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Archive => Archive => [ARCHIVED] Art => Topic started by: bloodreaper on October 17, 2008, 08:12:00 AM
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Don't expect any actual art to appear here.
I owe you nothing!
1. Tears
2. Horror
3. Light (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/KpoF.png) -- Keeper of Flame
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Immortality.gif)
6. Break Away (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/ontherun.png)
7. Heaven
8. Innocence (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Innocence.png)
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/breatheagain.png)
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/KtoS.png)
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/FireyPast.jpg)
23. Cat (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/CatNMouse.png)
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Introduction
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/Moreeyes.jpg)
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/guns.jpg)
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/NurfRommel.png)
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Love
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67% --Jet Assault (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/Jetassault.png)
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Brokenpieces-1.png)
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red -- http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Red.png (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Red.png)
87. Food (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Vegitarian.png)
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Apollyon.jpg)- EX (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Apollyon-1.png)
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope - The Button (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/TheButton.png)
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
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*Laugh!!!* :D
I think we can all wait for whenever/if ever you think to favor putting something in here... that's what everyone else is doing, with these. XD
Any ideas on what you'll do, first, if you decide to post "actual art" here? ;D
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Oct 17, 2008, 11:08am (http:///index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=drawings&thread=144&post=6104), Faith (http:///index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=faith) wrote:Any ideas on what you'll do, first, if you decide to post actual art here? ;D
Blood?
Okay. I know. That was bad.
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*Snrk!* XD
Nah, not bad.
That actually seems rather suiting. ;D
(And... that sounds bad, or morbid somehow... not the intention, honest. XD )
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Actually, I think I'm going to do seeing red first, and there's not going to be any blood.
Edit: See! [img]http://beastling.xepher.net/images/forum/ramjik.gif" alt=">:(" title=">:(" border="0"/>
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I saw you working on it earlier, so I didn't post then...
No blood, but plenty of fire.
And Fire solves everything...
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Oct 19, 2008, 3:38am (http:///index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=drawings&thread=144&post=6126), <font color="dd00bb">Dragyn</font> (http:///index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=admin) wrote:And Fire solves everything...
Fully agreed.
As for the actual picture..nifty. :3 The colors seem very fitting, as Halloween draws closer.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
I saw this earlier. So you heard my comments.
But, once again, very neat. ;)
It sounds like I'm surrounded by a bunch of Ramjiks... XD
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heh.
Just a few, I'm sure.
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[img]http://beastling.xepher.net/images/forum/ramjik.gif" alt=">:(" title=">:(" border="0"/>BURN IIIIT! [img]http://beastling.xepher.net/images/forum/ramjik.gif" alt=">:(" title=">:(" border="0"/> 8) [img]http://beastling.xepher.net/images/forum/ramjik.gif" alt=">:(" title=">:(" border="0"/> BUUURN IIIT AAAALLL!! [img]http://beastling.xepher.net/images/forum/ramjik.gif" alt=">:(" title=">:(" border="0"/>
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Well... not that this isn't disturbing or anything... ;D
Though, uh, heh... I guess I have no room to speak. Seeing as I was one of the people burning candy-canes, last Christmas... :P
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This is a very interesting forum. XD
Oh, wait...
What Fox said about your picture's colors made me think of something...
(A couple posts and days later...)
It is almost Halloween... and that means... Halloween art... :D
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Right! I'll have to shelf my current pic, and do something more suited to the season.
Actually, since I tend to work on one pic, get bored/tired/hungry and then go off to deal with that, and then come back to start on an entirely different picture, this will probably worsen an existing problem.
Maybe I should start putting up the sketch versions and replace them when the full thing is done.
This is a boon to me for two reasons:
1. If I get too many irons in the fire you guys are likely to rag on me to go back and finish ones that you want to see, keeping me semi-organized.
2. I get to an excuse to show off my concepts without having to finish them first.
The drawbacks are likewise twofold:
1. You guys have to be exposed to a bunch of crummy old sketches, which will forever poison you against the finished work.
2. Finishing pics that receive minimal response are likely to be put off for finishing, meaning that by the time I'm down to three themes to finish (assuming such a thing even attempts to happen) they'll all be crummy pictures that I don't care about, and neither will you, so they'll just be a chore to slog through.
