Alastor's Graphics - Now with sexy request-taking action!




Posted by Alastor

Here's a list of all the stuff I've done in Photoshop. Not posting all of it, just what I feel like showing.

Banners:
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-coromoro.png]coromoro[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Sabredog2.png]Sabredog[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Linkman.png]Linkman[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-maiancopy.png]maian[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-FlipBoycopy2.png]FLiPBoY[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Pit.png]Pit[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-KillerJordo.png]Killer Jordo[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Coromoro2.png]coromoro 2[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Angelwing.png]Etna - Angelwing[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/coro.png]coromoro 3[/url] New as of 6-11-05

Personal:
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/PS-Alastorbanner1.png]First ever Photoshop banner![/url] :o
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Alastorbanner2chaos.png]Chaos[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Alastor4.png]Grunge[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Alastor5.png]Supernova[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Alastor6.png]BluEnigma[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-AlastorShadowcopy.png]Shadow[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-Alastor7.png]Glistening Abyss[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-AlastorToScopy.png]Tales Of Symphonia[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Alastor8copy.png]Abstractness[/url]
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Alastor9.png]Another Abstract sig.[/url]


Yes, it is required I think up cheesy names for my person banners. Bite me.

Other:
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Banner-VegansHeader.png]Header for Vegans4lyfe.com[/url]

Avatars:
[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Avatar-VN.png]Velvet Nightmare[/url]

Wallpaper:
[url=http://www.zeldaages.net/imghost/uploads/DarkSamusgif3.gif]Dark Samus[/url]
[url=http://www.zeldaages.net/imghost/uploads/Zelda%2005.jpg]Zelda '05[/url]


C+C are welcome




Posted by coromoro

You're getting gooood. I like all of them. I particularly like the cool, star effect on Linkman's banner.

Mine's the best, of course. ;)




Posted by Alastor

ty :cool:

Yeah, I'm pretty fond of yours, myself. :D




Posted by Hyper

I like, though the fonts could use work. Always the hardest part to get right :(

And you never did tell me what brush set you use. :)




Posted by Alastor

Never did? I wasn't aware you asked me... O_o
Must've been away from the computer.

Anyway, it's an ancient Chinese secret. :cool:


In an inrelated note, Hyper has 1,666 posts. :(




Posted by Night Owl

i got a really good idea, can you make me one!?




Posted by Alastor


Quoting Night Owl: i got a really good idea, can you make me one!?


Eh. I'm not really taking requests right now. I made the Vegans header for Linkman, but other than that I've just been offering to make banners to hone my skills. I'm not going to take requests for a while, probably.

Sorry.



Posted by Roger Smith

If your looking to hone your skillz Alastor, you should start taking requests. You'd be amazed by some of the things people want you to make. Heck, you might even surprise yourself:cool2:




Posted by Alastor

Heh, maybe. Still, what I was trying to say is that until I'm confident enough that I can freely take requests, I'm probably not going to. :)




Posted by ArchAngel312

They look pretty good. You still seem to be new to photoshop so I'll give you that, Anyways Roger is right. Requests are the best way to get better.




Posted by Alastor

Yeah, finally something new. Banner for maian completed like 5 minutes ago. Enjoy.





Posted by Night Owl

I love the one you made for coromoro, please tell me how you made that background. It is awesom.




Posted by Alastor

Can't do that. Then you'd steal my technique. :mad:




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

Did you teach yourself to create the background styles, or did you use a tutorial? J/w because although i repect that you don't want to divulge your texhniques, i would like to know since I want to try some of that crazy shyt out.

Keep up the good work, Alastor. Its really awesome.




Posted by Alastor

It differs from background to background. Some of them I've used tutorials as a guide with, but messed with the formula and created my own unique look. :)




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

Where do you most commonly go for tutorials? Pixel2Life? Tutorialized?




Posted by Alastor

Usually Good-Tutorials, but I've got to where I just go wherever. I'll get to browsing, find some tut site, make the banner, forget what the site was. >_>




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

Sounds good. I'll looks to see if I can find some Alastor style hidden in some of the pages.




Posted by Alastor

Heheh. :cool:

I've decided to open up and take some requests. Post here or PM me with specs.

You must be a decent member who has been here for a bit, though. Not cranking out for any people with like 6 posts... -_-
100 posts or more. ;)




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

Oh oh! Pick me! But instead of a signature, would you be open for making avatars? I'm really needing a new one. If yes, post here and I'll PM my requests.




