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Re: in the spirit of christmas!

next up, Gaias Minions, Happy Christmas!

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Thanks muchly, Dr. Dee, Elegy looks good -- well, no, actually she looks a bit cadaverous and menacing, an element that didn't show up in any of the other pics of her I have. And my first reaction was surprise...but different views of Elegy by different artists is what I was after, so NO! no re-do necessary or even considered (as if, you silly person!).

 

I particularly like the eyebrow-whiskers (which you managed to keep from looking like those animé eyebrows), and the way the pic hints at her strange hands with their non-human conformation. And I like the overall pic a lot, though I had to look at it several times to realise that; this is a more alien Elegy, not as pretty but a lot more unsettling.

 

Actually, as her player, I hadn't ever realised she might look alarming...but given the way I described her -- her colouring, her build, her strange eyes, teeth and hands -- then yes, she is on the scary side of uncanny. And you're the first of five artists (and a player!) to notice that. Well done, Dr. Dee, and thank-you again; this pic wasn't what I expected, but it was what I wanted.

 

Oh, and Happy Christmas to you too!

glad you liked her! i wanted to make her look alien, avoiding my first instinct which was, shamefully, to do a purple starfire.

the idea was to try to look on her with human eyes, but to try to get over the feeling that she would be just as unsettled by any meeting...

then again, i can over-think stuff sometimes

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Dear DrDestiny (may I call you DrDee?):

 

I've been admiring your posted work, particularly the Sapphic Neko and Professor Madison Square. There's a captivating quality of personality (individuality, non-generic-ness...realism?) and movement in your pics, and especially in those two. They look ready to step out of the screen.

 

I'm coming to this thread rather late, but please DrDee, may I have a Christmas present too?

 

My character's name is Elegy....

 

Elegy is a humanlike alien, who grew up alone on a dim and temperate graveyard world called Shanghalla, surrounded by the graves and monuments of great heroes of many races. Some of the heroes were laid to rest in "burial ships", small spacecraft that carried the dead to Shanghalla from other worlds...and some of the burial ships had computers, Artificial Intelligences, that were still working.

 

Elegy grew up talking to the ancient AIs and learned many odd and out-dated skills from them...but she does not know her own race or how she came to Shangalla. She has no memory of family, friends or any place other than Shanghalla. Even her name -- Elegy -- is simply the word for a poem of mourning and memorial, applied to her by Voyager, a Daxamite AI with a artistic bent.

 

Elegy has violet eyes with large pupils, and very long, flowing lilac hair. Her teeth are small and pointed, like a ferret's teeth...for like a ferret, she's an obligate carnivore. She eats mostly the small mammals and fish that also live on cool and shady Shanghalla.

 

And though Elegy is human-like, she is NOT a human.

 

Her skin is the dark, dark indigo of a 'clear purple' icicle pansy, and velvety as a pansy's petals (not glossy). She has eyelashes, but instead of "normal" eyebrows, she has a small cluster of long, fine whiskers above each eye. These look just like the whiskers -- or vibrissae -- above a house cat's eyes, and they work the same way.

 

Elegy is less than five feet tall (less than 1.5m), but she is so slender and long-limbed that she seems much taller. (Her very long hair also accentuates the effect.) Her build -- slim, long-limbed, almost attenuated -- makes her amazingly flexible. Elegy's arms and legs rotate at the joints, rather than bending, which increases her range of motion but also makes her limbs relatively weak (compared to those of a human).

 

She has long fingers, six on each hand (or four fingers and two thumbs, if you don't count thumbs as "fingers"). Her two longest fingers are in the middle of her hand, with a shorter finger on each side, and then an opposable thumb on each side of that. All her fingers end in short blunt-ish claws, like a dog's claws.

 

(In D&D 3/3.5 terms, think of Elegy as having DEX 18+, a STR 7 and SPD 50ft. In HERO/Champions terms, DEX 24, STR 6 and SPD 6. Does that help?)

 

Elegy looks like an adult, not a child...but no-one could tell from her appearance exactly how old she is.

