Star and Moon Fan Art

[Star&Moon]

My Worms Fan Art:
Jetpackin'
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2013/132/b/c/jetpackin__by_star_and_moon-d650oak.png
Artistic Worm:
http://i.imgur.com/ZiyQu7m.png
Jeremy and The Morriss:
http://i.imgur.com/JK4m7.png
WA Desktop Wallpaper:
Click Here to View (http://i.imgur.com/bBNeK.jpg)




What do you think? Comments? Suggestions?

[ta0soft]

Great work I like it a lot! I like the first one (thwack) the most. The thick lines give it a nice look and I like the shape of the eyes/mouth. What program did you use to make them? Looks like vector graphics.

[tal05]

Hey there, good start but I think there a few things that you could change first to improve your drawings.

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4841/editg.png

Here's a little paint edit I did with a couple of suggestions.
The sides of the mouth just highlight the jaw a bit. I always use them anyway.
The tail should have a curved shape over the top, otherwise the tail looks more like some slime being dragged along. Hope this helps a bit.

Here's a tutorial by Splapp that you might want to check out: http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/Worm-Drawing-Tutorial-24052488

[Star&Moon]

Great work I like it a lot! I like the first one (thwack) the most. The thick lines give it a nice look and I like the shape of the eyes/mouth. What program did you use to make them? Looks like vector graphics.

If you read the description, I drew the outlines in Inkscape (Awesome FOSS Vector Program) and colored it in Photoshop (Great program, but sadly isn't free).


Here's a tutorial by Splapp that you might want to check out: http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/Worm-Drawing-Tutorial-24052488

Thanks! <3 That tutorial is amazing, Hhowever, I kinda like pointy tails on worms.

[Akuryou13]

Thanks! <3 That tutorial is amazing, Hhowever, I kinda like pointy tails on worms.use whatever shape you like, but don't draw them so lazily. You've made one big swooping line the whole way through the worm, without any definition for the cheeks, mouth, tail or any other part of the worm. it's all just one big lump. The shapes of a face don't just blend into each other without definition. They flow from one shape to another, each part distinct from each other shape. What Tal's little tutorial is saying isn't that you have to do any one specific style of drawing your worms, but that you need to define the features of your worms.

[Star&Moon]

Ok, I've improved a lot by that tutorial and your suggestions.

This one's still a worm in progress:
http://i.imgur.com/6Xhlt.png
FINAL VERSION:
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/155/1/2/worms___grenadier_by_star_and_moon-d5290ow.png
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/art/Worms-Grenadier-306110912

[ta0soft]

Great job! I like your style a lot. Love the shadows in this one, keep up the good work!

[Akuryou13]

MUCH better! Practice the hands, though. They take forever to learn to draw.... I really do hate hands....

[Star&Moon]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/171/6/1/worms___little_worm_by_star_and_moon-d547e12.png
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/#/d547e12

[ta0soft]

Very cool, keep them coming! My only suggestion would be maybe make them a bit less pink, and a little more flesh coloured.

[Star&Moon]

I've decided to pick this up again, here's a Worm in Progress:
http://i.imgur.com/md54I.png

[BethanyTeam17]

That colouring is big improvement :)

[Akuryou13]

Agreed with Beth. This color is a heck of alot better.

Poor guy needs some sun, though. He's been darksiding too long! :p

[Star&Moon]

Here's the final product!
http://i.imgur.com/Ydbjo.png
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/art/Worms-Marine-327317794

[Gardy Looo]

These are good. I can see you can take tips and use them very well, the improvement curve is pretty impressive. Keep it up!

[Star&Moon]

My latest masterpiece, a Worms: Armageddon Poster:
Click here to veiw. (http://i.imgur.com/bBNeK.jpg)
(Soil Texture is borrowed from Hedgewars)
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/art/Worms-Armageddon-Desktop-Wallpaper-330868692

[Thurbo]

I thought it was your avatar :p


...I really like your avatar.

[Star&Moon]

I thought it was your avatar :p


...I really like your avatar.

I never uploaded that one because it was like 10:30 when I finished it.
These guys are the characters from my Worms Fan Fic (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=58377)
http://i.imgur.com/JK4m7.png
The blue eyed one is the protagonist, Jeremy, and the orange eyed one is the antagonist, The Morriss.
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/#/d5h1vjv

[Star&Moon]

This Weapon Looks Fun!
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/293/2/a/this_weapon_looks_fun__by_star_and_moon-d5ieq0y.png

[Star&Moon]

Irony with Bananas:
http://i.imgur.com/aqIqB.png
Anyway this is probably going to be my last Worms Fan Art for a while, I've been drawing them quite a lot lately and I'm deciding to take a break.