Posted by FLiPBoY

100 posts? Geez........ I guess it'll be a while, unless you want to take my request. :-D




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

Good thing you left one.




Posted by Alastor

Yeah, I'll try an avatar. PM me with the specs.

FlipBoy, I'll try yours. If I actually know who you are, you don't necessarily need the 100 posts.




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

Taken care of.




Posted by Alastor

Finished FLiPBoY's banner.



Edit: If you can't read it, which I doubt you can unless you're OMFG 1337 ZELDA NERD, the Hylian text says FLiPBoY. :)




Posted by Velvet Nightmare

X-cellent, as usual.




Posted by FLiPBoY

Haha.. Thats what it meant.. Looks nice.. Thanks!




Posted by Alastor

Got two new banners for you guys today. One was requested by Pit, and the other is a new personal one. Enjoy.







Posted by Velvet Nightmare

GJ on the new one.




Posted by Alastor

One more thing. If I make a banner for you, please do not hotlink it. My Photobucket is very capable of running out of bandwidth, and I don't need people hotlinking off of it. Thanks.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

The one for Pit is excellent. Just wondering; do you usually put the text in the upper left corner?




Posted by Alastor

On my banners, I put them wherever I feel like, or where it won't clash with the pic if there's one in it. Pit requested the text be exactly where it is. >_>

Just finished one for Killer Jordo. I like the BG, but I don't think the text is all that great.

Eh, whatever. Here.



That, and I made this for Velvet last night.





Posted by Velvet Nightmare

The Unreal font looks ok in Jordo's, and I'll put mine up soon.




Posted by Alastor

Finished this a little while ago. Not using it quite yet because my Shadow theme is still quite fresh, but I felt like getting thoughts on it.





Posted by FLiPBoY

Very nice how you multi colored. It reminds me like.. Theres a sun coming from the top right, shining its ways down the the grass (green) and to the ocean (blue).




Posted by Alastor

New banner. It's nothing much, just an edit of my VGC one. Uses the background from the last banner I made, since I thought it was a little empty and too big.





Posted by Alastor

THANKS ALOT FOR COMMENTING GUYS NOW I TOTALLY HAVE TO MAKE A DOUBLE POST YEAH THANKS :mad:

New banner. I'm not too sure of the font, though..





Posted by Axis

Nice work. I like them a lot. Where did you get your brushes?




Posted by Alastor

Just random places, usually. I'll be looking around some resource sites on Google, find what I'm looking for, then forget about the site 'cause I no longer need it. >_>




Posted by FLiPBoY

I like your current one right now.. Who is that person on the bottom left corner from?




Posted by Hyper


Quoting Alastor: THANKS ALOT FOR COMMENTING GUYS NOW I TOTALLY HAVE TO MAKE A DOUBLE POST YEAH THANKS :mad:

New banner. I'm not too sure of the font, though..




The font is good but it needs a more complex style, I think. Right now its just black with a 2 or 3 px faded stroke. maybe a low opacity gradient or a glass effect would look good.

The border should also be more complex, I think. Something about plain black lines on the inside of a banner bugs me for some reason. But thats just me.

Also, it's quite empty. A fantastic background but nothing to really compliment it besides an obscured sprite and some iffy text. Makes me want to set it as my wallpaper rather than as my signature banner.



Posted by Alastor


Quoting FLiPBoY]I like your current one right now.. Who is that person on the bottom left corner from?

That'd be my personal sprite. It's not anyone from a game. : The font is good but it needs a more complex style, I think. Right now its just black with a 2 or 3 px faded stroke. maybe a low opacity gradient or a glass effect would look good.

The border should also be more complex, I think. Something about plain black lines on the inside of a banner bugs me for some reason. But thats just me.

Also, it's quite empty. A fantastic background but nothing to really compliment it besides an obscured sprite and some iffy text. Makes me want to set it as my wallpaper rather than as my signature banner.


Hm...k. I'll try some different looks when I get home. Got school in like 5 minutes. :(



Posted by Alastor

Another double post. :mad:

Made a wallpaper. Hope you enjoy. If anyone wants it, tell me and I'll make a 800x600.

