RoboMapache: Good One

reiler12: can start

D_C_N: Daww

D_C_N: Adorable and sad...

Tahrey: Why does she have a bunch of carrots stuffed down her top? :(

kamperkiller: @Tahrey: Extra Food?

Fralex: @Tahrey: Carrot top!

AMKitsune: I always love seeing when people mix Katia's outfits together and create 'her adventurers robes' (as I've come to calling them). As an outfit, it looks like just the sort of thing an adventure bound mage could be seen wearing in an actual elderscrolls game. Fantastic stuff.

compaqness: Ah, thanks everyone! This is my first time coming to the fanartbooru, so I really appreciate the kind words!

Kewot_Rokar: Reminds me of Dark Souls for some reason.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: cute :3

Tahrey: wait - they made a Dungeons and Dragons beat 'em up?!

(I was thinking more the seminal 1980s point-and-click first-person adventure thing)

Tahrey: heh, first pic I come to when googling for it...



Still, this is a rather more realistic, down to earth take on it rather than an overblown trying-to-be-sexy arcade character ^_^ and maybe not a getup you'd see too often. Did something similar waybackwhen in my schooldays for an art and design project, albeit Roman-based.

Tahrey: (and then whoever made Soul Caliber went and nicked my design using psychic brain powers but shortened the skirt / deepened the neckline / lengthened the hair / lightened the skin to make Sophitita...)

compaqness: @Tahrey Oh man, the Arcade D&D games were always so intense looking! Would love to get to that level of detail those games had going!

I'll admit that I was debating on whether to go with an alluring design vs. equipped adventure gear (of course,right?) but I stuck with the one I was more confident I could do better :p

Tahrey: I kinda prefer it. You can still pull off attractive or even sexy without necessarily having to take the shortcut of baring flesh if you're on your game. (...which then makes any actual striptease all the more suspenseful, as it's not just a case of kicking off a pair of sandals and undoing a single clasp holding a filigree one-piece leotard in place which was leaving very little to the imagination anyway)

And yeah, that artwork (and screen furniture, and background) is kinda "busy" isn't it. Considering it's almost certainly still only 320x200 the level of detail is amazing. Trying to decide whether it's more Genesis or SNES-like is the thing... (In reality, probably actually Neo Geo).

As demonstrated by our resident sprite animators though, it's really not much more than having a decent designer on hand who can come up with the original concept, and a spriter who can translate it well enough to fool the eye whilst it's moving around at speed... and giving them enough time to painstakingly grind their way through the creative process. Probably quite a lot of shortcuts that actually lead to the distinctive look, though...

Pepsidude: Robes 2.0!

unknown_victor: No comment.

ammurin: this picture was taken .5 seconds before her hand was badly burned.

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: well, isn't this just adorable!

Adroma: She wants the cuddles, or the bellyrubs.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: I will give my love both! She needs both...

RoninSmall: @AMKitsune: okey, I go into the shadows until I learn enough

Tahrey: @RoninSmall: Be careful, if this is honestly you drawing without any tuition, then it could become one of those awful cases where formal training destroys the inherent talent :o

If you find it all gets too difficult when people are trying to show you the "right" way to do things, be mindful not to forget your roots and the way you originally did things.

Oh, and remember that kitties actually get quite long and thin when in a bipedal posture ;)

Par examplé:


also:


and of course:


Though occasionally they do slouch instead...


:D

Tahrey: Noting of course that all three of those who are touching the ground are standing plantigrade. It's necessary to spread your weight over a wider area when standing bipedally than when you have four limbs taking the strain instead.

RoninSmall: @Tahrey: ask more simple please. I can't understand, aargh!

RoninSmall: @Tahrey: I can not shake the feeling that you trolling me :|

Tahrey: No! :(

I'm being serious.

I will see what I can do to simplify it.

Geravind: @RoninSmall: Грит, даже с учётом всех ок-советчиков про твоё "неок" творение не сильно отступай от своих исконных талантов, ибо котэ вполне даже заметно вытянут, когда человекоподобно стоит на задних лапах.
Его довод ИМХО так себе в кхаджиторисовании. Просто иногда сверяй элементарные пропорции: длину рук, ног, хвостика; размер торса, головы -- даже сквозь одежду/броню/др. преграды.

RoninSmall: @Geravind: а он имеет ввиду, что юзая человеческую стопу-юзаю человеческие пропорции? Я на слове "талант" запутался. Единственное что я хорошо делаю-это сижу и ничего не делаю

RoninSmall: @Geravind: о, догнал. Спасибо. Будем-с стараться-с

Tahrey, sorry, problem solved

Tahrey: ...ok? :D

-Uzi_Man-: Try making the mouth and nose smaller, Katia looks rather manly on this one. Just some criticism.

The_Pitiful_Writer: @-Uzi_Man-: Thanks for the tip! I'll keep it in mind next time.

Tahrey: Actually if you erase that mouth, you get possibly the best "nose = anime mouth" effect ever. Especially as there's already an ersatz nose thanks to the tiny bit of bridge shading.

Also I'd say most of the manliness comes from that scraggy little Shaggy-like goatee tuft. Lose that and a lot of the masculinity will go with it.

The_Pitiful_Writer: @Tahrey: You may not compel me to try something like that ever again! I have been burnt by the flame before at this point!

When that is said, might be a point about the scruffy chin.. I anted to try a bit more fluffy.. But I suppose the chin was not the best place to start, seeing as it is often associated with manly beards.. My drawing pen is currently broken, rendering me dreadfully incapacitated as far as drawing goes. However, I shall see if I can upload a more feminine version once I have gotten new nibs.

