OoTS Arts and Crafts - Fan Art, Requests, etc.

[Peregrine]

Actually it was Colt, not Chase who asked about the Thinker avatar. Understandable mistake, they're both using the same avatar at the moment. ;) All the more reason to spread the customness...

Anyway, I did that one as a joke really, but I suppose I should wait and see if it satisfies the original request first. If not, you're welcome to use it. :) And if you wanted it for anything other than an avatar on these boards (and why would you trade a Veeratar for that?), you can take it now!

[The_King_of_Durf]

All My Stuff:
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Jesse.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Najee.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/nathaniel.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/polkacheese.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/t3.gif

I want to get these four in a file like Peregrine has his, how did you do that?
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/swordsmannoble.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/swordsman.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/swordsmangasp.gif
http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/swordsmandead.gif

[Greenfrog]

wow GREAT PICTURES. If any one feels so inclined any chance for a GreenFrogish creture playing a harp. Or just Bardic looking?


Keep up the great work.

[The_Losar]

Erm... eheh. Well Gamebird, I can honestly say I tried now. I'm not familiar with roosters, fighting or no, though, so bear with me.

http://www.thecowscorner.com/~losarian/rooster.gif

Also, I'm not sure what you meant by a gaff. Are you talking about the hook at the end of a pole that's used to land large fish? With some clarification I can go back in and add it, if neccesary.

[Gamebird]

;D

Hey, that's pretty good! It made me smile real big, and that's half the battle.

If you'll look at the avatar I have now, you'll see that it has something on the legs that look like hooks. Those are gaffs. What you do with a fighting rooster is saw off the spur so it's only about half an inch long (the spur is mostly a horn-like growth). Then you tie weapons onto the bird's legs to replace the natural spurs. When the weapons are curved spikes, they're called gaffs. When they have a blade, they're called knives (short or long). When using knives, they usually only use one, leaving the other leg bare.

I would say at least give the avatar something sharp and spikey on the legs, even if it's just a little triangle-thingy.

I think it looks great for someone who has no familiarity with roosters, fighting or not.

Am I at liberty to use that avatar? And how far afield can I use it (just on GitP, or anywhere I want)? Does this mean I'm off Veera's queue (because I'd be interested to see what she comes up with - I was surprised she didn't turn me down, what with the weird, non-human request)?

[Pax]

WoW!!! Thats awsome!! Much better then I expected!! Thats sweet!! Thanks Gorbash Kazdar!!
Yeah, it's pretty darned awesome. One thing, though, bloodred" it's probably best if you save the image to your own computer, and then upload it to your own webspace. Especially since the space Gorbash-sama has it on is a *.edu domain, meaning, it's chool space and not guaranteed to be there and available forever. (plus it's a sort of etiquette thing - using yoru own bandwidth instead of someone elses, and all).

[The_Losar]

Alright, the image was altered, sorta, to add what I guess looks like gaffs? Still open to alterations, though.

And yeah, when I make stuff for people, avatars or anything, it belongs to who I gave it to. You can do what you want with it, and I don't even require you to mention me as the artist or anything. I know I made it and that's all that matters. =D

[Veera]

Alrighty, sorry about the long break there. It's been rough the past couple weeks, and I've been working too much on getting my own DnD game set up rather than avatars: my players have to come first! Otherwise, they don't ante up the pizza money... ¬_¬
Alec, Glyphstone, here you go. Glyph, I had to take quite a few liberties with the stone golem. I simply couldn't do the armor you wanted and keep it in the OotS style: the Giant does armor simply with colored blocks, so if I *did* give your Golem the armor you wanted... You'd have a lavender golem.
http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/glyphstone.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/alec.gif

Gamebird, you're up next.

[The Glyphstone]

UBERSWEET!

Sorry for shouting. That's just gold, Veera, pure awesomeness. I love it. Thanks! The armor problem's no big deal, it still looks like a stone golem.

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

I was wondering if anyone could come up with an avatar of the sax player from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Just run an image search. If that is too complex, a back-up request is Jack Skellington. Please note: This is a specific request for a NON-Veeratar. I do not want to clog up Veera's busy schedule with this.

[Bloodred]

Yeah, it's pretty darned awesome. One thing, though, bloodred" it's probably best if you save the image to your own computer, and then upload it to your own webspace. Especially since the space Gorbash-sama has it on is a *.edu domain, meaning, it's chool space and not guaranteed to be there and available forever. (plus it's a sort of etiquette thing - using yoru own bandwidth instead of someone elses, and all).
Uuuuhhhhh. . . Webspace??

[Peregrine]

Sorry to hear things have been rough, Veera. Maybe you could start an Artist's Pizza Fund?
Here, have a teddy bear. :) http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_teddy_01.gif

Edit: Couldn't resist. http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_halforc_03.gif

[Pax]

Uuuuhhhhh. . . Webspace??

Yeah. Webspace. As in, web-accessible file storage space.

