my first graphics
 

i'll be posting some of my stuff here.
i'm totally new to gfx, and i'll try my best! (how can i rezise that image and make the white pic outline smaller?
i've never made a sword and i was bored, so i just made one.
any critic/suggestions welcome!
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/2750/swordv.png
http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/7820/sword1.png

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good for first, but try not to be totally smoothe on the whole graphic

tips?

hey!
You should try to use only use a few colors. For the upper part, let the silver be silver, but make the rest the same color/2colors. You get a harder contrast then, what looks better in my opinion.
Its not bad for your first tryout- dont give up! :)

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/7820/sword1.png
like this?

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/2996/swordblood.gif

tried a .gif
but it won't move :L

Yep :) Try to let the pixels smooth into eacj other lol
What program do you use to create a gif?

i used gimp to make a gif and imageshack.us

yep, you cant upload animations on imageshack :p
try 250kb.com, works fine

http://250kb.com/u/111110/g/5bb799d5.gif
tried my first .gif, i'll make it better soon. any suggestions?
http://i.picasion.com/pic46/87ec2c44...0c0202b94c.gif
shaded my first head, and made it gif. just have to know how i can make it move faster. any suggestions welcome :)

cool! But try to avoid using so many colors :D Maybe my tut can help you, lol

thanks :) i will try. i made the gif with gimp, but i want to make the eyes close faster. can you tell me how?

giyf.com, try it out :3
i love that site.

[IMG]Blinking Named Needy[/IMG]:D just testing something..

man it didnt work

heres an artist tip for any kind of art: leave your art as is if it looks good, if u add too much than u will soon screw it up or it'll turn out horrible.

On gimp, you right click your layer, and hit "edit layer attributes". Rename it *layer name* (100ms) <- the 100ms in the parentheses is the time that the layer stays there. So basically if I was doing like 2 blinks in rapid succession, I would do it open (1500ms), closed (150ms), open (125ms), closed (120ms) and then it would repeat the image. 100ms = 1 second I believe... I could be wrong, idk. Hope I helped..