Castle Paradox

[Hunter Green]

So do you primarily color other people's lineart, or do you a lot of your own as well?
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[NeoTA]

in most cases, if it doesn't mention that the lineart is by someone else (either in the pic or in the text), then the pic is 100% by me. i don't usually do pixeled linearts, though -- i do silhouettes. that's how i did the demoness.
i draw stuff on paper first and pixelize it by eye when i'm satisfied with it.

[NeoTA]

leroy_leo:
yes, i do a lot of revision. the wuff_* pics have been revised majorly (complete redraw) 3 times, and if i want to test out a new effect quickly i pick up an appropriate old image and test it on that.(hence fighter1_2 -- was testing an exaggerated shininess technique by updating fighter1).

[Mr B]

[NeoTA]

getting the initial silhouette right is the most difficult for me. its also the most important, since if you start with a bad outline, you will spend a lot of time trying to correct the effects of that later.
Color is easy for me -- i generally use gimp's advanced gradient editing facility to work out what color swatches i want, and i've analyzed lots of different photos for
clues as to how color behaves in different conditions.
i have a whole array of color selection methods.
i was discussing that the other day with someone on the pixelation boards; here's the list i came up with at the time:
+ gradient (click on a part of a custom gradient to grab the color at that point in it) (gimp-specific)
+ drawing modes + opacity ((normal, additive,subtractive, difference, darken only, lighten only ,H,S,V) are the ones i find most useful)
+ typing in hex colors to the hex-input box of the color selector. usually restrict myself to 4913 possible colors by using only values of 00,10...f0,ff. sometimes to 729 by using 00,20..E0,FF
+ 'gradient map' filter (lighting effects or complete recoloration (often from a greyscale base)) (gimp-specific)
+ the 'watercolor' color selector (gimp-specific)
+ an image i made which allows me to pick colors like mixing paint. it has about 4 layers: a base of solid color, and three differently-positioned radial gradients color->transparent with 'keep transparency' turned on so i can just drag a color onto the layer to change its color without effecting its blendedness. needs 'sample merged' turned on.
+ the 'color triangle' color selector, mostly because its easy to select complementary hues.

I usually keep a good grip on my initial idea. for example in this silhouette:
http://www.gazler.com/users/neo/guitar.gif
the basic idea was of a relaxed guy who looks like he's about to dance or is dancing. i ended up with a blob in there and turned it into a guitar.

deluxepaint *animator* does animations, obviously -- i don't know if you can get it to output gifs or not. i use Gimp for gif animation. i use Gimp for virtually everything

[NeoTA]

hmm, looks like the old stuff is broken, i'll have to reupload it.
here is some new stuff, doublesized for easier visibility:

some fighter lineart i wanted to shade( this is the only piece that is not 100% mine , of these updated pieces.)
[img]http://www.gazler.com/users/_neo//fighterwip1edit2.gif{/img]
60+ colors

fanart for a fighting game character, and me dancing drawn in snk style, and test rendering cloth in snk style:

lots of colors.

dragonclaw.. reminds me of Ghostbusters:

50+ colors

animated flag:

(a few colors)

'asian-painting-like' (title is "unknown"):

without foreground tree, so you can see the sky:

(13colors)

wheat animation (meh -- needs some work):


quick portrait done just for a quickdithering tutorial(hence you see the steps):


monochrome tree (this kind of lineart is the only kind of lineart i like)
[img]http://www.gazler.com/users/_neo/tree.gif[/img}

[Setu_Firestorm]

You're the second person besides Orchy who I've seen use a lot of dithering. I think that's very interesting.
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[jabbercat]

Im very impressed with the Dragon Claw thingy. It looks amazing for 50 colours. I want to get to work on a paint program myself. Im thinking the OHR editor in a 32-bit enviroment.

[NeoTA]

[Setu_Firestorm]

Yeah, that looks even better without the dithering in her hair.
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[NeoTA]

I got some decent painting software going in windows (which the graphics tablet is properly installed in), so here is one of my piantings (nonpixelled):

(degraded to 69k jpg from ~300k png in order to fit inside filesize limitations)
i want to understand how to do an airbrush type effect on the sky using Pixia. and i'm sure that something could be improved with the grass at the far side but haven't figured out what.

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

[NeoTA]

have you considered making a plugin for GIMP that would allow saving graphics directly into an existing .rpg file?.

[NeoTA]

linearts:

considering whether manga-style stylized attack/movement marks could work at a small scale, particularly in a very lineartish form

getting the hang of pixia's 'vary C/thickness according to pressure'.

-- i have no explanation. the character's face reminds me of harlock.

blatantly inspired by trailblazers.



on that last he looks overly cute -- he's supposed to look unclever but alert, someone who thinks rapidly but erratically.
i'm considering it may have something to do with the brow.


.. and some pixel work (8 colors, deliberate restriction).
probably the strangest believable face i've ever drawn. done using Grafx2.

[NeoTA]

i want to see some 16color BGs in OHR games.
preferably of this quality or better:



you could make better use of dithering too:





or use bitplanes too:


every individual images is <=16 colors.

If possible you must C+C.