Outsider Art for Bad Moon Rising

[Zerovirus]

The helmets are really tempting me to see if I can't fuse them into Chaos somehow too... Nice work.

[doofus-01]

Thanks, guys.

I think I'm almost finished with these. I gave the dogs a branch that goes up to level 2. I'm not sure what it does yet, but I remember seeing a picture of a dog that was used to fight horsemen by running under the horses and burning their stomachs. I can't seem to find the right google keywords now, so I don't have a link. Anyway...

[doofus-01]

Trying to keep from getting too rusty at this. This is for one of the guys in the second (real) scenario of BMR part 2. I may have him show up in scenario Royal Rumble as well.

[Leid]

It looks cool, but I think that the spearhead is too little.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Why? Spearheads are supposed to be small. The smaller, the easier to pierce through things, generally. Make it too big and it's heavy, unwieldy, and like pushing a hammer into someone. Might bruise them up, but that's about the extent of it. It's the same reason real warhammer heads were the size of a regular construction hammer. Force concentrated on a smaller surface area = more damage.

[bigkahuna]

Why? Spearheads are supposed to be small. The smaller, the easier to pierce through things, generally. Make it too big and it's heavy, unwieldy, and like pushing a hammer into someone. Might bruise them up, but that's about the extent of it.

That would be the case if it was TOO big, like the size of a trowel. A bit bigger would be nice though, because next to that huge scimitar/sword, the little spearhead looks a bit silly.

[Tet]

The sprites are awesome.

The ranger is really great.

A little request would be to shift him up inside the frame and paint him to the hips.

Thanks in advance.

[doofus-01]

Thanks. The spear was OK width, but it could have been longer. The sword was too big, I can't draw curved swords, it seems.

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Tet, I don't see why the cropping needs to be adjusted. Sorry.

[Fog]

It dosen't look like the wolf pelt is resting on his head, it seems like it is part of it. I think it is caused by the top of his skull being cut off, although I am probably wrong. On a totally unrelated not, you're not done shading him I presume?

[doofus-01]

It dosen't look like the wolf pelt is resting on his head, it seems like it is part of it.

He's wearing it sort of like a mask or helmet, rather than a hood or cap. Practical? No, but I do not care.

On a totally unrelated not, you're not done shading him I presume?

I'm not. I'd rather have a lot of half-shaded portraits than one or two masterpieces.

I usually keep working on the shading long afterwards, 20 minutes here - 20 minutes there. For example, I recently updated the phantom queen, who is probably some number of pages back in this thread because I drew her a long time ago.

[doofus-01]

The ranger gets a friend. Some of the shading is minimal.

[thespaceinvader]

I'd be inclined to use a traditional pommel with a D-ring attached to it if you want to run a string through the pommel (though I don't think that would be terribly practical...) - the currentversion looks at first glance like you've simply majorly borked the perspective. it took me two looks to get how it works, and i still can't shake the initial impression that i'm seeing the bottom of a round hilt. Otherwise nice =)

[Frogger5]

I can see what you mean.
One problem I can see is that it looks like the light is coming from his left. And yet there isn't any drop shadow from the shield, giving the impression of flatness.

[doofus-01]

Thanks. I'll get around to finishing that thing eventually.
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I'm trying to get some appropriate terrain for the Primevals, it's mostly for Trinity, but it shows up in a spot or two of Bad Moon Rising. I will try to change the castle (but not keep) columns so they look less like trashcans, but I'm not sure what that would be yet. I drew over the drake villages, but I don't think they look too similar anymore, aside from being made out of big stone blocks.

[StDrake]

interesting, but won't that mesh floor get mixed up with keeps? easy to confise them