Fan Art

[McGriddles]

Share your pixels.

Got bored and had some free time so I decided to mess around in MS paint. Drew this using the stone mansion as a reference to size. One being gilded in gold and the other regular. This is my first attempt at Bavarian styled buildings.

[Jackard]

looks like it took some effort. but why mspaint when there are better, free art programs out there...

[McGriddles]

I used MS paint because I'm stuck on my slow laptop. It can barely keep up with haven and hearth, much less run anything more intensive like Photoshop, Gimp, or Sumopaint.

[Jackard]

even so there must be something

http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Art_Programs#Free_Image_Editors

[sabinati]

paint.net is pretty good, way better than ms paint, it doesn't seem too resource intensive.

[McGriddles]

Yea, paint.net is working pretty well. Thanks guys.

[Jackard]

oh hey new crossplatform paint program, simplified version of GIMP:

http://pinta-project.com/

We really need another game in town. I've actually had a lot of good things to say about Paint.net - it's on my short-list of mandatory installs on a new PC, amongst other things because it's got a mac-like level of 'ease of use'. Good thing to see a clone of it coming to linux, too, because this is exactly the kind of program linux needs.


Edit: Well, crap, looks like it's also for macs, too! Nice!

the screenshots make it seem very similar to MSPaint

[Potjeh]

Nice work. The tip of the roof is a bit off, though, and the colours are too clean.

[McGriddles]

Nice work. The tip of the roof is a bit off, though, and the colours are too clean.

Yea the roof tip is a bit odd, I got stumped and was lazy. But what do you mean the colors are too clean? I didn't add any shading, I know, but the building isn't supposed to look gritty. Maybe it looks too uniform?

[McGriddles]

Another piece of work, this time a dock. Borrowed from part of the palisade corner post sprite, in addition to a hearthling and a boat for reference. This was done a little hastily so some things are out of proportion or misplaced; the level of detail on the palisade posts don't mesh well with the flat colors I used and the upper right post looks awkward.