high five!* And I'm trying to bring it up to snuff enough to post on epilogue.net, so when it gets good enough you'll see it there! |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 12:52pm
| Ooh, I like all the different colours in her hair. I think perhaps it could do with a bit of shading/highlights in the water. It's really good. |
Posted By: xtremetom
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 1:12pm
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not sure on your downloading restrictions, but i could easily email you more advanced vector art programs, like xara-x. ------------- Lets Build "thePA" http://www.thepixelagency.com/"> 
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Posted By: Saiklor
Date Posted: 08 July 2005 at 4:13pm
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I don't want to sound ungrateful but this isn't my computer (it's my
parents) and so I can't download onto it w/o their permission and
they're out of town just this moment. I WILL take you up on the offer next week sometime when I get my laptop back on the go, it's currently running stupidly slow and needs a digital kick in the pants, so to speak. |
Posted By: kiwidesign
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 9:50am
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Originally posted by Saiklor
I don't want to sound ungrateful but this isn't my computer (it's my parents) and so I can't download onto it w/o their permission and they're out of town just this moment.
I tried too to do something with word like you, many years ago, but I stopped with smiles and strange shapes ------------- "She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him" 
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Posted By: Kirra
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 11:41am
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I never knew you could use msword.. I dont even have msword though so pfft.. That is awesome though how you did that. I like it alot. If you need adobe or something.. just give me a call too. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 3:52pm
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yeah word is pretty OK for vectoring things. very usefull for spicing up school reports 'n stuff now for the piece. i think that the submersed lower line of the tail should fade out faster , to comply with the water density that the other lines show. allso her hands are weird. her fingers are more like tentacles, and the left hand has 5 fingers and no thumb. draw the line between the ''thumbfinger'' and indexfinger a bit further(since the thumb is set back on the hand IRL too she's allso looking crosseyes, and the lower part of her face seems to come forward a bit too much. allso i think that you should choose between shading and no shading(crab is shaded but she aint) and to make sure that the style of the water is the same as that of the sky(right now the water is very plain.. )it might be wise to save that for the last though.. so you can work normally on the parts of the pic. that are under water. its annoying to have to flip througs dozens of layers to get to where you wanna be =) ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: 1ucas
Date Posted: 13 July 2005 at 11:01pm
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Nice use for MS Word. This looks really nifty, you did a great job. ------------- http://toxicdump.org/labs/frameviewer/viewer.php - Online Animated GIF Frame Viewer |