17:15, 15th Jun 2010
enjoy: It lacks highlights, definition, and shading. The shape isn't smooth, which it should be. Also, gold is made by using yellow, orange, white, and kinda cloak green. Not just yellow. It also lacks a background, and I think you should try showing the item from another angle.

enjoy: Shape is still bumpy.

Its to light, needs more shading and maybe make it a bit more round :3

Lore-Wolf said:

Its to light, needs more shading and maybe make it a bit more round :3

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I thought ppl will say something worse than this
Too light? Sometimes i have it too shiny, sometimes i dont have it so much :/

well those are the things that need to be done first.. then people will look at details and stuff like some background or glow or something.

Shadings

Okay, where to start.

• Shading
• Hightlights
• The shape is not round, looks like it's eye shaped.
• The color is good for a ring.... But the red ruins it. If it were a gem, of some sorts, it should be better shaped and stand out.
• It needs a background, showing it is magical. Maybe some purple or pink magic.
• Please do not think badly of me for these.

Midnighters said:

Okay, where to start.

• Shading
• Hightlights
• The shape is not round, looks like it's eye shaped.
• The color is good for a ring.... But the red ruins it. If it were a gem, of some sorts, it should be better shaped and stand out.
• It needs a background, showing it is magical. Maybe some purple or pink magic.
• Please do not think badly of me for these.

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*OK ill test to fix (say me pls where)
*ill test to fix too (Say me pls where)
*Brother says same to me and i thought it is not true-now i know it is
*Yeah it was test of gem
*I tested but didnt find way how to do glow :/
*Ill dont because i know Its true

Well it's good you can take criticism.

a good start ... now do the fine work.
a little more effort and it could look awesome, i can see that. :3
the shiny color! it should look like gold, right? make it a little more shinier not bright, make it shiny if ya know what i mean. ;D
but all in all its a good start and could really look awesome.

I suggest you to read through this tutorial, even if it's not especially for icon creating it shows you how to get different materials look good and realistic with gimp/cs and only freehand work: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2d-art-tutorials-281/mr-goblins-tutorial-110127/

With some training this will soon show you the path to good works, try it

RaidonGod said:

a good start ... now do the fine work.
a little more effort and it could look awesome, i can see that. :3
the shiny color! it should look like gold, right? make it a little more shinier not bright, make it shiny if ya know what i mean. ;D
but all in all its a good start and could really look awesome.

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Hm i know only from half what you mean and thx

M0rbid said:

I suggest you to read through this tutorial, even if it's not especially for icon creating it shows you how to get different materials look good and realistic with gimp/cs and only freehand work: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2d-art-tutorials-281/mr-goblins-tutorial-110127/

With some training this will soon show you the path to good works, try it

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I read that but didnt see gold there :/

I did not really want to show you a specific material, but mainly techniques and use of opacity, by this it's easy to create every material you want to get.
Basically for gold, i suggest to use a yellow base... and lighten up the light parts with lower opacity white, until it get very intense at the hot spots, shade it with 10 - 15 % opacity dark on the shadow sides, also adding some scratches with 20 - 50 % opacity white or 10 -25 % opactiy black with a 1px brush could give it an extra worn golden touch
Try it a bit and I guess you'll get some nice results

M0rbid said:

I did not really want to show you a specific material, but mainly techniques and use of opacity, by this it's easy to create every material you want to get.
Basically for gold, i suggest to use a yellow base... and lighten up the light parts with lower opacity white, until it get very intense at the hot spots, shade it with 10 - 15 % opacity dark on the shadow sides, also adding some scratches with 20 - 50 % opacity white or 10 -25 % opactiy black with a 1px brush could give it an extra worn golden touch
Try it a bit and I guess you'll get some nice results

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how true this is
I had also problems with gold textures ... look at my http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/icons-541/btncrownamuletfinished-153629/ . It was a piece of shit before I used a similar method as M0rbid tells you here. Now I can call it a piece of art.
Well, do what M0rbid says, he's right in every way.
BTW ...
+rep m0rbid

So first:

A really HUGE improvement you did there already and this is very good seeing what you come up with now.
I'll give a review now, that actually might be harsh or very critical at some points, but on the other hand if I only say, wow, amazing, it won't help you to improve, so please do not be offended.
The shading you added is very nice and I especially like the fact that you though about how the light would react inside the ring, that's a good start for sure. Also the red diamant in it looks nice already.
Two main issues make this icon still lacking though. First of: The form of the ring. What it needs is "ROUND ROUND ROUND".... YOu can easily see how to create this round ring by googel "ring" or take a look at LOTR's ring

Second one are still the materials. You might want to take a look at my signature, seeing the metal. And you might see, that there are some scratches in it, which always gives your icon a realistic touch (my work could need an improvement there a lot, too, but that's not the point here I only want to show you, what I mean ) Same goes for the golden part, again this has nice shadings right now, but for me it is tooo yellow.

I'm not sure, if you should continue this icon, because it's quite hard for a start off, very small tracks that you have to draw. I suggest you to see this as a training and to come up with a new icon in which you put all the things you learned while drawing this one. But I can tell you, keep it up, the way you learned the shadowing and the improvement really shows, that you should continue

If you need further help, feel free to ask me

Nice!
But try to make the ring... round^^
Nice try at Shading, but try to make it smooth, use a feather brush.

High Improvement! Try to find tutorials on youtube, that shouldn't be hard

-ToasT said:

Nice!
But try to make the ring... round^^
Nice try at Shading, but try to make it smooth, use a feather brush.

High Improvement! Try to find tutorials on youtube, that shouldn't be hard

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Hmm all are saying that about round but realy dont know how to make it easy and how to fix it here
Is feather brush on Gimp?