Kale's up.
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Kale's up.
Mer-Anne Y. Augustus, the Valkyrie Unit, is up.
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dminer...dia/valkbg.jpg
edit: Holy fuck, I can't believe I forgot to draw her bangs. Grr...
The last is good, but I feel like it could have been better :/ If there's anything in mythology I like more than Valkyries I have yet to find it, I was hopeing for more :( Guess you've got the bar set pretty high now :P
I like it still, but I was thinking (coming into this thread) "Awesome, Fury drew a Valkyrie how can it not be the coolest thing I've seen here?!" and it wasn't your best (in all honesty). Perchance it is the angle and (I now note the comment on the lack of bangs - that might fix it up considerable though I must stress it's not bad at all) the fact that the wings on the the helm are perfectly verticle.
I hate to nit pick :( You're a great artist, best I've seen here by far, but I really have high expectations with you -_o
All of the others are flawless, Styxx and Kale are magnificent (I especially like Kale - the Foxish mask looks Uber-Cool)
:)
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EDIT: OK This>>>> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dminer...owres/valk.jpg is absolutely IT. I love it. I feel like I should be paying you. Send this design to Wolfpack studios (along with my letter) to get them to add the Valkyrie class to Shadowbane.
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*confused* Ah well...this whole thing has been pretty interesting, because I'm always surprised at which ones people think are good or bad, are where the flaws are, relative to me.
First, I may try to go back in and draw the bangs...but, there's a high chance they'd look added in, so I'm not sure I want to deal with it, espeically since I still have three more to go and a website. But, that omission aside, I thought the last pic was actually pretty good.
Tracer: Thanks for the compliments. The design you linked to is the same design in the illustration...sans bangs. So I'm not sure why you like that one so much, but are 'meh' about the "action pose". -part of it may be the angle, I think. The characters just can't stand there in their full shots, like they do in the technical drawings, so I have to think of things to do with their bodies. For Mer-Anne, I was trying to convey her being powerful, and hovering/jetting...so I tried a slightly from below angle, with one leg bent, and one receding. That turned out okay, imo, but the face and the shading for it were really a challenge, and probably what makes the technical drawing more appealing (I'm guessing). Since it's slightly turned up, and we see the underside of her nose and nostrils, plus her cheek bones set right beneath her eyes, it gives a certain vibe. It's not a very pretty angle, but she's not necessarily a "good" character in the story, so I thought something slightly sinister would be apt. Still, I think it's the weakest part.
As you can see from the pencil drawing, the wings do slant back, but from a straight on angle in the colored version, that's not noticeable.
So, thanks again. What do you think would help the main illustration?
Wow. Just wow.
Might just be the angle - I dunno what it is (all of the other chracters are great by the way) and yes the ommission of bangs too. I guess I found it hard to see the action that the angle would imply.
Okay, I just finished Chance and Nadine...I messed with the pencils, because I'm generally bad at inking small-scale images, and I think the results where pretty good. I'm actually pretty pleased with this. My main gripe is that Chance and Nadine's color schemes don't really compliment each other that well, but I think I balanced it out all right.
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dminer...a/chancebg.jpg
Expect Werewolf to ask for an avatar of Kale if he ever sees it. ;)
Chance doesn't look scarey anymore. I would make his mouth totally closed and his face relaxed, like he's a stone cold killer.
That's the impression of him I get in the first one. Other than that, everything is rendered awesome, as usual.
Chance isn't supposed to be scary. You just got a peek of that element of his personality on the cover.