Conlans Art Thread

[mythusmage]

Ran across this thread today. Conlan, you do good. Your work shows a level of professionalism and skill others could emulate to their profit.

The knight in your first post is well animated. It is clear to anybody with eyes to see that the poor guy is pooped. Show him to a spot near the campfire and he's gone till midmorning.

I thought you used colored pencils in your first samples. Just had that, grain, to it. Try it with acrylics and high-end markers sometimes, to see how they work. Scan the basic pencil and color the file using your preferred paint program too. Just to see what happens.

I noticed that your style is naturalistic. How are you with nature scenes? Speaking of which, check out Rigor Vitae, a blog on nature, art, and life.

Speaking of blogs. One of your own would help alot. I know a lot of people are happy with Blogger, but I recommend getting a paid host for the extra space and bandwidth. A number of hosts offer blogging and gallery software that is installed through an installation utility like Fantastico.

I use Total Choice Hosting myself. $10.95US for a one year domain registration and about $4.00US a month for the cheapest hosting plan. All plans come with Fantastico, and that provides a lot of stuff you could use. You get any kind of traffic it'll be worth it.

Keep working on your art and I hope to see you at GenCon or ComicCon some day.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Looks good to me! Toric might have some input for you.

No input other than Valurel looks great! Nice job!

 

[Conlan]

Thanks again for the compliments guys, they are very reassuring. But PLEASE, if somebody reading this sees something I can improve on, do not hesitate, I want to know!

Mythusmage, becoming a professional artist is the ultimate dream. I would love to be at GenCon one day for this stuff, but thats a long way off. The only reason that my medium is in colored pencils is that I can't paint to save my life, never turns out the way I want it to, and outside of highschool artclass I've never had any professional training. That and i'm really just starting to learn adobe photoshop, so its kind of useless to me at this point. Thanks for the comments though!

Bob, just did a very rough draft of Lodric and Fallax, theres some anatomy issues with it, minor stuff. As alway let me know what you want kept and changed, tomorrow I should be doing Aislinn and the wolf. So the pencils should be done by the end of this weekend, sorry its taking so long!

 

[kroh]

Great artwork Conlan! I really like your style and the way you pose your figures.
Regards,
Walt

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Awesome job on Fallax! That is exactly how I pictured that crotchety old man!

 

[Bobitron]

Wow! Those look great! Thanks again.

 

[Conlan]

Ok here is the final outlines of most of the characters. I paired Aislinn with Kaela sort of leaning on her and feeling her way around, the wolf here is a rough sketch because the final is pretty much just outlines with no fur at all detailed yet so i'm posting this one to give you a better idea. Bob, let me know if you still think Kaela looks old or not and I'll fix her up again, same with Aislinn.

Also before I go to color let me know if theres anything on the characters you want a specific color (besides whats already been specified). If not, I'll decide how to color them myself.

 

[Conlan]

Also heres a mock up of the group shot.

 

[Nellisir]

I have a (hopefully simple) request.

A pivotal item in my campaign is the banner of the Fourth Amerite Legion, aka the Black Legion, aka the Legion of Crows. It's a "crossbar" style banner, with a vertical pole and crossbar; the banner hangs down from the crossbar. The symbol on the banner is a crow. There might be other small items hanging from the top spike, or either end of the crossbar - tassels, ribbons, medallions, etc, and the bottom of the pole is spiked (it roots itself into the ground when desired).

I'd like to have a good, interesting drawing of it, to give the players a little greater "sense" of it. I think your style and pencils would give it a really great "earthy", "real" feeling - much better than a clean computer image.

Thanks!
Nell.

 

[pogre]

Conlan,

Excellent work!

Offering it for free is amazing.

For the art vultures around here it's like finding a dead elephant!

Please sign your work at least. You'll be glad you did later on.

I agree with Sialia - do not get too immersed in photoshop. The organic feel of your work is very nice.