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Storn

Jun 4th, '03, 05:25 AM

This is NOT the fantasy hero cover.

It is a cover for a d20 product... but since it has a prototypical adventure party... maybe someone would find some use for it for one of their games.

Client: Open World Press
title: I'm afraid I'm not sure of the final title of the product.

keithcurtis

Jun 4th, '03, 08:01 AM

Very Cool. Took me a minute to see the poor unfortunate in the water. Very clever, and yet subtle horror. It's difficult to get that emotion across in a daylight scene.

Keith "clap-clap-clap" Curtis

Nato

Jun 4th, '03, 08:22 AM

Pretty cool pic Storn. One of your best color pieces. That's a pretty scary chic.

Herolover

Jun 4th, '03, 02:12 PM

This art is awesome. Perhaps this should be the start of a Fantasy Art thread were people could post their Fantasy Art?

HINT
HINT
HINT.

I would start off, but I have a Physical Limiations: Talentless.

Blackout

Jun 5th, '03, 05:22 AM

Mr. Cook, have you ever considered comic books? Just curious...

Storn

Jun 5th, '03, 09:04 AM

Originally posted by Blackout
Mr. Cook, have you ever considered comic books? Just curious...

sure. I wanted to be a comic artist before discovering I loved to paint in art school. And have quite a bit of theory and practice in comic pencil craft. If i can get someone to hire me to pencil, paint my own comic, I'm there.

DusterBoy

Apr 18th, '10, 12:08 PM

What makes that pic worse isn't that the tentacled woman is pretending to be human, it's that the victim in the water is only a little girl. :( :thumbdown :shock:

SirViss

Apr 18th, '10, 02:04 PM

What makes that pic worse isn't that the tentacled woman is pretending to be human, it's that the victim in the water is only a little girl. :( :thumbdown :shock:

It could be a halfling... but it's still disturbing...:shock::fear:

C'Tooth's Girl

Apr 18th, '10, 07:07 PM

What makes that pic worse isn't that the tentacled woman is pretending to be human, it's that the victim in the water is only a little girl. :( :thumbdown :shock:

I agree. It is creepy, but I like to think that it looks like the child (or small person) is still alive and the group will act to save her...if they hurry!

C'Tooth's Girl

Apr 18th, '10, 07:08 PM

Oh, GREAT PICTURE by the way. :thumbup:

name_tamer

Apr 19th, '10, 01:58 PM

Really nice piece, Storn.

If anyone is interested, this is the cover to a module by Open World Press, called World of Whitethorn - The Village of Oester. I have a copy but haven't read it - it was a free gift with a Hero store online order.

Storn

Dec 15th, '10, 06:21 AM

So, like I said elsewhere, long absence from posting up artwork. Colds, large NDA projects, laziness etc etc. But the other significant thing that happened (besides setting a date for my upcoming re-nuptials) is that I got a new monitor for my birthday. My old one was really starting to go. And I've been dumbstruck at the art that I produced on the old monitor. My Art Directors must think I have no sense of value. My new monitor has been calibrated and the artwork done on the old monitor looks AWFUL to me.

But let's have an experiment. Let's see if the new monitor is actually doing its job.... or do I have to tweak its settings even more.

So. I'm posting up some recent artwork, some of the last done on the old monitor... and then a version of the same artwork "tweaked" on my new monitor. I tried to get version 2 as close as I could to version 1 on the new monitor. Which is better, versions 1 or versions 2. Versions 1 are old monitor, V2's are new monitor. Let my public speak and chime in on what works on all the aggregate monitors out there on the intrawebs!

So first up, we have Neko in Hell. I did a pic of Neko many years ago as a private commission.... and as a bigger Xmas commission, now we have Neko going down into hell to rescue her betrothed.

version 1
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/NekoHell72.jpg

version 2
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/NekoHellIII72.jpg

Next we have Dehna, a shadowy rogue.

version 1
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/Dehna72.jpg

version 2
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/Dehna72II.jpg

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aylwin13

Dec 15th, '10, 06:43 AM

It's a bit harder to tell in the second set of pics, but the colors are definitely better in the V2's. They look grayer and washed out in the V1's.

I'm using a dinosaur-grade monitor here at work, so what I'm seeing is probably not even close to how it should look, but I'd still say the V2's are better.

teh bunneh

Dec 15th, '10, 07:16 AM

Yep, v2 are definitely more vibrant and richer.

