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Re: Sword
Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 02:20
by Dawn
Hi,
I haven't been back in a while, I've just re-drawn my sword and I'm quite proud of it, but I believe it still needs more work.
Re: Sword
Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 03:34
by Len
It is much nicer than your first one, but its too heavily saturated (mainly the blue handle with the red ribbon!)
Re: Sword
Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 07:50
by Dawn
Yeah I guess it's a little "babyish"
Re: Sword
Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 08:02
by Dawn
I redrawn it and removed the blue handle and red ribbon.
Re: Sword
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 07:07
by Dawn
Ok... I guess it looks nothing like a sword... I'll change it...
Re: Sword
Posted: 01 May 2008, 07:39
by Strump
is good XD...
Leran pxle and you are a good artist
Re: Sword
Posted: 02 May 2008, 15:09
by Wolf
I have the short sword
Re: Sword
Posted: 03 May 2008, 00:09
by Red Lord
Dawn, a thing with swords is that they have a small hilt. Currently it looks like a knife. Look at i's sword for an example.
Re: Sword
Posted: 03 May 2008, 13:41
by Dave
Why not just look at the nice examples that Irukard posted, on the first page of this thread?
Re: Sword
Posted: 08 May 2008, 11:10
by Dawn
Blacklord wrote:Dawn, a thing with swords is that they have a small hilt. Currently it looks like a knife. Look at i's sword for an example.
I know.. I have no clue how to do the pointy thingy on the top!!!
Re: Sword
Posted: 09 May 2008, 22:54
by Dawn
I just studied i's sword veeeery carefully.
Edit: made the handle longer.
Re: Sword
Posted: 09 May 2008, 23:01
by Leo
Great sword Dawn! It looks better than your first one
Re: Sword
Posted: 12 May 2008, 14:42
by Crush
I have to disagree with Leo. There are still some things you have to learn before your graphics are good enough to pass the graphical standards of tmw.
The blade uses a gradient fill. This is something you should always avoid when doing pixel art because it looks cheap. Try to select and place the colors manually.
The hilt is suffering from a very bad color selection. As I already wrote you shouldn't use full saturated colors like the yellow and the red you used.
But please don't be discourage. I am sure that you can improve your pixel art skill with some practice and by listening to the advice people give you.
Re: Sword
Posted: 12 May 2008, 17:17
by i
Dawn300387 wrote:I just studied i's sword veeeery carefully. :D
Edit: made the handle longer.
I see huge improvement in your work. Now is time for some new lessons.
I remade your sword in serval steps. Hope it helps you.
And remember keep icon in 32x32px square.
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and another quick tutorial/reference
- Sword3.png (4.81 KiB) Viewed 2368 times
Also I managed to correct some old mistakes in currently used icons made by me. For example black outlines in short sword - I have done it in 2005 using MS Paint. Now we got 2008 and Gimp ;)
- weapon-dagger-shortsword-remake.png (2.88 KiB) Viewed 3008 times
Re: Sword
Posted: 13 May 2008, 07:17
by Dawn
W-wow!!! thats so good... I didn't study your sword enough, Gosh this is harder than it looks...