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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Back to superheroes... back to the 70s!!! The client wanted the cheesy kung fu heroine decked out... his name is Golden Phoenix, but I kept thinking Lotus Jones...with a whole lotta waaa waaa peddle; "Her daddy was left behind in korea, her momma was all kinds of chinese kung fu take out... now, she fights crime!!!".Anyway, golden phoenix everyone....

Re: Herophile Fantasy art Continuing with my blue palette period... a Dire Wolf

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I think I have one commission before Death Tribbles... got to go back and check... I've been a bit under the weather, but finally finished this one. Continuing with my blue palette period... a Dire Wolf

Re: Character Cover Sheet Here is a thread over at the Forge that sets up the idea and then I just posted how our group Chargen session went. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18398.0

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. What is your intepertation? Doesn't really matter what I know. but if you insist... they are "nightvision" goggles. I just wanted to do something different than the hundred or so goggles I've drawn in the last few years. I originally tried more broad, sandstorm looking goggles... and didn't like the way they looked on his face, I made round circles... liked it, moved on.

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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Most of my layers are multiply. I usually have one layer on top that is my highlight layer. That is set to normal. While I still might keep my brushes less than 100%, this is where I might place a mark of color to cover up something... like a stray pencil line that I don't care for. Or that really bright highlight gleaming off of a rivet... then I might even do that at 100%. Like in the painting, the rain rivulets are done on a normal layer, with brush and pencil set at probably 75%... that layer sat above all the others, but below the foreground rain layer. Does that make sense?

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Exactumundo! This is not a new technique. This is in every Leonardo, Michelangelo, Titian, Carravagio you can think of. Xray technology can actually sift out the underpaintings of those masters. Usually they were in a Burnt Sieanna... but any monochromatic color can be used. I happened to use black, because I wanted that overbearing gothic feel and texture for teh Wachter. I just use digital as a new wrinkle (and I'm not the only one, an artist friend of mine pointed out that she thought she read that Lockwood uses a very similar technique.)

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Did some sketches during the Necessary Evil game last week. Got 'em colored. I had to redo my own character, because the good Doc's mission was to go to Atlantis to tap into the Geo Well (NE spoilers to come....) Well, this outfit, is not conducive to swimming around... despite Mr. Shoal's Atlantean Hybrid origin. Y'all might remember this outfit. So I MADE Dr. Destruction MAKE my character take on a more conducive superhero outfit. Good excuse to get into the spandex!!! And here is the new, imporved? Lucas Shoal... NE Spoiler. Now, the GM introduced Dejanelle (sp?) A fire manipulator and oracle. Who's job was to mystically channel the Geo well to knock out a V'sori battle cruiser in orbit. She really struck me as Shoal's opposite. Both are Atlantean Hybrids, he's an albino, she is more normal looking, he is water and ice, she is fire. When I asked if there was a picture of her (knowing that I had NOT done one for the publication... but I didn' do all the artwork for NE.), I was told no. Well, if I get sufficiently intrigued... a doodle is sure to come. Now, it is obvious that Dejanelle was a sacrificial lamb. But due to unselfish and heroic nature of our own Cannonball, who sacrificed his life, there is a decent chance that Dejanelle might come back. Hope so. She's got a picture now.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I penciled the art on illustration board. Then I painted it with gouache (watercolor with a binder in it so one can use it opaquely... although,most of my work on this particular work was done in layers of watered down pigment). Then I scanned it in. I set the original layer to "multiply" and then I had floating several layers (background rain, foreground rain, highlights, nightsky (also set to multiply).. and went to town. All of my photoshop brushes are usually set up to anywhere from 30 to 8o percent....so lots of more layering is created... i like those happy accidents.

Re: Herophile Fantasy art Continuing on with "moody" blue color schemes, a recent trend for me. This is for RL, a 7th Sea character with gothic, germanic, batman tendencies. The underpainting was black goauche, the color was done in photoshop.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Precisely. And I like 'em a lot. They are staying. Continuing on with "moody" blue color schemes, a recent trend for me. This is for RL, a 7th Sea character with gothic, germanic, batman tendencies. The underpainting was black goauche, the color was done in photoshop.