Let's put it this way - right-click on my Avatar, and select "properties" from the little menu that should pop up. You will notice that one of hte pieces of information you then get is labelled "Location". Notice the URL, there - http://members.ispwest.com/gmpax/oots/pixie.jpg ...?

That's my web space (well, one of two locations, actually) ... specifically, the space that comes with my ISP contract. However, it won't be my webspace for a long time to come; I'm already planning, in teh next 6-8 months, on a move to DSL (if finances hadn't changed, I'd be on DSL right now, in fact). What if a miracle had occurred, and you'd liked mine better than Gorbash's? If you didn't save it and put it on your own space, then the avatar would DISAPPEAR when I changed over to DSL.

And on another front entirely ... luckily for me, I don't pay for bandwidth - there. But for my other web space, I do pay for that (5GB/month for free, $1 per 1GB/month after that).

So it's just a matter of practicality (your webspace will generally be around as long as you are, and if it does change, you can just change the URL used for your avatar in your Profile here), and a matter of courtesy (as the added amount fo bandwidth incurred by hosting an image, even if it's likely to be minor, might end up costing someone some money).

Do a Google for "free web hosting", and you shoddl find someplace that'll let you put that avatar up in a place YOU control. ^_^

[Bloodred]

Yeah. Webspace. As in, web-accessible file storage space.

Let's put it this way - right-click on my Avatar, and select "properties" from the little menu that should pop up. You will notice that one of hte pieces of information you then get is labelled "Location". Notice the URL, there - http://members.ispwest.com/gmpax/oots/pixie.jpg ...?

That's my web space (well, one of two locations, actually) ... specifically, the space that comes with my ISP contract. However, it won't be my webspace for a long time to come; I'm already planning, in teh next 6-8 months, on a move to DSL (if finances hadn't changed, I'd be on DSL right now, in fact). What if a miracle had occurred, and you'd liked mine better than Gorbash's? If you didn't save it and put it on your own space, then the avatar would DISAPPEAR when I changed over to DSL.

And on another front entirely ... luckily for me, I don't pay for bandwidth - there. But for my other web space, I do pay for that (5GB/month for free, $1 per 1GB/month after that).

So it's just a matter of practicality (your webspace will generally be around as long as you are, and if it does change, you can just change the URL used for your avatar in your Profile here), and a matter of courtesy (as the added amount fo bandwidth incurred by hosting an image, even if it's likely to be minor, might end up costing someone some money).

Do a Google for "free web hosting", and you shoddl find someplace that'll let you put that avatar up in a place YOU control. ^_^
Obviously I understand the concept of the URL of the image, or I wouldent have been able to get it to work in the first place.
Hmm I have an ideal. . .

Edit: I tired pasteing the image into my Live Journal, however it still had the same URL, GAH!!! I dot get it, and dont want to pay just for a Custum(sp) Avatar.

[waywrong]

Bloodred: Try http://www.photobucket.com/ . They host images for you for free.

EDIT: Just pasting the image into livejournal won't work. You have to save the image to your computer and the physically upload the picture onto photobucket, or whoever is hosting you pics.

[Bloodred]

Cool, I got it on Photo Bucket, that worked well, sweet. Thanks waywrong, and thanks agian Gorbash Kazdar for the Avatar!!

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

Ok, here is my first good attempt at making an avatar. Sodipodi is fantastic!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/PissedCasterGIF.gif

It's kinda small, but I have learned to square stuff up better.

It's more imposing at full size. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/LargePissedCaster.jpg


Here's one I did as a request for Punk Rock Drow
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/PRDatarGIF.gif

Here it is at full size http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/LARGEPRDatarGIF.gif

[Sneak]

Um, question anyone, how can you keep the size of the image 117 by 117 without stretching the character that you drew? AI automatically crops it, and if I change the image size, the character itself gets bigger or smaller. Help?

[Alarra]

I personally start with a canvas that is 117x117, then I don't have to worry about stretching or resizing at all.

[Sneak]

I personally start with a canvas that is 117x117, then I don't have to worry about stretching or resizing at all.

That's what I do, when I create a new picture I make it 117 by 177, it makes a box that size, but when I say Save to Web it crops the image to a square that has all the space I use. Then when I try to go to image size, first of all it doesn't let me do 117 by 117 unless I uncheck the constraints box, which stretches it, and otherwise when I make it bigger it makes the thing I drew bigger, not just the canvas. I don't know any way to get past this, that's why some of my avatars have little flame thingies around the edges, so it makes the canvas about the right size and the image stays the same. If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it.

EDIT: Here, I figured it out, but there has to be an easier way. I just opened it up in Gimp and resized the canvas. This was VERY STRONGLY inspired by Veera's avatar for Alec, but I didn't recycle anything from the monkey, it just looks like it. All I did was use the same colors, I think. Pirate and ninja-ish version.

http://img13.echo.cx/img13/4476/monkey339ji.gifhttp://img13.echo.cx/img13/2126/piratemonkey7ub.gif

EDIT 2: Actually, Gimp didn't fix my problem, when I tried to use it as an avatar it got all blurry, >:(

[waywrong]

Wow Sneak, your avatars are getting better and better. I really like the pirate monkey ;D; do you mind if I used it as an avatar?

