Storn Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithcurtis Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nato Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Pretty cool pic Storn. One of your best color pieces. That's a pretty scary chic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herolover Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Mr. Cook, have you ever considered comic books? Just curious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted June 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirViss Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Re: Fantasy art What makes that pic worse isn't that the tentacled woman is pretending to be human' date=' it's that the victim in the water is only a little girl. [/quote'] It could be a halfling... but it's still disturbing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'Tooth's Girl Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Re: Fantasy art What makes that pic worse isn't that the tentacled woman is pretending to be human' date=' it's that the victim in the water is only a little girl. [/quote'] 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'Tooth's Girl Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Re: Fantasy art Oh, GREAT PICTURE by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_tamer Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 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. version 1 version 2 Next we have Dehna, a shadowy rogue. version 1 version 2 These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Re: Fantasy art Yep, v2 are definitely more vibrant and richer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: Fantasy art 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted December 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: Fantasy art 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. And here is a private commission that was done completely under the newer settings. 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! These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: Fantasy art Yeah, on a different computer now, but the new batch looks pretty good. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Re: Fantasy art As an aside' date=' 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! [/quote'] You aren't the only one! The above is precisely what I was thinking!!!! Oh, and V2 is zounds! better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Re: Fantasy art This is the weapon I designed and then commissioned from the talented Wen-M. 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. [ATTACH=CONFIG]37678[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted December 25, 2010 Report Share Posted December 25, 2010 Re: Fantasy art This is the weapon I designed and then commissioned from the talented Wen-M. 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. [ATTACH=CONFIG]37678[/ATTACH] well, I like it, but I'm biased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted December 25, 2010 Report Share Posted December 25, 2010 Re: Fantasy art This is the weapon I designed and then commissioned from the talented Wen-M. 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. well' date=' [i']I[/i] like it, but I'm biased. I like it too, and I can't claim bias... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalin_McRally Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Re: Fantasy art This is the weapon I designed and then commissioned from the talented Wen-M. 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. [ATTACH=CONFIG]37678[/ATTACH] I love the warm light that it's emnating from it, makes me think of how magical christmas was when i were little! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Re: Fantasy art 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Re: Fantasy art Had Log-Man's Draenei Huntress done up all fancy like and finally got around to making it fit Lexae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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