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total orange, the total recal mashup with clockwork orange...
the background somehow reminds me of darth vader's helmet, at least the eyes.

is this even possible with smf? if yes, then yes please

@ProgZmax: maybe you should paint the reflection of the light from the lighthouse in a different angle as it now is in line with the rifle and my first though was smoke from the gun
Except this inline stuff is planned, reading about all the golden ratios and magic thirds and stuff, but now seems like a time to change this painlessly.

I seldomly use my phone to surf the forums, but yes, then I also wish for a link to the forumindex when clicking on the header, rather than going to ags mainpage as the other forumindex buttons are really small on the phone...

As I was struggeling with this some time ago too I added a new image to the module wiki page. Feel free to link and/or use it whenever the question arises.

Can we see the original footage for your avatar?

+1

nice!
The last small picture could need a 3x-4x resized image under it.

opinions, critiques and other in order of appearance: (related to the first sketch posted in the thread)

miguel: The monster design is very interesting, a creepy face and a reptilian body, this give the chillz. the tail looks a bit short and is formed in a strange way. The arm on the right looks a bit thinner than the one on the left. For the technique, I wouldn't have drawn in that much detail in a pencil sketch as you just have double the work when painting it in whatever program you use for it, see stuff on mordalles' stuff.

Misj': Very nice comnposiion of the whole scene, Hard to find anything to criticize, so let me say the 4 legs irritate me a bit in the sense that I'm having a hard time imagining if they all grow out of the same hips or if the demon has a goat/horse likle body. And a crazy idea for improvement: maybe you find the time to make one (or all) of the windows from stained glass and have some really interesting colors and lightings in there... and you're crazy with ALL these clothing designs.

dactylopus: interesting perspective and you can already feel the raw movement of the monster coming at the viewer. Don't forget to give all the fingers these spikey nails. I'm quite interested in what environment you put the monster.

cat: There is a really nice dynamic in the movement of the waterdragon, but as I see things, he won't be breathing fire There is something not that fitting in the colorscheme in your sketches, seems to bright and high of contrast but it's onyl a sketch, so let's see where you take it.

loominous: very ambient atmosphere and great volumes in the sketch but the character doesn't seem that monsterish at all to me, but I'm still very interested in your progress on this piece.

ProgZmax: Cool concept you got there. make good use of the 3 stages of lighting with the lighhouse in the background, the fire and some other light for the sniper in the foreground. The giant lobster will be covered by chtulu, so maybe move this beast over to the right between the lighhouse and the fire. Also this needs lots of waves and lightning.

waheela: what an insane idea, a crocodile monster with some human appearance playing cards (probably cheating, the monster it is) on a graveyard. for the colored version light is coming diffusely from the front, maybe try to set the lightsource to the left side and light everything from the side. just try it for a quick sketch.

nihylist: this is a very threatening atmosphere without a really visible monster but you can already sense danger lurking inside these plant/creature cysts. Maybe don't have a background suggesting it is a crater but rather have some fading into endless misty distance. and maybe have some real tentacely monster come out of one of the crater cysts.

Mordalles: This is very cool looking and very detailed already but differently detailed than miguels so you are not doing so much redundant work when coloring and setting lighting. I really don't know what to criticize here or what to say except, rock on!

Cerno: The left side of the dragonwing looks a bit short and unthreatening compared to the other side. The legs seem to have one limb too much, except this is the unnatural monstery look you are going for, then flesh it out and make it look really disturbing I don't quite know what the circle in the topleft will become but I like beeing surprised... sometimes.

Andail: I love scifi so this setting already has me, cool perspective. Maybe some more houses and other cars withs lights on and traffic lights will be needed to give the scene more depth but this is just a sketch by now.

selmiak: great that you finally came around to write something about every piece, now kick your own ass and continue!

SookieSock: Great Shadow of the colossus meets lord of the rings vibe there, I just don't see this monster running or attacking with these feet, but they sure are fitting for the treemonster. the mountain background made me think that the scene sure would look awesome in a snowstorm.

Snarky: The perspective and the weird grin gives a nice creepy mood. Dunno if I would be more frightened to see this at nighttime with the fullmoon in his back or at noon fully lit from the sun on the back and casting a huge shadow.

Kasander: Really cool, like I said in the first thread already, just some minor lighting issues.

Ben: it's really small to tell much, but the atmosphere seems alright, don't get it to warm and comfy though, this is a spikey monster...


wohah, quite some entries here, now I can finally read other's opininons on others and see if my estimates and advices are somehow related. And draw some more. Or over the weekend...

[selmiak:]

Sketch after week 1


after you all bring opponents and even priests in I'm thinking about adding another thing or person too but the monster will still be based on the sketch of course.

previous post in previous thread




some more painting and refining the monster sketch

A WIP. I hope to have given this beast a more dynamic, aggresive stance. The nose is just for teh lulz. Lightsource is also clear. Still unsure what to with the upper right part...
and how can I make this cave look more moist?

    selmiak:
Not scary, but a nice comical touch.

selmiak:
That monster looks kind of cute, I can't help it. It might be the mouth or the "what's up?" kind of face. Don't know if that's what you were aiming at.

I hope I got rid of that hypnotoad resemblance with these skribbelings

and since drawing penises on your monster is en vogue atm I added a mouthpenis. I don't know if it will stay though

Also added a very sketchy human, but I have no clue on his stance. I want him to hold a sword and a torch for additional lighting but having both sword and torch visible in a more or less natural approaching stance seems harder than I thought.

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/60aUC9k.jpg[/imgzoom]

I'm still partial to this version
http://youtu.be/cvyGiVE3moI

Let's all click this link 50 times a day and then click the space guy related video on youtube and ben and grundy will appear as a related video to the ISS captain and will bring awesome to the world

Enter The Void. Into The Void, I forget.

Enter the Void is correct!

Or maybe we could have a TV series.

you mean like game of thrones? Or do you mean with less boobies?

the read hair maybe

run lola run.

Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind. I like linking the questions by theme, a la University Challenge! I'm going to have to use internet pics, so no cheating...

whatever you say, but yes, it's your turn...

Kasander this is pretty impressive. I'd say keep the opponent in or the pose really makes no sense. Also the light on the feet is a bit off, the one foot closer to the lightsource is darker.

it's small

but the eye cursor looks cool and fitting for a horror game, but yeah, the usefulness is rather not there.

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/v0rE1IS.png[/imgzoom]

another picture of a guys on his face...

gemini rue?