pirate with pegleg **finished**

[sharprm]

I've fiinished the portrait:





old piece:

[Feron]

The sword blade looks too jaggedy - diagonal lines are your friend as they requite no AA.

[sharprm]

I think I fixed up the sword. When using graphics gale, If you pick the color of the outline
and slide it up and down (from bright to dark) it gives a neat glowing flame effect.

[Rerg1]

Many people do white outlines it isnt real specail but sometimes it comes out real nice. Some of u figure is to dark. but good job and whats with all the pirates?

[sharprm]

I really like the portraits for the xmen gba game (top) so i had a go myself (bottom).

[ptoing]

I hope you know those X-Men ones are not pixelled, tho.

[sharprm]

I hope you know those X-Men ones are not pixelled, tho.

I did know it was scanned line art from comic book artists, for some reason I thought it was colored
in some program like graphics gale. Maybe they used photoshop to color. Anyone know why there is
a blue light underneath sabertooths face? Or is it shadow? I'm thinking I should remove the blue light
form my portrait if it is specific to a snow setting.

[sharprm]

I think I got more out of this 16 color pallete. reference is board game (hope u can tell who
it is). crits welcome.

[ptoing]

the blue light would be reflected light prolly from the snow, as snow reflects quite a bit.

[sharprm]

thanks ptoing. I removed the blue light.

[sharprm]

getting the face a bit smoother now. What does everyone think? Should i add anything to make it more
interesting?

[baccaman21]

Personally I like what you're doing here with the portrait... it's certainly improved over the course of the thread. I kind of like the roughness of the pixels around the beard and hair bit potentially you could carry on with this further and clean up some of those lines...

I'm not too keen on the sprite in comparison... proportionally its a bit out... the legs and the arms seem to be the same the length?

Regarding the Sabertooth image and to clarify what ptoing said, to me it looks like it's either a direct scan from a full color image or more likely (IMO) a P'shop job, taking some nice line art (inked) and with some painterly tones layered under the inked version... I've got a feeling there's a little post processing with the white outline probably added after by hand.

Keep on pushing!

Pete

[yosh64]

hey

Nice work, I quite like the style of your portrait .

I too arn't as keen on your sprite, it looks rather stiff, and I think that maybe his clothing can be improved. Well I was thinking it may look more natural if the bottom of his coat loosly folded in some manner? and maybe if his sleves were looser around his wrist or something? Hmm, I found I had to zoom in to properly perceive his folded sleves . I think maybe his sword could be taken down a shade as to give better perception of depth?

edit
Ohh, it just occured to me that I wasn't looking at your newest version when looking into your sprite. I was looking at the one at the very bottom, and I see it is different from the one at the very top . So yea, I can much better perceive the area around the sleve in the latest version .

cyas

[sharprm]

Thanks for the reply baccaman21. I agree it would look better with the whole thing cleaned up. I thought
the proportions were okay (except for the belt being too low) but then again my anotomy sucks. While
I think this has turned out okay, it is different from the sabertooth image. I'd like to do the process you outlined - draw it, scan it, maybe ink it in flash (the curves on sabertooth's hair are awesome) and color it.




yosh64 - i tried making it a bit less stiff by having his arm bent and made the folded cloth. I'm not trying to make excuses but i was thinking about the 'pirates!' game on amiga when i was drawing this and maybe thats why it turned
out so ... blocky.