IndianaJoe3

Dec 15th, '10, 05:42 PM

One thing that I'm seeing (on my 2-year-old 20" iMac) is that the V2 pictures are losing a huge amount of detail in the darker areas. It's particularly noticeable in the shadows under the roof in the first pic, and the cloak and left leg of the second.

Markdoc

Dec 16th, '10, 05:09 AM

For me, V2 is a clear winner. I'm not seeing a lot of lost detail and the colours are far more vibrant. Though they are almost over-saturated .. perhaps a teensy bit more brightness?

Perhaps more importantly, though, the first pic has far more depth in version 2: I didn't really grock that the characters were supposed to be in a cavern on first glance at V1 whereas it is instantly obvious in V2. The depth/contrast makes the central figures "pop" in a way they don't in V1.

As an aside, I've thought for years, that you were going for a deliberately pale, desaturated style as your signature. It only now occurs to me that might have been a purely technical effect! :)

cheers, Mark

Storn

Dec 16th, '10, 10:31 AM

My search for getting my new monitor's settings to something that works well has been ongoing. But thanks to help from Aledin over on the ArtOrder site that I started a wee little blog on this particular problem, I think I've gotten much closer to getting it nailed.

So, let's revisit Neko in Hell, now under the NEWER settings... I tweaked it to look good on my monitor and as close to what I originally wanted on the old monitor.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/NekoHellIV72.jpg

And here is a private commission that was done completely under the newer settings.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/Ferdinand72.jpg

And here is a piece that was tweaked under the new settings, but was done completely on the new monitor. This one I spent some time on, multi figures do eat up the time!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/DragonThrone72-1.jpg

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Markdoc

Dec 16th, '10, 11:55 AM

Yeah, on a different computer now, but the new batch looks pretty good.

cheers, Mark

Savinien

Dec 18th, '10, 08:58 PM

As an aside, I've thought for years, that you were going for a deliberately pale, desaturated style as your signature. It only now occurs to me that might have been a purely technical effect! :)

You aren't the only one! The above is precisely what I was thinking!!!!

Oh, and V2 is zounds! better.

Enforcer84

Dec 23rd, '10, 09:44 PM

This is the weapon I designed and then commissioned from the talented Wen-M (wen-m.deviantart.com).

It came about in a short story I wrote that involved Hermit's World of Warcraft Dwarven Priest, Ethrim.

I based it off of some comments that our guild patron Ingedee is some sort of Patron Goddess of Brewing.

37678

Hermit

Dec 24th, '10, 05:44 PM

Tom

Dec 25th, '10, 07:04 AM

Stalin_McRally

Dec 30th, '10, 06:42 AM

This is the weapon I designed and then commissioned from the talented Wen-M (http://wen-m.deviantart.com).

It came about in a short story I wrote that involved Hermit's World of Warcraft Dwarven Priest, Ethrim.

I based it off of some comments that our guild patron Ingedee is some sort of Patron Goddess of Brewing.

37678

I love the warm light that it's emnating from it, makes me think of how magical christmas was when i were little!http://www.herogames.com/forums/images/icons/icon11.png

Narf the Mouse

Dec 30th, '10, 04:04 PM

The pictures you converted look better; the new picture, not so much. You may need to get used to working with the new monitor, although that's a layman's guess.

Enforcer84

Jan 6th, '11, 07:32 PM

Had Log-Man's Draenei Huntress done up all fancy like and finally got around to making it fit :)

Lexae (http://enforcer84.deviantart.com/art/Lexae-2-192472926)

Narf the Mouse

Jan 6th, '11, 09:08 PM

Had Log-Man's Draenei Huntress done up all fancy like and finally got around to making it fit :)

Lexae (http://enforcer84.deviantart.com/art/Lexae-2-192472926)
Pretty - But I prefer practical armour on women. They look better, that way, to me.

Old Man

Jan 7th, '11, 10:11 AM

I... don't mind impractical armour on women.

Storn

Feb 16th, '11, 07:01 AM

Over at ArtBlog, there will be a series of challenges based on the fictitious "Roaring Skies" concept. Fantasy meets bikers. Although, now Jon Schindette is challenging us to come up with stuff that doesn't have ACTUAL motorcycles. But sorta gathers from that rebel, biker vibe.

I was inspired, and wanted to continue to push and play with my digital style, that I had this image in my head and had to get it out.

If anyone can use this idea for publication, let me know, we can work out a very reasonable price.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/roarskies72.jpg

Here is the link to the 2nd challenge which is upcoming and due this Sunday. I've already got some ideas down for that. Watch this space! <g>

http://theartorder.com/?p=606

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