The most annoying excuse?
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Printed Date: 08 September 2025 at 12:10am
Topic: The most annoying excuse?
Posted By: AngelOTG
Subject: The most annoying excuse?
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 2:15pm
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Alrighty, I just had to ask this: What is, for you, the most annoying excuse you see get posted about bad pixel art? Like, someone posts a work, someone says it's bad, then they fire back with some stupid excuse. For me, it's this: "I'm a sprite artist. I can't do big scenes." Erm, people, f.y.i.: You can make a big scene out of little pieces. >.> Alrighty, go! :D |
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Posted By: Dr D
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 2:18pm
| "I wanted it to be cartoony." |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 2:28pm
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Exactly what Dr. D said ...and "This is only my first/second/third/fifth/tenth etc... sprite/pixel art/whatever" ------------- |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 2:30pm
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*gets all hyper* Oh, oh, oh, oh... as the king of excuses let me think of a good one! :D "But (insert random name) did it worse than me!" XD -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 2:31pm
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Originally posted by Dr D "I wanted it to be cartoony." Yes. |
Posted By: AngelOTG
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 2:58pm
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Originally posted by Dr D "I wanted it to be cartoony." Yes! XD |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 8:57pm
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"That's the way I pixel" + "What should I add" next to a scene with nothing in it but ground and sky. ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 1:39am
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"But I like it that way" ugh...
------------- Without me, it's just aweso |
Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 8:31am
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"It was supposed to look like that" is also a pretty good excuse. |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 10:01am
| "It's a Runescape scene" |
Posted By: A.B. Lazer
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 12:03pm
| Deleting the piece. |
Posted By: A.B. Lazer
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 12:06pm
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By the way, original topic poster has no art in the gallery yet.
I'm shure he'll fire all that we wrote at once when he uploads something. |
Posted By: AngelOTG
Date Posted: 03 June 2009 at 11:41pm
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Whoa! I don't! :O *goes to scrounge up stuff to add* Eh, I probably will at some point. XD I try to be very open to critiques, though. |
Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 04 June 2009 at 8:47am
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Oh, and "I use MS Paint". Every time someone says that, god kills a dozen kittens. |
Posted By: tuaarita
Date Posted: 04 June 2009 at 9:49am
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"I have a headache" ------------- I'm running in the desert, running in to the sun, running out of blood and I'm going numb. |
Posted By: TheInquisitor
Date Posted: 06 June 2009 at 12:22pm
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"That's my style" "I wanted weird proportions" |
Posted By: Peach
Date Posted: 06 June 2009 at 12:40pm
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Originally posted by Leroy "I have a headache" lol an old excuse too :D |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 06 June 2009 at 12:57pm
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Originally posted by Leroy "I have a headache" Hey hey hey, no point in flogging a dead horse. As someone who gets chronic headaches, I can tell you a lot of things are hampered by them. That includes playing games, watching tv or just reading a book.  ------------- "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso
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Posted By: Pumpkinbot
Date Posted: 07 June 2009 at 1:05pm
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"I like it better like this," and "This tutorial told me to do it this way." People do stuff like this all the time on Nifflas' Support Forum. -_-'
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Posted By: Stickman
Date Posted: 08 June 2009 at 8:45am
| I must admit that I'm not to keen when people send in manga art with weird poses and odd proportions and then say that they care about the "style" and not the anatomy. |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 1:08am
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Originally posted by TheInquisitor "That's my style" "I wanted weird proportions" /thread also, blaming hardware(mouse/tablet/etc) or software(paint/photoshop/etc). |
Posted By: Anlina S.
Date Posted: 16 June 2009 at 6:18pm
| "It's supposed to look that way/that's my style" get on my nerves the most. |
Posted By: mdkcde
Date Posted: 23 June 2009 at 6:47am
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This thread looks like a "You Rage, You Lose" So, anyway, this one got me on my nerves. Originally posted by someone on deviantart I pillow shade. Yeah I do. Am I proud? f**k YEAH. I've been feeling rather sh*tty about my pixel art lately because whenever I read a tutorial involving pixels, pillow shading is put down as shading only idiot noobs would use when making pixel art. First of all, I think it is stupid and egotistical for artists to pretend that a shading style that they probably used when they were just starting out is somehow something they would never do. Everyone starts somewhere, and what new artists like me need is not something stating that our methods are dumb and stupid. We need someone going "Here is what I do and how to do it." That we can learn from. Tutorials pointing and laughing at my methods and the methods of most new pixel artists serve not as tutorials, but as pictures I quickly scan and then forget about forever. NOT HELPFUL KTHX. I never see "normal" art tutorials putting down a specific style (or any style for that manner). Why do some pixel artists feel that they need to make fun of others in order to make a tutorial on how to IMPROVE? This is dumb. Public service message. Sentences without verbs. f**k yeah. 8D |
Posted By: Reo
Date Posted: 23 June 2009 at 9:32am
| thats gotta be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard! |
Posted By: God_Is_Evil
Date Posted: 23 June 2009 at 9:34am
| lol that's great. |
Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 23 June 2009 at 10:00am
| Roflmao. |
Posted By: Antifarea
Date Posted: 27 July 2009 at 1:41pm
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At first I had some excuses when I was only in wayofthepixel haha... but now I try to do things the right way. My valid excuse, and this helps me stay patient a lot, is "I only have been doing this since january 2009, I'm not an expert", sadly but true haha... I tell this to myself btw, when I do something wrong, it's basically cause of momentary lazyness, so I'm bound to just say "I don't feel like working further on it" or something along those lines...  |
Posted By: minipuck
Date Posted: 28 July 2009 at 4:46am
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"I like it better this way" or "Thats the style/look im going for" Those are the most annoying by far. ------------- http://dragcave.net/viewdragon/G3eW"> 
please click it, otherwise it will die, and it seems special. |
Posted By: Surly
Date Posted: 06 August 2009 at 4:00am
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"It looks good to me"
Of course it looks good to you, if it wouldn't you wouldn't have uploaded it :| ------------- You can call me Twirly (more like Surly :|) |
Posted By: XD
Date Posted: 06 August 2009 at 12:04pm
| I can't really be bothered fixing what's wrong so I just uploaded it. |
Posted By: FrostedMayhem
Date Posted: 08 August 2009 at 8:04am
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Person 1: There head is titlted at 180. angle. I don't think that's possible.
