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Hey

Here follows my incompetent bodging of a perfectly good tutorial..

Original Image..


Using layers, block color the parts of the flowers.


Using a darker color, shade in the darkest parts.


Using a color in between the last two, blend in the shades.


Then using a lighter color, add some highlights to it.


Then using the brush (5x5 pixels), with a low density setting paint over the flower with a darker color.. This should add some texture to it.  Set opacity to less than 100.


It should come out looking like a kinda hand painted thing.


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Iqu

Um..  on reading thru your recent posts, I'm not a 100% that it's Indy-esque, but it doesn't look photo-realistic anymore..  which is what you asked me.

You can also zoom in and fiddle individual pixels you think look wrong far easier than a photo.

Also, for some reason the enlarged version look anti aliased.  They shouldn't.  It should also only have 5 colors for the flower and 5 for the leaves..

It looked better while I was doing it.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yarr, you jive ass turkeys..

Mofo ahoy..



Cap'n Blingbeard..

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Iqu

Mind you, I s'pose I should've given him a Raiders shirt..  oh, well.  Live and learn.

Hey

For the flower..
I'd suggest using the draw tool (or similar one pixel wide brush, depending on what you use) and on a second layer, trace the out of the flower, petals and stem.. no need to be to precise.
Secondly color this second layer in with pink for flower, green for stalk - just the two colors.
Then on a third layer (i like layers, they're not essential.. just easier)..  third layer, using a slightly lighter color than the previous pink/green, draw in the larger gaps on color, avoiding edges.

+ - - - - - - - +
|..................|
|......(b).......|
|..................|
|...#####...| <---- (a)
|...##(c)# ...|
|...#####...|
|..................|
+ - - - - - - - +

a. should be the out line, dark color.
b. should be the medium color block.
c. should be the bright, highlighted section.

Obviously, it's not square, this is just a bad example of what i mean.  Hopefully, you get the jist.

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Iqu

Yarr..

Fruit ahoy..



Gaybrush Limpwrist..  Long John Pink..  Cap'n Pinkbeard..
or just Iqu the Gay Pirate.

Call him what you want, but he to 28 hours to do.
Admittedly I slept for half it and had to fix my mum's brake light, so who knows how long it took.

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Iqu

I know I haven't got it, and quickstrike says he doesn't.
I have about feeling Squinky is writing an epic that'll make war and peace look like a mr. men book..
..or Mr. Panda is emailing it to him one word at a time.

Hey

First of, the little purple space dude rocks..  I want one, for either a pet, a friend or romantic interludes on a moonlit night.

Anyway, the only problem i can see is that the cliff walls kind stop suddenly..  I'd suggest making then a bit curvier like farl said and also lengthening the distance from the sides to the blackness.  Not going from brown to black so abruptly.

Sorry, I'm starting to confuse myself with my usual brand of idiot-speak.  I hope you got the jist of it, it's just that making an understandable, erm, coherent, um..  suggestive?..

Curse my ungood wordinesses.

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Iqu

Hey

Once current projects are out of the way I'm available as an jack of all trades (master of none) handy, odd job, random task man-type thing dude.  What time frame you looking at?

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Iqu

Due to an quite incredible balls up somewhere high up in the british government, I am registered to vote as "Iqu".  That's actually how I got the name.

Besides, I also have the rather strange and expensive plan of changing my name by deed poll every month.  For both the purposes of comedy and avoidance of my credit card company.

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Iqu

Ok.

I'm a 23 year old living in UK, staying in UK. I (according to about everyone) have the mental age 10 year old. I'm a fan of Sonic Youth, and Monkey Island was awesome. I'm making a game. WHOO<insert exclamation mark>.  My mum says I will be lucky have more than £10 in my wallet by the age 50. WHOO<insert another exclamation mark>.  And I'm a fan of Bassist mag.  That's me..

..just a heads up on who to avoid on dark nights.

Capitalism is evil.  We are socialist.  Everyone is equal..
However, CJ is more equal than the rest of us.

And it does kinda sound like fun.

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Iqu

I think he wants to make a teacup ride or something..

Hey

I've got a load of Games Workshop stuff laying around somewhere..

I got sick of it, tho, due to my painting ability.  Everything looked like I'd snorted various paints, then sneezed on the models.

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Iqu

Hey

I kinda do, so much as:

I know what I dislike, and therefore, will try to avoid using it.  The car key thing in P:DA really got on my wick, so I would not use anything like that.  Unlock it once, then second time just click "use car".

I agree with the example of the parcel = string you gave, and I have got many notes on puzzles and things laying around.  I also make notes on things I've liked in other games, for future reference.

I guess what I do could be called a "design philosophy", but I have a habit of writing things everywhere (napkins, inside of cigertte packets, envelopes, walls..) so it gets rather confusing.  Also, I've never really been conscious of doing it.  If you hadn't asked the question, I'd still be blissfully unware.

I don't know whether I should thank you or curse you for shattering one the many bubble-like worlds I have created for myself, which I randomly drift from one to another...

Ah..  to hell with it, I'll just hug you instead.

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Iqu

Hey

To be honest, I played Shadowman on the N64 for over twenty hours before deciding I didn't like it.  Even with it's awkward controls and it's wierd take on "non-linear".

If it were a new GUI, as long as it made some kind of sense, and you didn't need special training to use it, then it wouldn't bother me.  As for new game goals, a lot of people say they dislike them, but that's their loss.  If it weren't for innovation, then we'd all still be playing pong... albeit with some kick ass Tron-style virtual reality gizmos.  It would still be two lines and a dot, tho.

Nintendo push the boundaries as much as they can, and fortunately for them, their target audience is mainly children.  Children who haven't been playing games for as long as we have, and therefore aren't so untrusting to new things.

People don't like change, but games need it.  Much like everything in life.  Hopefully, your target audience knows this, and will judge you accordingly.

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Iqu

Four minutes.

I have a very short atten...

Hey

Don't worry, I get where you're coming from.  I also have a boner for logos.  I think LGM was just emphasising the point that most of us are tightwads.

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Iqu

Also, kudos on the avatar.  Young Guns?

Ahem,

Ahem... Ahem, Ack...

I think there's something going around.

Anyhow, if you need logos, I'll probably have a stab at them for free.

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Iqu

LGM will vouch for both my fee and my somewhat obsessive attention to detail.

Hey

Hm...  took a while, but worth the wait.  I'm not sure her leg's as dangerously thin as you made out, tho.  She looks kinda southern.

Hugs Y'all
Iqu

* Iqu refrains from making a lewd comment, as he's sure someone else will make one that's wittier...

Hey

His heads kinda small, as are his hands.
Also, he looks like he has breasts.  I think he should have a six-pack, too.

* Iqu likes it tho...

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Iqu

(Papa HirsuitlyCutesyMuscleGuy)

Hm...  Nemesis the best movie ever?...

Well to be honest I've not seen it, but I have seen the rest.
You should own a copy of Wrath of Kahn and a copy of Undiscovered Country, the rest you should just wait for a TV to put them on.
Anything vaguely Next Generation-ish should be taken with a pinch of salt.

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Iqu