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Hmm, can do.
As for something of mine, how about Lady Hummingbird?
She’s a blind archer and assassin with expensive tastes. Maybe replace the chain mail with something less noisy? Feel free to make your own interpretation of the concept, I’m not fully satisfied with my take.
Here’s a halfling conjurer I made for another acquaintance.
I’ve been playing around with softer line colors a lot recently. I think they lead to some pretty interesting results.
Also, as a bonus, here’s my original sketch.
And THAT is why you ask for clarifications.
This is a DnD character portrait for a friend of mine.
Damokros here is half-man, half-tiger, half-priest, half-warlock. That’s a lot of halves! He’s also all trouble.
CantDraw’s post disappeared? It says he made the latest post in this thread, but I can’t see anything. Weird.
Here’s a little picture series about my Heromachine ogre design was made.
Started with the body. It’s important to get the ogre’s body type right! Only a coward would make an ogre who is not big and fat and strong.
Arranged the ogre into a sitting pose. Like herding cats. Also gave him some fabulous hair.
Gave this guy some body hair (you gotta give ogres some body hair, regardless of gender, else why are you even making an ogre?), some fantastic accessories and even some clothes for taste. Also started color-coding the pieces for later.
Gave this boy an axe and pinkish hue. Ogres are fantasy creatures, make them look fantastical.
Removed the masking lines and made a campfire, some other adjustments. One major thing I did was changing the line colors for all items slightly, away from black and into slightly brighter territory. This gives the whole design a slightly softer feel.
Removed the pointless ankle guards and changed his hand position to emphasize his philosophical side. This dude is just a regular everyday normal ogre who likes talking and looking fabulous, not a warchief or anything. Sure, he’s got an axe, but it’s more of an accessory. If he wanted you dead, he’d just just eat your head.
Gave him a chest guard like the other ogre had. It’s neat and practical and you can hang pouches from it. Also, it makes him look a little less naked.
Made a background. It’s just you and him, talking in his cave. Super romantic.
<p style=”margin: 0px; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif;”>Started working on the shading. The outside world needs to look really murky since it’s nighttime and it’s far out of focus.</p>
The fire shines really brightly on his body, so the shading’s got to reflect that, pun intended.
Here’s the final piece again. Added some big gradients to make the rest of the cave darker and the area around the fire a lot brighter.
So here’s an ogre dude. He likes to talk philosophy! You might also think he’s a chief or something because of all that jewellery, but he’s just something of a dandy.
He’s from the same culture as my previous ogre.
Nice! I get a real swashbuckling vibe from that picture.
In return, here’s my take on your “old Spanish dress”. It’s admittedly not quite the same outfit, more of a flamenco dress, but hey, I go where inspiration takes me.
Here’s the original, for reference.
EDIT:
I changed the shading on the skirt a little bit to make the shading a bit easier to see, especially on mobile devices.
So here’s a breakdowh of how Agent Albatross was made.
Started out trying to make a completely different character, a charismatic pacifist who had lost her arms.
Stole her boots from this… vampire pirate guy, whatever his deal is.
Could not make the pose work as well as I hoped, so I started reworking the design into a sailor type. Rather than her arms, she had lost a leg.
The pose still wasn’t quite right and didn’t seem balanced. So I tweaked the angles and swapped her legs.
Once I got the pose like I wanted it, I started working on the colors and the background.
The stars needed some work. I added twinkling to cover up the biggest ones, which looked a little out of place. I also added several gradients to break the monotony and create a rather pretty view of space.
Started working on the shading, one item at a time. Breaking the process into smaller pieces like that helped my sanity.
Once the shading was done, I saved the image and immediately closed the window so I wouldn’t be tempted to make further tweaks or changes.
I deleted most of the in-progress saves I had of Agent Parrot, but I did save the original sketch I based it on. So here’s at least a little look at how it changed.
The original name for the character was going to be Agent Boa, but I wasn’t satisfied with my attempts at making a snake headdress, so she became a parrot.
I guess it’s alright. I can be a bit overcritical of my own works. I feel it just didn’t live up to the other knights in originality.
That being said, here’s agent Parrot.
One of the very few people in the world who know the forests and jungles of the Empire better than Lady Anaconda, agent Parrot is a great asset to the resistance and to the many refugees she guides to safety. Unfortunately, she’s also something of an asshole and barely anyone tolerates her presence for longer than they absolutely have to. Still, she would never side with the Empire and especially resents Lady Anaconda for reasons that might very well be related to her missing eye.
