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I stopped the slides partly because I have some background in image editing already. I've just never done pixel art before, and was feeling a bit overwhelmed on where to start. I'm also not an artist. I can manipulate images and do what some people call amazing things with them, but when it comes to drawing something from scratch, I'm barely above the finger-painting skill level.

Romulan Warbird from ST:TNG era. BoP has been done to death, IMO.

Well, I just spent the afternoon looking through your slides and gave it a go with maybe  my favorite design from the 'Trek universe, and I'm honestly pretty happy with the result. The proportions aren't quite perfect, but I'd say its a pretty good representation. Maybe a little excessive on the highlighting. I stopped reading your slides about half-way through as my imagination started taking over, but this tutorial definitely got me started off right.

One thing I'd like to see you add is a pure-white version of each vehicle, so I can use my game engine's color tinting feature more easily. As it is, I have to load them into Photoshop and play around with various overlay layers to get something close to white, then usually redraw some of the details that faded out in the process. I know there are other ways to do this, but this is the method I know.

I made some alterations to my pack (the 4x version) to make white versions of all the semi-tractors, as well as a yard-hostler tractor and a couple of properly scaled 53' semi-trailers. 

Awesome set of vehicles. Planning to use them in a semi-truck parking game I have in mind but haven't gotten around to doing yet.