[MtlAngelus]

If you ever do art again, this will help you out a lot: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Resize-a-picture-using-Paint

[Star&Moon]

If you ever do art again, this will help you out a lot: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Resize-a-picture-using-Paint

If it really bothers you that much, you can just zoom out in your browser. The keystroke is Ctrl -.

[Akuryou13]

If it really bothers you that much, you can just zoom out in your browser. The keystroke is Ctrl -.which shrinks the text, interface, and everything else on the webpage, continues to shrink those things even when you continue to a new page, and can be rather difficult to get back to the correct size if your browser doesn't show a percentage for the zoom.

Now, I don't have too much issue with the size of your pictures, but they ARE significantly larger than most people would post, and they can be difficult to view, even on a large monitor. Your snottiness on the subject doesn't help.

[StepS]

[spoiler][/spоiler]

[shadowman]

How small are your screens?

[MtlAngelus]

How small are your screens?

I use a 24" screen at work. Those images are still way larger than they need to be. There's practically no detail there to warrant such a big image size. It just looks stupid.

[KRD]

I just looks stupid.

Now you do. :p

[MtlAngelus]

Now you do. :p

I have no idea what you're talking about. :p

[Star&Moon]

This is traditional art that I did a while ago, but decided to upload it today.
Wild West Worms:
Thumbnail:
http://i.imgur.com/ITVdW.png
deviantArt:
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/art/Wild-West-Worms-335723347?ga_submit_new=10%253A1351901979
Anyway, for you guys, I will create thumbnails for all my other works soon, so it isn't too big to view. ;)

[Star&Moon]

Well, that break didn't last very long, but whatever, I have more art!
Classic BnG:
http://i.imgur.com/brz2y.png
deviantArt:
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/art/Worms-Classic-BnG-336754919?ga_submit_new=10%253A1352418210

[KRD]

Approved.

That's a much better worm mouth than the silly lockjaw ones from the artwork accompanying third generation games.

[Thurbo]

You can't be serious. Lex used the same term one year ago trying to argue the Worms Armageddon sprites were looking much better than any other worm designs before and after.

[Muzer]

You can't be serious. Lex used the same term one year ago trying to argue the Worms Armageddon sprites were looking much better than any other worm designs before and after.
Perhaps that means it's true? It's not like we all gather together in a room talking about how we can dismiss the 3rd-gen games and/or annoy Thurbo next.

[Thurbo]

Perhaps that means it's true? It's not like we all gather together in a room talking about how we can dismiss the 3rd-gen games and/or annoy Thurbo next.

Snooper and WormNet chats and the fact no one has ever used that term before (or even complained about the art style) except for KRD and Lex. Consider that for a brief moment.

What is true is that the closed mouth Star&Moon drew looks better than his opened mouths, and that's for it. These images are not the same as the "3rd-generation art style". Which, by the way and as I want to note, has given the characters a lot more personality than either 2nd- and 1st-generation games did.
Those worms are now more commonly known for their detached hands and eyebrows and their really stretchy mouths - the 2nd-generation art style is definitely looking more straight and sane, but "silly" doesn't automatically mean bad. It's only looking bad if you make it look bad.

Sure you are free to dislike the style. In fact, I just found it funny how KRD couldn't resist bringing that clash between 2nd and 3rd generation games into context through saying "the mouth looks better because you made use of the 2nd-generation style instead of the 3rd-generation style" whereas these images are utterly unlike any official art style. Star&Moon just decided to draw the characteristic wide-opened mouth and it didn't end up too well, that is.

[SupSuper]

Perhaps that means it's true? It's not like we all gather together in a room talking about how we can dismiss the 3rd-gen games and/or annoy Thurbo next.So where do you gather then? :p

Besides everyone knows 1st-generation worms are the real deal:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120912145920/worms/images/0/0f/Worms_Reinforcements.jpg

[Thurbo]

So where do you gather then? :p

Besides everyone knows 1st-generation worms are the real deal:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120912145920/worms/images/0/0f/Worms_Reinforcements.jpg

Too realistic! Way too realistic!!

