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    Fantasy art

    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
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    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.

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

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

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    Mr. Cook, have you ever considered comic books? Just curious...
    I know karate, voodoo too...

    And I own a comic/game store. Take a look at Lost Worlds

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    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.
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    Re: Fantasy art

    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.
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    Re: Fantasy art

    Quote Originally Posted by DusterBoy View Post
    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.
    It could be a halfling... but it's still disturbing...
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    Re: Fantasy art

    Quote Originally Posted by DusterBoy View Post
    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.
    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!

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    Re: Fantasy art

    Oh, GREAT PICTURE by the way.

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    Re: Fantasy art

    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.
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    Re: Fantasy art

    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.

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    Next we have Dehna, a shadowy rogue.

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    Re: Fantasy art

    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.


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    Re: Fantasy art

    Yep, v2 are definitely more vibrant and richer.

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    Re: Fantasy art

    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.

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