[MOD] Arkwork Ideas

[Zalkida]

Hello, I'm kinda new to this but I'm a somewhat decent artist and would like to start creating my own ships. Does any who has done it already have any advice on what programs(MS Paint, Photoshop, etc.) to use and how to get the "pixilated" look the current ships have? I saw that Darkfrost has a Ship Editor to be released soon(looking forward to it, looks awesome) and thought i could maybe use that for the systems, doors, etc. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks, Zalkida

[Rivers]

Ive asked around, and those who have designed their own ships use mainly photoshop and MSPaint.

I think the best way to get the pixel effect is to draw your ships with the pencil tool in photoshop.

A combination of MSPaint for the base lineart and Photoshop for the 'everything else.' There was a great deal of marquee selection and bucket-fill, and all my selection tools were set to 0 tolerance to ensure flat colors. I think the last time I used MSPaint in any serious capacity was Win95... yikes.

Sure

I drew everything to scale - using a reference picture. I scaled the reference picture to be somewhat close to the final scale I wanted to have it. After that I traced the primary line-fills with the pencil tool (to get pixel fitting) - . After that I made it into a smartobject, and split it in half so I only had to detail half of the ship.

After the details are done, I went on adding fill and shading. Attached are a couple of pictures from the process:

Outline:


Detailing:


Fill:


Shading:


Final:

[Zalkida]

Thanks for the reply. Someone else suggested using paint.net and i will try that also. Will show what I have created sometime in the future.

[Stormhunter117]

Someone, please, please make this :3

[Zalkida]

Here is my project from today. If wants to make this playble or anything, email me at Zalkida@gmail.com or PM me

[Zalkida]

Someone, please, please make this :3

What is that? I'll do my best, will post result here

[Stormhunter117]

It's Harbinger, from Mass Effect.

[CAKE]

Someone, please, please make this :3

Made it, download here

Here is my project from today. If wants to make this playble or anything, email me at Zalkida@gmail.com or PM me

Made it, download here

They are both AE ships.

[kartoFlane]

Last reply: 04 Oct 2012, 22:47

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