zachol
2007-01-14, 01:36 AM
So, anyway, I'm new.
Hi again, I posted in the other thread (for new people! huzzah!).
Anyway, after a few minutes of looking at the possibilities for the avatars, I decided that although they are totally awesome, they're not exactly what I want, and besides, I sort of like some aspects of uniqueness.
Thus, I decided to make my own avatar.
And, I thought back to one of my better liked characters, Zanas the shadow elf (that is, an elf with the shadow creature template tacked on - makes a super good scout and good trapmonkey, but a bad anything else without some effort).
So, I decided to make an avatar of her.
Then, I ran into a problem - I'm not an artist.
I'm especially not an artist of Rich's level.
And, even if I was, I probably wouldn't be able to mimic his style all that well, even with some practice.
But, I can use the GIMP pretty well.
So, what I did was save a few sort of promising avatars from the examples, loaded one up (DrowGirl, I think?), played around with it for a while, and came up with this.
The Hairy Modfather: Copyrighted image removed.
To be a bit more specific on what I did, I started with DrowGirl, added slightly slimmed-down boots from NecromancerGirl, removed the spider and little necklace thing, blacked out torso and such, darkened skin, changed hair from white to black, and added a scaled-down (50%), blackened crossbow from RogueGuy.
Theoretically, she should be completely black (yay shadow creatures), but I felt that would be overdoing it a bit.
Before actually putting that as my avatar, I decided to look at the rules, and noted something in the section on avatars.
Using copyrighted artwork as an avatar is technically illegal unless you have the permission of the copyright holder. Even if the art is modified in some way, the original copyright still stands and you can't use it as an avatar. Rich Burlew has specifically requested that people NOT use his OOTS art as avatar image, other than those he has specifically provided as the default message board avatars. If you want an OOTS style avatar, there are many burgeoning avatar artists hanging around the Comics forum who might make one for you.Which on first glance is moderately confusing, but mostly against using what I've done so far.
I could conceivably go and learn inkscape, and that would likely be helpful in the long run, and I could request an avatar, but I thought I might as well ask if what I've got at the moment would be acceptable.
I would probably be cleaning it up anyway (looking at it now, it has a bit more fuzz than I'd like, especially around the boots...).
Also, secondary questions would be a. is this post in itself a bad idea for even having the image in the first place, not as an avatar and b. I'm not entirely sure, but is this way of creating an image/avatar generally frowned upon?
Many apologies in advance if I've done something stupid.
I'm new, you see. :smallwink:
Hi again, I posted in the other thread (for new people! huzzah!).
Anyway, after a few minutes of looking at the possibilities for the avatars, I decided that although they are totally awesome, they're not exactly what I want, and besides, I sort of like some aspects of uniqueness.
Thus, I decided to make my own avatar.
And, I thought back to one of my better liked characters, Zanas the shadow elf (that is, an elf with the shadow creature template tacked on - makes a super good scout and good trapmonkey, but a bad anything else without some effort).
So, I decided to make an avatar of her.
Then, I ran into a problem - I'm not an artist.
I'm especially not an artist of Rich's level.
And, even if I was, I probably wouldn't be able to mimic his style all that well, even with some practice.
But, I can use the GIMP pretty well.
So, what I did was save a few sort of promising avatars from the examples, loaded one up (DrowGirl, I think?), played around with it for a while, and came up with this.
The Hairy Modfather: Copyrighted image removed.
To be a bit more specific on what I did, I started with DrowGirl, added slightly slimmed-down boots from NecromancerGirl, removed the spider and little necklace thing, blacked out torso and such, darkened skin, changed hair from white to black, and added a scaled-down (50%), blackened crossbow from RogueGuy.
Theoretically, she should be completely black (yay shadow creatures), but I felt that would be overdoing it a bit.
Before actually putting that as my avatar, I decided to look at the rules, and noted something in the section on avatars.
Using copyrighted artwork as an avatar is technically illegal unless you have the permission of the copyright holder. Even if the art is modified in some way, the original copyright still stands and you can't use it as an avatar. Rich Burlew has specifically requested that people NOT use his OOTS art as avatar image, other than those he has specifically provided as the default message board avatars. If you want an OOTS style avatar, there are many burgeoning avatar artists hanging around the Comics forum who might make one for you.Which on first glance is moderately confusing, but mostly against using what I've done so far.
I could conceivably go and learn inkscape, and that would likely be helpful in the long run, and I could request an avatar, but I thought I might as well ask if what I've got at the moment would be acceptable.
I would probably be cleaning it up anyway (looking at it now, it has a bit more fuzz than I'd like, especially around the boots...).
Also, secondary questions would be a. is this post in itself a bad idea for even having the image in the first place, not as an avatar and b. I'm not entirely sure, but is this way of creating an image/avatar generally frowned upon?
Many apologies in advance if I've done something stupid.
I'm new, you see. :smallwink: