New Portraits/Small Pics!

[Dinonykos]

Originally Posted by Uatu As for proportion - ha ha, I tend to mess up proportions when drawing with pixels, although Manikus helped me out a bit in fixing some of this (the elf was quite mixproportioned at first, for example)...

I think to some extend it is totally okay to use "mixed proportions" (e.g. slightly deform the body to able to show more of the face).
However, on your sectret page, the breasts of the first two characters seem asymmetric to me.

Originally Posted by Uatu I will look into the HTML thing - did I use the wrong tab? Ho ho ho...

Well, it might also be my browser's/computer's fault (or my own...). At least there are no naked people anywhere this time....
However, as I mentioned before, you used the code "map id". I personally was only aware of the code "map name" concerning making an image map in html.

[Dinonykos]

I have just checked your secret link again... It works with Internet Explorer, but not with Firefox (both on Mac and Windows).

[Uatu]

Hmm - I dunno, it gets hard to see incorrect proportions in ones own art sometimes I did remember the gold-armored old guy to look someone disproportionate to me for a while, but not really for the girl...

I have noticed that proportions (size) in Asians tend to be quite different from that of Caucasians (especially those in places like the Netherlands, where everyone is huge); for example, I see 2-head shoulder widths pretty commonly in Japan, but a lot of visiting foreigners here have 3-head shoulder widths...

(Yeah, it is unfortunate, but it seems that there isn't much explicit need for naked people in modules... Naked people are much easier to draw than clothed people )

Darn browser wars Guess I will put both versions in the tag or something (when I get time, of course)... Not quite fair to not offer a secret page to users of Firefox...

[manikus]

So, Uatu, is the collaboration done? I had found a game tester, but hadn't heard back from our designer...well, maybe we could be on hiatus. It was a cool story, it would be a shame for it to be gone to the ether...

But, I'm glad to see your art being released. I like these pics, and I'm glad that others will get the chance to see them too.

[Uatu]

Yeah - I dunno, we didn't hear anything for quite a while, so... I do admit that I have much less time now to draw portraits and such than I did before (it was also more stressful trying to keep up with the pace of the project - I am more relaxed when I do stuff for myself).

I had started an icon for the paladin a loooong time ago - but it is still very rough (like 10% done ).

But anyway - some people did mention a lack of portraits and art, so... might as well release them if people will be needing them... (Matching icons are always nice, but...)

[Arminius]

Nice work. I am just now noticing the pixel art tutorial down at the bottom of the front page. Thanks for sharing that!

[Uatu]

Cool - if you find it useful, that only makes me happier!

[manikus]

Originally Posted by Uatu Yeah - I dunno, we didn't hear anything for quite a while, so... I do admit that I have much less time now to draw portraits and such than I did before (it was also more stressful trying to keep up with the pace of the project - I am more relaxed when I do stuff for myself). I had started an icon for the paladin a loooong time ago - but it is still very rough (like 10% done ). But anyway - some people did mention a lack of portraits and art, so... might as well release them if people will be needing them... (Matching icons are always nice, but...)

I'm not going to close down the Yahoo group or anything, because there is always the chance that we'll start back up.

[Uatu]

Yeah, that's true...

[Uatu]

Two new pieces today:

One is a recolor of one of my first portraits, the silver-haired elf maiden, to make her into a grey elf suitable for my (hopeful) Greyhawk campaign.

The other is a portrait of the old witch icon (originally meant as an NPC) - someone mentioned to me that he liked that icon, so I did a portrait of her! (I started it months ago, though, and only finished it now.)