I suppose, I could always scrap the design, even after posting the sketch, but that seems like cheating somehow. :-/
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Heh. =J
Maybe you could just do one set aside for Halloween; even if you turn it in a bit late I bet we'd all be happy to see it. And then you can continue with what you're doing, right?
Besides. If you take a break away from the one for a bit, it might better the results. :)
(I know I could use one from the bit I was trying to draw... ;D :P )
As for posting sketches before drawings, well that's up to you.
You could just decide to do that with the ones you've a specific idea for, to show and keep track of them, if they come in bulk and you want to only actually attempt one at a time... that would eliminate the "chore" bit, I think.
Then you could also hear others' opinions before you finish it, so that you can benefit from their thoughts in advance, or to experiment with the prospect of another's ideas....
Nah. Anyone who makes sketches can appreciate them. :D
And we'll like to see the finished bit, even after a sketch, I'm sure. ;)
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With Halloween in the long forgotten history books, and me completely out of enthusiasm for that pic, I'm going to seriously think about getting back to work on these.
I gotta get my style more consistent, before I can start a comic, and this is a fine place to start.
Is there anything specific that you'd like to see my take on?
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I'm at a cross between Innocence, because I've not really seen you draw much like that, and Insanity, becuase I have seen you draw a lot of interesting things and I bet that would be a good one for you to start with.
Also, I already had an idea for both of them, and I want to see what someone else would come up with. ;D
Is'at okay?
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I'll get to those.
Innocence, huh? ....
Anyway, last night I filled in Cat. I like the paper sketched version better, because I actually cut one of the two characters out to save drawing time.
The other character mostly existed to look increasingly shocked and horrified, but I think it really added something, and make what was going on easier to understand.
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*Laugh!!!* XD
Aw, man... awful taste in my mouth... blast my imagination... XP XD
That's great. ;D
(Even though I am now feeling the need to get the fur out of my mouth. :P )
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You know....I've had dreams where I've done stuff like that. The worst part being, I could actually taste what was in my mouth. NOT. PLEASANT.
You seem to be just as fond of macabre humor as I am, though....>3<
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Heh.
It did take a bit to figure out what was going on, but it was worth it.
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That's the thing.
The other girl's horrified reactions made it easier to squeeze the joke into four pannels without making it hard to follow.
I suppose, I could go and put her back in. Digital art and all that...
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Your call, ultimately, though you might try putting up both versions.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
You could.
It might be fun to see. ;D
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Innocence is ready.
CAUTION: Blood and disturbing themes.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Innocence.png (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Innocence.png)
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Hmm....
I can see the blood, but beyond the fact that the craters seem to be full of...cheese? Not much seems disturbing.
I'm guessing I've quite thoroughly misinterpreted something, here...
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Looks more like sulfur. That wouldn't smell very nice, though....
Anywho. I really like this piece..certainly has a lot of emotion to it. :3
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Wow. So nobody here considers the maiming or disfigurement of children disturbing? :o
creepy.
They are bomb craters, full of muddy water. I should have put in more ripples, so you could tell. You can kind of make out that it's a carpet bombing trail, leading all the way to the horizon, but the perspective is warped, horizontally, so it just looks like a bunch of random holes.
The planet is supposed to feel kind of alien, without making it totally unrelatable. The sky had to have just a little blue in it. I didn't plan ahead enough with my layering scheme, and it limited how much I could bend the sky, for a proper dome effect.
Is the bloody sword not enough of a hint as to what happened to the kid?
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Heh...
Yeah.
I figured that out... I was thinking "Ow..."
Heh.
Well, not so much creepy as... emotional, as Fox put it.
Heh.
I think it turned out well. It could've used a bit more shading and impressions of light, such as ripples... but that's possibly just me. Ya'll know how I get... ... ... XD
Hm...
I might add that, considering what happened, there might be more blood droplets and the like, between the kid and the sword. Considering that there had to be contact at some point.
But it turned out really well. The sky was really neat, dome or no. Heh.
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It's possible to be disturbed without being frightened.
He didn't cut his own eyes out.
Shallow surgery like this doesn't produce a huge amount of bleeding.
If somebody held him, you wouldn't get much blood on the knife at all.
