OotS Style Art/Fanart Showcase IV

[Abscondcrow]

Aaah, thank you smuchmuch. Tried to improve on the character a little, I promise I wont post again until someone else posts an art work. Probably.



Not sure if I made the hair better, or worse. Eh.

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Technically I'm not posting again, so
Just decided to work on the hair a bit. I REALLY like CrimsonAngel's stuff, particularly the hair, so I tried modelling this (Hair) after one of the ones earlier in this thread, with a bit of my own style (Read: Newbieness) thrown in. I'd really like some critique on it.

[Kymme]

Hello everyone!
I've been working on avatars for my groups characters for some time now, and I thought that I would see what you guys though of them.
They are all spoiler'd for size.

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From left to right: Gemini, Egg, Lucien, Finnerick, and Na Co

From left to right: Zander Blue, Haevok, Gecko, and Sooja

And of course, Kyuss, BBEG of my upcoming Age of Worms game.

[Serpentine]

Worked on my first avatar request in a long time. Think I'm pretty happy with how it came out.

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Source pic, if anyone's interested.

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[Crimmy]

Aaah, thank you smuchmuch. Tried to improve on the character a little, I promise I wont post again until someone else posts an art work. Probably.

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Not sure if I made the hair better, or worse. Eh.

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Technically I'm not posting again, so
Just decided to work on the hair a bit. I REALLY like CrimsonAngel's stuff, particularly the hair, so I tried modelling this (Hair) after one of the ones earlier in this thread, with a bit of my own style (Read: Newbieness) thrown in. I'd really like some critique on it.
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Interesting work, especially the second one. I feel the body is a bit too long [I understand that skirt (?) makes it look longer, but I'm referring to the starting point of said skirt]

Otherwise, great job!

Hello everyone!
I've been working on avatars for my groups characters for some time now, and I thought that I would see what you guys though of them.
They are all spoiler'd for size.

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*Le Snip*
From left to right: Gemini, Egg, Lucien, Finnerick, and Na Co
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From left to right: Zander Blue, Haevok, Gecko, and Sooja
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And of course, Kyuss, BBEG of my upcoming Age of Worms game.

The first one, I feel, is on the right track. The second one reminds me of a long-forgotten interactive webcomic caled The Legend of THE BEAST. Nice, but I don't feel it works for OotS.
The last one, I feel it's not right. The arm starts in a weird place, and the form it takes is weird as well. The weapon, though awesome, looks a bit off. The "movement" of the coat is completely off. I suggest looking at reference pics for that.

Worked on my first avatar request in a long time. Think I'm pretty happy with how it came out.

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Source pic, if anyone's interested.

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And, finally, Serpie takes "that impossible request" and shows us that "Really, it wasn't THAT impossible".
I like how it came out, really. I'm not one to make creatures in OotS, it seems.

[Kymme]

The first one, I feel, is on the right track. The second one reminds me of a long-forgotten interactive webcomic caled The Legend of THE BEAST. Nice, but I don't feel it works for OotS.
The last one, I feel it's not right. The arm starts in a weird place, and the form it takes is weird as well. The weapon, though awesome, looks a bit off. The "movement" of the coat is completely off. I suggest looking at reference pics for that.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on improving Kyuss, but in the meantime, I have more pics! Still spoiler'd for size.

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Toten Shiza, the Ranger Who Always Dies
Till Carcosa
The Savage Prince
And Gnorin Thistlebeard

[Serpentine]

And, finally, Serpie takes "that impossible request" and shows us that "Really, it wasn't THAT impossible".
I like how it came out, really. I'm not one to make creatures in OotS, it seems.

Conversely, I'm rarely happy with my people. They're always boring, and I never get that professional look that you or Kid Kris get...

[Copacetic]

Trying my hand again. Thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.

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[Abscondcrow]

So I got the forums to work for me again.. But I'm in such a bad mood that I couldn't gewt myself to make a new avatar. Tried to make Frodo Baggins oots style. But meh.

So instead, I just fiddled around a bit with the paladin chick. Did more work on her hair, tried to make it a bit more "elegant". Also shortened the chain dress, at advice from Crimmy. Also: /me worships Serpentine's avatarist skeelz.



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Made a knight. Still don't like the hair. Please critique? Pleasepleaseplease?


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[smuchmuch]

@ Copacetic:

Looks alright. something in the pose feels a bit sitff to me tough.

