Alright. Sprite Jam time.
A few days ago I received an email from my dad. He's a head honcho at a help desk services company, and everyone knows that those geeky help desk workers get bored. All of the people in my dad's office are doing self-portraits of themselves in MS Paint. My dad can't even draw a stick man so he "commissioned" me to draw a portrait of him. So now I ask you to draw a portrait of yourself. I'll keep the rules the same as the rules that were set by my dad's office.
Here's the portrait I did of my dad.
(http://www.harryday.com/images/larry_pixelated.png)
Theme: Self Portraits
Rules: You must draw a portrait of yourself and you MUST use MS Paint. (Sorry Mac users. You can't properly use AGS on a Mac, so get a PC. :P)
Size: Any size you want, but nothing wider than 500 pixels.
Colors: Use as many colors you feel necessary, but try to restrict yourself. Paint isn't designed to utilize hundreds of colors.
Bonus: Draw another portrait of a parent in the same style.
I know some of you like having more guidelines, so if you like that sort of thing, use the same work area as I used. 65 x71 pixels with a 2 pixel border.
You've got a week, but I'm in the process of moving, so I might be busy unpacking/forgetting that I'm hosting a sprite jam.
Eh, and I guess I'm being too tough on Mac users. If there's some sort of online or Mac based equivalent of MS Paint, use that.
Great contest topic, as I'm I was still not pleased with my avatar.
(http://blog.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spritejam08f.png)(http://blog.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spritejam08f.png)
(http://blog.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spritejam08f.png)
(60px x 60px)
Colors:I thought I've used only around 30 colors, but counting with another programm tells me around 60 colors... strange.
By the way, it's a real pain(t) in the a** to draw with mspaint... and to be honest: we already have the paint game, I don't really see the need of this restriction.
The Bonus(?):
(140px × 185px)
Colors: Still less than 200? ;)
Does this count as an bonus entry, I made this not especially for the contest and used with Paint .net (using a layer to rotoscope and added a gradient)?
Edit:
I tried to mimic your style for another entry (and followed the rules exactly ;) )
(http://blog.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spritejam08f_bonus.png)
Anyway, it's a nice topic - I'm excited who you all see yourselves ;)
Looks good. Can't wait to see more entries pouring in. :)
The reason I requested just paint was to test your skills and creativity. It's really easy to traces a photo with layers, and not a lot of people are used to working completely with MS Paint. It's an interesting experience working with something so simple. Plus very few people put a lot of effort in their MS Paint Game entries.
I hadn't planned to count the bonus portraits as an additional entries. Depending on how many more enter maybe I'll count the bonus portraits as a second entry.
Oh alright, that makes it clear. I've removed the paint.net image. But as I have used a photo as a template and partly drew over it, I've also added another entry completely in your requested style.
I'm a little tired of loosing competitions because of not doing what the host had requested ;)
Some assembly required.
(http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4579/facezg7.png) 2x
4 colours.
If this does not weird you out then I give up ;).
Feel free to disqualify it if you feel it's not a traditional portrait :).
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-5/1259240/gc2.gif)
60x60 30-colours
Wasted loads of unnecessary colours, but I wouldn't care.
Oh yes, I did it in M$Pain but saved it as GIF using GIMP, as M$Pain was known to screw up colours in 8-bit images. I hope that's okay.
Very interesting concept Ben. A little off the wall, but very creative.
Gilbot, the pink ears look like your mouth and a cat is trying to claw it's way out of it. :D
Great entries so far. Keep them coming in!
Oh, and saving with something else is fine, even a copy paste. The point is just to work with the limited tools of Paint.
Bump!
Only a little longer! I hope to see a few more entries!
1x:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/teo777/portrait_teo5.png)
2x:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/teo777/portrait_teo5.png)
I tried to keep the style similar to the example, but with my own touch.
Colours used: 11, including the background
Dimensions: 82 x 118
edit: new version
Because I'm BORED!
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/monkey_e/bored.gif)
*not an entery* ::)
Just a few more hours. I get back from work in about 5 hours, so if you're working on an entry let me know or post it soon!
I just copied the image that Evil made, and painted over that, but it seems that it actually turned out double of what the restrictions were (2x?). Anyhoo...
(http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/Stuff/meman.gif)
Will add a parent if I am brave enough (and there is enough time).
And here it is! I think I like this one better ;D
(http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/Stuff/ptent.gif)
2x
Great entries everyone! MS Paint can be a (MS) pain but you all did awesome work!
In 3rd Place - Paper Carnival - I felt it best fit the style I was working in.
In 2nd Place - Babar - Because his dad also has a sweet mustache
And the winner is - Gilbot! with his portrait of himself eating a cat. Yay half eatted winky cat!
Oh, didn't expect that! I'll think of something for the next round.