Outsider Art for Bad Moon Rising

[doofus-01]

Revising an old portrait, it's supposed to to be a female orc of some political power - basically not someone usually encountered in raids and battles, but it's tough times in Orc-ville. Surely it looks like a shaman or something, but just wondering if the rest is convincing. Her left arm might need to be changed.

[Wussel]

This is supposed to be the same person

About the 2 Bresdas. In my opinion the thicker neck is the main difference. Eye size is a slight issue too. I would keep the head of the first Bresda and only change the eye color to freakish. Wrinkles are not so needed in my opinion. Maybe the round thing on the neck could be kept for the primal Bresda too. I realize you keep the ear stuff (good) and the hair (maybe here small variations, if face and neck would be similar).

[doofus-01]

About the 2 Bresdas. ...

Yeah, they really don't look anything alike do they. I'll have to revisit that.

But until then, I'm still trying to spruce up BMR and think Carusoe deserves his own portrait, he just uses a generic one right now. This is the first draft.

[doofus-01]

Back to that stinking pile of crap I call "Trinity". Touch-up to Keldan, who is either a major villain, or the player's character, depending on which branch is chosen. Or which branch I get written. Either way, he is an important character, and I hope to get him done right. He's supposed to look ragged, but still dangerous.

[mnewton1]

I assume he is a Khthon but don't know the story yet. Shouldn't he have wounds on his arm, especially around the bloody cloth area, or because he is a Khthon, no? Also, his armor looks very clean and undamaged besides the two holes; doesn't feel really 'ragged'

[Crow_T]

A lot of these portraits look very clean, an easy thing to do is to add a grunge layer set to overlay (or experiment with other modes/opacities) over top of the original. Here is a quick example

[doofus-01]

I assume he is a Khthon but don't know the story yet. Shouldn't he have wounds on his arm, especially around the bloody cloth area, or because he is a Khthon, no? Also, his armor looks very clean and undamaged besides the two holes; doesn't feel really 'ragged'

Point taken on the armor not looking ragged. As for lack of wounds, the Khthon regenerate, so his wounds have healed. Also, making him a bloody mess would make it look like he was undead or at least got his ass kicked. The Khthon are more puppet masters (a la the somewhat crappy 1990's movie) than necromancer, so the living parts of him should be healthy.

A lot of these portraits look very clean, an easy thing to do is to add a grunge layer set to overlay (or experiment with other modes/opacities) over top of the original. Here is a quick example

Yeah, an overlay or multiply layer can be really helpful, you can quickly shift the intensity or color of whatever details you are adding. It also makes adjusting and erasing easier. Thank heavens I'm not trying to do this with oil paints and silver ions.

[doofus-01]

The south-seas faction of Archaic_Era (and Trinity) just have two crappy old portraits, I'm going to try to correct that. This is the first one, and I guess it is setting their "style". Her eyes seem to have gotten screwed up during the down-scaling.

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EDIT: And a not-exactly finished version of the shoreman.

[homunculus]

In my opinion the clean images look nice and I would rather call it style in the positive sense.

I would expect the sleeves to fall in the direction of gravity rather than the direction of the upper arm, though.

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about signpost in another thread:

Also, there is this nice signpost portrait in the other thread (http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 53#p533412) that I would like to use in a campaign, but preferably from among the core game portraits. Has it been considered for mainlining? One shading thing attracts attention there, the sign surface that is the same direction as the lit side of the post does not seem to get the same amount of light.

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[doofus-01]

Yeah, the sleeve should hang down, thanks.

As for the signpost, you are also right. It was supposed to be different age & wood than the post, but it is still too dark.
I don't have any plans to submit it to mainline, the discussion of fonts that would probably follow is not something I have the stomach for. But you can certainly use it if you want.
EDIT:
portrait for the healers in south-seas faction.

[doofus-01]

This is supposed to be a zombie dragon. It's based off pixelmind's dragon.

[SFault]

I would go with less saturation, more brightness and more contrast. Also I would go rather with brownish than greenish with the scales.

[Crow_T]

zombie dragon looks cool, I wonder if the scales would retain their lustre, I recall they do in some fantasy worlds?

Be careful with your arm muscles of the caller, I don't think the bicep would be rotated downward so much in that pose- something is off there

[sur.nhm]

Looking at this as a reference, it seems that there's something wrong with the angle of the neck - it looks like it breaks where the skin/scales stop and the bones begin.

[doofus-01]

I'm still trying to get this Trinity revision finished, but the WML stuff was starting to be no longer any fun, so I'm back to "painting". These are in various stages of completeness, they are for the later scenarios of Trinity. It's been a while since I drew one of these things, I got a bit rusty.