Nice tutorial :)

Not bad, it could use some explanation.

Where's the contrast?

Lol, SW is obsessed with contrast. No offence

What do you mean? He IS contrast.

And I agree with him.

yes, it does need some contrast, but for something like this you don't want much contrast or it won't give it the smooth look
~matt~

I think it looked perfect.... and contrast is color difference right?

ya, also it odes need a tad more contrast

The good old' bunch at Sprite Art have covered this one nicely, with the exception it's a glossy sphere. Just remove the 'Glossy' bits.



Hope they dont mind me using this quick edit to get my point across. Anyways its a rough example of what i mean by get rid of the gloss.

Sprite Art

Chessmasterriley your example is nice, but the end product does look a little flat, i find this can be due to different computer screen settings. If you decrease the luminosity of the darker reds it would look alot better, I wouldn't think you would lose the smoothness too badly, if people refrain from dithering in this situation it will look smooth, if you dither it will look more matted e.g. the edit i've shown.

"the good old bunch" ... "Hope they dont mind"

heh, its not a 'they' its a he. St0ven is pretty dang good.

Really? St0ven is all of those people? =/ Fiction, I guess.

Does that include Tsugumo?

no tsugumo isn't him, if st0ven was tsugumo why would he take the trouble to make a whole new site for the one tutorial?

noticed zeid posted an example of his "orb"...so I suppose ill post mine.

I too used stoven's tutorial:

WHAT THE SUPERNERD THAT IS GOOD I BOW TO YOU

Wow, that's nice. It has a type of spellcasting aura

and besides chessmaster.. st0vens orb is blue.... so i will always be better then yours

That's some pretty sweet ambient lighting, Joseph.

Yeah that’s nice Joseph, But just to re-iterate the sphere I showed was just a quick edit of the one used in the example to show what I meant to "get rid of the glossiness and make it look matted/non-shinny" so I wouldn’t say it was mine.

Wow I hadn’t actually considered that all those people could be st0ven, I had gone to the site ages ago and recalled that it had a lot of nifty tutorials. It certainly is impressive though, and it does explain why all the names except st0ven’s don’t really seem to be web-aliases.

Here's how mine looks: .

Wow! Those tutorials are helping me!

its okay, however its an oval, not a circle, if you hadnt noticed that. also, make sure you check the dates of the topics. you've revived two old topics now, please read the rules before posting. its not that it isnt allowed, but also notice that the older topics have older drawings, and in most cases, the artist has gotten better, meaning this isnt the best tutorial out there.

i made this wit stovens (teh guy from SA) tut a while ago

Stop reviving the goddamn topics.