Really, you shouldn't be able to see blood on the knife at all (since the tip is buried), but it doesn't make sense to leave it behind, either. I just added it to ensure that everyone knew this wasn't an accident.
"Violence toward children" really doesn't need a disturbing themes label? I remember Pirates of the Caribbean 3 caught a lot of flack over gratuitously hanging a child in the opening scene.
Notice that the kid still has eyelids. This is not a mistake. Think about that for a while, and see if you find yourself feeling some sort of emotional disturbance.
This is actually a scene from a story I wrote a few years ago, but never did anything with. Some of the other pics will be related to the same fiction, if they ever get made.
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Considering some of my own characters' backstories, I don't feel the need to say.."Golly, that disturbs me!" much, anymore.
Not to say I'm not disturbed at all....I just think about such things so often, I tend to just ignore them, most of the time.
Now that I know what happened, here...maybe the eyelids should be going inward, rather than outward? (I wouldn't know, though..I don't know of anybody that has empty eye sockets)
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Hm...
I was going to do something of a similar interpretation of that theme. Little different, but... anyway... so, if I were disturbed, well... heh... yeah. :P
Not that I don't disturb myself once in a while... XP
Hm...
Are you going to share that story, any time? I have to say I'd like to read it. Heh. :)
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I keeps it my my head, where no-one can find it.
Honestly, if I expected anyone here to find the thing offensive, I wouldn't have posted it, I just didn't want anyone to wander in without bracing themselves.
The forum is a bit edgier than the comic proper, and needs to carry warnings when is pushes the limits of the rules, or just good taste.
I'm particularly stringent, since as a mod I've got to maintain moral high ground.
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Heh.
Not saying it was weird, or anything. =J
Whatcha' think you're gonna' do next?
Also, will you ever put in a place available for others to find, or is it going to remain that way? :P :)
Oh... I have something to say about the theme I was going to do, while I'm here.
I was almost done with it, but... what I'd drawn... kinda upset me. So I'm not going to finish it. Or at least not now. And if I do, don't be surprised if I don't post it...
Sorry...
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It was one of several linked short stories that eventually got folded into my Torn Galaxy project, so if I ever produce that, you might get to see where he ended up.
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Heh. :D
I hope I get to see it, then. ^-^
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Now for something completely different!
Light!
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/KpoF.png (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/KpoF.png)
There will be more of these, so I almost started a new thread, but I'm multi-tasking. ;P
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Ooooh....shiny...
That's pretty nifty...
though, his head is a little flat...shouldn't there be more cranium to his skull? That robe is pretty empty looking...
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Okay. This is cool.
I didn't really notice the robe was so..empty looking..as Dragyn put it..untill I got a closer look, on my PSP. It..it IS. Almost as though he's a wraith.
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I suppose he might be a wraith, and that face is some sort of mask...
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His face was intended to be kind of grotesque and deformed, so I tried out a number of experimental shading techniques on him.
The robe is a dark green, where the background is dark blue and black, but the shadows on his robe are actually gaps that I left, where the background shows through. It makes everything just a bit more indistinct, and makes it feel like you're trying to peer past his bright light to see, but can't. It also ties the shadow colors together.
I should have done the shading layer for his face in dark blue, instead of black. That would've popped it out a bit more, and made the light look brighter. Too bad I already collapsed those layers in the .pdn.
No sense in regretting it now. I've got more face cards to do in the flame set, so the lessons learned here will be invaluable.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Neat. ^-^
That's a fun but of work, with the shading tecniques and the effects.
Heh. I liked the little fire bit in the upper corner, too. ;)
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Thank you.
Alas, the shield symbol got maimed a bit more thoroughly in the resizing process. I managed to fix most of the damage, but it's not really the way I wanted it.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/KtoS.png (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/KtoS.png)
The Knight of Shields.
His W is for warrior, since his set already has a K for king. I might change that up, as there are still some elements of the letter tags that I need to work out. I may use a crown for Kings, and go back and give the knights the K they deserve. Shields in particular, doesn't seem the warrior type.
I'm not quite as sure of the border color on this one. Blue seems more appropriate, but that would drown between the shield and the sky.
Transparent erasers are awesome. Glow filters are nice, but I hadn't used it like this before, and wasn't prepared for what it would do to the gray stripe.
Additionally, I'm curious to know if you guys would like to see me do more of these, or practice my Torn Galaxy stuff some more.
