Avatars by Sialia

[Ferret]

Cool! More hats! Woo and YAY! Any chance of posting the big pieces as well?

 

[Dracomeander]

Slightly different from what I was envisioning, but I LIKE IT. Just a slight tweek and it should be perfect. If you could add some dark reddish tint to the face to enhance the contrast between dragon and wardrobe, I think we'll have a real winner with the smokin' bordered version. Will use the grayscale version 'til you have time to add the tint.

Thanks

 

[Aries_Omega]

Question

Are you still taking requests for avatars? If so where do I sign up at?

Aries

 

[Ferret]

Just make a request and the artiste will do what she(Soz if wrong) can.

 

[Sammael]

I am really impressed with your art, Sialia. If you can find the time, I'd love a new avatar. Something fiendish, a bit similar to my current WAR avatar, but perhaps even more shrouded in mystery. Red, black, grey... a hint of fangs, horns, and glowing eyes shrouded in darkness. Or even a human(oid) head casting a fiendish shadow.

 

[Sialia]

Are you still taking requests for avatars? If so where do I sign up at?

Aries

Page back a few --I sketched a draft for you already, about post #141. Give me feedback about it if you want something different. Color and texture are easy to change--I could do the symbol for "Aries Omega" embossed in gold leaf, rippling through smoke, carved on wood, riveted into metal, suspended in gelatin, spray painted across bricks, stitched into silk, or whatever. Think about where you might put your logo if you wanted to post it somewhere in the real word.

If you want something conceptually different than just the symbol, point me in a direction. I'm not much fond of doing character work, unless the character is something so striking that a simple silhouette of it would carry most of the impact. The way I work, small details like specific type of weapon or armor just don't carry well at 64x64. And it's very difficult for me to do specific likenessess.

Things that make me laugh have a way of sticking with me long enough to get done--the half-celestial gelatinous cube demanded a whole lot of versions until I got there, but it sure wouldn't let up on me until it got itself right.

I have limited connectivity these days, so I expect it will be a while between posts for me now through the end of the year. I expect to be able to check in once or twice a week. I'll post when I can.

Let me know what you'd like.

 

[Sialia]

Slightly different from what I was envisioning, but I LIKE IT. Just a slight tweek and it should be perfect. If you could add some dark reddish tint to the face to enhance the contrast between dragon and wardrobe, I think we'll have a real winner with the smokin' bordered version. Will use the grayscale version 'til you have time to add the tint.

Thanks

Try this:

 

[Sialia]

Sometimes . . . things don't work out quite the way I expect. Wings, horns, fangs, eyes, smoke--this all sounds very reasonable--easy even. I could picture this in my sleep.

So I start with the smoky part--that's easy--and then unfocus for a bit and wait for demonic faces to start to show through the fog--usually doesn't take but a minute for me to start seeing creepy shapes in that kind of static. And then I just reach in and grab them out, usually. Voila--nothing simpler.

And this is what I get this time around.

Sigh.

Back to the drawing board.

 

[Sialia]

Aiee. Ok, maybe NOT back to the drawing board. Maybe to bed before I DO start seeing these things in my dreams.

 

[Sammael]

That is quite interesting, although I'd like to see it in color and reduced to 64x64 before I reach a conclusion. A bit different that what I had envisioned, but conveying the same message.