requirments: you need to have seen my 'from the basics spriting tutorial'

here it is

before I can make any more like this I'll need to learn the techniques myself :P

I have learnt those techniques

Well, I'll just say this. Your pipe doesn't look much like a pipe.

Even though the light source is at the top (or so it seems) you need to add a couple lines of slightly darker colour to give it depth on both sides. Hang on, I'll make an example.

Et voila! Pipe á la DoorMatt! (No dithering in this image, by the way.)

it goes from dark to light simple as

But then it just looks like a flat gradient with depth on only one side and NOT cylindrical.

I'm not a dumbass like you!

Calm down man,he's just giving critics.
Like Mattman i suggest you first get to know the techniques, and then try to teach them, For example the shading on the green thing doesn't give it a real shape and so doesn't the gradient..

he was basically insulting me by saying 'NOT cylindrical (which if you didn't know is the shape of a pipe.).'

He was just informing you about the shape ;)

no he said '(and in case you didn't know that is the shape of a pipe)' he is basically calling me an idiot

OK, I'm sorry. I'll edit my post if it offends you that much.

@doormatt: thank you, I am actually quite clever, I'm all of the top sets in my classes, I am at an ability where I can do year 11 GCSE work (yes I'm british) at the young age of twelve, so it proves I'm not stupid!

@mattman:what?

General Certificate of Secondary Education.

It's what we do at the end of high school in England. I'll be in year 11 in September and I'll be doing my GCSEs in June next year. I think...

in England high school is secondary school as to what GCSE stands for

My one crit: don't you EVER teach to use gradients in pixel art.

why not it's a skill that can be used or for texture you can use what I did instead of the gradient (which I personally think is good)

Tsugumos Tutorial

100% agree with halfdemon on this. Read the bit about 'the gradient tool is bad'. Cause it is! Really. Its not pixelling, its laziness.

Off topic, I'm sort of new here, from GM community, I've been teaching myself pixelling for while, and I'm slowly getting better. I like this forum ;)

I've seen you on the GMC, and no it's not if you hand pixel it, it takes ages to do it that way, and I showed another way aswell so why is everyone having a go at me?, also I have that tutorial bookmarked, you don't think I haven't read it a couple of time, I hate it when people think that other people haven't searched the web enough to see some of the most popular sites!, AND FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD PEOPLE READ THE GOD DAMN THING ALL THE WAY THROUGH, then you'll see that I tell another way to do it, and it adds texture to it

I can tell you for free you didn't hand pixel the gradient pipe in that tutorial. The other pipe, yes. But not the gradient one.

Also, try using punctuation and capital letters in your tutorials, and maybe people will read them all the way through. ;)

Just a couple of tips.

It doesn't have to take ages. Look at the pipes in Super Mario...they are instantly recognisable as pipes, but thier quite simply made.

I'll give you credit that you pipe has a nice texture. However I suggest adding something to it to make it more 'pipe-like', like bolts or something. Other than that, its definitely a pretty good texture. ;)

I still hate the gradient tool by itself though.

I made the tuorial on paint, I made the images on paint I wrote the text on paint, there is no freakin gradient tool on paint

and @redpheonix:I've examined enough from SMW for one week <_<

It's a tutorial it teaches stuff and mine covers advanced stuff so gradient (though I would like not too) must be taught!

no, not when, if ;) I'm mkaing a post in the annoucements... post deleted ;)

Matt

Erm...Gradients don't HAVE to be taught.

You could've gone a bit more indepth with advanced dithering and took gradients out.

Gradients shouldn't ever be used.

kay then, but I ain't taking it out!

Just don't tell people to start using the spray can, mkay?

well that's okay (at least i think so) when you're makeing grass tiles with limited colors. of course then, you should edit the grass to make it look better.

Spray-can grass looks like speckled puke in my opinion.

I dislike the spray can although you can do graffiti with it like this

link

The graffti looks idiotic :unsure:

The spray can never had much use, minus for light texturing, although it's really messy.

O RLY?

The Gradient Tool Is Evil

Wait, this is completely off topic. My bad.

I know about that tutorial, it's been posted on here like 5 times already, and how was I supposed to see that, when I was IP banned, infact why did you all continue posting in most of my topics?, and I said "(alough I might not like too) it must be taught!" I'm not saying it isn't evil (I hate the damn thing) but it has it's uses

EDIT:

well in my estate there is a gang called the dawley boys, and I live in one of their main heritages (where they get most of the fresh meat) so it's likely I'll end up in the gang, so DAWLEY BOY FO' LIFE YEAH, may aswell take it on now

Gangs, pfft. Live your own life.

I managed to make a tree using it. Spray can was used on the leaves. I know it's not 'proper' pixel art but I was experimenting with it. :)

Yeah, I remember you posting that.

And why join a gang? 'Tis lame.

Still : Any other tools besides the fill tool, pencil tool, basic circle, eye dropper, selection tool, and custom selection tool, is overrated and shouldn't be used without a good reason.

it's not like I want to, people get forced into it!

Peer pressure. If your "friends" try to force you into something, they can't really be your "friends" can they. True friends should be understanding and empathetic.

not entirely my friends, not peer pressure, more your life on the line

Train. Go to the gym, toughen up. ;)

I'm 12, I'm not allowed to the gym, my nearest gym is like 20 miles away, the closest thing to a gym I have is a punching bag in my room