I could mix TG into the cards, but I don't really want to do that, except maybe with the Virtue cards.
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What would be a good program to use for making pretty pictures? All i got is paint and it make me feel very sad and nonviolent (which makes me even sadder).
Eat my SPEAR!!!
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Dragyn and I are using Paint.NET, becasue it is free, but still fairly powerful.
The Graphic Image ManiPulator (GIMP) is also pretty popular as it runs under Unix based OSes.
If you want a bit more power, you can steal buy a professional program like the famous Photoshop, but they can be quite expensive, particularly if you're just starting out, and all you need is something to separate layers of splines.
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GIMP can do most of what Photoshop can, but is a good bit less intuitive to use.
Paint.Net is more intuitive than either, but a bit less powerful on most counts, though it's getting better.
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BTW: the Knight here was actually really easy, compared to the Keeper of the Flame.
Not counting all the border elements, there are:
2 sketch layers, that are removed, before flattening(background and foreground);
2 lineart layers(knight and shield);
2 color layers(Knight and shield);
1 shadow layer (duplicated and blurred, before being merged back together. The ground shadows are just part of the rock, only the knight has shading in a sperate layer);
2 background layers(sky and rock).
This is actually less work than doing it all in one or two layers, like the keeper was. Because, I can remove the sketch lines easily, and apply the glow filter to only the shield color layer.
For contrast the Keeper was:
1 lantern layer;
3 light layers, painted by mouse, after all the splitting and merging was done(one of them is behind the lantern and the Keeper, one is just the yellow slits, and one is the hard light you see.);
1 yellow line layer(some of these are highlighs and some are contour lines. --should have split them.);
1 excessively involved color layer (I should have split this into robe, face and detail layers.);
1 Shading layer(--should have made a second one for the robe, to really mess with the eyes.);
2 background layers(black and dark blue);
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*Laugh!!!* :D
I really like this one. ;)
It turned out really well.
Heh.
Hm...
I've been using Paint.Net recently, myself... (great program, in my opinion, to inform Darkness) and I am thinking I will definitely need to use more layers... :P
1 for lines. 1 for colors. 1 for shading. XD
Oh, and one for a whiteboard and another for the image I drew, to kinda trace it... :P
That's five. One of which I be remove, too.
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Oh, right. Meant to say this sooner...
With smaller things, like the shield logo you've got in the corner, I usually find it preferable to draw the smaller details like that after resizing.
Same goes for text.
As an aside, if you plan on reusing those symbols, you can save them in their own file consisting of just the symbol, and then just import it in when you need it. Layered file formats are useful like that.
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It is already done.
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Good, good...
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Break Away (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/ontherun.png)
This is, as you can probably tell, an older picture that I was dissatisfied with, and didn't finish at the time. I was flipping through my bank of half finished pictures and I thought to myself, "You know what that hing really needs (besides better linework, and better translucency effects, of course)? --Some glow filter.
So here it is.
There are some other changes I would have made, but the layers were collapsed way back in the mists of time, so this is what you get.
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the glow is great. you guys are going to have to show me how to do that. i think fireman needs to glow to.
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Whoah...the glow effect works pretty well, there. Definitely an improvement, I think.
Of course, I complained way back when that I didn't think your lights looked bright enough...
The "Glow" is an effect. There are many other ways to get it, too, but the glow effect is easiest.
A word of advice, though...always make a duplicate layer before playing with the glow or blur effects. That way, you can just turn off the backup, but still be able to undo it if you change your mind, later on.
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So essentially, you recommend creating a backup copy of just that layer, so if you decide, an hour later, that the contrast slider on that glow effect should have been five points higher, you can swap the old layer back in and re-glow it.
That's a good idea, and I've got enough memory on this system right here, that I can probably afford to do that. I've got twelve layers active right now; what's one more?
Update:
--18 simultaneous layers to produce this (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Immortality.gif).
That's just how many I had left at the end. Some were merged or deleted, after they served their purpose.
Edit:Oh, yeah.
Contains --wait for it....
<font color="Red">Blood!</font>
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Impressive.
Hmm...something seems off about the blood, and I'm not referring to it's color. It just doesn't seem to be...fluid enough, ya' know?