Tahrey: DO IT FA----- ahem. Sorry. Was off in another world for a moment.

Anyway, try mousing it ^_^

Tahrey: also narrower faces and particularly chins tend to look more femme, though there's a limit to what you can do whilst still remaining true to the character and her race...

Prophet_Lord: sorry, 10x10" 300dpi is the smallest I work in. I'm practicing some new things and I couldn't think of a better way then doing some Prequel art. fur is hard.

Radian: @Prophet_Lord: Yeah, working in bigger resolutions helps, I do it too. And drawing fur much easier with proper brush.

Tahrey: OH GOD WHERE ARE HER PUPILS

...oh right, just took off the invisibility hood.

And, well, 3000x3000 is hard to deal with on a normal size monitor, but it's not any much bigger than a typical digital photo these days, and means you can print it smoothly if you should so wish :)

Tahrey: Fur's come out nicely too

Adroma: This would be an amazing poster.

Prophet_Lord: @Adroma I've got some great news for you. This is the full size file uploaded here and you are fully able to print this out and hang it in your home as many times as you like.

Tahrey: The problem is that large computer screen pixel sizes don't automatically translate to large, detailed prints. Or indeed to still looking large and clear on the 4K screens that even some tablets and laptops now sport, in fact... (this would still run off the bottom of one in landscape mode, but not fill to the horizontal borders...)

The minimum that you should really aim for in print is about 180dpi (which also tends to be the breakpoint between 9 and 24 pin dot matrix printers, which is why you could never really get satisfactory output from the former). Certainly below 150 it gets noticeably blocky or blurry (especially in that rather obvious blurred-pixel way) when you get up close to it. On the other hand there's little point going much beyond 300-360, but it's always possible to downscale and drop some detail that no-one will see anyway; upscaling is much more of a problem.

However, 3000 pixels at 180dpi is still 16.7 inches (42cm) on a side, or squared-off A2 size, and the largest home/small office printers tend to top out at about 11 inches width and maybe 17 inches length capacity (for A3 printing, and whatever the equivalent US upsize from Letter/Legal is), so you could likely get away with cropping this a little and printing it within those borders. Maybe at 200dpi instead, for 15x15 equivalent full size, and less cropping to fit on the page.

Prophet_Lord: I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at in relation to my piece here. But thanks for informing others I guess?
If you're having trouble viewing this due to it's size, there is the [Fit Both] option on the side menu under Image Controls.

This is at 300dpi. Perfectly suitable for a 10x10in (25.4x25.4cm) print. You could probably print even bigger than that, but that's going above the intended size, so quality will decrease. You'd need to go and use a professional level printer (which, I mean, 11x17in prints at office max are only like $1-2 I think). You'd have to trim the paper obviously.

I did this for fun and as style practice. This was never intended to be a poster or a wallpaper, I was simply stating that you could use it as such if you were so inclined.
If you'd like a different size (taller/wider/larger), you can always hire me. Until then, please enjoy this free piece of artwork I have provided for you.

Tahrey: I dunno, I was suffering from a fairly bad respiratory infection at the time and it made my brain no worky correctness.

Think I was trying to talk through both sides of the argument to show they each had valid points and that it's more a matter of opinion than anything, to try and squash any potential further squabbling?

3k on a side is big even for a 4k screen (as they're 16:9 not 5:4), but everything we really need to see is well within the action-safe area so it can be cropped down happily and should still look alright scaled up, and certainly scaled down to any arbitrary sub-4k resolution (as the step size will be large enough to prevent any dramatic aliasing effects). Could even trim it to portrait aspect, possibly.

But at the same time, it's about the minimum that you could get away with for large-scale printing, IE bigger than a typical piece of desktop printer paper (which is usually 8 to 8.5 inches wide). Even for A4 or Letter you don't want anything less than 2mpx (1600x1200 or 1920x1080) else it'll look obviously blocky or blurred at normal viewing distance. As the sizes go up, so do the necessary resolutions, though it's not necessarily linear as the larger an image the further away you tend to view it from.

And yeah, there's the scaling button, but that's not immediately obvious, especially if you're not looking for it, and it doesn't default to "fit both", but "no scaling" instead. Personally I just leave it as the latter and drag the picture to the address bar anyway, as that gives a large-as-possible view divorced of all the other screen clutter (especially if fullscreened), and it's still got to download the same amount of data and take up the same amount of space in memory either way.

The latter points being maybe more important, and why it may be better to upload a more normal-sized pic to the booru but link it to a full size version somewhere else (e.g. Imgur). Not only does it save bandwidth for Kaz's server, but it makes life much easier for anyone browsing from lower end hardware (old laptop, cheaper smartphone or tablet) or using a low-speed or monthly bandwidth capped connection.

Tahrey: But yeah, anyway, not really a complaint, more an idle technical comment ;)

And I'd at one time have been quite interested to find somewhere I could do 11x17 (or more pertinently A3) size prints for that price, except I can now do them effectively for free at work, and even if I was paying for them it'd be considerably less. The finish might not be quite as good, but if the idea is to hang it up then it can either be laminated or put in a cheap glass poster-frame...

(And then there's the "A0" (34-inch) inkjet plotter in the library that will spit out something four times the size for about £8 ... which may seem a lot but when you consider how many normal sheet would have to be collaged together to produce the same result, is well worth it. You do have to submit an image of entirely ludicrous resolution for it to look any good though, and most particularly for any text to be readable; 150dpi is about 7000x5000...)