Re: Herophile Fantasy art oops... didn't mean it as any kinda command... just a suggestion. Yeah, poor writing on my part. That's why I"m a paint slinger and not a wordsmith.

Re: Herophile Fantasy art There are some tough things going on compositionally... that imo, could be better. Tilt the dragon more, right now, her cloak, dragon's wing are reading as the same shape conglomoration. The dragon's wings, because we can't see the full unfurling, look spindly at this head on angle. We need to read that he can support himself in the air. Just a suggestion....

Re: The things you pick up from Cartoon Network S-cryed, while not particularly well done, presents a gripping superhero origins storyline. They have good visuals, some good superhero fights, and some very good ideas... the execution of the mix just leaves me a bit cold. Stand Alone Complex: Ghost in the Shell would be the #2 game I would want someone to run for me. CSI police procedural in a cyberpunk world. Good lord, that would be a nightmare to run... but how cool if you could pull it off?!? (my #1 game I would want someone to run for me would be an court intrigue like game set in a hyped up anime Exhalted world). Big O: Secrets of Zir'an crossover world could be quite interesting too.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Hey Boddie, yeah, that guy does have a ghostbusters vibe... i think it is the tan union suit. Anyway, moving onto more commissions. Here is Torque for DW. A look that had the client using one of my own characters as a placeholder. So if y'all see some similarities... well, that is entirely purposeful.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A slightly different commission request this time. This is for 1st-place award in the Liberty Hall Writers 2005 End-of-Year Competition. The winner is "Jeraliey". Her story is titled "Little Pieces, Little Ways". I had to read the story, take a look at an awesome "character sheet"... not a RPG character sheet, but a fiction oriented sheet that I might just steal to help folks out when commissioning work. Then go to work. Liberty Hall seems like a neat place for writers. I cannot link you directly to the story due to it being up only for publishers to look at and othe NDA concerns. But if you are a budding writer, I urge you to check out what Liberty Hall is doing. Seems kinda like the Freelancers section at RPGnet, except really geared for writers instead of artists. http://www.libertyhallwriters.org/

Re: Herophile Fantasy art A commission piece from one of my own players for his own character. She is a dragon who takes elven form and is a weather witch... that is a lot of concepts to jam into one image... but I think I might have worked it out okay. Oil. 11x18

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. For a moment, he was in pastels.. but I deepened the blue because it just didn't sit on the pencils the way I wanted. A commission piece from one of my own players for his own character. She is a dragon who takes elven form and is a weather witch... that is a lot of concepts to jam into one image... but I think I might have worked it out okay. Oil. 11x18

Re: Herophile Fantasy art I posted this in my usual thread of Champions art... but since it really is more fantasy oriented... thought I would contribute. A couple of fantasy pics. First is a private commission for mr. potatohed's brother... a fantasy paladin with serious overatures to Roman centurion trappings. I particularly liked the idea that the clients had come up with of the "phantom" sword, The idea of it being broken in the character's history, but then taking on an eldritch life of its own (and hence, still useable) is just kinda cool. Then, a doodle for my own campaign, the Realms. This is Toris Bel. A character of R.'s, but hasn't been used for a long time, getting dusted off and off to have adventures in Waterdeep. Since it is a drug indictment story are, we are jokingly calling it Waterdeep Vice.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Sooo, they aih't supers. I wanted to show them off anyhow. A couple of fantasy pics. First is a private commission for mr. potatohed's brother... a fantasy paladin with serious overatures to Roman centurion trappings. I particularly liked the idea that the clients had come up with of the "phantom" sword, The idea of it being broken in the character's history, but then taking on an eldritch life of its own (and hence, still useable) is just kinda cool. Then, a doodle for my own campaign, the Realms. This is Toris Bel. A character of R.'s, but hasn't been used for a long time, getting dusted off and off to have adventures in Waterdeep. Since it is a drug indictment story are, we are jokingly calling it Waterdeep Vice.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. And another one from Speedball

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Another Speedball commission:

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. And here is a character for these forum's very own Speedball. This is Apex. Y'know what, sometimes I push and push trying to find a new pose, a different way of moving anatomy around. But sometimes, ya gotta just draw the guy standing, looking badass.

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