[Sneak]

Wow Sneak, your avatars are getting better and better. I really like the pirate monkey ;D; do you mind if I used it as an avatar?

Thanks, and no I don't mind, but the canvas might need to be resized a little first. You can try to use it now if you want, and I'll try to fix it if it works I'll PM it to you. Also it will mean there will be 2 monkeys running around the board, you and Alec, plus I might use one of my monkeys as an avatar too. And thanks again, I think I'm getting better too, but for this one it was easier, I had Veera's example to look at ;)

[alec]

This avatar rocks! It's better than I thought it would be! Thanks Veera!

[Sneak]

Could someone please help me or resize the pics for me, as I really want to use them but they become all blurry.

[The_Losar]

TO get the images at the size I want I usually just make a circle with a clear border and a white (or any color, really) fill and shrink it until the fill can't be seen. That way you confuse the program into thinking that there's color there! Using two of those in opposite corners pretty much solves your sizing problem.

I don't know if there's an easier way to do it.

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

Irfanview is what I use. I can make the drawings as large as I want them, then shrink them down. It also changes file types. Pretty useful tool, and it is free and fast to download (on a cable modem, about 8-10 seconds).

[The_King_of_Durf]

Would it be possible for you to email me the .ai version of King of Durf, I wanted to try editing him and putting him in different poses (breakdancing King, basketball King, etc)? If you're too busy then don't bother. My email is right in my profile.
I also plan to dowload the .gif onto my computer and host it on my site later today, but I need to use a different computer, I'll tell you when I finished doing that so then you can take if off your site if you have bandwith problems, I'll be doing that later today though so don't get rid of it just yet.
Thanks

[Gorbash Kazdar]

No problem, Bloodred. Enjoyed making it :)

In any case, for the sake of making this thread a bit easier to load, I'm pulling down the post of the avatars I made and putting up a link to a page with all them instead.

Sneak: When I resize them, I use Adobe Photoshop and just change the canvas size to 117x117 pixels.

[The_King_of_Durf]

I made a bunch more.
This is one of the industrial zombies I made for community world building.http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/zombie.gif
Respeck da egg.http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Egg.gif
This is one of the monsters I fought in my dreams.http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/monsterdream.gif
Some of my friendshttp://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Shane.gifhttp://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Rai-Shaun.gif
My arch-enemies:http://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Darwin.gifhttp://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Rebbeca.gifhttp://teachers.ithsnyc.org/bvelcoff/Rebbecayell.gif

[Veera]

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/gamebird.gif
To be honest, I don't really like it... Just doesn't seem to look right... But, I tried a few different ways, and this was the best. -_-;

Queue:
Mick the Rogue
Chase

[Veera]

Since I seem to be in a busy-beaver mood tonight, here's a couple more! ^_^

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/waywrong.gif
Wren, Waywrong, here are your avatars.
Waywrong, hats aren't terribly easy to do for some reason... Heh. If you want any changes on yours, feel free to ask. Something seems off about it, but I can't seem to puzzle it out.
Wren, I like this one. Something easy for a change. ^_^

[Gorbash Kazdar]

I did up a generic warforged the other day, and figured I'd post it to show what I use as the base for characters of that type.
http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/warforged.gif

Here's a warforged juggernaut character that built up from that base:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/red.gif

Also, Veera, Losar, sending off some PMs to you :)

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Grrrrrr... jealousy has set in seeing all these others. I just don't have the right kind of software. This is as close as I can get with my gaming group:

Lenia the Ranger
http://my.photosleeve.com/TheVorpalTribble-albums/album03/acy.jpg


Morgawr the Warlock
http://my.photosleeve.com/TheVorpalTribble-albums/album03/acs.jpg


Phane the Fighter
http://my.photosleeve.com/TheVorpalTribble-albums/album03/acv.jpg


Tik-Tik the thri-kreen Monk
http://my.photosleeve.com/TheVorpalTribble-albums/album03/act.jpg


Xanaphora the elven Druid/Wizard
http://my.photosleeve.com/TheVorpalTribble-albums/album03/acu.thumb.jpg

[pumpkinetics]

Heh. Love your quote line Veera! First time I've seen you do a beholder in fact.

[Peregrine]

Huzzah! I finally got around to reworking my original avatar to take advantage of the fact that I don't suck at this quite so much any more. ;)
http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_swordsman_04.gif
Edit: And a silly little idea that came to me...
http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_collection_01.gif
Re-edit: Posted a tutorial (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1115586717;s tart=4#4) of my own. Come, all ye would-be Veera impersonators! Let us hide ourselves among the real artists together! :D

[Lilly]

ICKIE SQUEEE!! I figured out how to use inkscape!

http://home.comcast.net/~jdkaczar/fairymodmother_copy.gif

Edit: Or I figured out everything up to but not including anit-aialsing. BAH. Will be fixed sometime other than 1am.

