Starting with pokemon

[ANBU]

so recently started to try to expand from just doing splices and some attempts at spriting from scratch (very few of which I think I have on here if any, don't really believe my current level in either is worth really sharing much)

 

followed a few different tutorials on DeviantArt to do with making Signatures in GIMP and have been sort of attempting to work on by myself and try to improve a bit over last month or so..

 

my newest and probably best attempts at a signature and an avatar are the following

 

 

[spoiler=PokeHuman Houndoom w/o text]

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[spoiler=PokeHuman Houndoom w/ text]

yes, I know text before you know how to use properly is really a bad idea, but I thought it looked sorta okay, might be completely wrong, but hey that's why i have a version without the text ^^"

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[spoiler=Slowking Avatar] 

Using currently as my avatar/display pic on here with text added to it, best attempt at making an avatar so far that I think I've done, with my others pretty much just being cropped versions of previous attempts at signatures that didn't really turn out well on full size scale

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so.. CnC, point out where I've probably messed up completely, whatever you guys wanna do.

Any sort of comment that at least tells me what is most important for me to work on first would probably be really helpful 

[Twenty-five Zero Oh-oh]

Good to see new taggers. Keep working on developing basic skills.

 

At this point, just keep experimenting and get comfortable with GIMP.

 

Here's some links to tutorials that you may consider viewing.

 

This gives a brief overview of some basics to keep in mind when tagging.

http://dawnstormgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/zenronguide.jpg

 

The result in this tutorial is really quite good. Try pulling some techniques from this.

http://beintelligent.deviantart.com/art/Signature-Tutorial-210161133

 

Some cool tutorials by platina.

http://platinification.deviantart.com/art/Platina-Half-Life-Tag-Tutorial-258546017

http://platinification.deviantart.com/art/Mass-Effect-Tag-Tutorial-303299388

http://platinification.deviantart.com/art/Sprite-Smudge-Tag-Tutorial-287835174

 

This is a video tutorial by xprophet. He uses photoshop but may be helpful if you want to see someone tagging real-time.

http://www69.zippyshare.com/v/42715078/file.html

 

Good luck!