Other than that, though, it looks cool. I have to ask: are these characters, or just random?
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I'm not really happy with it myself, and I might touch it up, just a bit.
The way the rivulets interact with the smears didn't come out right. The whole thing just ends up looking scribble-ish and confused.
Edit: I may need the question to be more specific before I could answer, and even then, I might have to withhold that information.
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Heh.
I just wanted to know if they're actually characters, with backgrounds and personalities, or if they're just there for this picture, and...that's all.
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Heh.
I really like that first one, and the second one is rather unique, being neat as well.
With the sword, is there some special design or material or something to let the handle be like that? I like the it, no matter. It's not ridiculously ornate, but it's not a boring pointy stick, ya' know?
Heh.
Nice work. ;)
Looking forward to more. :)
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Oo..neat. I didn't know there was a glow filter. I always just used brushes at various opacities. Huh..I'll have to check Photoshop.
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Hmm...
I don't know what all Photoshop has, but faliing all else, you could work it in photoshop, then save it (as a flat image, since I don't think Paint.Net supports photoshop files natively) and then open it in Paint.Net for a glow filter...
Of course, it'd be a lot easier if Photoshop has something in it to do the same thing...
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Through the Fire (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Apollyon.jpg)
I had to touch up the flames after I converted to .gif, because it always messes with the translucent paintbrush techniques I use.
I'm still not really happy with a few spots, but there's not much more I can do.
I suspect I'm the only one who can even see these defects, if I don't mention them, but they will haunt me for days.
Edit:Revised Edition (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Apollyon-1.png)
At DW's encouragement and advice, I went back and touched up the flaws and then saved it out to a PNG. You can thank him for the "more globular blood".
He also showed me some nifty tricks with the adjustments menu, in PDN.
I was originally torn between doing a silhouette or ambiently lit coloring for this, so I decided that so long as I was doing two versions, I could do it both ways. I still have all those layers, so I can go back and mix and match to my heart's content.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Neat, I like it. Heh.
You have fun with the blood, don't you? :P XD
It turned out really well.
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Initially, I just went light on it, since the complex effects I tried for on the previous work didn't come out very well, but he told me it needed to be more globular, so it is.
The goblin salsa you see is DW's fault, really!
--but honestly, blood is something I really need to work on.
It's evocative and universal, and intrinsic to the setting I'm working in.
Plus the way it's color and consistency changes over time is unlike any other substance on Earth. There are so many thousands of factors at play, that you could spend a lifetime drawing nothing but blood, and never fully explore it's depths.
As an artist that's a challenge that really draws me in.
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Heh. :D
Hm...
I've been drawing something I have to finish, and this topic reminds me of it...
*Snrk*
Doesn't sound exactly wonderful, now does it? :P
it turned out pretty well.
And, heh... the goblin salsa is pretty good-looking. I won't suggest eating it, but hey. XD
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Yeah. You'd probably catch some horrid disease...
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try it, it might help your immune system so you will be like me "Invicible" *cough
crap sick again.
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Food (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Vegitarian.png)
Mmmm... Salsa!
Mild, but chunky.
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Vegetarian: Root "vege" - Plant.
All that's just me saying "You spelled it wrong."
Anyway...
Was this inspired by the conversation here on the forum, by any chance?
The blob guy is awesome.
Shouldn't the goblin on the left be bleeding? He's sorta' holding his sword by the blade...
Shading looks good, though I might've added more. That's just me, though.
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He's holding it by the sheath, not the actual blade.
You're just not used to seeing me produce works where someone isn't getting maimed or impaled.
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Eh. Maybe.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Nice. XD
That is great. :P
I love the expression on the guy's face. ;D
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Alright! So, what do you guys think I should do next.
I'm thinking about eyes or light right now, but I'm really not into that, so I'm open to suggestions.
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I'd like to see you do Broken Pieces, if only to see how you interpret that.
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Okay. That made me smile.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Yes, let us see that. ;D
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As you will (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/Brokenpieces-1.png).
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That wheelchair is psychedelic.
Interesting piece, though. Not what I expected, I will admit, but still...
In other news, those injuries have to hurt.
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Heh.
Yeah, ow. XD
Is there a story behind it, that you had in mind?