[Balrogossah]

Huzzah! I finally got around to reworking my original avatar to take advantage of the fact that I don't suck at this quite so much any more. ;)
http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_swordsman_04.gif
Edit: And a silly little idea that came to me...
http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_collection_01.gif
Re-edit: Posted a tutorial (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1115586717;s tart=4#4) of my own. Come, all ye would-be Veera impersonators! Let us hide ourselves among the real artists together! :D

Nice avatar peregrine!. How do you get rid of the white background on these guys. I've made a few OOTS characters on paint and i'm worried that when i've saved them and uploaded them to the net they will be sitting a mysterious white box.

Thanks for time... ;D

[Sneak]

Balrogossah: you have to make it on a program like Adobe Illustrator, or lots of other things, but it has to be a program that uses transparency (I think Gimp can do it too, Gimp is free). You can also open the image after to edit out the white, but it's harder and more complicated. You can download a free trial of Adobe Illustrator, that's what I made my monkey and other avatars with.

[Gamebird]

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/gamebird.gif
To be honest, I don't really like it... Just doesn't seem to look right... But, I tried a few different ways, and this was the best. -_-;

Thank you (and Losar) very much! I am sorry to say that I feel the same way - something just doesn't look right about it. I might revisit the Paint avatar I have now and try to filch parts of your's and Losar's that I think *do* look "right" and see how that turns out.

[waywrong]

Thanks Veera, it' looks awesome ;D

[Lilly]

http://home.comcast.net/~jdkaczar/fairymodmother.gif

Tried again, this is a test to see if it looks better.

Now should I use the one I made or the Veeratar?

[RBPRX1204]

Wow, that looks great. I'm not sure which I like best, and that is saying alot since I'm such a big fan of Veera's work. Maybe you could switch back and forth each month? Anyway, your's looks very nice.

[Wren]

Personally, I prefer the small one. It better reflects what a pixie(faerie?) is; small. Especially when you compare it with all the regular sized people in the avatars.

[Mick_the_Rogue]

I know this probably doesn't help, but I think both are great. But I must agree with Wren, the smaller avatar reflects the whole fairy idea that you(lilly) are trying to convey. Nice avatar though, much better than anything I could do.

[Nikolai_II]

On the other hand the bigger one is ..bigger. More like a real woman who also happens to be a fairy ;D

[AtomicKitKat]

Oh poo, just shrink the bigger one to 25% or so, and alternate between the two. :D

[Lilly]

Shrunken Avatar!

http://home.comcast.net/~jdkaczar/fairymodmother1.gif

Alright I'll throw my hat in the willing to make things ring.

[Veera]

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren1.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren2.gif
http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/waywrong.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/waywrong1.gif
Wren, Waywrong, your current avatars, followed by the avatars with the requested changes. Wasn't quite sure what looked best Wren, so I made a couple.


http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/mick.gif
Here's your avatar Mick: I rather like this one myself...

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/image/0.gif
http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/image/1.gif
http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/image/2.gif
A few sigs... I probably won't make any more of these after I cycle through them: I just don't like how they came out. They don't look how I expected them too, and I really don't have the time or motivation to tweak them. ^_^;

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/summervee.gif
And my summer vacation avatar, which I probably won't use, since my summer vacation plans were cancelled. Heh.

Queue:
Chase
Tribble
Shadow Dragon
Balrogossah
Uthmah

[Peregrine]

*dies laughing*

I love the sig images, Veera! :D

Edit: I don't know what you think is wrong with them, myself. They're brilliant as far as I'm concerned.

(And I hope those cancelled plans don't have anything to do with drawing too many stick figures...)

[Balrogossah]

Heres my attempt at some OOTS characters, based on a really cool party I once played in.

http://www.geocities.com/aphexpagan/group.GIF

If it doesn't show up then try this following link... (http://www.geocities.com/aphexpagan/group.GIF)

From L to R

Sykodo Darkfoot (NG Pseudonatural Drow Psion [Nomad])
Yoko Shadowstag (CG Goblin Rogue/Sorceress)
Vega Draketail (N Kobold Wizard [Evoker])
Grazak Bagrakka (CN Unknown [Anarchic Half-Orc] Barbarian)
Anesha Sunchild (LG Winged Human Cleric/Sorceress)

There were two others, but since I haven't gamed with those guys for ages I couldn't be bothered to add them. Plus 5 is a nice cozy number, very... webcomicy... ;)

[Sneak]

Lol, love the sig images Veera, some of these avatars you're making are making me jealous. ;D

EDIT: Oh and nice pic Balrogossah, you should download a free trial of Adobe Illustrator, then they'll be much smoother and better quality.

[Mick_the_Rogue]

Holy ****aki mushrooms! Veera you are the best, seriously, I love it...

