Building a Better Marilith

[s/LaSH]

Remember a few days ago when Wizards released their new illustration for the Marilith? A lot of people around here didn't like it. I myself didn't feel deep, resentful hatred, but largely to make other people feel better I sketched up a more traditional Marilith.

Then ENWorld went down and I found myself with time on my hands. Thus I have two versions of it: initial inks, and fully-coloured.

I'm not going to initially post the actual images, because they're, um, slightly risque. If a moderator feels it's not too much, I can edit direct IMG tags into this post. Parents, screen this content first.

Black-and-white version
Coloured version

Thoughts? Comments? I know the background deserves colouring, but my current rig just won't handle it. C'est la vie.

 

[Chronosome]

That is gorgeous...she's got some succubus in her, methinks...

I love the overlap on her arms, and the texture you gave her snakey half... In the color piece, I love the blend of flesh to green you did in her pelvic area...

Shweet stuff, mang!

 

[enworldatemylogin]

I like your version much better. The face is slighly cartoonish, but far better than what I saw at Wotc.

 

[Ferret]

Good, but it doesn't have the Realistic deapth that they usually would. Very good though, and link to the real pic?

 

[Oni]

Pretty cool. One crit/suggestion off the top of my head. Move her breasts down a set of arms, I think that would but them a proportionately more correct place in relation to the head and the top set of shoulders. Shouldn't be too hard to do in a decent graphic program.

 

[s/LaSH]

For the Wizards marilith, go here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rs/20030506a

Otherwise... yes, I'm aware the style of the picture is a little comicky. It's the quickest way I have of doing stuff. Given a little time, you'll never know there were lines there at all. (For those who read my comic, the earliest strips feature 'coloured line style', which had the unfortunate disability of being very slow and, at the time, unfortunately low in contrast. I can do better.) And her chest is the number-one thing that's wrong with the picture. I'll fix that too.

Version 3.0, coming any week now!

 

[Breakstone]

I like it, and I can't wait to see the finished version!