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Published: 2008-11-14 07:01:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 15044; Favourites: 327; Downloads: 210
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DETAIL SHOT: [link]Commission for , with his character dressed up in his medieval clothing.
Definitely happy with how this came out, in detail, composition, atmosphere, colors and more. This was a challenging piece and I enjoyed it.
(fire, multiple light sources, colored light etc)Apparently Red is going to be turning it into a poster too.
(will link to it when he posts a picture of it)Glad you like it Red. Was fun to do, thanks!
And to everyone else, enjoy! 
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I like this. It reminds me of Earth Eternal, the MMO.
:3
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unfair fight *shoots a few vermin from the cover of the forest. "There now ye 'ave backup."
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I remember seeing this in the DD list... and as I said before, it's one of the most deserving daily deviations I've seen so far!
It's their expressions I love most. Dauntless! (Or maybe they just overdid it on the mead again? 
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Really? Because I had about three people say it wasn't good enough to be one.
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To hell with them, because that's clearly not true.
You always get the people who do that. Jealousy, I call it.
I love this! And many others do too. ^^
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That looks pretty great, you did a wonderful job on it. Who is the other character, is it you?
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The other character is my friend *RedRodent .
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*mouth drops* Dude, that is really sweet!! ^^ I want to work up and see if I can learn how to do that
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Thank you! If you ever need any tips or got a question, feel free to ask.
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XD Ok, big major question is how did you do the shading on it? its awesome!!
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Well, I do it differently for backgrounds and characters. But since I'm assuming you mean the characters, what I do is:
1. Sketch the characters
2. Create a layer below it and add base colors (brown for fur, blue for tunic, etc)
3. Create a masking layer for the bases, and fill it in with a dark-dark-dark blue. I adjust the opacity of the layer to see whats underneath well. Then I erase away where I don't want any shadowing.
4. Add a similar layer, but this is to create the darks I can't achieve in the reduced opacity layer.
5. Create another layer above everything (again, masked to the bases) where I add all my values. I keep rendering and rendering with different colors until I'm happy with what I have.
For the background, it's basically the same, just minus steps three and four. And I do it all on one layer most of the time.
Then at the very end, I flatten it out and do touch ups, like smuding to achieve a fur texture, or dodging bright parts like the fires in this.
Hope that helps! I should make a tutorial sometime.
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What else can I say that hasn't been said? I don't know how trivial this is, but the tree tops infront of the sky lighting looks incredibly real to me.
I do wonder what kind of mess those two have gotten into.
Is this your first DD?!
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Thanks! The trees were rendered with just an ordinary maple leaf brush with some settings changed. Some people look down on that for some reason, but I noticed the artist who created this poster for Bolt used it, as well as the grass brush. So I figured, hey, why not.
And yes, it is.
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Yeah, it really does look good, I love how you can use the lighting in an image. I'm in awe of the clothing, and of course the background too. Gratz on the DD.
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the lighting is very nice. Nice attention to reflective highlighting.
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it is painted very well, but it looks like you could be using more structure, especially in the hands... they are strange shapes. but really though, good work, congrats on the DD
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Thank you very much, Facial. I really appreciate the constructive criticism.
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Well done! Definately deserved the daily deviation.
Spectacular lighting! Great detail, particularly in the figures - both your foreground duo and your ghostly gaggle of threat. And are those tombstones I see in the background (my left, behind the ghosts).
Compostion wise, you may have wanted to center them (vertically) a little more; it looks like there's extra space at the top.
I love the hazy look of your ghosts, how they distort things seen through them. Also the realism in the flames and the sheen of the metal weapons.
Congrats on the DD!
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Thanks very much! 
And no, those aren't tombstones. xD They're intended to be shields.
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Oops! The last sentence in the second paragraph should have ended with a question mark.
And "compostion" should be "composition".
(I shouldn't be allowed on the internet without spellcheck.)
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