Lol, and on a note of incompetance, how does one make custom avatar into the avatar that shows?(hopefully that question made some degree of sense)

Once more many thanks Veera.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I got an idea for one of your sigs, Veera:

Drawing a gelatinous cube with most of your art supplies digesting within it ;)

[Balrogossah]

Hiya Vorpal Tribble. I remember you of the Wizards boards. You'll probably know me as The Ethereal Wickerman... ;) How is life treating you? ;D Your idea for veera made me thunk and I produced this...

http://www.geocities.com/aphexpagan/gelatinous.JPG

Behold the OOTS version of me! (i'm the handsome devil on the left) sorry if that kinda of humor is lost on anyone but it made me laugh making it :P

[Sneak]

Holy ****aki mushrooms! Veera you are the best, seriously, I love it...

Lol, and on a note of incompetance, how does one make custom avatar into the avatar that shows?(hopefully that question made some degree of sense)

Once more many thanks Veera.

I'm sure this has been answered many times, but...in order to save Veera bandwidth, download the image, host it on a free hosting site (I use http://imageshack.us, but some others have suggested Photobucket). If you use imageshack, a list of links should come up, copy the one that says Direct Link to Image. Go to your Profile page, and check the I Have My Own Avatar box, then paste the URL. BTW, I like your avatar Mick!

And Balrogossah, cool pics, like I said download AI.

[Wren]

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren1.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/wren2.gif

Cool, think I'll use the middle one. Once I can get on a computer that can save images anyways.

Thanks :)

[Balrogossah]

I'm sure this has been answered many times, but...in order to save Veera bandwidth, download the image, host it on a free hosting site (I use http://imageshack.us, but some others have suggested Photobucket). If you use imageshack, a list of links should come up, copy the one that says Direct Link to Image. Go to your Profile page, and check the I Have My Own Avatar box, then paste the URL. BTW, I like your avatar Mick!

And Balrogossah, cool pics, like I said download AI.

I downloaded it when you first suggested that I should. However I looked through the entire file and non of the set-ups icons install icons did anything. Besides i'm quite happy with my simple n' reliable paint program for now... ;D

[Sneak]

I downloaded it when you first suggested that I should. However I looked through the entire file and non of the set-ups icons install icons did anything. Besides i'm quite happy with my simple n' reliable paint program for now... ;D


Yeah, I know, and AI takes some getting used to, but your drawings look good, especially for something like Paint, and I was sure you could make awesome pics in AI, but, suit yourself, just a suggestion. It just bothers me that the image quality is poor, like Appleworks isn't great either.

[Mick_the_Rogue]

Once more, I'd like to say thanks to Veera, and a special thanks to Sneak, without whom I'd still be just looking at this new avatar, and not actually doing anything with it.

[waywrong]

woohoo! I've got a new cloak. Thanks again Veera! ;D, great work!

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Doin' pretty good Wickerman 8)

[Veera]

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/chase.gif
Chase, your avatar.

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/slaveveera.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/ipodveera.gif
My Star Wars avatar... To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Star Wars, and didn't plan on making an avvie for it, but a friend of mine kept bugging me and bugging me and bugging me... So. You see the result.
And I like the iPod commercials too much. :-)

[Sneak]

Heh, awesome Veera, I liked your iPod idea, so...I'll use one kinda like yours as my avatar!
http://img72.echo.cx/img72/3262/ipodmonkey7vc.gif

P.S. I really do own an iPod mini, and I too love the iPod commercials. Especially because you get to listen to music.

EDIT: Is it possible to turn anti-aliasing off on part of the wire? It looks bad with it.

[Chase]

Thanks a lot Veera! I love it ;D

[AtomicKitKat]

Veera: Could you include the advertisement banners that you use as your signature in the first post? They're hilarious. So far I've seen the Beholder one, and the Medusa one. I look forward to more! ;D

[Colt]

Could someone make me a Darth Maul, Stick style?

I need it for a Role play i'm in.

P.S. Feel free to use the earlier avvie.

[Gorbash Kazdar]

In the Star Wars spirit, I present one of my own:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/gorbashsolo.gif

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

Here it is: my latest and greatest attempt at art. Kinda big, but I will resize it later. Too tired now. Anyway, here it is:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/JackSkellingtonGIF.gif

I can't post it with a transparent background, because the head is white, and white is the transparent color I usually use. Else, we'd have a beige colored Jack on some posts, and no one wants that. ;) Critique is encouraged. C'mon, tell me what ya think!

If it is too big, please PM me mods!

[Mick_the_Rogue]

Actually, I think it is quite good, all things considered, anyways much better than what I could do. I think it should be your new avatar, oncew you get it to the right size of course.

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

It will be, I just gotta pad it and increase line thickness everywhere, and resave, and rehost....kind of an involved process, so not tonight. Toooo tired. Thanks for the compliment! I am joining the ranks of the make-a-thing people!

[Sneak]

Wow, looks awesome, not sure how it'll look when it's resized though. You should probably just use a sightly darker version of white for the head then, but I don't know I don't use Sodipodi (or whatever you use). In AI there are two separate colors, transparent and white. So yeah, just use a different shade of white so you can make it transparent, but other than that, nothing...so...

