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[pokey]

I like it. The only thing I would fix is the white border around his face and the word.

[CoreTechs]

Yeah. I saved it as a GIMP doc so I could come back to that.

[Rytiko]

I'm not happy with this at all. I couldn't get the color on the green gradient I used to create a dust effect right, and you can barely see it. It has frustrated me to no end, and I was getting tired of working on such minute details. This will NOT be the only one I submit, but I figured I'd show it anyway.

EDIT: It looks MUCH better against a darker background, but I'ms till not pleased. Check out the second post with an image here...

http://mb.fondusis.com/index.php?showtopic=544&st=0&#entry5813


BBCode being disabled here is kind of a pain. Why did you do that Drak? O_o


Anyway, I was using photoshop.

I started off VERY basic, with a red background and a black disolved layer atop it, making it appear to be a black background with red specs. Using this pseudo effect and combining it with the reversing property of the Angled Strokes image effect after merging the two layers created the red strokes on the left side.

From there, I created a green and red gradient layer with low opacity to greate the green dust and the red "cloud" amongst the strokes. I will explain what this and the red specs are later.

I added a red moon, just because it looked cool. This caused me a bit of trouble as I had to use a black brush and the smudge tool all over again to get the green dust cloud right.

Taking the image of an assassin cross and flipping it to get it to flow with the physics of the picture, I put the main render atop of the dust. I followed that with a picture of a regular assassin and used the vivid light layer effect to get him to be only partially visible.

Then I created the red specs using a gradient Outer Glow effect, which was very simple.

To finish it off, I took the image of my guild emblem on Ragnarok Online as a sort of "Adore us" statement.

Okay, now I will explain what everything is.

Ragnarok Online is a MMORPG. In it, one of the classes in an assassin. After level 99, you are able to be reborn. After leveling to the point where you'd normally become an assassin, you become an assassin cross with better abilities and more stat points to spend. Thus, rather than just using the Assassin Cross, I made a reference to his past life with the regular assassin.

The dust and glowing red shards are meant to be remnants of a skill called Venom Splasher, which explodes and does massive poison damage to enemies with less than 1/3 HP. The skill uses a red gemstone, hence the shards. The red strokes were meant to be raining blood from the guy on the receiving end in the beginning, but with the gradient overlays and blending, some of it was lost.

Guilds shouldn't really need to be explained, but basically they're a group of people who are meant to fight together in a weekly thing called War of the Emperium, in which the winning guilds get a special castle and castle dungeon. The guild I'm in isn't WoE active, but there are other reasons to have a guild. You'll almost never be desperately seeking out party members, and there are guild skills that can be used by the leader outside of WoE.


Anyway, I'm not really pleased with it. At all. There will be another one from me in the next couple of days, as I wouldn't give this one any more than a 4/10, even with my mere 3 month on and off experience.

[Drackir]

I disabled BBCode so that I could put HTML in my posts that will show up on the website. With it enabled it kept changing my code to other things which was really annoying so I made it like this. If you were around a long time ago (years perhaps) you may remember that regular members weren't even able to view the news forum, much less make posts so it was never a problem. Either way I'm not enabling it at this point.

@Core: If you want, make a topic strictly for posting images in the Art Forum (members can upload pics there) and I'll pin it and you can link to it from here.

[Rytiko]

I disabled BBCode so that I could put HTML in my posts that will show up on the website. With it enabled it kept changing my code to other things which was really annoying so I made it like this. If you were around a long time ago (years perhaps) you may remember that regular members weren't even able to view the news forum, much less make posts so it was never a problem. Either way I'm not enabling it at this point.

@Core: If you want, make a topic strictly for posting images in the Art Forum (members can upload pics there) and I'll pin it and you can link to it from here.

Ah, I understand. That makes sense.

[CoreTechs]

This is where you should post the all your entries: http://mb.fondusis.com/index.php?showtopic=560

[Kinewa]

WHO WON?!