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pirate with pegleg **finished**

on: August 04, 2006, 01:53:09 pm
I've fiinished the portrait:





old piece:



« Last Edit: August 21, 2006, 02:08:23 pm by sharprm »
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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #1 on: August 04, 2006, 01:57:05 pm
The sword blade looks too jaggedy - diagonal lines are your friend as they requite no AA.

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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 02:34:08 pm


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.
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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #3 on: August 04, 2006, 03:00:58 pm
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? :P

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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #4 on: August 07, 2006, 02:10:14 pm


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

Reply #5 on: August 07, 2006, 02:44:41 pm
I hope you know those X-Men ones are not pixelled, tho.
There are no ugly colours, only ugly combinations of colours.

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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #6 on: August 08, 2006, 07:13:04 am
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.
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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #7 on: August 18, 2006, 10:08:04 am


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

Reply #8 on: August 18, 2006, 10:45:50 am
the blue light would be reflected light prolly from the snow, as snow reflects quite a bit.
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Re: pirate with pegleg

Reply #9 on: August 18, 2006, 12:06:48 pm
thanks ptoing. I removed the blue light.

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