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I can`t create better title for this work. I do it in 2 month, yeah. So tired! But I like result, this dragon is cool)
Category Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 1280 x 545px
File Size 98.7 kB
Maybe 2 months was a little long to invest in him, but if you like the result, then well... :) Not like I didn't occasionally toss away ridiculous amounts of time to draw something. Nicely done, and looks interesting, like a mix-up of an insect and a lizard. Wish you did some more own ideas for pixel art as well!
What's that behind him?
What's that behind him?
I have very old laptop (~8 years), and, I can do fast only pixel works... So it took a lot of time , strongly inhibits the laptop and does not want to work, because this is a high-resolution image. I would love to finish my CG work , but unfortunately now it is impossible .
Behind him? It is something like the planet on which he might live.
Behind him? It is something like the planet on which he might live.
Huh? I neither have anything newer (just checked it, 8 years old...), and honestly never really noticed it. It does its job for my purposes (messing around in Gimp for digital art, often working at 1920x1200, and also doing pixelling), I am not even considering upgrading. I have Debian Linux though as OS at home, last Windows I had was 98. Dunno what a recent version of that would do to this machine.
What I found important with laptops is having a good display. I didn't come across one which had that yet. I was lucky to pick up a Fujitsu P20-2 as monitor, dirt cheap for people are wasting away 4:3 (and I hate 16:9) no matter the quality. This is one of the rarer kinds which can do 1600x1200, and has a very decent panel. You should at least check the gamma, related to that also the viewing angle. Most old laptops are so crappy vertically that the top and bottom halves of their display show radically different gamma. That very much inhibits painting, even more so than any other color inaccuracy.
If you have a display which can be calibrated to pass those tests on that site sufficiently well, you have something which can be used for some more serious art. Two monitors passing those tests well (especially color) will likely give very similar results when displaying art, so other people will more likely see what you intended to draw. (With pixel art this is not such a great concern since you use a limited set of colors: it is rather geometry intensive. A crappy gamma setting however can screw up even pixel art badly, but at least that's easy to correct later, just needing adjustments on the palette).
The most expensive thing I have here right now is a Wacom tablet, just the smallest (and cheapest) one. It likely worth more than all the rest on my desk combined :D I found it only being useful for digital painting, though (I still pixel with mouse).
The planet behind: Well, I thought something alike, actually it was one reason I picked it. Felt similar to my stuff :)
What I found important with laptops is having a good display. I didn't come across one which had that yet. I was lucky to pick up a Fujitsu P20-2 as monitor, dirt cheap for people are wasting away 4:3 (and I hate 16:9) no matter the quality. This is one of the rarer kinds which can do 1600x1200, and has a very decent panel. You should at least check the gamma, related to that also the viewing angle. Most old laptops are so crappy vertically that the top and bottom halves of their display show radically different gamma. That very much inhibits painting, even more so than any other color inaccuracy.
If you have a display which can be calibrated to pass those tests on that site sufficiently well, you have something which can be used for some more serious art. Two monitors passing those tests well (especially color) will likely give very similar results when displaying art, so other people will more likely see what you intended to draw. (With pixel art this is not such a great concern since you use a limited set of colors: it is rather geometry intensive. A crappy gamma setting however can screw up even pixel art badly, but at least that's easy to correct later, just needing adjustments on the palette).
The most expensive thing I have here right now is a Wacom tablet, just the smallest (and cheapest) one. It likely worth more than all the rest on my desk combined :D I found it only being useful for digital painting, though (I still pixel with mouse).
The planet behind: Well, I thought something alike, actually it was one reason I picked it. Felt similar to my stuff :)
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