NEOPETS

Not much here really, but thought I'd throw this stuff in here instead of letting it go to waste!

A couple makeables, plus 2 tutorials (Makeables and simple Guild Layouts)

 

This is an old makeable for an Aisha.  Do with it what you want, just leave my username on it! 

Same here, but this one is a Grarrl. 

And this rather large one can be used for Lupes. 

 

MAKEABLE/ADOPTABLE CREATING TUTORIAL

How to make adoptables/makeables in MS Paint
by Emzly

For this tutorial, I will be drawing a Grarrl. You can use whatever neopet or petpet you like though.


Get a picture of the kind of pet you'd like to draw. The Rainbow Pool (click on All Pet Colours) is a good place to find them. Mine is from my pet's lookup (it's the battledome pose).
Right click the picture and picture Save As (or Save Image As) and save it somewhere on your computer where you can find it. Open it in Paint. Make sure this window is maximized (fills up most of the screen, click the button next to X that's a square)

Open Paint again and have the window minimized (small) and have it set so you can see the other Paint window below it like this;


Work in the smaller window. Using the circle tool, get some of the basic shapes in your neopet.


Next, use the other shapes, pencil, line tool, and curve tool to form the rest of the body. The curve tool is very usefull! I used that to make his neck, tail, and legs. DO NOT make any of the features inside the shapes (eyes, mouth, arm in this case)


You could also put the pet in a different position than your reference pic, but it's easier this way. Just be sure it doesn't look EXACTLY the same in the end. For instance, change the facial expression, tail shape, or whatever.

Erase any lines you won't want in your final.


Add the the other body parts (in this case, an arm) and other bigger things (eyes maybe). Once again, the curved line tool works great for this.

I had some trouble drawing the hands like they did, so I did them differently. Remember, you can change anything that you don't like or is hard to draw.
Almost there!!
Now add the details. (nose, mouth, etc.) You may want to zoom in and use the pencil tool for the smaller parts.

You can also erase and reshape anything that looks odd to you. I did that on his head (TOO ROUND!!! AHHH!!!)

The only thing left to do is color. If you want to make a makeable, you're done. Just use the type tool to add your username to it.

Coloring is always fun! Use the paintbucket to color in everything.

If you want, you can add other features in. I added an green stripe down the back and on the belly of mine.
Then we'll shade it in....

Double click the color you used and a box will pop up. Click 'Define Custom Colors', then slide the bar on the right side down a bit. (toward the black) Now chose the direction the 'light' in your picture is coming from. In mine it shall be from the top right. Use the pencil tool to color in areas that would be darker than the rest (according to your lights source). Use the new, darker color. You'll want to zoom in for this part (probably x6)

I know mine's not exactly perfect. You probably expected it to be though, LOL! Yours doesn't have to be perfect either.

Another thing you could do to shade that might be easier is to mimic the shading on the reference picture. I personally don't do this though. That could be easier for you to do though.

YOUR DONE! YAY! I hope this has been helpful to you. If you have any questions or want to show me your creations, neomail me(emzly_emzie)! I'd love to hear from you :D

 

 

GUILD LAYOUTS (SIMPLE, NON FULL PAGE)

GUILD LAYOUTS
by Emzly

All you need to do to make the layout is go on neopets or www.google.com or another site & save some of the pictures to your computer & copy & paste them together using paint program & then make text boxes by using the box tool.

Once you finish that, sign up for www.photobucket.com (it's free) or another image hosting site. www.imageshack.us works nicely too, you don't even need to sign up! Then upload your picture.

CODING

SAMPLE


1. The first part of the code looks like this;

2. Change the number after border= to how thick you want the border to be around the layout. 0 is none.
3. The part that says width="400" is the width of the picture in pixels. If you use Paint, click on Image & pick attributes. You can also get the height="690" part too from there.
4. This is where it gets hard...next part of the code is

5. This part: table style="Position:absolute; top:640; left:290; you have to position you text box in the place you want it. If it said top:0; left:0; the box would be in the top right corner of the page. The larger the top number, the farther from the top it is. The larger the left number, the farther away from the left it is The larger the top number, the farther from the top it is. The larger the left number, the farther away from the left it is
6. In the next part width: 188: height:117, you put the width and height of you text box. you can determine this by guess and check (guessing, the looking to see if it's the right size), or use the select tool in MS Paint. Hold the mouse button when you have selected the entire box and look in the bottom right corner of the screen. It shows you the width, height of you selection!
7. Repeat steps 4-6 as many times as text boxes you need.

Feel free to neomail me (#OWNERLOOKUP) if you have any questions or comments!