Sam's having fun with avatars

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Sam's having fun with avatars

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First, I really admire the pixel art avatars and little cute creatures by Lupis, Darkmoon&co.!! Before reading those threads, I wouldn't know what pixel art is, but now, I'm having so much fun making avatars! :-)

So sharing them here for whoever likes to use them :-) Sometimes I can't be bothered and just finish them quite quickly :-p

First ones before I discovered that there's a pencil tool in Photoshop:

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Non pixel avatars:

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And then I did find the pencil tool! (And I was camping rares at the time, hence the inspiration :-))

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Oh, that's some amazing work!
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Wow! I had been wondering where you had gotten that epic avatar you were using. Your work is pretty damn amazing not gunna lie. Seems you have as much of a talent for it as Lupis and Moon do! I look forward to seeing what you make! Maybe a gray worgen druid in kitty form..(the orange eyed one!) :3 I just wanna see hehe

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Thank you :-) Challenge accepted, I needed to make a night elf kitty druid anyhow so can try myself on a worgen at the same time.
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I hope this was the colour scheme you had in mind :-)

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That is gooood omg i love it *drools* lol awesome work!!!

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Woah, awesome cool! Very well done! More pixel-like than the avatars Moon and I made - which is a good thing. ^.^ I love that style.
The lines are remarkable. Very accurate.

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Very nicely done!
So happy I wrote that guide now. I seem to have created a trend here. :P

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Thank you *hugs* I think the pixels come from the fact that I don't pay too much attention to blending. I think they're great fun to do when you want to be creative but don't want to spent hours and hours on one thing before finishing it. Saying that, I have never managed to complete a digital painting.

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I've finished... um... two digital paintings. >.< And one of them is Signature sized! D-:
So I can relate. xD

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Wow, these are awesome! I love the Silverwing Covenant hippogryph the most, but they're all pretty epic. :D

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These are really great Sam! Very beautiful and well done. :D

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Samskeyti wrote:I hope this was the colour scheme you had in mind :-)

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Its beautiful..and..its MEEEEE!!!! Going to use it on a different site for my avatar but definately saved :) :hug:

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Oooh.....love it! :D

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Ok, on the planner (the ones in my head):

Nightelf cat
Penguin
Netherdrake
Birdie druid
and recolors. Which will be a bit of a pain.
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Givin sam a bump for her awesome avatars. x3

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Here's a fire cat for all those fire kitties out there. (Oh I wish I was one of them...they look so awesome!)

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Fire kitteh! <3

Atramedes is still my favorite.

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Yes I keep seeing you with his avatar, it makes me smile. It's one I started, but got frustrated because he was so complex and just saved it but didn't find it finished. I love him too, poor mishaped blind dragon <3
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I might actually go back to him. I miss him already. x3

I'm tempted to request a sig from someone to make like...a sig with my red dragonflight OC and Atramedes, kinda cuddling or her trying to free him.

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