My First Good Graphic :D
 

Hey Graalians. Some of you may know, i'm not very good at making graphics. So today, I was bored, and tried using techniques and advice people have given me to make a sword. Here it is. Feel free to give your criticism about it.

Attachment 5253

Pretty good too i recommend making melees for graal iera

Ok Thanks :D

Nice i give it a thumbs up

Thanks

Interesting concept. However with metal you need to broaden your colors to get that shine in there

I'm sure if you add some shine then you have my thumbs up!

Ok. Well thanks! I will try to work on it today, and then ill post it.

Actually, do you know any places where I can get a tutorial on how to shade metals like that?

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Ok, well I fixed it up a tiny bit, you may not be able to see the difference.

First one:Attachment 5262 Second one:Attachment 5263

@MSM, I saw the difference, and your first one, did you use any kind of shading in your sword? Its hard to tell.

Generally using dithering with such a small shading difference on a sword such as that doesnt help at all besides adding more colors to the graphic, which is the opposite of what dithering is supposed to do. Especially with swords, a light source is essential and that is what I think your graphic was lacking. The design is great though. Heres a quick tweak i did in a few seconds:

http://i.imgur.com/Jot9L.png

Yes, I did use shading. Take my image and open it up on Gimp, Paint.NET, or MS Paint, zoom in, then you can see the different shades well.

If your piece has to be opened in an editor and zoomed in to see what you've done then you're doing something wrong.

I can't, that's why i asked, my computer isnt functioning correctly lately..

Well if you look at it you can see shading.

Google some metal shading tutorials or sword shading tutorials