Pixel Making Fanart and Taking Requests

Discussion in 'Fan Art' started by Pyrotanis, Mar 25, 2012.

  1. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Red Head.png Welcome! Blue Head.png
    Let's get to the introduction:
    Username: Pyrotanis
    Goal: Enjoy making fanart and speculate about the game
    About Feedback: While nice comments are always welcome, don't be afraid to tell me what you don't like about the art or some tips you think I can make use of.
    My own Ideas:
    Big Ass File Jam Packed of Stuff Because My File Limit Per Post Dun Broked.png
    Requests:
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    Fat Blue Slime Manx5.png Zoraculus' Slime Guy (forgot the legs, sorry.)
    Joxalot-Spawn x8.png
    Joxalot's Spawn(forum BG clashed with palette)
    Request List:
    1-Vapor Horologium Corpus-Armored Man-Starbound
    2-Force2Reckon-Death Knight OC-Freeform
    3-Bamseper-Komodo Dragon-Starbound(Mob)
    4-Master Pixely-Steampunk Armor-Freeform
    5-Zailiner-MLP FOOLS-Freeform
    6-BrutorDragon-Skeletal Dragon King(Himself)-Starbound
    To clarify, here are the requests you can make:
    1.Starbound-Exactly what you'd expect- using this official template for contest.png or this Female Template.png character template (you can requests weapons and monsters in this style as well; while I don't have a template for these I'll use in-game pics for style reference).
    2.Freeform-Made from scratch, like DeusExel's and Angry Muffin's, just takes longer.
    Make it easy on me by saying which you would like!:)
    And more to come!Feel free to request!
     
  2. Andinicus

    Andinicus Big Damn Hero

    Looks awesome, is that a walrus on his chest?!?!
     
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  3. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Lol yeah, got the idea from from watching Robbaz, from teh sveedish youtubes.
     
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  4. StarMetal25

    StarMetal25 Phantasmal Quasar

    Is his head made of fire?
     
  5. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Yup. The "deal with it" shades tell you he's too cool to put it out.
     
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  6. Danisaurus

    Danisaurus Void-Bound Voyager

    WHER DID U GET THE TAMPLATE! I mean.... Good art! :D
     
  7. Bamseper

    Bamseper Ketchup Robot

    Quite good! Make more :p
     
  8. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Update #2

    Finally got Photoshop transparency to work!:D
    Guns x5 Transparency.png
    Did some guns as well as the poses for if/when I want to do more.
    Top Left: Reference
    Top Middle: Two handed gun pose
    Top Right: Shotgun pose, with sketch below it before refined shading
    Bottom Left: Big-ass Future Magnum pose, along with projectile

    Had fun making this, and would like to make more soon:)
    If you guys have any requests, don't hesitate to ask! The best part of making content is hearing the feedback.

    (P.S.-Realized the shade of gray I used kinda clashed with forum background, hope it's not too hard to see.)
     
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  9. A.N.T.I.

    A.N.T.I. Spaceman Spiff

    Now that guy is... pretty hot. :cautious:
     
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  10. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Now that's one smokin' comment;)
     
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  11. DeusExel

    DeusExel Big Damn Hero

    hey can you make a pixel sprite of this please? I beg you!
     

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  12. Bamseper

    Bamseper Ketchup Robot

    Wow, great! You are getting so much better :)
     
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  13. ForeverCopper

    ForeverCopper Space Spelunker

    Looking good!
     
  14. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    B.O.B. x5.png
    I didn't have time to finish B.O.B. today, but I thought the least I could do is show what I've done so far.
    It is pretty difficult to implement the polygonal shapes precisely with only pixels, but I'm enjoying the challenge and hope to finish the limbs and shading as soon as possible! Also, if you'd like another color scheme(trying to use gray shades took an hour and nearly drove me mad),don't hesitate to ask!:)
     
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  15. Crasscapade

    Crasscapade Industrial Terraformer

    I use GraphicsGale for my pixel art (at the moment) , but it really sucks because for most pictures except the template, the individual pixels are 4x4 or 6x6 or 3x 3 squares in the program. I need to get photoshop- does it have customizable brush sizes and stuff?
     
  16. DeusExel

    DeusExel Big Damn Hero

    Hehe I love it^^ actually BOB is white but red is also okay. Can you make a red and a white version pls?
     
  17. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    I'll do my best:)
     
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  18. Pyrotanis

    Pyrotanis Subatomic Cosmonaut

    I don't actual use Photoshop to make my pixel art. I make the art in MS Paint, then enlarge the art usually around five times bigger using simple multiplication for the selection containing the art. The only part I use Photoshop for is the transparency, in which I use the Magic Wand tool with contiguous selection and high tolerance.

    But to answer your question, Photoshop does have different brush sizes and shapes. The only problem is the amount of complex customization, in my opinion, is not really fit for pixel art, and rather is better for editing photos and drawing paintings with a drawing tablet. If you're comfortable with GraphicsGale(which I am in no way), I would suggest sticking with it and editing the proportions afterward.
     
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  19. Toakongu834

    Toakongu834 Big Damn Hero

    Looks Great! For My Pixel art I use Paint and Paint.net :p Can you take a look at my stuff so far?
     
  20. dragonxp

    dragonxp Void-Bound Voyager

    I use paint.net which is basically free photoshop, I pixel as well and paint.net treats me well :p

    Im not sure of the style of starbound quite yet since i'm used to dynamic sprites of cortex command of which depth shading is extremely important to match the style of the game. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it with time.

    Your fire is really nice tho, :D
     

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