Great work!

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

I had been planning to darken the head by a tiny bit. Glad you like!

Edit: ANd yes, I do use Sodipodi. I did a couple really crappy things with AI, which is MUCH harder to use. Besides, I didn't have to shell out $900 to get this program indefinitely.

[LadyGlutter]

Gorby, that is so awesome!

*swoons*

Yeah, he did (shoot first).

[Veera]

Sneak, I know the whole thing about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, and monkey see, monkey do... But you don't really have to imitate everything original I try.
From the looks of what you've drawn, you're good enough with the program to try things of your own. ^_^

[Peregrine]

Just getting into the, err, spirit of the season. ;)
http://users.bigpond.com/keretija/images/oots_darth_01.gif

(And Veera: I think a lot of people would pay for that. *wink wink, nudge nudge*)

[The_Losar]

OH NO LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!

http://www.thecowscorner.com/~losarian/losarleia.gif

[Peregrine]

*falls down laughing* :D

Sorry, Losar, but I think Veera pulled off the Leia-look better. Just, y'know, on general impressions...

[The_Losar]

Should I add a belly button, do you think? Maybe I should watch the movie again. You know, to make sure I got it right.

Edit: Oh! I see, I was missing a Hutt.

[Lilly]

BAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

Oh that's definatley funny.

What exactly is Darth Vader doing? It's looks like he's disco dancing.

And this thread has a redicously long load time. Must come up with solution...

[Peregrine]

He was supposed to be walking forward... :-[

...

...
Okay, so he does look a bit like he's disco dancing. ::) *shrug*

[Lilly]

Okay I have a request to make. As a poster and as a mod.

If you want to keep this exact thread around for a while, please, PLEASE, hot link your images. If you don't, I'll lock this one and let Veera make a new one.

This thing has turned into a behemouth monster. It's the tarrasque of load times. Even on a cable modem.

And whoever uses my.photosleeve.com, your picture isn't loading. And I can't figure it out on my own because I don't see anything that's half an image.

[Veera]

I myself think it'd be best just to make a new thread. It doesn't slow things down on my modem at all as is, but it *is* getting to be a pain finding the stuff I need to find. And I'll make a webpage showing the avatars I've made, rather than hosting them here, no matter what. ^_^

But if y'all would rather keep this thread, I can live with that too.

[Gorbash Kazdar]

Hey folks. Veera, The_Losar, and I have been conspiring to take over the world pool our resources to tackle the avatar requests, given how many Veera gets. This lightens the load for her, and speeds up production, so its a good thing all around. Plus, it limits the number of smug swordsmen any one person has to do.

So, basically, if you have a request, we'll add it to a group queue and whoever is available when it hits the top will tackle it. If you want someone in particular to do the avatar, just state that in your post :)

Vorpal Tribble, Balrogossah, Uthmah, Beelzebub, and JWolfe, do you have specific artists in mind, or is it okay for us just to throw you into the group queue?

[And thank goodness I don't have 1337 posts anymore. That was just disconcerting. :P]

[Balrogossah]

Vorpal Tribble, Balrogossah, Uthmah, Beelzebub, and JWolfe, do you have specific artists in mind, or is it okay for us just to throw you into the group queue?

[And thank goodness I don't have 1337 posts anymore. That was just disconcerting. :P]

Anyone other than myself (because my OOTS art sucks!) is appropiate for my request. I think Veera is the only one who knows my request, I could PM it to you Gorbash. Thanks dude... ;D

[Sneak]

Sneak, I know the whole thing about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, and monkey see, monkey do... But you don't really have to imitate everything original I try.
From the looks of what you've drawn, you're good enough with the program to try things of your own. ^_^

Sorry, I thought someone might feel like that. But can I still use the monkey? I had fun making it into a devil, into Neo, into a jedi ninja pirate (!?), a pirate, a thief, etc...it's just fun to experiment. If you don't want me to keep using the monkey, I'm sure I can think of something else.

[jwolfe]

Hey folks. Veera, The_Losar, and I have been conspiring to take over the world pool our resources to tackle the avatar requests, given how many Veera gets. This lightens the load for her, and speeds up production, so its a good thing all around. Plus, it limits the number of smug swordsmen any one person has to do.

So, basically, if you have a request, we'll add it to a group queue and whoever is available when it hits the top will tackle it. If you want someone in particular to do the avatar, just state that in your post :)

Vorpal Tribble, Balrogossah, Uthmah, Beelzebub, and JWolfe, do you have specific artists in mind, or is it okay for us just to throw you into the group queue?


I was kinda hoping for a Veera original. No hurry. I promise to be impatient. ;)

[The Vorpal Tribble]

If its OOTish I don't mind who does it. Though since I'm next in line Veera may have already started mine... or maybe I won't tell you that and get you to do my entire campaign group... *cackles*

;D

[RBPRX1204]

Vorpal Tribble, Balrogossah, Uthmah, Beelzebub, and JWolfe, do you have specific artists in mind, or is it okay for us just to throw you into the group queue?