Until then..

http://www.zeldaages.net/imghost/uploads/DarkSamusgif3.gif




Posted by Alastor

HEY GUYS HOW ABOUT YOU ACTUALLY POST SO I CAN STOP THIS :mad:

Two new banners. One for moi and one for coromoro.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Alastor9.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Coromoro2.png




Posted by KuraiKitsune

...No offense, but you can Edit your posts to add to them, Alastor. >.<

Your wallpaper's nice, though. Nice work on that. ^.^




Posted by Alastor

Yeah, but then nobody knows that I even updated at all. >_>




Posted by Hyper

Exactly. I allow double posting in this case as editing does nothing to revive the thread and its best to keep it all in the same one.




Posted by KuraiKitsune

Oh, okay. I understand. ^.^

Now that I took a look at the banners, I like those, too. The color scheme you chose for Coromoro's banner, with the assorted blues and the translucent wave in the upper half, looked quite nice against the platinum username in the corner. The one you made for yourself is nice, as well. What technique did you use to make them? I haven't seen that style used often.




Posted by Alastor

It's just a soft abstract banner. I actually made that mostly with a tut. >_>;;




Posted by Roger Smith

Abstract. It's the same style he's been using since day one:p




Posted by KuraiKitsune

Ah, I see. I just wasn't familiar with his art style, other than the banner in his sig. I suppose I'm just not the type exposed to alot of abstract art, methinks. ^.^




Posted by Roger Smith


Quoting KuraiKitsune: Ah, I see. I just wasn't familiar with his art style, other than the banner in his sig. I suppose I'm just not the type exposed to alot of abstract art, methinks. ^.^


Well, I use a similar style to Alastor. If you wanna see them, I have a thread in the graphics forum. I personally uber love abstract because you have A LOT of freedom making it.



Posted by Alastor

New wallpaper. I didn't make this, really. It's art from the new Zelda game. I just enlarged it to a background size. The size isn't exact, though, because had I stretched it to be exact the characters would be all weird-looking.

http://www.zeldaages.net/imghost/uploads/Zelda%2005.jpg




Posted by Roger Smith

Omg your Dark Samus pwnz it r0x0rz.




Posted by FLiPBoY

The width is 914px and the height is 685px.




Posted by Alastor

...what? Neither of my backgrounds are that size...

Dark Samus: 1024x768
Zelda 05: 1152x768




Posted by Roger Smith


Quoting FLiPBoY: The width is 914px and the height is 685px.


Ollz, someone's too big for their breeches.



Posted by FLiPBoY


Quoting Alastor: ...what? Neither of my backgrounds are that size...

Dark Samus: 1024x768
Zelda 05: 1152x768

Hmm.. When I opened it up in adobe Photoshop, it said, 1152x864.



Posted by Roger Smith


Quoting FLiPBoY: Hmm.. When I opened it up in adobe Photoshop, it said, 1152x864.


When I opened them in CS, I got the right demensions. You must've messed with the settings or something.



Posted by Alastor

Sure it was magnified at 100%, FLiPBoY?




Posted by Alastor

Rawr. New one. I've actually had this for a while, just haven't posted it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/AlastorDisgaea.png

The [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/Angelwing.png]original version[/url] was for Angelwing, but she didn't really like the background, so I just slapped my name on it and had myself a new sig.



EDIT: I don't have Photoshop on my new computer yet, so what non-existant requests I'm getting will have to wait until further notice.




Posted by brownoystercult

that one is my favorite out of all your work. great job!




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

I LOVE the picture (Etna 4evar) but you really need to spiff up that background some.




Posted by Alastor

To prevent being a full month since my last update, here's stuff.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/linksigcopy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/pza_alastor_sc/coro.png

Enjoy.




Posted by Zeratul

Really good, i like all of em'. Have you ever tried making fullsized pictures instead of banners? I made my current one and with your artistic skill ;) you could probabley make a kick arse one too




Posted by Alastor

Haven't really given it a try. I prefer banners more, but I might try it if I get bored.




Posted by Roger Smith

The technique you used to make Coromoro's is getting old to me Alastor...good anyway.




Posted by Alastor

It's abstract. It's what I do. >='(




Posted by Roger Smith


Quoting Alastor: It's abstract. It's what I do. >='(


I meant....it's the same style....blue, nightsky brush and the glass effect. It's just getting boring to me.



Posted by Alastor

WELL YOUR FACE IS GETTING BORING


sorry roger i'll try harder :(




Posted by Apathetic

I hope Im decent enough. :(
Just tell me if you can and I tell you what I want.