Art for Tales of the Setting Sun

[doofus-01]

Two more rebels that I'm working on. There's clearly much shading to be done.

[doofus-01]

And shading for one of them.

[doofus-01]

And for the other. Some touch-ups to both are needed, but the big stuff should all now be done.

[doofus-01]

I'm going to give the conscripts at least one pair of generic portraits. I'll have versions for the armor-types, I won't draw the weapons and shields though, that would be too many images. So, basically 4-5 versions of about two portraits. This is a start: female conscript with no armor and with (unshaded) leather armor.

[perseo]

Well, I'm not here to remember you how good you are XD... anyway I don't like the hair, I don't understand its behaviour... it's pretty unnatural for me, it seams like doing a strange twist before falling on her right shoulder.

[doofus-01]

The image is kind of unbalanced (or something, it looks wrong right after I flip it), and you're right, the hair is not helping. I marched on with the leather armor, and gave her a haircut which should help.

[perseo]

Now it makes sense (at least for me). The image looks quite strange but this is because she's bearing and invisible shield, after drawing it I guess it would look pretty nice.

[doofus-01]

Those portraits are on hold for now. I'm going for a signpost. One was started here: http://forum.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?p=399786#p399786 but it looks like it just petered out. The conversation about the text seemed overly complicated, I just scratched random markings, maybe it's adequate.

[doofus-01]

Ogres are a common enemy in this campaign, and even though they don't have any intelligent dialogue, they need a portrait. The pants etc. of the mainline ones don't really fit, so I'm making my own version. A monstrous bald guy in leather scraps might make sense, but might be too cliche. So a hairless caveman is where this is going, though I'm having second thoughts. In any case, I'm trying to avoid making him look like an orc or neanderthal, but still not a goofy/scary pet like Lordbob's version.

[doofus-01]

Upon further review, I realize he is using that spear like he's at a karaoke bar. This should be a better pose. (And it's partially shaded).

[Wussel]

Great art! There is a tool to bend patterns to make them look more like natural cloth. In gimp 2.8 it is called cubicle transformation. It would work great for shoulders and hips. Process is: first bend a piece of pattern, than cut it in the shape you need it. Extremely useful.

I had trouble seeing the chakrams. They are actually transparent with no outline. The transparent halo did not help me. I tried out of curiosity. I put a black 1 pix outline and a reflection star on top and a white background underneath to kill transparency. The thing is now 3 pix thick. I sent you the xcf in case you like it and an ingame shot. I am sure you can come up with that yourself. I case you like to hide the chakram, please ignore.

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[doofus-01]

I just used the chakram from mainline "projectiles" images, I didn't actually draw them. It was a place holder, and you are right, it is not very visible on the ground.

I didn't know about cubicle transformation, I'll have to check it out. Thanks. EDIT: I don't see anything by that name, a google search "gimp cubicle transformation" just turned up this forum post... Must be a mistranslation or something.

[doofus-01]

The male conscript portrait, no armor. The other variants are based off of this. The arms are a little short, but not enough for me to want to change it.

[Wussel]

Awesome. I think the arms are perfect. The chest is a bit big. But that might be workout, because he is a cool conscript!
Keep up the good work!

[doofus-01]

I'm not making a whole faction of them, but there are some centaurs in this. They might even talk at some point, but they are mostly just disorganized foes. This is the basic one.