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[Dominicy]

I was bored, so I was messing around with making monsters.  It's actually surprisingly easy and fun.

[Dominicy]

DERNED CHECK BOX *spazzes out*

[Dominicy]

And a troll with an axe for all your long armed maniacal killer needs.

[A Forgotten Legend]

these look really neat.  good job.

[Dominicy]

I'm back home, and I'll be posting a few more trolls for a giant army of green, stringy-armed death, but for now, my priority is drawing a picture of my friend for Christmas.

[MrMister]

black outline is bad.
also look at the 'axe' on the tail, it doesnt look smooth. or like an axe
anti-alias it some.

[Dominicy]

More junk (I'll answer MrMister in a sec...)

EDIT:

You know, I can see what you mean by black outlines not being smart.  Looking back at it again, it seems to make it look... wierd, almost pop out.  But at the same time, what exactly should I use in substitution to a black outline?  The only thing I can think of is a darker shade of the color closest to the outline, maybe I'm just dumb.

About the axe not looking completely like an axe, that's mostly the fault of I didn't want to oversize the tail's barb.  The needle at the tip of the tail, right after the blades, should be removed, though.

[Dominicy]

Another.

[Dominicy]

Redid the Axe Tail.  Better?  Worse?

[MrMister]

I'll be honest.. that is the worst dithering I've ev

..you picked better colours this time, still needs to be anti-aliased.

And know that dithering is a complicated pixel technique, and you shouldn't use it until you fully understand it.

[Dominicy]

I'll admit I was pretty lazy with the dithering, in that I did it over the entire body.  Eh, I'll just keep experimenting with the color styling until I find something that goes good.  If I find nothing else, I guess I'm stuck with learning how to shade to give a scale/fur/shadow effect.

EDIT: I've actually never heard the term, what IS anti-aliasing?

[Moosetroop11]

I prefer the first one to the improved version. That improved version looks like it's had colour loss and lost half the detail.

Overall they seem pretty good though, keep spriting

[ZeroKirbyX]

They're alright. MM, the **** is with that Lost Vikings look alike?

By the way, when it comes to doing edits, not just FE, do more than change the hair color. UNless you want it to look like [Insert character] overstylized, do it.

[Ben]

this is true.
cloud strife with blue hair is still cloud strife....
just an example...mmyep

[Dominicy]

The first one was actually pretty difficult to put together, believe it or not.  If you look, hair color's changed, skin tone (that's MOSTLY because of 256), and armor.  It's not such a difference, but eh, I'll hopefully go back and redo them some time.  I see what you mean, but I prefer using place holders to putting all my effort into it all at once, or nothing.  I actually tend to redo alot of the graphics with my games the further I get.  I dunno why, for sure..