Very well done. You're obviously improving with the use of Paint. Net. ;)
I need to get practicing with it, myself... XD
It looks like you forgot the nurse's finger there, but that sort of thing's easy to forget. It's very good. :)
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Say, what!?
One. Two. Three...
Nope. They're all three there.
False alarm. :P
So, what's next?
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@Faith: Sometimes anthros are drawn, with only three fingers. Heh..I had to go back and check, too. Thought I was going crazy, for a moment. O:
In any case, it looks good. Not quite what I was expecting, but that's coming from somebody who likes explosions. >.>
Next, you say? I'm actually quite eager to see "Blood", at this point. =U
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There is actually a lore reason, why she only has three fingers on each hand. 8)
I've been thinking about saving Blood, but at this point I should probably get it out of the way before the expectations grow any further. There's no way it can ever be awesome enough to justify all the hype it's getting.
Edit:
There actually is a mistake here. due to the layers getting screwed up, there's a line across the hand in question. That's probably what Faith was talking about.
It'll just have to fix that and re-upload.
I was sure I erased all those, when I switched those two layers, but it looks like I missed one.
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Heh. :D
Yeah, it's what Blood's referring to that I meant. Sorry 'bout the phrasing. XD
A lore reason?
Can we find out what that is? ;D
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There the old links should now point you to the fixed version of the image.
I've got an inkling for what I want to do with blood, but there's some things I feel I need to practice a bit, before I can even start on that.
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Heh.
Neat. ;D
I bet we can wait. =J
Honestly, I have no clue what you'll be doing for that... XD
I know what I'm doing for that... started it... somewhere... but... :P
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Breathe Again (http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/BaronFelbood/breatheagain.png)
Chalk up another one.
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Nice. I like the desert look. Betcha' that armor gets toasty, there...
Hmm...
It seems like there should be some shadows on that armor, especially since we can see the light source. At the very least, there should be some shine on the armor, where the light hits it.
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I skimped more than I should have on the lighting.
Actual shading would detract from the impression of ambient brightness, and reflective sand, but I should have put a double effort into shining up the metal, instead of skipping that too.
All the little plates on that armor took more than a days work as it is. I don't even want to think about polishing them.
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Nice!
I would agree with that.
But all the same, it's very well done. ;)
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Oo..armor is a real bugger. You did it quite well, though. :3
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This is our "Last Hope!"
Me must press...
The Button (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/TheButton.png)!
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*Laugh!!!* :D
I love your presentation, to begin with. XD
Second, your button also amuses me. ;D
Mainly the, "No." part.
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Sadly, when I first saw the button, I read it as "120"
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Ooh-Yah!
I'm back in the game!
Eyes (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/Moreeyes.jpg)!
What'cha think?
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I think your link is broken. It links to a cataract eye surgery site.
:P
Let me fix that for you...
EDIT: Fixed it.
Impressive. Very impressive, indeed.
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Th'hay?
Edit: appearently, if you mistype the file name in a Forumsigs link, they just fill in the space with context sensitive ads.
Sneaky.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Neat. :D
I like all the prespectives. ;)
Also, what you did around the winged one's hands, at the bottom.
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This started as an expression and color study, but I kind of ran out of enthusiasm for that and stared doing other things as I went along.
Only the line art in the center panel, the special effects in the bottom panel, and the borders are actually black. Everything else is just very dark colors.
It's easiest to tell with the bottom panel, because the black glow makes the brown show up, but the other outside panels are also colored.
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No, actually, Bro. There was no Forumsigs link anywhere in your post.
[url=eyes]http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/Moreeyes.jpg[/url]
is what you had...
Apparently, just typing "eyes" into the address bar forwards you to a context-sensitive ad, though.
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Really? Hmm.
I wonder how they got that into the DNS system.
Money talks, I guess.
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Note to self: Thinking about a comment, is not the same as actually commenting.
Hm...yes. That is pretty cool. I'm quite fond of the middle one.
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It actually aggravates me.
The afterimage streaks should be purple, not green. What was I thinking?
Plus I didn't plan it out too well, so it really disrupts the theme, which is a bad thing to do in the center panel.
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Double posting for great justice!
I've been taking some time today to get back into spriting.
It's a skill I put a lot of time into as a kid, but stopped bothering to practice, when the world fell in love with 3D.
