Saturday, July 21, 2007

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Gise I need some art help..! There's been this WoW scene I've wanted to illustrate for a while now, but it's really really hard to incorporate emotion into a picture! T_T I can see it in my head just fine but it just won't come down on paper...!

Basically, Tom and I were grinding random mobs in Hellfire Peninsula, Outland. We were behind a random stone wall, with a fabric roof-thing over us, taking a break. I see the ground shake, really slow footsteps, and hear that awful sound of screeching metal - but with a ghastly evil personality about it. I swerve the camera to see the Fel Reaver walking RIGHT by us, close enough for it to be REALLY FREAKING HUGE as it always is, but far enough away that it doesn't come after us. It just walks by and I gape at it 'cause that thing scares me. Hits for WELL over 3k/hit.

And that's the scene I want. But my thumbnails keep failing dfsjifdjhuirthgreisied so I need help to do this properly T_T;
See this is the Fel Reaver. This picture doesn't do it justice as it's HUGE OH GOD.
And this is vaguely what I've been trying to achieve and failing. Note how I definitely failed at drawing the Reaver. But that's not the point :D;

Tweaked/stretched it about in Photoshop a bit, this is a bit closer to what I wanted but it's still not saying "THIS IS SCARY HO NOES!" to me @_@

Ideas?;;;

Oh and while I'm here, here's a picture I finished t'day:I'm really quite proud of it :D Started it after I hit 40 (shortly after portfolios?), worked a bit in May, and just finished it this afternoon. I used Bob's tricks on the lineart and they sototally worked.

7 comments:

Agnes Salek said...

Hurrrmmm, those thumbnails are pretty awesome mind you, but okay,

how about moving him away a bit? Have you ever played shadow of the colossus? If not you could google image some of the screenshots or something, cause i'm pretty sure the colossuses have a similar feeling to that giant.

I'll try to doodle up some help thumbnails, to maybe help you with the viewpoint and such ;D

And that finished illustrations really nice! I like the green highlights on the horsey horse :3 And when you say sketch advices from bob, which ones do you mean? You mean the steps? or something else?

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Agnes Salek said...

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005442238510080677

GRRR this should work. okay so i hope this helps. It's not that much different but i think he's a bit bigger now.

Nick Hendriks said...

Did you consider changing the big guy's pose? It could help if he looked more active than he is in your thumbnails. Cause he was approaching you, right? Not just chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool all shooting some b ball outside of the school, right? I'll try a thumb or two today.

Nick Hendriks said...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/TrickyNick1001/helpforzuzu.jpg
Quick speedpaint of a thumbnail I did. . . not sure if this is what you were going for. I think maybe if the big robo-cop isn't so stagnant looking (he's standing pretty still in your thumbs), he'll appear more menacing. Plus, colours will change the mood too.

Amanda said...

I think you did a really good job with the colouring in the last image :D It's crazy nice.

Hmm, that's a horse, right? It's neck bones don't make real life sense D: Reference I say, reference! *flails*