Avatars by Sialia

[Knightfall]

Oh yeah--these are all infinitely flexible, and I like feedback. Color is easy. Tell me what colors you want, roughly. Finally got a phoneix/lance that reads ok small, so here's a rough draft:

Cool!

Can we see a larger version, please and thank you?

 

[FireLance]

Sialia, I am awed. It looks absolutely beautiful. I love it! Thank you so much!

 

[Sialia]

Ok, for the curious, here are some of the phoenixes I drew. (Ok you geeks out there--what's the proper plural form?)

The problem with most of these was trying to get them to read clearly at the small size. I'm not sure where the lobster one got to--it was clearly a phoenix at the big size, and only turned into a lobster when read small--the wings came out looking like the claws.

Also, here's the one that became the "final", and a cleaned up version of the avatar. Although now that I look at it, maybe I like the earlier draft better. Hard to tell.

'Nother question for you Arizonians: what do you call people from Phoenix, AZ?

 

[Sialia]

What colors do you want?
And should it look metallic? stone carved? wood carved? inked on parchment? tattooed on skin?

 

[Sialia]

The lobster.

The sole redeeming coolness about this picture is that it was actually sketched in my own blood. (And Photoshopped a little afterwards, although less than you'd think.)

I'm not kidding. I got a nasty papercut during a meeting I was chairing at work, and so to avoid interrupting things, I absentmindedly wiped my bleeding hand on the agenda and continued the meeting. This would have worked fine--I made my rolls for poise beautifully, except that the whole table noticed the spreading stain across the agenda and they were all so grosssed out we had to interrupt the meeting for me to go wash up.

Some days, you just can't win.

 

[Macbeth]

Wow, Sialia. I like the first one, but the newer one is completely awesome. I really like it, and personally I prefer the metallic blue shades, but I think some of the other players had mentioned yellow on green as a possible color scheme. If it's not too much trouble, could I see it in yellow on green? If you're busy, don't bother. I can live with the blue.

 

[Macbeth]

And one tiny thing. If you can, could you take the second one, but make it so it is made of two interlocking pieces, like the first. The proportions of the second one are perfect, I just like it better when it is made of two interlocking pieces. Again, You've done so much for me already, don't feel you need to do it, it's just a little nit-pick. I feel like a Ceramic DM judge, what with all the nit-picking.

 

[Macbeth]

What colors do you want?
And should it look metallic? stone carved? wood carved? inked on parchment? tattooed on skin?

Ummmm... It's great as is, but inked on parchment and stone carved both sound cool. I assume what was attached was mettalic? It does seem a little... metal-ish, for lack of a better word. hard choice to make, but... Inked, I geuss.

 

[FireLance]

Thanks again, Sialia. I do like the second one better because of the sharper detail on the wings. The flickering white flame on the speartip is also a nice touch - it brings across the idea that the spear is holy as well as flaming. The full-size version is just great. The phoenix really looks like it's sculpted from flame, not just a bird with red and gold plumage.

I'm sure it's been said before, but you have got talent.

 

[Crothian]

still taking requests? If so a clear ooze consuming a book would great. And you have some amazing talent, I really like a lot of what I've seen here.