All NPCs must die, eh?

Fine.  Let's see how you feel when we stop welcoming you to town or warning you not to go into the Creepy Cave (not that you ever listened anyway). ;)

I'll give it a try once I'm on a computer that can handle it. :)

Bart

Okay, here's a pen sketch for your first image.  Trying to get any sort of open source painting software working is like pulling teeth, I'm afraid.

The latest version of Krita (2.3) doesn't appear to be available for download anywhere, and mypaint apparently has no way of allowing you to scroll around a painting if the window is too small for it -- plus the watercolor brushes don't look very good and it runs slowly on my netbook.

The pen sketch (done on paper, scanned and cleaned up in GIMP) is here:

http://boomz.me/file/bart-20110118T000716-w2g5sq9.jpg

I may fire up photoshop or painter to finish it.

Greets!

A couple of things:

• First off, would you be willing to post the backgrounds in a gallery somewhere for easy viewing?  Downloading the game source and pulling them up in a folder is a bit daunting if you're looking to attract attention from more casual users.
• What are points? :)

I used to do a fair amount of digital painting myself, so I might give this a shot, time allowing.  If I do so and I manage to get some art accepted, I'll probably just have you donate the award money to OGA so I can spend it on other commissions. :)

Here's a link to my digital paintings on DA, if you're curious:

http://lendrick.deviantart.com/gallery/627494

Note that I haven't attempted digital watercolor, so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out if I give it a shot. :)

Bart

Ah, my bad.  Disregard my first post. :)