My first weapon

[Radekil9]

this is my first weapon, pretty good in the eyes of me cus cause of the shading. its a standard short sword. (I think i havnt made it a paperdoll yet) here it is close up-
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here it is far away-
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give me feedback bout it.  ;D

Radekil9- :renzo:

[Godlord]

[So you want to be a pixel artist](http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/).

Regards,
  Godlord.

[Radekil9]

hm.

[Godlord]

Was actually looking to provide this, but that series is also useful: [Derek Yu's tutorial](http://www.derekyu.com/?page_id=218).

Regards,
  Godlord.

[Radekil9]

hm, k thanks

[Dark Crusade]

You filfthy piece of slut! I'm on dialup until the 10th, and you post a ridiculously huge bitmap image, of only which a tiny portion of it is actually showing off the sprite. You suck at spriting, you suck at screenshotting, and you suck at life. Go kill yourself.*

I mean uhm- hello friend, lets get you some constructive criticism!

First of all, your palette is too small. I would recommend at very least 4 shades of grey, as well as a more realistic shade of red for the hilt, and some extra colors for transitioning and variety purposes. Don't be afraid to add a small amount of hue. You can achieve nice results if you make the iron slightly blue, yellow, or other shades.

Next, I think I'll point out the fact that the outline shouldn't be lighter then the content it borders. In such case, the outline should use up the darkest shade(s). At very least, the right side of the blade should have an additional shade, thats darker then the rest, to show depth.  But this depth is very inconsistent.

You need to detail and shade it for certain. I have a tutorial on pixelling swords that should help a tremendous amount.

http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,54337.0.html

Check it out, it will pretty much cover everything I haven't already talked about, and more. And more importantly, show you how its done, with a lot of examples and such.

Goodluck.

*I joke obviously here. Don't get offended; I don't mean it. Much.

[Radekil9]

argh, you got me with that first part, but im afraid i dont know how to get extra shades for paint. and i didnt have a darker red to shade the hand bottom thing. plus i dont know what a hue is, ill check out the tut, thanks

[Radekil9]

this is my failed attempt at following kreators tutorial. i tried following it exactly, my old one was better lol.
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[IceCream Tuesday]

Serious.. STOP UPLOADING A PICTURE OF YOUR ENTIRE DESKTOP! SAVE THE FUCKING IMAGE… AND UPLOAD THAT!
WTF is soo difficult about that?

GOD DAMNIT! ALSO! save as a .PNG! NOT A BMP!

[Godlord]

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Regards,
  Godlord.

[demon xxx x]

Read up on Kreator's tutorial, it'll help you, keep practicing.

[Killer123]

I just made this…Tell me what you think.

[](http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/files/imagehost/#333caacd4fe09192382e7ace3c6be67e.PNG)

[IceCream Tuesday]

Bendog.. WTF.. That is completely unnecessary for that image to be that size.

[ddunit]

Stop.. posting.. huge…images....

[Novur]

@۞βΣИ٧ĐΏG۞:

> I just made this…Tell me what you think.

The sword overall looks pretty nice. Far better than anything I've made (Which was a suckish shield xD)
Just a question, did you use a linear gradient? By zooming in on the image, it sort of looks like that.
Overall, I like it. Nice work.

[thezeus]

The newest sword looks much better, but I don't think you'll have much success if you don't even know how to crop a graphic for board posting.