Anyway, I've put my first three frames into a cheap little .gif, to see how they fit, and I figured I'd toss it out.
(http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/GromBasic0_01.gif)
These tiny, simplified images are a great way to draw a lot of poses quickly, so it's good practice for sketching.
Building an entire sprite sheet also helps get a feel for the way a character moves.
If I don't land a job, or see something shiny, I'll expand this into a longer (and higher frame rate) sequence, and maybe add some other characters, too.
It's equally probable that I'll go and work on my card set (which has been re-thought to the point it doesn't use any of the cards I've posted) or something new.
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Ooo...
What is "spriting?"
Making a moving image out of a bunch of imobile ones?
I tried to do that once... XD
I didn't want to download anything, though, so... :P
Heh.
It's neat.
*Laugh!!!* :D
It'd be neat to see more, whatever you're doing. :)
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Spriting is making sprites.
2D images for use as computer graphics.
It implies precision pixel art, but I've cheated a bit and used Paint.NET's line tool.
I'm using a default color palette, in order to evoke the feel of an older sprite, but I don't think that would actually be necessarily nowadays.
I probably won't use these for anything. I'm just in it for the nostalgia.
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Heh. :D
Well, I like it, nonetheless.
Hm... does it have a theme among the 100 Themes?
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Um... maybe?
I'll assign it to one of the hard ones, later, if it ever get's done enough to feel like it's worth counting.
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Double posting! Ha! :P
I'm back in the game, with "67%' (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/Jetassault.png)!
I've been working on this since before the spriting project (--which isn't yet definitely canceled, though I might learn flash or something, before I go back to that, which I'm not presently planning to do.)
A lot of experiments have gone into this, and not all of them were successes, but I learned a lot, and that was the actual point, so I can't really call this a failure either.
Artemis returns with her own action scene, and has broken her previous record. She managed to get mistaken for a man before I even uploaded the pic.
How do you tell with armored gun-borgs, anyway?
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Hm...
The perspective is a lot of fun. You're always doing really neat things, with those. XD
Maybe it's in the build and the face.
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The armor didn't come out as bulky as planned. Idealally there shouldn't be any "build" as such.
I've got some ideas about where I went wrong on the face, too. though it's hard to explain without making a new version of the image with different layers toggled.
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Heh. =J
It's neat all the same.
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It's been to long since anybody around here uploaded any art, so I'm going to get the ball rolling.
Mother Nature (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/FireyPast.jpg) is actually a drawing of one of Tim's characters, from the Shadow Wolf game we're developing.
Even though Mitz Aeori, the vengeful forest sprite, isn't one of the characters I've been asked to animate, I got inspired by his back-story and drew this.
Don't treat this like cannon or plot spoilers or whatever, as I don't think he even had guns at the time of the fire. This is basically fan art.
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Heh, non-canon, sure, but still awesome.
Of course, it could be an entirely different forest burning in the background, then it might even manage to be canon.
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--Or he could be fighting a giant, cyborg dragon.
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Heh. This is true...
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Hey, that's really neat. ;D
I don't know what that backstory is, obviously, but now I'm interested... :P
Geez, I really should do something... XD
But today was the first and only day I actually get almost completetly at my expense all SB. XD
Otherwise it's the ten hour days at the tree nursery, church or Track and such. Heh. :P
Today I came from my friend's birthday celebration and went to a Children's Church teacher's meeting. That was all. The rest was spent sleeping and looking at thinkgeek.com and other things on the Internet. XD
Oh, and I did some work on the sprite critter that I said I would do...
Heh...
Sorry 'bout all that delay. I'll try and make more time for that.
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Hey, I'm working 10 hour days and failing to deliver a steady stream of sprite, too.
DW just can't find good help these days.
Of course, if he could afford to pay us, we wouldn't need jobs. :P
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Yeah. No rush, though. I've got a lot of work to do, myself, as well.
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*Laugh!!!* XD
I would still be in school, though. :P
Hahaha.
Okay.
Well, you don't have to be worried about being swamped, at least. ;D
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..And I'm just compulsively drawing, as always. :U I really need a better job...not many people, where I live, are willing to pay a freelance photographer. (mostly because I KNOW everybody, in town..and they expect me to do it, for free)
Seriously though, Blood. I envy your ability to draw guns. Really. Think you could spare some of that talent?
