Announcing the 1st Official Graalian Artist's Challenge

[LordZen]

About txt, I guess that depends on how you use it. Butz used some and the way that was used was perfectly fine.

Txt descriptions doesnt really add to the artwork's value in my opinion, though. We are judging a peice of art, remember..

[alarid0]

Looks good goboom but theres one thing thats annoying me....
where is his shoulder on the arm with the thumbs up o_o

[teshy2]

Originally Posted by davidpsy

It counts as part of his style...

Hands can be a very expressional part of the body along with the eyes and the face. For example, one of my (middle) fingers is expressing something at you (and scott) right now...

Immaturity?

[LordZen]

Lets not argue so friggin much in this thread please.

Donald..dont get so worked up.

[Goboom]

Thank you Zen! I was getting annoyed with it.

[TonyRivers]

Hmm thats odd scott please direct me to where I said I needed "657659043 colors". Nope didn't think so. Well if you think that an 8 bit color is better than a 256 one or 16 million one than I should say you need to have your head checked.

Yeah yeah sure I bet your gonna try to give us all a sermon on how you slave and labor to make your "pixel art" look good with using as few colors as you can well there is ovbiously something wrong with this picture.

I can make a better piece of art twice as fast as you can yet you think you are more skill-full because you do it the old fashion way. This is like an Amish farmer ragging on the big corprate farming company because they use tractors.... I will fill you in there is no right way to make gfx it all how you look at it.

Pixels are pixels no matter how many you use and it is sad with the tools we have avalibale there are still people trying to opress technology by pleading the old and tired "well we do it the right way" defense...

[davidpsy]

Originally Posted by TonyRivers

Hmm thats odd scott please direct me to where I said I needed "657659043 colors". Nope didn't think so. Well if you think that an 8 bit color is better than a 256 one or 16 million one than I should say you need to have your head checked.

Yeah yeah sure I bet your gonna try to give us all a sermon on how you slave and labor to make your "pixel art" look good with using as few colors as you can well there is ovbiously something wrong with this picture.

I can make a better piece of art twice as fast as you can yet you think you are more skill-full because you do it the old fashion way. This is like an Amish farmer ragging on the big corprate farming company because they use tractors.... I will fill you in there is no right way to make gfx it all how you look at it.

Pixels are pixels no matter how many you use and it is sad with the tools we have avalibale there are still people trying to opress technology by pleading the old and tired "well we do it the right way" defense...

Having a good knowlage of pixel art can be helpfull becasue you know better what looks good and what looks bad and more importantly why it looks good or why it looks bad. There it nothing wrong with using the new sorts of tools to make art but what pisses me off is when people say that their way is the right way and is better.

Art is a very subjective thing so by having contests and saying who and who is better really proves nothing. To be a good artist you should get to the point where you want to make something and you can make it how YOU wanted it to be made. Sure there are some basics to all "good" art or "popularly praised" art like the monolisa but Ill explain that later.

[teshy2]

Originally Posted by davidpsy

To be a good artist you should get to the point where you want to make something and you can make it how YOU wanted it to be made.

But only if you are the only one who will be looking at that piece of art.

*goes back on topic*

[Goboom]

Can we please get this thread back on topic?This is a graphics challenge!
Zen maybe the challenge could be split into two threads, one for just the graphics and another for commenting.

[Scott]

There's style types in art. Surreal, abstract, digital abstract, pop culture, propaganda, and of course many others. Pixel art refers to classical "Pixelation" methods.(Or atleast that's what I've seen and read from all the pixel art communities. ) As seen in games like Street Fighter, SNK, or many fighting games. Sure, everyone can do what they want when it comes to art. However, if you're going to join a style and practice it, make sure you're following tradition. That's how I look at it. As said before, you're taking me too seriously. You get worked up over trivial things, you don't know me and I don't know you. ^____^

On a side note: Too bad I missed the forge thread.

[davidpsy]

Originally Posted by Scott

[size=7]
On a side note: Too bad I missed the forge thread.

Thank god you missed the forge thread .

[haunter]

Originally Posted by Scott

On a side note: Too bad I missed the forge thread.

Ah good times... Good times... *sigh*

[Scott]

Originally Posted by davidpsy

Thank god you missed the forge thread .

That was a quick "break" from the forums.

[Zero Hour]

Wow, scott/donald - those are some amazing monkeys.

[LordZen]

Originally Posted by Goboom

Can we please get this thread back on topic?This is a graphics challenge!
Zen maybe the challenge could be split into two threads, one for just the graphics and another for commenting.

That would be too confusing at this point. But that will be an important change in the 2nd edition of this contest. As I said, I would try to work off this test run to see how to best conduct future contests. So thanks for that suggestion.

And, once again. STOP ARGUING?