Old School Graphics!

[Samuel Phillips]

Hello friends!!

Alright so this idea came about the other day, when I was lurking the old banner examples topics. It made me feel a bit sad, since because I wasn't the most active on here when the old style of graphics was super big, I missed out on the best of it

Then I had the thought of 'what if today's characters had graphics in the old style?' which snowballed into me actually attempting to make signatures inspired by some of the old banner examples, and voila!

Spoiler: It's ya boys

It's interesting to see how much graphics have changed in the last 7 years(ish?), and I'm admittedly really curious to see what everyone else's characters would look like in graphics of this style, so I'm posting this topic to see if anyone also wants in on the throwback fun of seeing what our characters from today could have looked like in 2010 (If they weren't already active then, of course ).

If you do make an old school graphic it would be awesome if you could please post it here for me (and hopefully other members) to appreciate them!

Also if you aren't a graphic maker but want to have a signature like this, feel free to ask and I'll gladly put something together for you! These were really fun to make, and has reignited my inspiration to make graphics so I'm looking for an excuse to make more

 

[Rama Mowry]

OMG. I have so many of these on my computer. I will post after I get off work!

 

[Ainsley Lynch]

Oh my godddd Annaaaaaaaaaaaa if I had seen those in 2010 I would have cried bc you were a graphic god

I definitely want to try making something with my old technique for laughs I think my strategy was basically just 'cover everyone's face with as many grunge brushes as I can find on deviantart'

Spoiler: case in point

(I think that second sig was the first time I discovered what an overlay layer did )

 

[Rama Mowry]

Spoiler: Pics

 

[Stefan Archer]

Okay i tried this but i've changed computer and graphics software since 2010 era stuff, soooo i've lost most of the old fonts and graphics packs that would've helped make them but here are some attempts. Once I got it to work it was fun, took, very little time and was like nice I don't tend to make graphics for that sort of thing much any more but here:

Spoiler

 

[Monty Pendleton]

Emzies those are amazing hahahah

I'm absolutely going to be doing this tomorrow

 

[Rama Mowry]

Emzies I feel like you put so much work into Rory's signatures specifically because they always end up looking 100/10. (not that your other ones don't look great bc they do!)

 

[Stefan Archer]

 

[Monty Pendleton]

Ah yes, I remember... the good old days when banners took 15 minutes tops

I used to add a weird radial blur to the edges of my banners, and add random light effects even if they didn't fit, so VOILA

 

[Amber Chou Wilson]

I actually really like that sig and would use it if it were my char

 

[Monty Pendleton]

Hahahaha d'awhh thanks Daph!!

 

[Samuel Phillips]

These graphics are so good guys It would be cool to use this style of graphics during OSW for the extra throwback fun

On the subject of old school graphics, I found this tutorial by Emmah back in 2010! The images linked for the tutorial no longer work, but the steps sort of give an idea of how to use blending modes with textures and things to make graphics at the time, and there's an example of what the graphics would have looked like in the responses! Just another fun throwback to this I guess!

Here's another graphic I made for Claire just now!!! It wasn't following the tutorial exactly and all I did really was use textures i thought were similar, but it's still accurate to the time I think

 

[Monty Pendleton]

I love it so much Anna and I love the idea of using old school graphics for old school week hahahah!!

Just made a couple too