OotS Style Art/Fanart Showcase IV

[AsteriskAmp]

There is another way to do fire. If you take the area a flame takes and split it up into many overlapping, but not identical sections, you can make a flame that looks like less of a large bulky object that reacts to the environment behind it, such as in the avatars below.

#Awsome fire example with Shading#
#Awsome Spell Example#

Just another way to do it. It looks great as is.

I'll add that to the tutorial as a sidenote at the bottom if you don't mind.

[CrimsonAngel]

My new favorites.

[Yiuel]

Here's an update with all the small details people pointed out :



araveugnitsuga : Thanks to you, I now have the perfect line width, or at least I think so. It was about a sixth too large. Also, it's a man, though I think I'm happy that you thought it was a girl, since he's supposed to be of an ambiguous gender for an outsider anyway.

yldenfrei : I have held a bow only once in my life, and it was way smaller than me, so I didn't know how to draw such a large thing. However, considering all other things, it's the only way to draw it anyway, so I just followed my gut feelings. Seems I wasn't wrong, on the contrary. Thanks for the desaturation idea, looks neater that way.

KillItWithFire : Well, the whole concept is from my latest D&D (3.5) character. Using a Strongarm Bracers, he can wield weapons of the larger category (in his case, Large). He's proficient with the Greatbow, which is six feet tall at Medium size. Combine, and you get a bow 12 feet tall, which is highly ridiculous as memnarch pointed out. But then, you have the even more ridiculous idea of adding a Belt of Growth to all of it. Which gives us a Huge Greatbow, 24 feet tall. You do not want to mess with him when he's mad.

portable artillery

It's already a recurrent running gag with him, despite having played him only once. 9d8+9+1d6 (average 53) on a critical hit hurts. There's also the whole : «Look for a 12 feet tall bow, you cannot miss it, and you'll find him.»

[KillItWithFire]

I imagine there has to be some sort of minimum range on that thing? No way you could shoot a medium creature at point blank.

[CrimsonAngel]

You couldn't aim down, that's for sure.

[Elder Tsofu]

You couldn't aim down, that's for sure.

Why set your aim low when you can aim for the stars?

[Cealocanth]

I'll add that to the tutorial as a sidenote at the bottom if you don't mind.

I don't mind at all.

[Yiuel]

I imagine there has to be some sort of minimum range on that thing? No way you could shoot a medium creature at point blank.

Game rule wise, there's nothing about a minimum range. I think it could be possible to actually put an angle on your bow and have it low enough to aim a medium creature.

(Then again, said build is not made to go Point Blank, indeed, he's built with the idea that he would (and actually should) stay far away from his foe and shoot him from there. His range is 130ft.)

[AsteriskAmp]

Game rule wise, there's nothing about a minimum range. I think it could be possible to actually put an angle on your bow and have it low enough to aim a medium creature.

(Then again, said build is not made to go Point Blank, indeed, he's built with the idea that he would (and actually should) stay far away from his foe and shoot him from there. His range is 130ft.)

You could in theory and RAW physics hold it sideways for short to medium range against medium to small enemies.

[CrimsonAngel]

You could in theory and RAW physics hold it sideways for short to medium range against medium to small enemies.

I was just thinking that.

[Yiuel]

You could in theory and RAW physics hold it sideways for short to medium range against medium to small enemies.

Now, imagine him wielding a 12 feet long Greatsword. Which he can do, and actually does.

[Gullara]

I know how you fire the bow at a short range. You just have ti dig a hole in front of you.

[AsteriskAmp]

Now, imagine him wielding a 12 feet long Greatsword. Which he can do, and actually does.

[Begans reciting in Epic Tone]

Oh RAW physics!, where stone balancing is what you do when near a beach.
Where a line of commoners can substitute the LHC for accelarating things.
And where it is possible to make a stairway to heaven
based on two commoners stacking themselves cranked up to eleven

Where falling from a 2000th floor can deal neglible damage
By nothing more simple then a spell casted by a mage
And where it's possible for a literal stick character to exist.
And a Mage to cause Cancer or a Cyst

RAW physics, where a character can wield a weapon twice his size.
And where there can be a Fiendish Lycanthropic Vampiric Celestial mice.
Where a Barbarian is a master of the mind
And an Elvish Fiensdish half Dragon Minotaur is not the only one of its kind.

[Begans crying over the corpse of a Physicist, a Biologist, and an ONcologist, all balanced like stones on a beach making a tower]

Now for something completely different and on topic.

To the left RAW, made on the PCs trip to the beach in 5 minutes by the Minotaur Barbarian with Dex 8, justified by RAW .

To the right, made by a human being who's not me, probably took him hours and had to lay it out for days before finally committing hours of his day just for the task, justified by physics.

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[WarBrute]

This is the first thing I've made for someone else so I thought I would should you guys before I show him (Y'know so you can check it over for mistakes and the like...)

Drow Paladin

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Also, what is the best way to size something to be an avatar?

[KillItWithFire]

This is the first thing I've made for someone else so I thought I would should you guys before I show him (Y'know so you can check it over for mistakes and the like...)

Drow Paladin
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Also, what is the best way to size something to be an avatar?

not sure if you saw the tutorial earlier in this thread about elf ears buried in ear, it's a sugguestion because personally I like the way the tutorial does it better than just no line where it joins the hair. She seems, top-heavey, if you can even her out I think she'd look better. The size for avatars is 120 x 120 so when you export, are you using Inkscape? If you use Inkscape just set the largest size to 120 when you export and it resizes to fit the constraints.

