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# Test proof of a present I am painting for my Mario obsessed flatmate
Acrylic on sketchpad, will be acrylic on 10'x10' canvas evetually



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(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:11, archived)
# is there mushroom for improvement?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:(

HAHAHAHAHAH

:D
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:12, archived)
#
be sad an hit yourself!
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:13, archived)
# I can't reach myself to hit
my arms are in the other room.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:14, archived)
# allow me to assist
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:15, archived)
# Of course, he won't mind though, he's such a fungi
o.O
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:14, archived)
# Toadaly awesome dude
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:15, archived)
# puns aren't exactly sporeadic here...
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:17, archived)
# we all have good morels about such things
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:21, archived)
# Well, there are some ex-ceps-tions
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:22, archived)
# yeah, we've got some Giant Puffballs around here at times
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:24, archived)
# up with this shiitake, I will not put!
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:29, archived)
# You'll nae get a reishi outta me!
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:32, archived)
# don't push my button.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:36, archived)
# Now, now you two must be chestnuts to start in here
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:41, archived)
# So. Much action round your place?
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:16, archived)
# Not from his end of the flat
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:17, archived)
# Maybe when you're doing it on canvas you might want to use masking tape
to help sharpen up your lines.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:19, archived)
# Yeah I was thiking that
or I may just not bother, I quite like the roughness... I'd take more time obviously
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:22, archived)
# Actually, as this is sort of related to something I was wondering I'm gonna tj...

TJ: If I wanted to make pixel sprites that were, say, 4x pixel size... What would be my best way of doing that?

Making them at 1x pixel and the blowing them up and hoping the software doesn't anti-alias it, or is there some way of making a specific grid that would keep me lined up properly?
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:24, archived)
# Well, if you do blow them up
Make sure you have interpolation turned off, that way you should juet get it enlarged exactly.

What are you using to design them in?
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:26, archived)
# I'm not designing them at all yet.
I have things like CS2, paint.net, gimp and inkscape.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:28, archived)
# I use GIMP for that sort of thing
You can turn on a grid and snap to it, then just make yourself a custom square brush of the same size as your grid squares
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:30, archived)
# well, on gimp
1) make a new picture, 4x4 large
2) draw what little you can draw with 16 pixels
3) go to image, enlarge image
4) make sure "interpolation" is set to "none"
5) put in the final size, say 250x250
6) look at the glorious big squares that come out
7) masturbate gently
8) masturbate ferociously
9) bleed
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:32, archived)
# I usually
skip steps 1-6
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:34, archived)
# i find they heighten the anticipation
but, ultimately, sometimes you just want to get down to it
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:40, archived)
# if I try to do steps 1-6
I find I've white weewee'd in my pants by step 4
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:48, archived)
# ^^ Indeed this also
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:35, archived)
# i remember once designing a sprite for snoopy's broken and bandaged paw on the speccie
took two 8x8 blocks to do it but it didn't half come out nicely.

this is little to do with what we're talking about here, but you could get nice results in 8x16 blocks.

4x4 is just a bit too small, except on the streets of london where it's a bloody menace.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:41, archived)
# Hahah, I meant draw it with pixels that were 4x size, not the entire image 4x4.
But that seems like it could work enlarging it from 1x size. I'll have a play later.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:36, archived)
# i thought you were some kind of super-genius :(
*masturbates ferociously*
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:38, archived)
# I ALREADY TOLD YOU, USE PAINT
KING AMONG GRAPHICS PACKAGES
(, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 0:24, archived)
# Let's Space Shit!


(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:44, archived)
# photoshop, turn on grid lines
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:59, archived)
# well, you could view them at 400% and take a screen shot
that's the default "large size" in MSPAINT
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:29, archived)
# Game over man....Game over!!
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:23, archived)
# Haha!
D:
(, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 23:27, archived)