Question Is this meant to a sized up avatar or just a teplate/drawing though ? Because I'm sorry but if it's the former, I'm pretty sure once shrinked at 120*120 pretty a lot of the fine details will become complelty muddled if not invible (the tatoo, the runes on the crown.)
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@ Abscondcrow:

About the hair, though the thiner line compared to the rest of the avatar looks a bit weird, I think the general shape looks a lot better, a lot smoother and more natural. at leas ta tht front, the way it falls on the back of the head looks a bit strnage (maby make it rounder, a bit more volume here ?)
If you are willing to experiment a bit you could try putting highlights in there, but totherise i think it's already a big improvement.

The round rather than oval eyes are not OOts style though, is it assumed as a stylistic choice of your own ?

I thinkt he way the feet are posed, the tip of the sword should touch the ground a little lwoer than it does but I could be wrong.

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I can do like all the cool kids and OOTs ish avatars too.



(something feels weird witht he psoition of the feet, i guess. but i can't see what eaxctly. tried to keep them cosnsitent witht the reference image.)

(And an old one;
who happen to have a white background due to some error of mine at the timz. For future reference, Anyone can tell me a way to remove those without having to remake the whole avatar ? (and yes , I lost the original SVG in a server crash a while ago or else it'd be easy.))



(That one i really dislike the stars in the background, anyone know how to do a star laden field that'd look good in Inscape ?)

[Tiffanie Lirle]

Trying my hand again. Thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.

Use thicker lines and make the eyes noticeably bigger. Like at least double what you have there.

Made a knight. Still don't like the hair. Please critique? Pleasepleaseplease?

Use thicker lines on the hair, the change in thickness from the body to the hair is too radical to flow smoothly. Her feet are too small in comparison with the rest of her. Use thicker lines on the outside of the sword too.

I'd also suggest giving the body a curve here and there to make the character's gender a little more obvious.

(Something feels weird with the position of the feet, I guess. But I can't see what. I tried to keep them consistent with the reference image.)

His boots are waaaay too small in comparison with his body and head. So just make those a bit larger.

[Abscondcrow]

It.. It's meant to be a male.. crap.

*sigh* I suppose that means I have ALOT more work to do. In the meantime though,



Fixed up the hair more. Made boot longer. Eyes bigger.
To be honest, I kind of like the smaller feet, the huge, normal oots style feet just look.. "wrong" to me. I dunno.

[Gullara]

Man, I gotta go through this thread and make a more complete response to recent stuff. In the meantime since I'm tired, I'll stick to one.

It.. It's meant to be a male.. crap.

*sigh* I suppose that means I have ALOT more work to do. In the meantime though,



Fixed up the hair more. Made boot longer. Eyes bigger.
To be honest, I kind of like the smaller feet, the huge, normal oots style feet just look.. "wrong" to me. I dunno.

This is looking really good with the adjustments you made. I have to agree about the boots. I don't like the usual giant oots boots. I think how you have them now looks great.

And the main reason I'm posting is to point out why your avi seems to suggest it's a woman. It's because the eyes and mouth are as close together as they are. Try moving the eyes up a bit.

For reference:
Male:
Female:

It's a fairly subtle difference, but if you try shifting the face a bit you'll see the difference straight away. As you might guess, I ran into this same problem a while back.

[Abscondcrow]

Thanks for all the help everyone!

So I'm done editing the knight UNLESS someone still thinks it looks female. I don't really know if it does, looks male to me XD


Something I did for someone on the request an avatar thread. I quite like how it turned out. This one does look male, right?

[Tiffanie Lirle]

@^ Yup.

3 hours
+ dubstep
+ energy drinks
+ tablet
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[Crimmy]

You in some deep trance, mija.

I'm working on an avvie for Aquatic week, for myself.
One that will surely strike a bit of fear of said horrible liquid in all of the participants.



In any case:


I don't think I've ever put this one here.

[Abscondcrow]

Shtrige the life bringer! Also known as: Codgy old dude who happens to be one of the gods in the LoC game I'm setting up. Not really happy with the long bit of hair on his right (our left) side. Don't want to get rid of it though. Ill find a way to improve it. Eventually.

Also: Thanks Crimmy, I didn't need any sleep tonight.

The lord of Slaughter.


Armanthlis. queen of the sea, nekkid.

[Crimmy]

Yer welcome, Abs.

By the way, reserving the ever-loving Pyro for after Aquatic Week:

[AsteriskAmp]

Evidence I shouldn't be given too much free time or vacations...

