Dark Adept Portraits (Male W.I.P [10%] Female W.I.P[70%])

Post by **Pic** » July 26th, 2006, 10:21 pm

Those who were here at the beginning of the thread will know that he began as a walking corpse

So I can appreciate that he doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t look human.

On the subject of different poses i would have to say IMHO it makes them more interesting too. (Well obviously, thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s why i did it)

As a compromise IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll redo the male from scratch and put the hood up on him, so there is an easy visual link between he too.

Post by **fmunoz** » July 26th, 2006, 10:24 pm

Zhukov wrote: Pic: Female looks fine, nothing wrong with a bit of 'sketchiness'. As for the male, one tip would be to remove the black lines by going over them in a much darker shade of the colour they surround (err...if that makes sense. If it doesn't look at the portraits by Jason Lutes to see what I mean).

As example... (not used on mainline but should give you the idea of colours and techniques)
The image seems still lacking a few layers of shading and ligths...

Post by **Pic** » July 26th, 2006, 10:31 pm

Thanks

Saved and will be very useful for reference when cell shading these i should think.

Post by **fmunoz** » July 26th, 2006, 10:50 pm

A really impresive example of cell shading using Jason Lutes stile was done by Jethryl here:
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 5&start=15
tatmf original image also helped

Post by **Pic** » July 26th, 2006, 11:00 pm

Excellent thread

Bookmarked!

Thanks!

Post by **fmunoz** » July 26th, 2006, 11:16 pm

I just did some quick edits over your image...
I should have used layers but got lazy...
also I should have used the original JL pallettes or variations of them to helps to get the same balnce between inner and outer colours...

Post by **Pic** » July 26th, 2006, 11:27 pm

Thanks!

That's looking much more like it should!

Can i use this and try to develop it further?

Or do people still think he is looking inhuman?

Personally i think he is looking alot better and alot more human myself

Post by **Pic** » July 27th, 2006, 3:06 am

He is the first Flat Colour version of the new portrait for the dark adept female.

I could feel my XP bar filling as i did this.

JW · Post by JW » July 27th, 2006, 3:14 am

Pic wrote:I could feel my XP bar filling as i did this.

Classic! XD

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » July 27th, 2006, 7:21 am

Is her hair white, or is it just the inner part of the robe. I'd think that a dark sorcerer would prefer black/gray over the more "holy" white.

Of both your works I think they are splendid and you are on your way to becoming a fine contributing to Wesnoth

Post by **Jetrel** » July 27th, 2006, 8:32 am

fmunoz wrote:As example... (not used on mainline but should give you the idea of colours and techniques)
The image seems still lacking a few layers of shading and ligths...

What ... campaign is that from?

toms · Post by **toms** » July 27th, 2006, 8:44 am

Jetryl wrote: What ... campaign is that from?

There are a couple of UMCs that use it, like IoA, RotL, ...

Post by **Sgt. Groovy** » July 27th, 2006, 8:56 am

The male is pretty good, but for me the empty eyes just seem kinda dull, so I tried what he would look like with pinpoint pupils, dirty greenish irises and some bloodshot in the corners. Maybe that's a too much of step back to the human direction, but the blank white seemed just so... blank.

The female is perfectly fine picture... for a nice young lady next door. I don't see anything particularily sinister or menacing about her, she looks pretty healthy, round face, full lips and pale, yet fresh skin colour. The pose is static and she just misses engaging eye contact with the viewer. The sketch actually had more promise, the shaded version is a step backwards, IMO.

Post by **irrevenant** » July 27th, 2006, 9:47 am

The second DA Male is an overall improvement, but they eyes have lost some of the menace that the first version had.

Post by **fmunoz** » July 27th, 2006, 10:01 am

Jetryl wrote:
fmunoz wrote:As example... (not used on mainline but should give you the idea of colours and techniques)
The image seems still lacking a few layers of shading and ligths...
What ... campaign is that from?

I just downloaded everything from the server (web interface) and checked all the images.. there some nice set of images hidden out there never posted in the forums.