Rethinking this, those big noses must have been a real characteristic to the original design, never realized that. There's a lack of fan artists going with the 1st-gen style, after all.
I prefer the cuter style and the "lockjaw" characteristic either way~ If you like that word so much I'm gonna make use of it, "lockjaw"! Kinda catchy.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120729202803/worms/images/9/97/Worms-Revolution-Logo.jpg

I especially like the curved lines of their closed mouths they have on their default face, it adds a lot of cartoonish atmosphere.

[Muzer]

Lockjaw isn't just a word Lex made up. It's an actual thing. Look it up if you can ever be bothered.


Anyway, your ignorance (if I'm interpreting what you said correctly, at least, apologies if I'm not) once again brings into question your insistence that you have, in fact, played WA quite a lot. Have you never seen this sprite?
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/worms/wa/anims/gfx/wwinner.gif

or this one?
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/worms/wa/anims/gfx/wpnctop.gif

or, to a lesser extent, this one?

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/worms/wa/anims/gfx/wtache.gif

[Thurbo]

Lockjaw isn't just a word Lex made up. It's an actual thing. Look it up if you can ever be bothered.

See, you just admitted you've been talking about it. And I'm aware the word is not made up.
It's definitely made up the worms were suffering from tetanus, though. They just have stretchy mouths. Actually, they shouldn't have a skeleton being worms and all, so why not? It's an interesting characteristic and underlines their natural body properties.

Anyway, your ignorance (if I'm interpreting what you said correctly, at least, apologies if I'm not) once again brings into question your insistence that you have, in fact, played WA quite a lot. Have you never seen this sprite?
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/worms/wa/anims/gfx/wwinner.gif

or this one?
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/worms/wa/anims/gfx/wpnctop.gif

or, to a lesser extent, this one?

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/worms/wa/anims/gfx/wtache.gif

Yeah, same-face syndrome all over the place. Except for one or two sprites, like the single victory dance in the game, they barely ever change their expressions either. The sprites don't come close to what the 3D games, especially Worms 4 Mayhem with its absolutely brilliant facial expressions, offer. Not saying they were bad (a lot of 2D games fail to add so much life to the characters presented as sprites), but they are still inferior.

http://www.wormsforts.com/anims/anim_1.avi
http://www.wormsforts.com/anims/anim_2.avi
http://www.wormsforts.com/anims/anim_3.avi
http://www.wormsforts.com/anims/anim_4.avi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPjpJMc8t6w
http://www.wormsmayhem.com/movies/outtakes7.avi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-K1ZsCHHpQ&feature=youtu.be

Plus, have you not taken a look at my avatar recently? I adore the expression the Scientist got, I adore the Scientist's shape, and I adore the art style in use.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/image.php?u=94621&dateline=1351098285

What would make one think those relatively boring expressions of the sprites above were any better?


If this doesn't cure your very own ignorance I'd appreciate it if you stopped involving yourself in arguments with me, especially about games you do not even play (Worms Reloaded, for instance and for further conversations), which is pointlessly stupid and, most importantly, the true form of pure ignorance.


http://uppix.net/f/a/5/dbd7798fffc6a22d55bc09f1d2800.png
Lockjaw at its finest.

http://uppix.net/0/a/f/1957cb72c89021bf4393f5464529b.png

http://uppix.net/8/c/4/a5d9bc63959cda247682bd3cb5740.png

[MtlAngelus]

The second gen worms (W2, W:A, WWP) are totes much better than the new ones. They are simple, funny and adorable. The ones from the Xbox series and Reloaded aren't too horrible, but they felt way too sterile. Plus they have square heads. Everyone knows round heads are cuter than square heads.The 3D ones are not absolutely horrible, but they do look a bit ugly with their massive mouths, and the animations are too exaggerated, and not in a good way like Ren & Stimpy or Invader Zim. Just like they are trying waaaay too hard to be funny, it gets annoying pretty fast.

Also, love Thurbo's paranoia. :cool:

[Thurbo]

Everyone knows round heads are cuter than square heads.The 3D ones are not absolutely horrible, but they do look a bit ugly with their massive mouths, and the animations are too exaggerated, and not in a good way like Ren & Stimpy or Invader Zim. Just like they are trying waaaay too hard to be funny, it gets annoying pretty fast.

Which is why you have adopted the 3rd-gen art style? You are brilliant at making sense. :(

Also they don't look ugly, or else your own art does. Making stuff up all the time, it's so ridiculous.

[MtlAngelus]

Which is why you have adopted the 3rd-gen art style? You are brilliant at making sense. :(

Also they don't look ugly, or else your own art does. Making stuff up all the time, it's so ridiculous.