My Pbp party done in LO-HD style.

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Small Versions:

And now to finish taken requests...

[Ashen Lilies]

One starts to wonder why you're bothering to stick with OotS style. You're clearly trying to progress beyond it. At this point it seems like all it's doing is holding you back.

[Crimmy]

One starts to wonder why you're bothering to stick with OotS style. You're clearly trying to progress beyond it. At this point it seems like all it's doing is holding you back.

I'm sure you're referring to Agustin Guevara, right?

[Ashen Lilies]

Who? I guess you're wrong.

[smuchmuch]

Pinky. It's says right so in his sig his usermanme is an anagram
So Crimmy went araveugnitsuga -> Agustin Guevara

[Cuthalion]

Here's a request I fulfilled.

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[Cuthalion]

Pinky. It's says right so in his sig his usermanme is an anagram
So Crimmy went araveugnitsuga -> Agustin Guevara

You mean Grave Augustina?

[Crimmy]

Ehh... I don't like it. The arms, pose, line thickness, body, face, sword.

I'd recommend shorter arms, curving a bit more, and shorter body.

[Mauve Shirt]

Yeah, Cuthalion, the arms are too long. They should bend upwards much sooner than that, or they look unnatural.

[Gnomish Wanderer]

Pinkie pointed me to this thread, I don't know why I never thought to post here before. I mainly use the 'Rate the Avatar' thread which is probably not the best place for improving my artistic talent.

@Cuthalion As they've said, the arms are too long, but they're also weird the way they come out of the shoulderpads like that. Lastly the hands are a little small, I have a terrible problem with that that I'm trying to get over. One thing I really like is the eyes, I think you nailed the way to do coloured OotS eyes. I'd say just redo the sword, it doesn't fit with the rest of the piece.

This is the Gnome Cecaelia avatar I'm wearing for Aquatic week. People have said the colour transitions were rather harsh but I had really no way of fixing them that I liked. What do you all think? Any advice to how better do colour transitions like this in the future?

[Cuthalion]

The hair.... it looks Paintish. I suggest making a shape, then blurring it. Also, the eyes are the same colour.
Here's another request I fulfilled a while back:

EDIT:The eyes are the same size. Heh.

[Gnomish Wanderer]

@Cuthalion Ah, the hair colouring is purposefully Paintish. I was emulating Crimmy's style with that. I think it came out really well though, especially looking at the miniaturized version. What were you saying about the eyes? As for that one, the cloak flair is great, but I'd have to say that's really the only thing I wouldn't change on that older one >.>

[Gullara]

@^ Yup.

3 hours
+ dubstep
+ energy drinks
+ tablet
=

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Whoa, I really like this. I'm not sure there's too much I can say beyond repeating how awesome it is.

You in some deep trance, mija.

I'm working on an avvie for Aquatic week, for myself.
One that will surely strike a bit of fear of said horrible liquid in all of the participants.

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In any case:
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I don't think I've ever put this one here.

Yer welcome, Abs.

By the way, reserving the ever-loving Pyro for after Aquatic Week:

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Nice avis, Crimmy. The drowning one is rather creepy. ._.

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Shtrige the life bringer! Also known as: Codgy old dude who happens to be one of the gods in the LoC game I'm setting up. Not really happy with the long bit of hair on his right (our left) side. Don't want to get rid of it though. Ill find a way to improve it. Eventually.

Also: Thanks Crimmy, I didn't need any sleep tonight.

The lord of Slaughter.
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Armanthlis. queen of the sea, nekkid.
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Very nice. The lord of slaughter seems too plain. Or rather, the head is cool and detailed while the body seems entirely out of place.

Here's a request I fulfilled.
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The arms are... off. The bend oddly, don't look like they attach tot he body right, and are too long. The scars just look messy unfortunately. Especially the really thin ones. And try making it so most everything has consistent line weight (especially that sword). Of, and I have to disagree with GW about the eyes. I would make the lines a lot thicker. It kind of looks like his eyes are really sunken as is.

This is the Gnome Cecaelia avatar I'm wearing for Aquatic week. People have said the colour transitions were rather harsh but I had really no way of fixing them that I liked. What do you all think? Any advice to how better do colour transitions like this in the future?
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Hm, colour transitions rarely look right in oots style I find. I would try putting a line where it changes from green to skin colour. And I would make the strings for her bikini thicker. Otherwise I quite like the avi overall.