[Yiuel]

[Begans reciting in Epic Tone]
(epic poem)

And I shall answer :

Now for something completely different and on topic.

To the left RAW, made on the PCs trip to the beach in 5 minutes by the Minotaur Barbarian with Dex 8, justified by RAW .

To the right, made by a human being who's not me, probably took him hours and had to lay it out for days before finally committing hours of his day just for the task, justified by physics.

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Well that's a feat!

WarBrute : I like it very much. Perhaps only the hair is causing me some trouble, especially the ponytail : the bottom part seems like it's going into her butt. I think it would be better if the curve would go on the right.

[KillItWithFire]

And I shall answer :

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How do you even transport that? That person seems to have a few problems with oversized weapondry. Just thinking now, standerd roomhas like, an 8-10 foot ceiling and standerd hallways are 5-6 feet across, no way you could use that thing indoors. looks good though, clothes are a bit too guady for my taste but that's just my taste.

[Yiuel]

How do you even transport that? That person seems to have a few problems with oversized weapondry. Just thinking now, standerd roomhas like, an 8-10 foot ceiling and standerd hallways are 5-6 feet across, no way you could use that thing indoors. looks good though, clothes are a bit too guady for my taste but that's just my taste.

You never have too much extra-dimensional space, as some Rogue said. It's how he transports both his bow and sword. As for using them indoors, I dunno. Ask D&D physics for the answer.

The clothes are not of your standard European medievalo-fantasy, which explains most of it. His name, Dugazu, is a giveaway.

[WarBrute]

not sure if you saw the tutorial earlier in this thread about elf ears buried in ear, it's a sugguestion because personally I like the way the tutorial does it better than just no line where it joins the hair. She seems, top-heavey, if you can even her out I think she'd look better. The size for avatars is 120 x 120 so when you export, are you using Inkscape? If you use Inkscape just set the largest size to 120 when you export and it resizes to fit the constraints.

WarBrute : I like it very much. Perhaps only the hair is causing me some trouble, especially the ponytail : the bottom part seems like it's going into her butt. I think it would be better if the curve would go on the right.

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I did not see that tutorial, though I looked at some old comics and found an example of an ear poking out of hair and it look something like that.

I messed with the pony tail a bit and flipped it around. I'm leaning more towards the tail pointed to the left, but I might present him with both options and let him decide.

Thanks for the advice!

[Yiuel]

I messed with the pony tail a bit and flipped it around. I'm leaning more towards the tail pointed to the left, but I might present him with both options and let him decide.

Thanks for the advice!

What you could do is to give the ponytail a first curve to the left, and finish the effect with a curve to the right.

[AsteriskAmp]

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I did not see that tutorial, though I looked at some old comics and found an example of an ear poking out of hair and it look something like that.

I messed with the pony tail a bit and flipped it around. I'm leaning more towards the tail pointed to the left, but I might present him with both options and let him decide.

Thanks for the advice!

You may want to end the ponytail behind the body instead of trying to end it, you may also want to look at Haley's ponytail for a reference.

As for the ear, you may want to curve the line splitting it from the hair a bit more.

[Serpentine]

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...there's a contour tool?!

[Yiuel]

...there's a contour tool?!

In Inkscape at least, there is. :)

I created a whole combination of what I did recently, I think it's pretty nice.

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The three rune-like characters are actually his name (Dugazu) written in his native script. And they haven't been created for his name.

[AsteriskAmp]

Seeing as it has been awhile since I posted any OoTS Characters by myself (instead of tutorials and ... rocks.).

I saw that I was shading the avatars I made for the request thread, but realised that mine was still in it's primitive form (this was my first OoTS Style character), so I decided to upgrade her a bit.

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After:

[shawnhcorey]

Yes, adding a shadow underneath an avatar makes it 3D.

[AsteriskAmp]

Yes, adding a shadow underneath an avatar makes it 3D.

Than the Order of the Stick comic is in 3d

And that's no shadow, it's an ellipsis with the ellipsis gradient with 80% TRANSPARENCY.

That is no avatar, that's a collection of pixel arranged in aesthetically not eye destroying manner.

[Yiuel]

There are many ways to add volume to an OotS-style avatar. I'll try to make one later.

[Derjuin]

Drew this for the current IA, but it turns out she's evil, so...



Edit: Changed the legs and added more to the arms, so it's a little less confusing, also fiddled with the weapons to make them more equal, location-wise.

[AsteriskAmp]

Drew this for the current IA, but it turns out she's evil, so...

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Good God Derjuin, that's awesome!
But, bellow the torso I stop understanding it, kinda like a Lovecraftian horror, you think it looks awesome, but you don't know if that is an arm, a leg or an internal organ.

What is the sheet that falls from the two rings and goes way bellow the character.

[Derjuin]

Good God Derjuin, that's awesome!
But, bellow the torso I stop understanding it, kinda like a Lovecraftian horror, you think it looks awesome, but you don't know if that is an arm, a leg or an internal organ.

What is the sheet that falls from the two rings and goes way bellow the character.

Thanks!

The leg/arm part is kind of confusing she's sitting (in the air) with her legs crossed and her arms are behind her legs, holding the weapons; the sheet held from the two rings is like a cloak/banner of sorts.