[And thank goodness I don't have 1337 posts anymore. That was just disconcerting. :P]


You know what, you can just put me in que. I'm in no rush, either. It's just something little just for me.

[Colt]

can anyone do the darth maul?

[LadyGlutter]

Hey folks. Veera, The_Losar, and I have been conspiring to take over the world pool our resources to tackle the avatar requests, given how many Veera gets. This lightens the load for her, and speeds up production, so its a good thing all around. Plus, it limits the number of smug swordsmen any one person has to do.

So, basically, if you have a request, we'll add it to a group queue and whoever is available when it hits the top will tackle it. If you want someone in particular to do the avatar, just state that in your post :)

Vorpal Tribble, Balrogossah, Uthmah, Beelzebub, and JWolfe, do you have specific artists in mind, or is it okay for us just to throw you into the group queue?

[And thank goodness I don't have 1337 posts anymore. That was just disconcerting. :P]

(heehee about the 1337 posts, that's pretty funny)

Okay, I'm breaking down and asking for a cool avatar of my own. I have such a crush on Gorbash's new Han one, I can't stand it :-). I want an avatar that is reminscient of this one, in that it is goth looking with very pale skin and black hair, and a sarcastic look on her face. It doesn't have to be smiling or smirking, smug will work, too. Just "I'm better than all you normals" will be good.

I want her to look like a cross between Robert Smith of The Cure (www.thecure.com) and Lydia from Beetlejuice (the movie). Big crazy hair, however you want it, long flowing robes OR dress and boots, pale skin. This character was a psionicist, specializing in telepathy, so if you want to give her any psi-looking waves coming out of her head or hand, that's cool but unnecessary. Possibly holding her head, like she's pushing someone to jump off a cliff? Honestly, I'm not picky, these are just suggestions. I just want someone that's gothic looking but NOT NecroGirl. Red or purple or white accessories are all acceptable. Spiderweb design on the robe is also acceptable. NOT mandatory.

Have fun with her. I'd prefer, honestly, Gorby to tackle it, but Veera or The Losar are great, too, so if that's a problem, put her in the queue and I'll take whatever I get.

Do I need to PM this as well?

Thanks thanks thanks.

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

Here's my Maul for ya, Colt.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/DarthMaulGIF.gif

Hrmmmm....kinda small...I'll fix that.

Edit: Fixed as best I can...oh ****!! I forgot the horns!!! Gimme a little time and it'll be all set.

Again, Edit: I added the horns and I think it's a bit bigger. Width added by the lightsaber caused me to have to pad it, and when resized it is smaller. If you want, I can make it even bigger by cutting out the saber (or at least the blade).

[Gorbash Kazdar]

Hey, LadyGlutter... how's this one?
http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/LadyGlutter.gif
More will be coming soon.

[Lilly]

There have been a lot of monkey avatars floating around latley:

http://home.comcast.net/~jdkaczar/monkeyspeach.gif

[LadyGlutter]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAALLLL!!!!!!!


Oh, Gorbash, youse the coolest! She's perfect.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Edalmri]

Could somebody do a Gloom from the ELH? Every time I try it looks really bad. Maybe it has to do with the lack of non-black colours...

[Gorbash Kazdar]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAALLLL!!!!!!!

Oh, Gorbash, youse the coolest! She's perfect.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
::falls out of his chair::
You're welcome, glad you like it :)

[SumGuy]

I humbly submit my request for a 1337 avatar designed by our resident non-Giant artists:

If I could have a guy with a similar complexion to the avatar I have now, short blonde hair and wearing a chainmail shirt, that would be really cool. Oh, and a glowing longsword Greatsword as well ;D

I'll leave the rest up to your masterful artistic moods, please don't be bashful! ;) Thanks again guys.

Edit: Thanks Sneak! I didnt nortice till your post

[Sneak]

I humbly submit my request for a 1337 avatar designed by our resident non-Giant artists:

If I could have a guy with a similar complexion to the avatar I have now, short blonde hair and wearing a chainmail shirt, that would be really cool. Oh, and a glowing longsword as well ;D

I'll leave the rest up to your masterful artistic moods, please don't be bashful! ;) Thanks again guys.

Isn't that the same as your current avatar avatar except for the hair and armor?

[Gorbash Kazdar]

Vorpal Tribble and Uthmah:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/VorpalTribble.gif http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/rogersmith.gif

These two ended up being a lot harder than I expected. :P

[Chase]

I have a challenge for all you artist types. Since it is Starwars season, and EVERYONE loves Wookies...well, I think you can see where this is going. I want to see if someone can make me a Wookie avatar, with dual Lighsabers no less. Please, don't let it interupt you normal stuff though. I ain't too worried about it ;D.

Oh, and Veera, I am going to attempt to make my own avatar, and I was just makin sure if I could use the avatar you made for me as a template?

