My Schtuff
 

Hey I'm Nike,
I was previously Graphics admin on Unholy Nation and finally got my forum's account to work today, critiques and comments are welcome! :D


Some of my Schtuff:

New Mining stuff for UN...
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2995/unnikemetals1.png

Coins... Possibly Currency.
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/952...coinsilver.png

Shotty supposed to be used for a zombie project on un...
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7...nikeshotty.png

The mining stuff looks edible, soft, and easy to chew.

Tell me about it. I want a chocolate bar after seeing the brown one.

I like it, but I also agree with the above posts about the mining images...they look like bars of soap

Brown? you mean bronze.

And yea I used a deep/blackish color of the base color to make the border, it adds a softer appearance.

A very important factor for metallic surfaces is contrast, and lots of it. Just a suggestion.
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Very nice, I like it alot. Thanks for the tip

Bored, fiddled around with GIMP...

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/7...inprogress.png

I got a hersheys bar that looks like that during halloween...but the gold kind have nuts and taste old... :(

Axe looks pretty. You should have kept going and add more detail :O

do you work for maplestory? your style reminds me a lot of MS.

ah ha i wasn't the only one! :d

Am I the only one who think the shotgun looks freaking awesome?
Keep em' coming man, really nice graphics!

Nah, thanks for the compliment though

That was indeed a compliment, because I love cute art like that ^^
You got a great style, keep going!

I like your style of graphics, that nice, friendly look to it. Keep em coming :)

Not bad...but I should slap you for the effects youve used on the last pic...

here's a shading tool I recently made step by step for my tutorial website...

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6200/alltogether.png

That's brilliant dude, light reflection on a rounded shape like that is definitely something interesting to explore.

Thats some complex shading right there... Ill take it into account for my next graphic

Just study the things I did step by step, it includes advanced stuff like hueshifting aswell

And odd choices like dithering.

I would like it without, but for the sake of smoothness I decided to use dithering...

url plox

no linking and advertising allowed :P

Then make it in post form in this forum.

the front corner is darkest?

Sure why not.

http://www.thinkplaninvest.com/wp-co...collection.jpg

Yep...but it's not a typical game goldbar, still hes rightish ^^

I'll be serious and just say that metal is mostly reflective, so what you may actually perceive as proper shading from light are just reflections of the surroundings. So if there was an object in front of my gold bar, the darker side would be completely appropriate. Now I'm just justifying shoddy technique like mine, but just saying :) In fact, these reflections are mostly what cause the contrasting effects in metals(from an object being reflected, but being "dark" on the metal against the natural colors of the metal and reflecting light. Pretty much silhouettes, almost.