 

Elegy's personality is quite strange. She is clever and intuitive, and growing up alone on a funeral world, she reasoned that she must be dead too...a kind of "Moving Dead" guardian set to protect the "Moveless Dead" in their graves, vaults and funeral ships. And as the graveyard guardian, she has access to all the goods and offerings buried with the dead, to use as she needs.

 

As a result, Elegy dresses in bizarre and fantastic scraps of alien jewelry and funeral attire, scavenged from the funeral ships and patched together into a clothing of a sort.

 

Oh, and she's a teleporter, but doesn't know that that's what she's doing. She thinks "departing" and "arriving" is something all the Living (and presumably, all the Moving Dead) can do.

 

This is just general background description with a few physical details. Please treat it as a guideline, and not as a list of commandments! Interpret the descriptive stuff however you like; there's no 'wrong' way of depicting Elegy. I've had four different artists create pics of her, and every one of them has been different.... ;-)

next up is Elegy.

now i had fun drawing her, but i'm unsure as to how close to the mark i got - let me know, and if i'm well out, i'll put her on the 'to-re-do' list

please note the colours are quite subtle on this one, and my DevArt account may be the best place to see her

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

And what about his mouth? Is that covered by some form of cloth? It looks rather mysterious. His eyes are great though' date=' very eeevil.[/quote']

 

 

 

it seems to be kind of skull make-up on the lower half of his face, but the artists a fool, so it may just be badly done...

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread

Thanks Duster. I will be posting another commission drawing this weekend sometime and will be starting it tomorrow night.

 

Do people like seeing the pencils, or should I just post the final drawing once it is colored? I will be sending my customer a pencil proof before coloring it to make sure I didn't miss anything, so it is just as easy to post it here once it is finalized.

 

Not sure if poeple want that or think it is redundant...

i for one really like seeing your pencils first. i shy away from posting mine as they're so shoddy, and stick with finished pieces, but your pencil work is so good it deserves it's own audience

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Most provocative. [checking DeviantART account for more info]

thanks for both looking and for providing some excellent feedback - both are appreciated

next up is Volcan, Happy Christmas!

(i took a couple of liberties here, removing his giant sword (for legibility) and changing the white trim to a bone colour. sorry if that's too much)

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not connected with christmas, but rather with a personal indulgance, following on from this: http://drdestiny.deviantart.com/gallery/#Doctor-Destiny--2

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Oh my, what an incredible piece, Dr. Dee. This character is so beautiful...but also so vulgar and brutal (he's waving a thug's weapon, a BLOODY STRAIGHT RAZOR!)

 

The picture is wonderfully well executed, with marvellous detail and contrasts of colour/shape. It also invokes a whole series of unsettling psychological contrasts, with implications of the divine (the angelic wings) versus the infernal (the fiery demonic eyes), beauty versus horror, elegance versus savagery...this is great work.

 

[Whoops, upon further study I've realized that the weapon is a katana, foreshortened by the angle, and not a straight razor. I finally noticed the hilt. But the point about contrasts still stands and might even be strengthened by that; the vulgar brutality of splattering blood, the weapon of honour and aristocracy. A chaos versus law contrast.]

thank you very much

i really wish i'd put in the razor!

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

next up, with a nod to a classic Iron Man story, Yankee Daring, Happy Christmas!

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What's the concept? Avenging Angel?

all i got i'm afraid was:

I would like him to be less anime but still keep his sharp, angular face shape. his colors are pale skin, red eyes, black hair, black wings, black suit, black shoes, white undershirt with a red tie.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

thanks for the kind words

next up, Xaviex, Happy Christmas!

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after a short real-life related break...

next up, Vigor, a kind of shape-shifting-weapon-making wierdo judging by his description, Happy Christmas!

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This pose is absolutely explosive! The character looks as if he's about to erupt into violent action. The change in style seems to have worked very well for him...but I too prefer your more stylised "wobbly" style.

