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Here is a headshot of G1 Megatron. The line art was done in MS Paint and the colors were done in Photoshop.

MegatronX wrote:Here is a headshot of G1 Megatron. The line art was done in MS Paint and the colors were done in Photoshop.

Nice. The lines from MS Paint look kind of pixelated. (no surprise) it makes me think it's been resized poorly or something. so, why MS Paint if the colors were done in Photoshop? :>

It looks just like him.
I don't know if he would look less like himself otherwise, but his face looks kind of sunken in... er... like, flat, or leaning back a bit in comparison to his helmet.
Is it a stand-alone peice?

I originally drew it in MS Paint and colored it there but I figured that I would give it a go in Photoshop. I also didn't want to go back over the original line art either.

As for how it looks with the face being flat or whatever, I drew the pic while looking right at a pic of him that I had gotten from some of the original line art from the show.

I do intend on doing his entire body at some point and I will be doing others as I get the time being that I am in the Marine Corps.

Here is the pic that I looked at while I drew it. If you look closely you can see subtle differences in the two and you can see where I improved upon it.

Brilliant

Not bad, but I wouldn’t touch MSPaint witha 1000 foot pole. If I were you, I would have either drawn this in Adobe Illustrator or straight in Photoshop. Illustrator is a vector-based program, so no pixelation at all unless you turn it into a gif, which will rasterize the image.

Tramp wrote:Not bad, but I wouldn’t touch MSPaint witha 1000 foot pole. If I were you, I would have either drawn this in Adobe Illustrator or straight in Photoshop. Illustrator is a vector-based program, so no pixelation at all unless you turn it into a gif, which will rasterize the image.

I have drawn in MS Paint since I was in 6th grade and I have been out of school now for almost 5 years. I can draw just about anything in paint, I'm just used to using that cheap program. I don't have Illustrator either, and I'm not very proficient in Photoshop yet either. If I had my 3D Studio Max program here with me I would be using the hell out of that but it is back home in Georgia somewhere in storage.

Adobe Illustrator is a wonderful program, and like Photoshop and other Adobe products, is extremely intuitive. If you can afford it, get the Adobe Creative Suite 2, which includes the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and one other program. It runs about $1100 US, but is well worth it.

Personally, I like it with the pixellation. Looks like it's digital art from the period, like something out of an old amiga game. It higlights the battle damage as well. But, that's just my preference.

Tramp wrote:Adobe Illustrator is a wonderful program, and like Photoshop and other Adobe products, is extremely intuitive. If you can afford it, get the Adobe Creative Suite 2, which includes the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and one other program. It runs about $1100 US, but is well worth it.

I will just download it off the net.

Illustrator isn’t something you can just download off the net. You have to buy it.

Tramp wrote:Illustrator isn’t something you can just download off the net. You have to buy it.

Wanna bet? I already downloaded it. You can find anything and everything you want on the internet.

^^^ Cheap smokes, dirty pictures, free software! I love the internet.....

MegatronX wrote:

Tramp wrote:Illustrator isn’t something you can just download off the net. You have to buy it.

Wanna bet? I already downloaded it. You can find anything and everything you want on the internet.

What did you do, download a trial version? Those are only good for a month, and don‘t include all of the “gadgets” that are built into the full version.

I'm fairly sure he downloaded a full version and cracked it Tramp. Not legal of course, but it will get him a free full version. Not something I condone of course, but its not something thats particularly hard to do.

The full version isn’t something you can get over the internet; trial version, yes, but not the full version. Each copy of the program has a built in serial number which can be traced through the images created in it, and which also prevents the same copy being used on multiple computers in a network. This is true of all Adobe products.

Tramp wrote:The full version isn’t something you can get over the internet; trial version, yes, but not the full version. Each copy of the program has a built in serial number which can be traced through the images created in it, and which also prevents the same copy being used on multiple computers in a network. This is true of all Adobe products.

But there are cracks for the programs that will allow you to make multiple copies of it. We do it all the time in the Marine Corps, that is how the Marine Corps saves money. They have contracts with the companies that allow us to do it.

You are aware of the fact that that's illegal, right?

Its very illegal, we had a guy busted for something similiar in my shop a few years ago. I'm Air Force though, the Marines tend to be a bit more protective of their own from my experience, they'll beat the **** out of a guy for screwing up, but somebody else tries to get him they'll crush them.

Cracking software though fairly easy is something I avoid and I'd suggest that regardless of it you do it MegatronX, that you avoid posting about it. Its jsut better for all that way. After all, neither TFmaster (nor Siebertron since we are now on his servers) can condone or accept illegal activity or discussion of the same here on the forums.

Now that I've gotten the Responsible NCO babble out of my system, love the work you did on the Megatron, and should be interesting to see what difference working with a more powerful program brings to your stuff.

tentagil wrote:Its very illegal, we had a guy busted for something similiar in my shop a few years ago. I'm Air Force though, the Marines tend to be a bit more protective of their own from my experience, they'll beat the poop out of a guy for screwing up, but somebody else tries to get him they'll crush them.

Cracking software though fairly easy is something I avoid and I'd suggest that regardless of it you do it MegatronX, that you avoid posting about it. Its jsut better for all that way. After all, neither TFmaster (nor Siebertron since we are now on his servers) can condone or accept illegal activity or discussion of the same here on the forums.

Now that I've gotten the Responsible NCO babble out of my system, love the work you did on the Megatron, and should be interesting to see what difference working with a more powerful program brings to your stuff.

Thanks for the compliment. I'm an NCO too in the Marines but we do what we have to do to get the job done and I'm not asking anyone to condone what we do in our shop or my branch of the service. But we do have defense contracts with the software companies that allows us to make copies of the software that we have.

Yes, but not for personal use.

Your are correct on that but I was referring to what I do at work. But like I said before we can drop it and move on to the subject at hand and that is my drawing.

That face is dead on. Great job and nice coloring.

- GWX