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Title: need help making a Game and Watch type character
Post by: hulkster on September 08, 2007, 08:58:14 pm

check out this link here (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nintendorks.com/ssbmguide/characters/mrgameandwatch.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.nintendorks.com/ssbmguide/characters/mrgameandwatch.html&h=300&w=200&sz=20&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=_aVAQ8nlZGcTZM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=77&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgame%2Band%2Bwatch%2Bcharacter%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den)

see the shadowed game and watch guy?  im creating a website for a friend whos a comedian.  im designing the banner at the top right now, and i want to put in some laughing people...but like shadow laughing people.  like a crowd of laughing people, but that kinda look like that game and watch guy.

my question is, whats the best way to go about creating this?  i know i could use just regular shapes, but i guess im wondering the best way to do this....help??

Title: Re: need help making a Game and Watch type character
Post by: Kangum on September 09, 2007, 12:29:26 pm

since its not a hard image to draw. just black blocks and circles i would try and layout something on paper (even a contor drawing would work in this case) then scan it and have illustrator automatically trace it.  it should trace it np. then you can just size it however you want to your banner.


maybe there are better ways? Since the image is not overly complex and detailed it seems like the quickest way to go about it anyway.

Title: Re: need help making a Game and Watch type character
Post by: hulkster on September 09, 2007, 11:04:01 pm

well i dont have a scanner...so i guess i was wondering what the best tool in photoshop would be to use in creating a shadowy figure like this?  pen tool?  elipse? 

Title: Re: need help making a Game and Watch type character
Post by: hulkster on September 12, 2007, 03:05:51 pm

help?

Title: Re: need help making a Game and Watch type character
Post by: hulkster on September 13, 2007, 02:30:12 pm

what if i say pretty please?  will that help?  :dunno