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[Kingdom Ablaze]

god i hope i didnt epic fail where to post this....


anyways i put alot of time into this, i know it doesn't look like it, but i really cant draw :/ that being said i tried my hardest. could you guys let me know what you think? because i was thinking i might add more to the pic, but it looks so amazing now! oh btw, tinypic seems to have taken some of the quality of my picture away, if you guys think its too blurry, ill find a better host, because i designed this at 300 pixel per inch :P yes high res...crappy drawing :D *proud face*

 

[Pokémaniac]

It's... um... well, uh, yes...

It seems for the explosion cloud you drew an out-line then used a gradient fill. There are two problems with this; it makes the cloud look really flat, because it just goes straight up and down. You should really choose a few tones of dark for yourself, and fill it in by hand by kind of drawing darker colours around the edge(but first you'll need to pick a light source. I don't know any good tutorials for hand-drawn art by a quick google should turn up some.) The second is that you can clearly see the anti aliasing on the outline. My suggestion is you either remove the outline, or make it black - although a real artist may have a better suggestion.

Your choice of text effects are really rather garish, I'm afraid to say. Try to keep outlines to black(/white I guess =/) until you better understand how to balance colours. The shadow also looks very silly, because it looks like it's had the MS Paint spray can all over it(please tell me it hasn't). Try making it the same shape as the actual words, or at least blur it.

Also, other than the otter, there's nothing really in your art that relates to HBGames.org. Add some cogs or a picture of a member with the detonator to the bomb that caused the explosion or something. You could have curdle in a space shuttle trying to get away from bacon. We have a lot of history that you can use and in case you haven't noticed we are more than just devvy's avvy.

Nice otter btw.

Participation Points: +2

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

its sapose to look lame and flat...idk ill work up a more realistic version and see how it fairs. and no thats not ms paint, i did infact do that with blending options in photoshop. the anti-aliasing was caused by my uploading, ill find a better host when i make some changes. thanks for some input!

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

You can upload pictures to HBGames.org. That's what I do.

 

[Glitchfinder]

So, where to start. Pokémaniac got the most obvious issues, so I guess I'll have to go for the more subtle ones.

First off, I think you've added some seriously clashing elements. You've got what looks like a photo as the background, albeit one that has been jpeg'd to death. The fact that you have a relatively detailed background clashes with most of the foreground, which is a 2D, hand drawn image. Other clashes are the fact that the only color in the title screen come from the outline on the hbgames.org logo, the fact that its drop shadow is more detailed than it is, and the odd texturing you've got on the inner portion of the logo. All of those are too detailed when compared to the hand drawn portions of the image.

I would also have to disagree with Pokémaniac about the otter not being related enough. Dadevster's otter is currently an integral part of the rec room, although that will undoubtedly change in the future. However, that does not mean that there isn't more that could be done to make it related to hbgames, so keep that in mind.

Finally, I would like to mention that, while this does seem to be intentionally in the style of SBaHJ from MSPaintAdventures, that isn't directly related to hbgames. There are a few hbgames memes that have been derived from that site, but, at the same time, it is still a separate site from this one, and I don't really think it's a part of the hbgames theme for the contest. That being said, anyone is free to disagree with me on that, if they feel that MSPA has become an integral part of hbgames as a whole.

Participation Points: +2

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

You know, I saw the picture before, and people kept talking about an otter, and I just realized there is an otter in the bottom of the picture. If it's an important part of the picture, perhaps it should stand out more.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

the background was done in photoshop, black background, add noise(5.8%), blur. done. im sad that no one likes it, i really liked it. but its ok, im working on a more what you guys think looks good version. :D

 

[Pokémaniac]

Might just be my screen but the background doesn't look at all like a photo to me. I can't see any real variation in the black(but that might just be because it's space?)

EDIT: Took it to Paint, and yeah, okay, it's a photo.

 

[Glitchfinder]

Might just be my screen but the background doesn't look at all like a photo to me. I can't see any real variation in the black(but that might just be because it's space?)

EDIT: Took it to Paint, and yeah, okay, it's a photo.

Apparently, it isn't. It just made me think of those old photos of deep space you see in magazines like Discover. Apparently, he took a black background and applied noise, which creates a very similar effect.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

its coming ok, but i work today and tmw so ill try to get it done by dead line...i hope i can at least