Sail rejected plx help

[Friedel]

hi there,

i've created a sail for my society, but it was rejected with the following reason:

Originally Posted by team Your design is currently using very saturated colors which would not have been possible with dyes at the time and look unrealistic when in game. To solve this, you need to be looking at the following color ranges: Red around RGB 150/45/35 Orange around RGB 240/160/40 Gold around RGB 220/180/50 Green around RGB 45/115/35 Blue around RGB 40/50/90 Purple around RGB 70/20/80 Black around RGB 50/40/30 White around RGB 235/230/220 Although it looks like you’ve made a good start here with your design, you need to brush up on period-appropriate artwork styles. Have a look online for Baroque and Renaissance art for inspiration. Also have a look at the Wiki Commons Heraldry page for more useful art: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Heraldry Modern artwork styles (such as Anime, Disney or other cartoons, modernist/post-modernist styles, etc.) are not appropriate to the setting.

heres the image

i don't understand the problem it looks good in the 2D Content Preview tool. maybe someone can help me or give me a hint how i could manage this sign to be ok for the pirates team

p.s.: sry about my english

greets Friedel

[John92]

they have made a bit of a mistake here, it does not have over saturated colours, but it IS full of gradients

[Friedel]

ok thank you, is there a easy way to get rid of the gradients in corel photoshop?

[Sadet]

That is some incredibly cool artwork but I think it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to get all of the gradient and detail out of it. I'm afraid my best advice would be to start over.

Perhaps this will be of help to get you pointed in the right direction...
http://www.burningsea.com/forums/sho...ghlight=simple
http://www.burningsea.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19608

Just keep posting your results in this thread for advice and critique until you feel like you've got something that can be approved. Good luck!

P.S. Keep in mind, simpler is better.

[Friedel]

so, i've watched some tut's and heres the result:

the coloring in the FLS 2D Previewer works fine now, i hope thats a good sign!?
also use the tipps from John92's youtube tut's, thank you!

pls discuss

greets Friedel

[John92]

Np, I'm glad my tut's are helpful
Are you trying for a painted effect here?

[Sadet]

I agree, it looks like you are going for a painted look, right? That's a really tough effect to pull off but it might be the only way to save this one. I like what you've done so far but you'll need to add horizontal bands of flaking. See example below.

[Friedel]

Originally Posted by John92 Np, I'm glad my tut's are helpful Are you trying for a painted effect here?

yep, thats my variant of a painted effect, i've downloaded the texture package below your videos on youtube but the painted texture seems to be lost (or i'm to dumb to find it ^^)
so i took just this one found via google:


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/...77710779c5.jpg

Originally Posted by Sadet I agree, it looks like you are going for a painted look, right? That's a really tough effect to pull off but it might be the only way to save this one. I like what you've done so far but you'll need to add horizontal bands of flaking. See example below.

thank you for ur positive feedback.
so you say that i've to make the scratches hoizontal instead of vertical?
what about the gradient? do you think its ok now?

greets Friedel

[Sadet]

Yes horizontal only. Inspect the witch image above for clues. The gradients won't matter if you can make it look painted.

[John92]

If you still want to use it, the painted texture is under sail textures, make sure you have the latest version of the archive.