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Acquana Art Thread -- Thread Implosion 06/10/2007

November 30, 2005

Alrighty.

So, I know you haven't heard from me in a bit, Queen_Dopplepopolis, but I am going to working on your request tonight. I tried several ideas for your character and in my opinion they all looked terrible. Time for reference!

In the meantime, here's what I've been working on recently. After finding out that designerskins.com does custom skins, I decided it would be the most awesome of the awesome to design portable game system skins for all of my friends based on their Mutants and Masterminds characters. These will be their Christmas gifts, and I'm really having a blast designing 'em.

When I get the finished skins colored and arranged onto the skin templates, I'll post them. For now I'll post the figures that'll be on each of the skins. So far I've gotten all the figures drawn for the Bantam skin.

First, the Guardian Sphyx figure that will appear on Millicent's DS skin.

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For Wendy's DS skin, she'll have her own Band of Thieves make an appearence. The Bantam (or Tacit if you prefer ...)

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And Bently and Murray.

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I have a Pulse drawn, but I haven't scanned him in yet.

Working on these has made me excited enough to want to make one for Wellstar's and I's DS. I asked Wellstar if that'd be cool since it's technically his. My idea was to do a piece based off of the world-hopping campaign, with all of the characters done in the style of Ayami Kojima, who does all the more recent Castlevania art. Wellstar loves the idea, and after immersing myself in her art from Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, and Curse of Darkness this is what I came up with:

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Post sketch thoughts

Ammut works amazingly well in this style
As does Pojo
Ma is kind of ... eh, but that's mostly because I still haven't gotten much of a hold onto his character.
I finally got something that looked like Virgil after smooshing together a lot of Kojima's less "bishounen" characters, and the poor guy looks like such a sad panda.
I can't quite get a hold on Sylas, because it's difficult to make her "pretty tough guy" face type look older than the ambiguous mid-twenties age. And his hair being short also makes this a problem, but maybe from a 3/4 view it'll look better.
I despise Kojima's "young girl" face type. Perhaps Gaia will be a background element as a dragon instead.
I think my little chibi there has the right idea on Hiro. I was amused that Hiro solidified in that style so quickly, and while I was working I suddenly realized he looks exactly like Soma from Aria of Sorrow. LOLZ HIRO SUCH A DRAMA QUEEN LOLZ Oh, and uh, yeah ... Soma's a dude, in case you were wondering.

So yeah, there's my post for tonight. As I get more along in this project I'll let you guys know.
 

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Acquana said:
First, the Guardian Sphyx figure that will appear on Millicent's DS skin.

With the exception of your sketch of my daughter, this is my very favorite piece drawing you've posted here.

Hardly surprising since I'm a bit of a cad. ;)
 


Those are indeed really awesomely great.

What's this sketch of Samantha the Red?
 

February 22-28 2005 (post #3 on the first page) has the bit of fan art I did for Samantha the Red. :D That's what brought Rel over to this thread to begin with.
 


Good sketches! Thats fine about the requests, I wasn't sure whether to ask or not, everyone has different approaches. And thats ok with me so long as your free time is spent making more awesome art/character drawings!
 


Acquana said:
So, I know you haven't heard from me in a bit, Queen_Dopplepopolis, but I am going to working on your request tonight. I tried several ideas for your character and in my opinion they all looked terrible. Time for reference!

I responded to you a while ago, must have gotten lost in the great email void. ;) Alas - it happens!

However I will tell the world that the character sketch that Acquana is doing for me looks absolutely fantastic already! Acquana, you are so incredibly talented and we are really blessed to have you sharing your work with us here at EN World. I look forward to all of your updates. :D
 

Ok Ok, I'll post. Bend that arm. First of all. Stop drawing more than I do. Gee Whillikers.
Second of all, allow me a kind-hearted critique. The inherent character of your creations shows through. That's hard to do. Ask Marvel. (Take that dickholes!) You have this a knack for creating a unique set of proportions. You go beyond technical anatomy. Everybody should. Ok, here's the thing. Your stuff is solid to a fault. I say this only because I see the potential for work to go from point a to point b. Your work cries for sexy Hudsonesque curved lines. Go more reckless in your sketch-phase. Relax , and make mistakes on purpose. The result will be a cup of great.

Gawd, now I feel all preachy. Sorry.
 

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