1. Post #1
    firebird_157's Avatar
    April 2007
    226 Posts
    Alright, so I'm no artist what so ever. I've been trying to do a logo for a little bit now, and what I'm looking for is an 8-Bit Themed wolf paw print. Now I've tried drawing something up, but nothing has looked good so far. I'm not even sure what colors to use, like if a black color would be good, or maybe a gray fading to black. I've got no bloody idea. If I could get some help from you much more creative folks. I thank you. (I'll post some stuff I've been messing with)

    I drew this and scanned onto my computer.



    WiP 1



    WiP 2



    The crap I did work out isn't even 8bit it's just sloppy rectangles and triangles.

    I just whipped these up. Took awhile, but, it's getting closer to the feel that I'm looking for.

    More 8-Bit



    Even More 8-Bit


  2. Post #2
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    Smeetin's Avatar
    October 2005
    1,026 Posts
    My suggestion would be to actually make it pixellated. Draw out a wolf paw the way you think it ACTUALLY looks, and then pixellate and work off of that. Right now you are trying to make the concept fit a preconceived notion in your head. USE THE CONCEPT TO CREATE A NOTION. This will also help with the fact that there isn't a consistent pixellation in any of these.

  3. Post #3
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    roflcakes's Avatar
    July 2005
    2,717 Posts
    What program are you working in?

    Here's a really quick photoshop jobby scaled up from a 16x16 pixel image:


    If you want to do a proper pixel art thing work as small as you can and resize the image.

    Another thing to remember with pixel art is that diagonal lines will be blocky:
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  4. Post #4
    firebird_157's Avatar
    April 2007
    226 Posts
    Roflcakes, I really, really like yours. I was using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Now, it doesn't have to be 100% 8-Bit, I wanted a 8-Bit feeling, Like Modern with some 8-bit in it.

    I'm totally going to use your image as an avatar if that's alright? :3

    Option 1



    Option 2



    What do you guys think? I just whipped these up, is it good for an outline?

  5. Post #5
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    roflcakes's Avatar
    July 2005
    2,717 Posts
    Sure, go ahead. Also out of the two new ones I prefer the second.

  6. Post #6
    firebird_157's Avatar
    April 2007
    226 Posts
    Yeah, a lot of people liked the second so I ended going up with that. I'm think about learning how to model so I can model it into a 3D object.

  7. Post #7
    Dr. Evilcop's Avatar
    May 2011
    2,287 Posts
    Here you go.



    http://filesmelt.com/dl/wolf_paw.7z

    Use Blender. Render button is F12, middle mouse and shift control view, right click to select objects, use "g" and "r" to rotate the camera/paw.
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  8. Post #8
    firebird_157's Avatar
    April 2007
    226 Posts
    Holy shit dude! that's amazing man, you just made a tear run across my face. <3

    It's like perfect width and everything.

  9. Post #9
    Dr. Evilcop's Avatar
    May 2011
    2,287 Posts
    Holy shit dude! that's amazing man, you just made a tear run across my face. <3

    It's like perfect width and everything.
    No problem! It was super easy to do

  10. Post #10
    firebird_157's Avatar
    April 2007
    226 Posts
    I added you on steam, I'm NightWolf. I made another version of the logo, just trying out different things to see what I like most. ignore the lines in the middle there for after effects. (I'm making an intro for it and I have an idea, where the palm breaks apart and flies in the screen and comes together in the middle and well so on)

    Option One



    Option Two



    Option Three