BACKGROUND BLITZ YO HO HO and a Bottle of Rum (WINNERS)

[Frikker]

Sketchess, also maybe check out Krita, its free and a lot of people on a Concept/digital art forum that I am oart of, say it is brilliant. Might be worth a look?

[sketchess]

Looks like a fusion of ArtRage and Photoshop to me. Very very interesting.
Guys keep coddling me.

I am still sitting on my concept art and it is driving me crazy.
I will roll back the third time by now. Feels like, I've rearranged my foreground 100 times yet. I hope, the simplest way will work out.
Well, I have to face the fact that I've become rather rusty. Don't expect to much at the end. Tihi.

[Blondbraid]

I've been wanting to practise pixel art, so I thought this would be a good opportunity. Here's my attempt:
Come and visit the Black Market to stock up on pirate supplies, before refuelling yourself in the Kraken Arms tavern!

How very cute!
I like the flag and water animations, but it looks weird that the birds just stay in one place.

[Riaise]

@Grok: Thank you!

How very cute!
I like the flag and water animations, but it looks weird that the birds just stay in one place.

Thank you! I wasn't sure whether to include the birds, but the sky looked too empty without having anything there and I haven't quite got the hang of decent looking clouds yet.

[sketchess]

Never mind.

[sketchess]

Oh man. Hahahahahahahaha.
I just can laugh about my poor self, but at least I had fun to doodle terribly. I won't hand it in.

Isn't that sad, I can't remember when I actually draw something the last time. No wait, it was an attempt of a water drop on a leaf and it must be a year ago by now. It didn't work out neither. That is nearly the only memory during 6 years. Yeah. I used to be good. And now? ......... Don't ask. Put me back into art school, man.

[Creamy]

Time to change your pseudonym, Sketchess

[sketchess]

Hahaha that was funny.
But I don't think so @Creamy. I rather would supplement it with 'an apprentice of drawing skills'.

Well I went through my old stuff in my parents house and guess what I've recovered. My mother once gave me her spare sketch book. I cleaned it up and repaired it and it is ready to use. Hundred empty pages. I counted them, tihi. I love the smell of real wood sheets of paper, old fashion bookbinding, sooner or later it must have it's 50th anniversary. I think it is time that it gets what it deserves, lovely filled pages. It becomes my new first practice journal. I will start by the very.. very.. very very basics.

My old equipment is also existing. ... Except for the chalks.

[Babar]

After so long hunting for Columbus's map to the Lost Treasure of Atlantis, finding a copy on an old deerskin in a collection by cartographer Piri Reis was a bit of an anticlimax. The spot marked X was nothing more than farmland tended to by the simple villagers who lived in constant terror of the newly established nearby pirate outpost. Still, something about the markings on the map make you suspicious. It is time to investigate this series of islands and hope you can find something that will lead you to the treasure!
Now, where to go next?
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/1o1237x.png[/imgzoom]

Spent way too long trying to figure out a background to the map's foreground, and it always ended up looking mismatched. Finally decided on a somewhat cheesy gradient, but at least it is less distracting!

[Mandle]

Spent way too long trying to figure out a background to the map's foreground, and it always ended up looking mismatched. Finally decided on a somewhat cheesy gradient, but at least it is less distracting!

Maybe make the background a solid colour for transparency so the hands and map could be an overlay GUI?

Then again this is Background Blitz, not the GUI Gong Show...

But...I'm guessing you could sneak it in...

In any case: Great work, especially on the hands: Love the ring!

[Grok]

@Babar

Nice. That could be a very useful background in a pirates game.

[Cassiebsg]

And when we're done here, join all the BGs and make a pirate game.

[sketchess]

I still wonder what SinSin will come up with.

Thanks Frikker by the way. I finally and completely switched to Krita, it truly felt naturally from the first second. What a relief!

[Grok]

And when we're done here, join all the BGs and make a pirate game.

That's a nice idea.
Have anything like that been done here before?

[Frikker]

glad you liked it Sketchess, I heard it was nice to use. Now go make a pretty BG before the deadline

[sketchess]

And where is yours???

Guys? Didn't we had a general practise corner besides the critics lounge and the competition mode? I remember vague a basic drawing thread here in activities. Does someone know, what happend to it?

[Mandle]

Guys? Didn't we had a general practise corner besides the critics lounge and the competition mode? I remember vague a basic drawing thread here in activities. Does someone know, what happend to it?

Maybe you're thinking of the workshops that are run from time to time?

I haven't participated yet because they seem to require a LOT of work both from the entrants AND the host(s), like serious work, like you-would-expect-to-be-paid-at-some-point-unless-you-were-exactly-that-passionate-about-the-art kind of work...

I recall that the last one was about drawing a background for a port/harbour scene...and the amount of sheer effort from people in that thread made me curl up and suck my thumb every time I took a peek at what was going on...

Search it out maybe, and maybe, if thou art (or thine art is) brave enough...Canvas the community for interest in starting a new one...

Or maybe you meant a different thread....If so then apologies!

[Grok]

Well, all you scurvy sea-dogs out there that has not yet turned in your backgrounds, it is high time to get them in, or there will be keelhaulings.

[SinSin]

My entry will be here when the moon is at it's highest on the 21st night of July Arrrr

[sketchess]

SinSin you make it suspenseful.

It might was a trick of my mind Mandle. I've searched the entire Search unsuccessfully in any possible way I could imagine. Very fuzzy memories, which date back years. *shrug off