Person 2: I did that deliberately.
I don't mind it in moderation but it gets a bit tiresome when its posted after every single comment someones made. Especially if that person asked people to critique O_O
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Posted By: mriorgute
Date Posted: 14 January 2010 at 4:22pm
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Originally posted by leel
"It's a Runescape scene" hahahhaha f**kin A!!!
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Posted By: slym
Date Posted: 14 January 2010 at 7:42pm
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Originally posted by lucas_irineu
Oh, and "I use MS Paint". Every time someone says that, god kills a dozen kittens. Oh god you said it. That is the most annoying thing ever. Especially when they think it's more pixel art than any other program. It's just stupid 
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Posted By: Pumpkinbot
Date Posted: 14 January 2010 at 11:02pm
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I gots another one! :D "It was supposed to be a 1-color scene!" *fails* |
Posted By: Zumi
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 5:06pm
| "I pillow shaded it because it looks prettier that way." |
Posted By: bonehead11
Date Posted: 24 November 2010 at 9:13am
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I just wonder if you can pillowshade a pillow...
Sorry for necro. |
Posted By: Delko
Date Posted: 02 December 2010 at 6:18pm
| I hate unwarranted superiority syndromes |
Posted By: ChrisButton
Date Posted: 03 December 2010 at 10:40pm
| "I'm retarted" LOL. |
Posted By: Defsan
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 10:55am
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"I could do better if I had a better software/mouse/tablet/bigger screen." If it's not good, improve it and take it like a man! |
Posted By: Finoli
Date Posted: 20 December 2010 at 4:22pm
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Originally posted by Club Beuker "But I like it that way" Oh YES! |
Posted By: Batmanifestdestiny
Date Posted: 23 December 2010 at 12:40pm
| "Shut up. Like you could do any better?" |
Posted By: Pixelton
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 11:48pm
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Originally posted by mdkcde This thread looks like a "You Rage, You Lose" So, anyway, this one got me on my nerves. Originally posted by someone on deviantart I pillow shade. Yeah I do. Am I proud? f**k YEAH. I've been feeling rather sh*tty about my pixel art lately because whenever I read a tutorial involving pixels, pillow shading is put down as shading only idiot noobs would use when making pixel art. First of all, I think it is stupid and egotistical for artists to pretend that a shading style that they probably used when they were just starting out is somehow something they would never do. Everyone starts somewhere, and what new artists like me need is not something stating that our methods are dumb and stupid. We need someone going "Here is what I do and how to do it." That we can learn from. Tutorials pointing and laughing at my methods and the methods of most new pixel artists serve not as tutorials, but as pictures I quickly scan and then forget about forever. NOT HELPFUL KTHX. I never see "normal" art tutorials putting down a specific style (or any style for that manner). Why do some pixel artists feel that they need to make fun of others in order to make a tutorial on how to IMPROVE? This is dumb. Public service message. Sentences without verbs. f**k yeah. 8D That guy does make a valid point. Sure pillow shading looks weird but lots of things look weird. Does that mean they are bad? Some might be horrible but others are brilliant just the way they are. Pillow shading and all. I'm all for constructive criticism but you start name calling because someone hasn't mastered proper shading techniques that sort of crosses the line. Anyway, I hate when people post a pixel work and then proceed to put down their own work saying they know it's horrible and bad etc. If you know you can do better than do better. |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 8:32pm
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that man makes no valid point. if something looks weird in art, then yeah, typically it's bad. if you don't draw eyes on your figures, they look weird, and the audience sees the work as incomplete. if you ignore your light source, then your image doesn't make sense, and it shows the hand of a novice. there's a reason only n00bs pillow shade- they haven't learned better. so if i paint my grass orange instead of green, or draw fingers with only one joint, or draw lamp shining on a box that casts no shadow, then I suppose it's not inherently "bad", bad is just a value judgment. but it is obviously incorrect. pillow shading isn't a style of shading. it isn't shading. it ignores a light source. "it looks weird but it's ok because sometime weird things are cool" isn't a very good reason to apply pillow shading. |