*****Official Sig/Avatar topic*****

Just make sure you keep the one about Dazzy.

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yeah of course i’ll keep that 1 =P

im heading over to my control panel right now to remove some.

Edit:

there…

Too big to use though… trying to optimize it :[

Mergris is back. I’ve wanted to redo him for a while now, and with some inspiration from Roguepirate’s portraits, A new avatar for SCU.

Wins?

edit: Screw that. I’m avating it on every forum.

again, unless you’re going for that style, i dont see 1 work of dithering in it. the shading on the shoulder pads is so blatantly obvious… then again… i havnt made anything lately, so its better than me. xD

When you say blatantly obvious, do you mean to much contrast, or the shades arent even? I’ll assume the latter. Also, dithering isnt an ESSENTIAL part of spriting. It’s generally used limited pallettes, and when you dont want too large of a pallette. It would take ages to dither 5 colors, and I like it this way anyway.

Why not make anything? You’d be a better spriter than I am If you’d actually sprite stuff. Just saying.

Got tired of Amano’s art style, so I made a new Bartz set using the chibi art from the SNES manual and guide :3

The forum these are used at has much larger limits than here…even this sig doesn’t breach them, but I felt gaudy at that size so I shrunk it :3

Took a lot of troublesome editing on the sig there… Krile was filling up a lot of space by Bartz, and I wanted him alone. So while it looks like I didn’t edit it much, it took a while. xD

im saying you can tell where the shades change w/o having to look. 'specially on the shoulder pads.

Well I wasnt going for a look so realistic that you cant tell, so It’s not really a problem.

Realism is one thing, but that just looks like crappy pillowing in places.

Also, new set. :smiley:

Edit: New set again. :smiley:

Ouch. Do you mean on the 2nd and 3rd sets of shoulder pads??

The top pads.


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Yeah, didn’t really do much there, but I like how it turned out.

Was told to post my sigs here…

Not bad at all, but a lot have way too much empty space. You gotta use your space better.

a very nice picture of a metroid on last one though (regular one looks good, put at good pixel sizing i guess)

New Samus Zero Mission sig and av.

very good background, however, it is very empty, which is even more presented by the small samus picture.

work on filling it up (not spamming it mind you), because the background is so good.

Well, thats the thing. Samus is the focal point of the whole peice, which is only accented by the swoopy brushing, as well as the black and white brushing that highlights her. If I were to add more, the peice may become unbalanced, and look trashy and … ‘spammy’ as you say.

Thanks for the input, but I would rather leave it like it is, my fine arts degree seems to work only in my eyes I suppose.

Can anyone comment on my sig? I need feed back right now…