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Lookin' good, Gorbash! Many thanks 8)

[Gorbash Kazdar]

You're welcome, Vorpal Tribble. Chase - challenge accepted and completed. Of course, the challenge was made easier by the fact that I did a wookiee Jedi for a SWd20 game already, but hey, I still made a wookiee ;)

http://plaza.ufl.edu/redwolf/wookieesabers.gif

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

Uhhh....I have a question...What is Uthmah's avatar supposed to be? It looks like a bellhop or something. Regardless, it is very good.

[Gorbash Kazdar]

Roger Smith from the anime Big O. Though I agree with the bellhop assessment to a degree. :P

[RBPRX1204]

Hehe, Thanks Gorbash. It's perfect. I'm so happy, I'm dancing in my living room. Thanks.

[Greenfrog]

Could I get on the list to get a frog avatar? If possible playing a harp.


Great works and thanks!


Ribbit!

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

Roger Smith from the anime Big O. Though I agree with the bellhop assessment to a degree. :P

That's funny cause that was actually the first thought that crossed my mind, followed shortly thereafter by "Naw...couldn't be"

[RBPRX1204]

It's really good. It's as dead of for a stick figure that you can get. I can hardly wait to get stabbity deathed. ROFL

[Sneak]

I would realy like an avitar made from this (http://www.3eprofiler.net/3ep/view.php?id=22643) character. He should hold his clay jug over his shoulder with one hand and have blue magic in the other. (By the way, these are great avitars)

I think a little more info on what he looks like might help.

[Veera]

Beelzebub, you already requested an avatar...
http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/beelzebub.gif

http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/jwolfe.gifhttp://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/ShadowDragon2.gif
Jwolfe, Shadowdragon, here are yours.

[Beelzebub1111]

Thanks! I like it!

[PokeTheBard]

I wasn't entirely sure what I was supposed to do so I thought i'd post here for good measure, despite also PMing Veera.

If at all possible I would like the specified avatar, please.

Cheers.


Ciao Baby! ;)

[ShadowDragon]

Yay! \o/

Thanks a lot lady, It's perfect. ;D

[Dragon_Rider]

I once had a character(NPC villian actually) named Darth Gnomus
(Thats Gnome-uhs)

He was an evil gnome warlock. His eldritch blast was like the blue lightning of the Sith. I always imagined him as someone like the Emporer, but a Vader-stle, or even Maul-style would be cool.

Could this be possible, either with the red light saber, or the blue lightning would be the coolest thing ever.

[Drizzt_Fanboy_74]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Superblah74/GnomusGIF.gif

Here's my attempt at Darth Gnomus. Not that good, I'm more of a fire guy, so the lightning isn't and the sabre looked dumb no matter how I tried. Feel free to use mine until a real artist does one. Oh! Also, I couldn't get the hood thing to look right. :(

[Sneak]

I'm not sure if this was answered before, but are you allowed to edit your own Veeratar? Not that I don't like it, but I was just wondering.

[Frojoe21]

Well, I got bored and came up with this little one. It is me as a skilled tradesman. I am still figuring out short order cook, but that will take some time.

http://www.geocities.com/black_omen431/becauseican.gif

[Veera]

Sneak (and this is for everyone else who has asked the same question): I'd prefer it if you didn't. If you really need changes, tell me, and I'll make them.

[Sneak]

Okay. I don't want any changes, I just wanted to play around with it a bit. I made a few things, but I deleted them just now, and I didn't post them anywhere. It's hard to work with anyway if you don't have the .ai file. Sorry, justed wanted to know.

[Pax]

/me ROFL's @ Veera's sig-banner. ;D ;D ;D

[Gorbash Kazdar]

To make things clear for my stuff...

If I make an avatar for someone, they can use it in places other than these boards. However, please don't use an avatar I made for someone else without permission from the person I made it for. In my case, I won't use an avatar I made for someone else except for putting it up as an example of my work.

As for avatars I've made for my personal use, don't use them without asking permission first.

Don't modify them; if you want changes, contact me and I'll tweak them for you.

[Veera]

Balrogossah: here you go! http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/balrogossah.gif

[Balrogossah]

Balrogossah: here you go! http://students.uwf.edu/mfs10/balrogossah.gif



Veera, this is the most awesome avatar in the world!. Thanks a lot... ;D

[Colt]

Speeking of balrog, can someone make me a stick version of the balrog fron LOTR, complete with flaming whip?

[Jops]

Hello, I guess this is the place for posting fan-art, sooo...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/Jops/Sabine.jpg

[Gamebird]

I hearby designate the name "Gorbatar" to refer to any avatar designed by Gorbash Kazdar.

"Losatar" for those made by Losar.

And "Ownatar" for an avatar made by the poster in question.

[Lilly]

Hello, I guess this is the place for posting fan-art, sooo...
*snip the image*


Oh so cute!! I love it!

[Baron]

That's really nice Jops! ;D

[Baron]

Baron Von Mod: Due to the size of this thread once you include all of the images, I'm going to lock it and start another. It must be a nightmare to try and reply if you're only using dial-up.