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[xenoargh]

Well, the colors are fine, but you've lost all of the shading and it's back to looking pretty flat.  The wings now look vaguely like they're angled upwards from the body, which if that's what you want, you should emphasize a bit more, but don't forget a little shading to suggest the wing's camber.

[CrashToDesktop]

Added more pronounced red gradiant, slightly darker grays in the center to make it stand out.

[xenoargh]

Darker gray in the center implies it's going in, not out  

Don't use a gradient, it can't do the complex form of a wing seen from that angle and perspective. 

Hand-paint with the airbrush, about 3 pixels, very slow flow setting. 

Look at the examples really carefully; individual brightness values for each pixel create the illusion of form here.

[CrashToDesktop]

Paint.net here, no idea what airbrush is.
Anyways, I see what you mean.  I'll give it a try.

[xenoargh]

Paint.NET doesn't have an airbrush?

<looks at articles online>

It doesn't have an airbrush.  Well, that's kind of important, for this kind of art.

Download GIMP.  Not having an airbrush means that you're just wasting time doing things the slow way.

[CrashToDesktop]

So, just one last thing for my fighter, darker on the far edges to show the wings go down and lighter on the inside?

[xenoargh]

More or less.  You don't have many pixels to work with, but ideally:

1.  Dark towards edges, to suggest it tapers down.
2.  Lighter on the front edge, to suggest the wing camber.
3.  Darker up against the hull, to suggest occlusion / shadow.

[CrashToDesktop]

OK, thanks!  Soon as GIMP downloads (curse my slow internet!) I'll make the changes to my whole squadron of different fighters.

EDIT:
Dang, the jump from Paint.NET to GIMP is huge.  I've no idea what the shortcut keys are (big problem! ) and for some reason, I can't delete anything fuzzy select tool, erm, selects.  Hmm, but that's not for this thread.

[ValkyriaL]

You'l get the hang of it, ive been using gimp since the start and i still have no clue about what im doing. =3

[TheHappyFace]

It is possible to simulate airbrush in paint.net.
just use the brush tool set it to black and use a transaparancy of 10 (or whatever its called).
this way it will slowly darken the area.
shadow is also easily created with the steps discribed in the light and shading guide at the spriters thread.

those are the two ways i use.
They might not be as good as air brush but at least you dont have to learn to use a different program.

[VikingHaag]

First one i did with guiding by xenograph, his one is better but i'd like a judgement on mine.



Edit: apparently whatever little adjustment is made it looks better. I officially suck at spriting.

[medikohl]

just a little tweak. don't know if this looks better.

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[medikohl]

It is possible to simulate airbrush in paint.net.
just use the brush tool set it to black and use a transaparancy of 10 (or whatever its called).
this way it will slowly darken the area.
shadow is also easily created with the steps discribed in the light and shading guide at the spriters thread.

those are the two ways i use.
They might not be as good as air brush but at least you dont have to learn to use a different program.

I just got used to using multiple layers with transparency. similar effect. but i am the evil kitbasher

[maximilianyuen]

Hi all, just get into this amazing game...

anyway skip 1000 words on how much i love here and here's the pic.

made the Cruiser first as a start, but the ambient occlusion seems a bit too strong...
made the carrier the second, then got some transparency issue to fix esp the antenna part...

but now I know what it takes to put the graphic into the game I can start make my own fleet

ps is it possible to post a bigger picture?

Cruiser


Carrier....but probably gonna abandon this one...it looks like a baby jumpsuit when upside down :\

[xenoargh]

Great first goes, love the details and I really like that approach to panel depth and detail AO :-)

Suggestions:

Spoiler

1.  The Cruiser's so large that it's going to have some performance issues if there are a lot of them in a game.  I'd halve its current scale.

2.  The AO wouldn't feel so strong if the edges had a bevel to suggest the lighting.

3.  The Cruiser lacks shading of the overall shape to denote depth and form.  It's very detailed, but it's also very flat.

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