#that i accidentally drew on a too small canvas lol

[snakeoid]

happy valentines! to be loved is to be changed <33

[mindymortondev]

Sprite Resizing Irresponsibly

So part of this whole project is that I'm pretty much just totally feeling my way through it all and only vaguely following a straight tutorial. If I was still following Shaun Spalding's Ultimate Platformer tutorial then I would be working on attack animations right now, but instead, it's CAMERAS AND SPRITES BAYBEEE.

This post is about my sprites. Notice how small Mindy is?

The thing I've been noticing for a little while now is that Mindy should be bigger. You might remember from a previous post I made that the ideal character size is within 2-3% of the screen area, which for a 4k resolution was 436 pixels. However, there was an interesting thing I did when making those sprites-

She's way smaller than the box I drew her in!! For extra comparison-

As you can see, a majority of Mindy is actually taking up way less space, which means we have room to grow! This isn't a massive deal to me right now but since this project is for an illustration capstone project, making the sprite more legible is important to me.

Anyways I did some math and blah blah blah (it's 4 am right now), for the sprite to take up the same area as our original green square, we need to increase her size by 19.9%

Living large! Of course, we still have to take this 4k resolution and then DOWNSIZE it for the 1080p resolution I'm building the game at.

Maybe I'm working too hard...

Anyways, the new size for the 1080p canvas would have been 569 pixels. To be clear, I leave a lot of extra space for animations outside my green square, which is why this size is actually bigger than 436 px square.

The thing is, I accidentally set my sprites to 475 instead of 569, and they actually looked too big even though they weren't full-size. I ended up playing around with the size and also Gamemaker Studio's camera settings and found a nice balance at 400 pixels and a slightly bigger camera now.

It's like nothing ever changed! 🥲

It's worth playing around with more along with dynamic window sizing and resolution but frankly, every time I try to look into that stuff, I get a massive headache. It may be worth it to go back and strictly follow some of these tutorials for full games from start to finish later down the line if I want to understand some of this stuff better.

Anyways, I took the opportunity to build a new level with some actual gameplay lol. The next post is going to be about more camera stuff and hopefully some parallax scrolling too!

[phox-129]

A Jimbo I did in mspaint, also with a color palette because I was bored :]

[99centthoughts]

KEL. Do you ever feel nervous if people watch you draw? I can always manage to doodle and sketch things at home but as soon as I'm at school and around other people I freeze up and get too self-conscious to do anything, even when my friends are also drawing D: Plz help and I LOVE U

HELLO! YEAH I hate drawing in front of anyone omg I feel like they’re silently judging my every move (even though they’re probably not) and I just get very stressed about it.. I guess maybe you could try drawing with someone you’re really close to? Or maybe try doing small streams online with your good friends first!! I think a lot of the uncertainty comes from being worried that you can’t draw something good, so maybe you can start off with small doodles/ drawing the things you know best! I WISH I KNEW A FOOLPROOF WAY TO OVERCOME IT TOO ANON HAHA I guess in the meantime we can just draw by ourselves :’D

more asks under the cut!

1) It’s not stupid DW!! I’m right handed!

2) I think it’s good to! But I personally did not start out learning to draw realistically, and I do regret it because I feel that a lot of my basics are rly shaky. I only started practicing with references ~3 years ago, and I think it’s helped me a lot, I definitely wish I had started it earlier! I don’t think you HAVE TO MASTER drawing realistically before trying to draw in a more stylized manner though... It’s good to work on both together. A good foundation will definitely help regardless of the style you eventually choose to draw in!

1) omg this is so cute THANK YOU FOR SENDING IT TO ME ANON HMMMM VONNA MAKES ME HAPPY also my OCs, my dog, CHOCOLATE, and days where I don’t have to get up early HAHA

2) HEY ANON I hope you’re having a lovely day as well! I will definitely be going to SMASH! whether I booth or not depends on whether I get a table though / o \ I usually print at a place near my school or officeworks LOL Not the most ideal but it’s usually the most convenient for me... I’ve been thinking of trying Kwik Kopy or citywide print though! I HOPE I’LL GET TO SEE YOU AT SMASH THIS YEAR!!!

1) YEAH I DO! 

they’re both pretty new though, so I haven’t done up their info and stuff yet!

2) OH IT’S JUST AN AU WHERE HE ACCIDENTALLY ADOPTS A SMALL JC!! So kinda like reverse au of where tyler is a kid LOL

1) YOU”RE GREAT ANON!! I am kinda stressed out by school at the moment but otherwise I am DOING PRETTY GOOD! I HOPE YOU ARE TOO

2) THE ONE I DREW IS JUST SMALL JC!! In other aus he does have 2 actual kids in the future though, and they’re named CJ and Kiver! I LOVE YOU TOO ANON I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING/HAD A WONDERFUL WEEKEND

3) omg that brush is actually rly weird I���M NOT SURE WHAT I DID BUT IT IS REALLY SHAKY FOR ME SOMETIMES TOO.... You can try drawing on a larger canvas, I use a 3000x3000px at 300dpi, it might help! I also screenshotted the brush settings so you can try to recreate it and maybe it will work better? IT’S BASICALLY just a hard round brush with no pressure sensitivity though!! The additional settings just gives it a little more control.

HELLO ANON! oh gosh I’M SORRY TO HEAR THAT THINGS HAVE BEEN TOUGH... I REALLY HOPES IT GETS BETTER FOR YOU SOON bc you are the SWEETEST and you deserve nothing less!! YOU’RE THE ONE SENDING SUNSHINE INTO MY INBOX I SHOULD BE THANKING YOU.. SENDS YOU A KISS ANON I LOVE YOU TOO 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷

[rumblyfish]

Drawn January 6, 2017. Slightly updating her outfit so her shoes is well prettier .... The canvas I drew on is a bit too small (usually the size good for like waistup) so feels like when I drew her face it not reflect much of the emotion I want because not enough room but I'm lazy at lining so I'll just settle with it lol And accidentally used my rumcandy adopt watermark instead of my normal one but.... as long as it has patreon marked on there it's all ok huuuu LOL Chibi & Digital Art Commissions + Customs 2016 |  Tumblr | RumCandyAdopt  | Flavors.me | YouTube | Art Quest and Projects | RumbyFish @ PaigeeWorld | RumblyFish @ Furaffinity | Mini Black Velvet @ Gaia Online | Rumby @ Toyhou.se | Rum @ Picarto | Instagram  | Rumby @ GASR |  Art Quest  ♥ patreon   Characters + Art © RumbyFishy  / @rumblyfish