Using it in a game =/= using it for making dumb pictures on a forum. I used it because I wanted to make expressive drawings, and because the style was easier to copy. I tried several times to make something more akin to the old 2nd gen style, but I couldn't really get something satisfactory. I still think, and I'm pretty sure I've always held this view, that the second gen style fits the game best.

As for my art, I do think my art is ugly. I love drawing ugly things. I (http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/farkfacedoob/princevegetaandkakarotfanart.png) really (http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/farkfacedoob/ohglob.png), really (http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/farkfacedoob/marioooo.png) do (http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/farkfacedoob/polygontan.png).

[Muzer]

See, you just admitted you've been talking about it. And I'm aware the word is not made up.

Rofl, what? Because I know what a word means now means I must have been talking about it to people? Your paranoia is very amusing.

[Star&Moon]

Lockjaw at its finest.

http://i.imgur.com/teBcd.png

[Muzer]

Rofl, nice one :D

[Thurbo]

Rofl, what? Because I know what a word means now means I must have been talking about it to people? Your paranoia is very amusing.

"A word Lex made up". This is not part of the paranoia. It's more that KRD involves Armageddon as often as possible in unrelated threads with the message "W:A is better", no matter if art style or gameplay. Clicking through the Worms Revolution Steam hub there is a link to a place you can buy Worms Armageddon in every 5th thread, posted by KRD. Call it paranoia on my part, but it's valid.


On-topic, I realized an interesting fact: the concept art to the 2nd-generation art style is not even that different to the 3rd-generation one. There is no attempt at making the worms look cute and there's generally a "badass" feeling to it.

http://wormsarmageddon.team17.com/images/artwork/artw_6_lrg.jpg

http://wormsarmageddon.team17.com/images/artwork/artw_10_med.jpg

http://wormsarmageddon.team17.com/images/artwork/artw_5_lrg.jpg
"A wild Lockjaw appears!

It shot you in the face."


You can't add that kind of expressions to sprites with a size of 80x80px I think, but their appearence didn't change that much, art style-wise. So:

That's a much better worm mouth than the silly lockjaw ones from the artwork accompanying third generation games.

Correction: those mouths look very much like the artwork accompanying second-generation games.

[Muzer]

It was you who mentioned Lex. I was just paraphrasing what I thought your argument was.

[KRD]

http://www.tus-wa.com/Themes/default/images/home/Image2.jpg

If you can't or won't see the difference between those museum pieces in your previous post and this, I really just can't help you here, Thurbo.

[Star&Moon]

http://www.tus-wa.com/Themes/default/images/home/Image2.jpg

If you can't or won't see the difference between those museum pieces in your previous post and this, I really just can't help you here, Thurbo.

Honestly, I think Thurbo won the argument. Oh, and here's a quarter for you guys if you stop fighting.

[brunu]

What program did you used to draw these worms?

[Star&Moon]

What program did you used to draw these worms?

I drew these in Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/), using the Calligraphy, Fill and Shape tools.

[Star&Moon]

This guy doesn't look too happy:
http://i.imgur.com/BePAz.png

[MtlAngelus]

Probably because someone smashed eggs against his face.

[GreeN]

http://dfglol

[Star&Moon]

Probably because someone smashed eggs against his face.

You sir, are a genius.

[Star&Moon]

This dude's still a work in progress. I plan to add a background and everything for this one:
http://i.imgur.com/DMV1G.png
By the way, as you can tell, I've settled on a worm style that's a cross between the second and third generation worms, still using the patented "lockjaw" and fingered hands, but with the second gen. squiggly tails and flat eyebrows.

[Jona-Man]

Looks really awesome.

[Star&Moon]

Hey Guys, just came to say I'm back and worming!
http://i.imgur.com/ZiyQu7m.png
Gonna stick to a more classic style.

[Star&Moon]

Hey guys, gonna re-do the Worms Armageddon poster, so the worms actually look like from that time period and also add more stuff and stuff.

[Star&Moon]

Hey all! Quick status update, wanted to share some of the funny and furious Worms that will appearing in the revamped Armageddon Wallpaper!
http://i.imgur.com/yIFbek7.png
http://i.imgur.com/bmc6Glk.png
http://i.imgur.com/AKpsr7c.png
Unlike last time, I want to have many worms on this wallpaper, so expect more!

[Star&Moon]

Hey guys, Drawing Tablet and Paint Tool SAI happened then this happened:
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2013/132/b/c/jetpackin__by_star_and_moon-d650oak.png
http://star-and-moon.deviantart.com/art/Jetpackin-371226620