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it's always inevitable.. I want to update some of these images of the players now that I can paint a little better than I could in the past..

those of you using these images can of course have say if you want to keep the version you have or move to the updated ones.

Froud you are up first.. as that image you are using is one of my least favorite from the group now.. it's so ancient and his neck seems broken.. this new one to me seems to be better...

what do you think?

It looks almost uncannily like me in real life, so in the interests of realism, yes I would like the new one .

Thx. Very impressive artwork btw

The more I look the better it looks. What package are you using ?

Really? I kinda likehe realistic cartooniness of the opld one!

Yeah but the new one has that smouldering, steamy, come and get it girls look that so typifies me and is really well drawn.

Lol, when you put it like that *runs*

CAn't say I hate the neck of the old one either..funny how people look at stuff differently, especially the author of a work!

oooh, new avatars eh? if youre going to make me again, and im not expecting you will, please not a pinky background, that kinda killed the eyes *whines* x.x

btw, i love froud's new avatar, but if i did go after him i dont think hed look good for that long :P *squish*

this is photoshop.. The only thing I use for my paintings.. I could use painter. However, I've just not gotten used to it. It also is not commonly used in the industry I work in. So .. it's easier for me to stick to Photoshop, depsite Painter is a better program for this kind of stuff.

moo

Oh.. and fuzzface.. look in the morror and hold your head like that.. there should eb a slope to the neck it's just akward looking..

done.. people will need to hit refresh if the image is already cached.

moo

Who is this?

the Zed replacement.. he's a duke.. he should be handsome

anyone using the chaos one? This is the new one I'm looking at to replace it..

the colors in the other one clash and the shape and shading on the helmet is horrid.. so it has to go away

This one is much better

ooh, i like it :)

Chaos looks even more devlish now! Although I'd like to stick to the "Mana Hellhound" one :3

Whoa, Zed was so good I didn't realise it was him! I feel quite priveleged to witness how far you've developed as an artist over the last few years. Fabulous stuff.

These far and away blow your earlier works out of the water.

Cow, have you considered becoming a plastic surgeon. Then I might really be able to look like that !

I might have become one had I actually wanted to be responsible for peoples lives.. My other passion was biology.. I loved the classes, as the way life works is facinating. Plants, Animals, Humans..

However, I'm plenty happy just drawing little pictures and calling it a day.. ahh..

moo

woho ! excellent work, especially colors and light, but zed is too damn handsome i thought he was older, maybe because of his moustache and his title !

here's a sketch of him i made a few months ago : http://redribbon.planet-d.net/dm/zed.jpg

Sera said "btw, i love froud's new avatar, but if i did go after him i dont think hed look good for that long *squish*"

Why, what you gonna do ? *Trembles*

well i think the *squish* should give you a hint, i am big after all o.o

No problem, I'd charm you into submission. have you purring like a little cat.

providing she saw you before her foot landed..

heee, i get thrown into submission too easily ^^

the trick.. feathered hat.. when the foot comes down.. move your head like mad.. *tickle tickle*

moo

Might I suggest a warm background for Chaos? The cold colors accentuate his red eyes quite nicely, but when I think of Chaos, I think demonic, and that brings to mind fiery doom. You could try it and compare.

Otherwise, those headshots look really sweet. Perhaps a graphical update to DMJava is in order.

had already tried a warm.. doesn't work.. in fact the first go at it the background was warm and when I went cold it just seemed to work better.. besides the fact that Chaos is shrouded in a dark fog.. he is blackness.. cold.. so really fire doesn't embody him really..

If I did it warm I need to make his reflections different warming him more.. this way I was able to add a bit of subtle warm into his right side of his helmet moving from cool blue to a slightly warm green. Green is still a cold colour but when you add a bit of yellow to it, it becomes more of a warm colour. If you colour pick the areas on the right side you will see.

forever going over and over this stuff in my head as I go. for me I'm finding that if a do warm on one side and colder on the other as with these two new shots.. it looks more dynamic..

I dunno.. everyone has their prefrences though.. and their own interpretations

moo

I agree, I don't think of him as cool blackness, more the fire and soot...even though his goal was to remove the heat ofd the world, right? : ) But whatever background works : )

Oh, and as for Zed, I don't imagine him older, I do imagine him young but slightly craggy, as if he has left his home and wandered the world for a while (ala the backstory for him, that is continuing in the DM story I occasionally write..well, at the moment jsut edit the start of!)

I would think coldness would suit Order more than Chaos - I mean, the cold harshness of everything being in order and perfect, versus the raging chaos of total anarchic mayhem. Or something.

Exactly - cold = lack of energy = perfect order
Heat = energy = chaotic