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  • #16689

    Dionne Jinn
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    Thanks, headless. It is stange to look at the picture with a different computer. The colours are all a little bit different…

    Anyway… Here is my hair design for the contest.
    HairContest.png

    #16831

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    Okay… Here is what my tired mind came up with yesterday after first going to watch the Hobbit and then coming home and watching Dances With Wolves on telly. I somehow started to think what kind of a story you might get from using the story elements from the Western in a story set into a fantasy world.

    Dwarfs would replace the Sioux/Lakota tribe (the “good Indians”), orcs/goblins would – of course – be the Pawnees (the “bad Indians”), Kicking Bird would be the dwarf king and Stands with a Fist an elven girl rescued by dwarfs from their common enemy. I’m not yet sure who Dances with Wolves would be, probably a human ranger…

    ElfAndDwarf7.png

    Oh, and while I openly identify the sources of my inspiration here, I don’t believe this is a copy-violation because dwarfs and elves and orcs are pretty universal nowadays, and the story line I’ve been using from Dances with Wolves isn’t really that original in the first place.

    #16862

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    I’m surprised no one has told me yet that it has been done. Foolish me! It was done by R. A. Salvatore, of all writers! Only he had a human woman and an elf ranger. And not just an elf ranger, but a dark elf ranger. I realized this about ten seconds after I turned my computer off last night, but was too tired to turn it on again so I could point it out.

    It still escapes me why I didn’t think of Bruenor – Catti-Brie – Drizzt combination being essentially the same than the idea I had. Geez, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read Dark Elf Trilogy and Icewind Dale Trilogy, so I should have noticed sooner. Oh, well, it is still not copyvio, because as I said the story line I’m thinking is not that original…

    Here is an updated picture.
    ElfAndDwarf12.png

    #16870

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    Vol. #3. I’ve started zypping the pic (and started to regret choosing to do so!), but I’m not half done yet. Current number of layers is 250 and counting

    http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/008/e/4/elf_and_dwarf___wip_by_dionnejinn-d5qu8na.png

    #17061

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    Okay. Uhm… This is the current (and could be the final) version of that elf-dwarf image I’ve been working on… Current number of layers is 406, which is my new record (almost doubling the previous one, which was something over 200) and over 280 of those are only used for zypping…
    http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/011/e/6/elf_and_dwarf___ocd_edition_by_dionnejinn-d5r4tzw.png

    Note to self: do not do zypping on any Sandokan pictures ever!.

    EDIT: I apparently can’t stop tinkering with this image. Now there is 410 layers!

    #17085

    Scatman
    Member

    AHHHHHHH she is caught in a ZYPPING TRIP!!She is ZYPPING her face off!!!I know the feeling all too well!

    #17446

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    Yes, she is, Scat! And blaming Zyp for ever creating the technique in the first place… Nah. Not really. It makes images look good, but is damn frustrating to do on a large pic.

    #17447

    Weilyn
    Member

    Once again you push the boundaries for what the machine is capable of.
    Awesome work! Herrejävlar, it’s freaking awesome!

    #17470

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    Tack ska du ha, Weilyn. Thank you.

    #17507

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    After noticing that we have OCD today, I put this out here even when it is not really ready. I’ve seen some amazing cover designs around HM lately, and decided to try one for Sandokan set… Currently I’m working on the missing faces and thinking if I should add some kind of decorative element between the blue and black background elements.

    SandokanCover16-1.png

    #17510

    Kaylin88100
    Participant

    Very nice! My only issue is that the font is a little hard to read – particularly the last word, of which I can only decipher half the letters.

    #17511

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    The final word is “Mompracem”, but you are right. The pattern combined to letters make it a bit hard to read.

    #17528

    Hammerknight
    Participant

    I almost always put color 1 and color 2 to 0% transparent, I think it looks better and makes it easier to read.

    #17809

    Dionne Jinn
    Member

    This is something I’ve wanted to do with HM3 for a long time. Finally got to try it…

    There is this old Finnish song (I think it was our Eurovision song contest entry way back before I was even born, or something) I remember from very young age. It is called “Neidonryöstö” (literal translation would be something like “Abducting a Maiden”) and tells a story of two riders trying to escape. Here is my very bad attempt to translate the lyrics of the chorus, which acted as the inspiration for the following image:

    “Two horses are crossing the stream
    Two riders are growing tired
    Maiden’s hand touches him
    Silent man laughs

    Two horses are crossing the stream
    One way, one morning
    The water splashes in the stream
    Land shines in midsummer”

    http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/dionne-jinn/2013/01/KaksiRatsua7-1.png

    EDIT: Okay, if I said my translation was bad, this is even worse!

    EDIT2: Here is an alternate version, with blue sky:
    KaksiRatsua8AlternateColour-1.png

    #17827

    Weilyn
    Member

    Amazing work! I especially love the posing and the water effects!

    Pretty cool song, too.

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