I think this is one of my best... and took around 4-5 hours.



CnC would be well appreciated.

His right arm is too short and the sword's perspective seems wrong.

Other than that its pretty cool. It would be awesome if you can animate this too.

A bit nice but the sword handling is too fail,it must be higher than that also i see its Dark Falcon's blade.

If I may point out, the sword is Sun Splitter, by Dark Falcon, and I asked his permission before using it.

Now, I don't want to go into detail about the lack of creativity in the armour design, or indeed the complete lack of anatomy and my belief that you just drew armour to simply cover that flaw up (Although it is still painfully obvious)

but honestly, you should probably put more effort into colouring that armour instead of recklessly placing radial gradients on every bit of metal you see. It doesn't work and shows that you're just being plain lazy.

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Now, I don't want to go into detail about the lack of creativity in the armour design, or indeed the complete lack of anatomy and my belief that you just drew armour to simply cover that flaw up (Although it is still painfully obvious)

but honestly, you should probably put more effort into colouring that armour instead of recklessly placing radial gradients on every bit of metal you see. It doesn't work and shows that you're just being plain lazy.

Forgive me if Macromedia Flash doesn't have the appropriate shade of silver. I had to use the gradients to get the appropriate color. And lack of creativity? Who the fuck are you to determine how creative I am being?

This is also for my flash game, which is why the wearer is more or less a stickman. This missing information is my fault, so I will edit to add said info.

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Forgive me if Macromedia Flash doesn't have the appropriate shade of silver. I had to use the gradients to get the appropriate color. And lack of creativity? Who the fuck are you to determine how creative I am being?

This is also for my flash game, which is why the wearer is more or less a stickman. This missing information is my fault, so I will edit to add said info.

Listen to yourself right now. Loboto is offering you advice and you're just acting all butthurt with the critique. In what way was she saying that the color was wrong. Just because you had a hard time putting effort into something, doesn't make it acceptable if it's still wrong. I don't do art but even I know Radial Gradients are just lazy. There's no respect to the light source regardless of where the armor is.

EDIT: sorry i keep forgetting loboto's a girl

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Listen to yourself right now. Loboto is offering you advice and you're just acting all butthurt with the critique. In what way was he saying that the color was wrong. Just because you had a hard time putting effort into something, doesn't make it acceptable if it's still wrong. I don't do art but even I know Radial Gradients are just lazy. There's no respect to the light source regardless of where the armor is.

I see the point now... Thanks for clarifying that. I only used the radial to get the correct color, though. That is what I meant by that. Flash 8's color pallate is rather limited, so I used the gradient to lighten the color. That was the purpose of the radials

In any case, it is the armor I want people to notice.

Quite frankly, I don't know what you're saying, because the radial gradient is obvious in every shiny white spot in the armour. My point is that you 'coloured' this through rampant use of the gradient tool, which is lazy.

And if you are planning on directing everyone to that armour, then I suppose you plan on everyone noticing your gradient shenanigans.

Atop of that, shall I give you my opinion on the armour? It has no semblance to actual armour. Have you taken reference from other pictures? Do you even know what armour is supposed to look like? It is also plain (fact) and this is why I called you out on your lack of creativity. If I want to go further, I can even say that the angle of the armour is horrendously wrong.

Do you get it now? From what I have seen, you have made a scant effort in drawing, which shows no understanding of the object involved that you are drawing. Get out to google, take reference from how other artists do it or even from real life, put your own artistic touch to it then maybe we will talk about it.

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Quite frankly, I don't know what you're saying, because the radial gradient is obvious in every shiny white spot in the armour. My point is that you 'coloured' this through rampant use of the gradient tool, which is lazy.

And if you are planning on directing everyone to that armour, then I suppose you plan on everyone noticing your gradient shenanigans.

Atop of that, shall I give you my opinion on the armour? It has no semblance to actual armour. Have you taken reference from other pictures? Do you even know what armour is supposed to look like? It is also plain (fact) and this is why I called you out on your lack of creativity. If I want to go further, I can even say that the angle of the armour is horrendously wrong.

Do you get it now? From what I have seen, you have made a scant effort in drawing, which shows no understanding of the object involved that you are drawing. Get out to google, take reference from how other artists do it or even from real life, put your own artistic touch to it then maybe we will talk about it.

As I said. This was for the Diablo Flash game. It is a fantasy game. I was not attempting photorealism, nor was it meant to be like real armor. And of course I know what real armor is supposed to look like. My dad used to make it for the SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism). If I could get the right shade of silver without the gradient I would have. I do not have CS6. My color palette was limited.

And enough with the Ad Hominem. That is why I am hostile right now.

How does flash have limited color? Afaik it has all the colors that someone actually needs.

You can just drag that draggy thing in the color mixer and experiment until you get the right shade of whatever.


that thing there.

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How does flash have limited color? Afaik it has all the colors that someone actually needs.

You can just drag that draggy thing in the color mixer and experiment until you get the right shade of whatever.


that thing there.

This is in flash 8, right? I'll try that.

Yes it is.

Don't tell me you don't know this.

I typed a huge message and CnC and when I clicked on post, it said my password was 100days and that i needed to change it >_<
So i'll shorten the message.
-Very awesome
-Ask DF to outline the SnSpltr
-Pain in the *BLEEP* to animate dem wings
-Colors are in hidden pannel at the very top right of MF8
-Like it because so much the same style than this.
-Weird hand. Can't hold a sword like that.
-Bwazaa
-Liking dat anatomy
-Cross on the boots too straight (curve it)
-Those above are tiny flaws, easily corrected, takes 5mn !

Very nice overall. Loving it.