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I don't know how to take that, since I look at this and all I see is that the perspective on the far pistol is all wrong. Look! The body is lopsided in a way that makes no physical sense.
If you want to draw guns, it's important to find some referen ce (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=gun&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) materia l (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=SMG&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0).
Find models (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=thompson+m1&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) that have shapes (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=pistol&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) and lines (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=AK&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) that work with the sty le (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=SPAS+12&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) you (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=snub+nose+revolver&aq=0&aqi=g8g-m2&aql=&oq=snub+nose&gs_rfai=&start=0)use, and draw each of them in painstaking det ail (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=spas+12&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0). Then go back and draw progressively more stylized versions of each of your choices.
I made Mitz's pistols really boxy, because in the game,they are just gray squares, that sit on top of his hands, and I wanted to keep him consistent with DW's art, even though the background is a mish-mash of styles. Guns like this are a lot easier to draw if you use a horizon line and a set of vanishing points.
Edit:
Actually, for your style you'll probably want something with an even more organic outline. Weapons based on the french FAMA S (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=enf&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=Famas&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0)'s composite plastic casing (such as the P90 (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=P90&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) and the OICW (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=OICW&aq=f&aqi=g3g-s1g2g-m2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0)) would be good candidates.
Rifles (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=rifle&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) in general have softer curves than (semi) automatic pistols and compact sub-machine guns, which lean towards the box on a handle design that I favor. This is doubly true of civilia n arms (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=.22+rifle&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0), but breaks down when you get o ut (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=lever+action&aq=f&aqi=g6g-m4&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) of modern (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=flintlock&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0) weapons (http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=blunderbus&aq=f&aqi=g4&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0).
Edit(more): Why do I keep getting extra spaces inside my "url" tags?
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Hmm...don't know why your links are doing that. It looks right in the editor, but the page source definitely has extra spaces.
If I had to make a guess in the dark, I'd guess that it's a conflict of Google images code with Google ads code, but I really wouldn't know.
I'll look into it more, later. For now, I'm off to work on cars.
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Ooo...so many shiny guns. I always search for references, but I think some of my problem, is I just didn't know what to search for. I've just been drawing glocks, tommy guns, and flintlocks. So this is nice. c:
I'm going to stare at these all day, and do sketches. Get some practice in.
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Both of you should definitely do those things.
I'm going to get cleaned up, and then I'm going to make some art for this thread.
EDIT:
Wow, that took a bit longer than I expected.
Anyway, it seems like the better I get, the more I see the flaws in my work. Still, it's better than Standing Still. (http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/guns.jpg)
Fox's comments got me thinking about guns, so I drew a bunch of them.
It was hard to pick a theme to put this one on, but between the static nature of the layout, and the disturbing repetitiveness of the history of warfare and weapons advancement, I thought this was suitable.
A couple of other titles tempted me, but I wanted to save them for something more worthy.
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I'm bumping this, because I'm not sure you all noticed the update, since I opted to edit, rather than double post.
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Heh. :D
Wow... that's really detailed/thourogh. Heh. Neat. ;D
Hm...
I need to study weapons so I can understand them and how they look/work... :P
But maybe when I have more time. XD
What do you suppose you will do next?
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I don't know.
I was actually thinking about doing some League of Legends fan-art.
The real draw of the game is the plethora of cool looking avatars.
I'm thinking Kassadin versus Cho'goth. I'm not sure how to depict such a battle, but I bet it would look awesome if I actually came up with something.
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Anything involving Cho'goth has to include spikes. Lots of them.
Come to think of it, I still haven't seen Kassadin in a fight. Weird.
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Heh. :D
Neat.
What theme would that fall under?
Or would you figure that out, once you're done?
(That's what I did at times... XD )
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Okay, so this isn't exactly LoL fan art, but it is inspired by the sorts of people you meet there. The vast majority of folks get it right, but every now and then you get a newbie who thinks he's hot stuff and can't accept that his opponents are just better than he is.
(http://www.forumsigs.com/users/Felblood/NurfRommel.png)
The hardest part of making this was finding a pic of Patton that I could be sure was public domain. Now I know why these became so common a couple of years ago.
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*Laugh!!!* :D
Fun stuff. :P
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Okay. That made me smile. :U