 

Whereabouts in the strange and mystical "world" of Cornwall are you, Dr. Dee? I ran around Cornwall with my husband some years back...though we were actually staying over the border in Clovelly, in Devon.

thanks very much

i'm in the tiny village of st.john, which is kind of in the tamar valley. 5 mins to the coast, 15mins to the moors. nice.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Adamant- A metalic brick (entire body made of metal, though otherwise human looking) that wears a fedora, sun glasses, loose black cloathing, and a trench coat. Though muscular, he doesn't look like a body builder by any stretch. He carries a metal baseball bat (while it appears to be a normal alluminum bat it is actually a rod of solid steel). If it matters, his eyes are blueish silver.

 

My group actually has many strange-looking characters, so if you want to practice on something new, I can give you a few concepts.

very sorry, but i'm not taking any more on until the christmas back-log is cleared

next up, and back to my usual style, Overdrive, Happy Christmas!

Re: Primeval

Here's the BBC Page for it: http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/320/index.jsp

Here's the Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval

 

The basic premise is that wormholes through time are appearing an random points in England. The other end of them tend to be well prehistoric, and periodically they get dinosaurs, sabre-toothed tigers, giant scorpions, mammoths, etc., coming through and providing a monster-of-the week plotline. (Once or twice, it seems that a monster from the future wandered through a future time-portal and then came forwards into the present, to provide a more exotic monster.)

 

We follow a small team of folks trying to deal with and cover up the issue.

 

 

 

The young woman is a zookeeper assistant who adopted a prehistoric lizard. She must keep her apartment very warm to coddle the creature, which provides an excuse for her to run around not wearing very much. She does also appear on missions fully clothed, though. (ETA - And, just to be kind, an article with a picture of her in the aforementioned knickers)

 

The CGI isn't feature-film quality, but I don't find it any worse than the old Doctor Who rubber suits were for their time. For tv, it's good enough to convey the story without being too distracting.

 

The overarching plot handles a rogue member of the team (who vanished into the past before the series started, and now turns up causing trouble), and another agency that seems to be collecting the creatures for its own purposes.

a better summery than mine. as a little background, the show was in development for the bbc for a long time, but was put on extended hold as the bbc didn't like it's lack of development. with the success of dr who, itv picked up the show and rushed it out in order to grab the new audience hungry for fantasy

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Very different from your usual art, but still very good.

What a monster!

well, it's actually what i'm like if i push the pencils a little further and tighten up the 'inking', but i prefer my wobbly style. the looseness just didn't work on this big pink fella tho'

Re: Primeval

for the benifit of those familiar with this series could you explain it please?

brief summary:

young woman hangs around in her apartment wearing just knickers and a vest. other team members run around in woods/mall/deserted warehouse battling varied (bad) cgi beasties. insert obscure sub-plot concerning 'time-holes' at slow points in the show.

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thanks everyone - with still in excess of 50 requests to go, i'm having to slow down the production of these. they will get done, but it's going to take a while i'm afraid

next up, Insomniac (i pushed the boat out on this one a bit)

Re: Mystic Hero in development

my own character, Doctor Destiny, now re-imagined for the forthcoming Champions Online, started out over two decades ago in my own campaign, and whilst the name was blatantly a cross between Doctors Fate and Strange, the character himseld was a kind of daredevil but with magic. not so much in the acrobatic way, but rather in the type of crime he went after. what he really was tho', was great fun to play.

if anyone's interested, a 30+ page comic strip i did as a style test can be found here: http://drdestiny.deviantart.com/gallery/#Doctor-Destiny

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread

love the energy in KNOCKOUT's pose! fantastic stuff, looking forward to seeing it inked!

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

...still wading through, with no end of christmas in sight...

next up, Neonox, Happy Christmas!

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burst of activity (and missed posting), here are Apostle, Incandescence and Silver Spirit (all a bit more classic superhero-y)

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next up, EndNewt, Happy Christmas!

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thanks

kind of glad i don't know what her back-story is other than a brief description - 'sinister little girl, scary red-riding hood'

i went for sinister & scary, but left off the hood as i thought she'd be more scary if you could see her whole face

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next up is Little Red, Happy Christmas!