Creature Catalog gallery - looking for artists!
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Kitsunekaboom
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I have Cryonax done, where do these get sent? I'm kinda not proud of him, he doesn't look Quite bestial enough for my taste and I may take a second crack later. (Not that he's a favorite, he's just theo nly one on the list I particularly like, I have not unleashed myself on monster work in a looooooooooong time.)
Edit: Nevermind, didn't see the upload button before. >_<
Edit: Nevermind, didn't see the upload button before. >_<
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Kitsunekaboom
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Gez
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Kitsunekaboom said:
You should try to do without the snowflakes, nor the little dudes. Falling snow is hard to draw, and when failed, detracts more than they add up. My two centimes.
(BTW, I found back the thread where I learned the .txt trick, it's over on boards.wizards: here:
Edmynion, I'll e-mail you my smilies that I made. Please put them online so I can use them, pretty please?
Just do what I do. Goto www.geocities.com and sign up for a free account. The upload stuff is easy, and you get lots of room (I seem to have 15 meg for free). Just to get an image to show up on these boards from Geocities, upload the file as a .txt and then link to the text file. The boards don't seem to care what the extension is, it just reads the data in it.)
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
Not bad for a start! 
The cryonax itself looks great. The rest of the picture isn’t bad composition wise, but there are a couple of weak spots which Gez identified. The snow is fine, but keep in mind: snow doesn’t fall in patterns. to make it look more realistic, it should be staggered more, and probably with smaller flakes – unless the large flakes are a design element, which is OK really. The mountains and terrain are just fine. The animal that cryonax is grasping is fine, but a bit cartoony. My only real criticism is the hunter figure in the foreground – it looks like it took about 2 seconds to do that. have you tried working at a larger scale and scanning at a smaller resolution (or scanning at a higher resolution and lowering it before posting on the web)? That makes it a lot easier to render detail on small figures like the hunter or the animal, and even to do the snow. Better yet, if you know your way around photoshop, you can render these elements separately, and add them in bit by bit.
Just some suggestions, but you do have a good start there.
The cryonax itself looks great. The rest of the picture isn’t bad composition wise, but there are a couple of weak spots which Gez identified. The snow is fine, but keep in mind: snow doesn’t fall in patterns. to make it look more realistic, it should be staggered more, and probably with smaller flakes – unless the large flakes are a design element, which is OK really. The mountains and terrain are just fine. The animal that cryonax is grasping is fine, but a bit cartoony. My only real criticism is the hunter figure in the foreground – it looks like it took about 2 seconds to do that. have you tried working at a larger scale and scanning at a smaller resolution (or scanning at a higher resolution and lowering it before posting on the web)? That makes it a lot easier to render detail on small figures like the hunter or the animal, and even to do the snow. Better yet, if you know your way around photoshop, you can render these elements separately, and add them in bit by bit.Just some suggestions, but you do have a good start there.
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
hi! thanks for the interest.
well, as far as what you can do, you can pick from anything that i've laid out on this page, or if you'd rather be a free thinker (hey, you're an artist, right?) check out the link to our conversions at the top of the page, and pick from anything at all that you see on that list. the creatures i've provided descriptions for on this page are merely the ones that were voted most popular by our fans.
as for variations of the same type, i'm not sure what you mean?
well, as far as what you can do, you can pick from anything that i've laid out on this page, or if you'd rather be a free thinker (hey, you're an artist, right?) check out the link to our conversions at the top of the page, and pick from anything at all that you see on that list.
the creatures i've provided descriptions for on this page are merely the ones that were voted most popular by our fans.as for variations of the same type, i'm not sure what you mean?
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
i was thinking you might have meant that. 
the answer is YES! why not? there doesn't need to be a single definitive version. if you like, you can even do your own version of something already in the gallery. that's fine. just don't be repititious on purpose. but to answer your question this way: don't think that just because someone has already done it that you are excluded from trying your hand at it.
Edit: i should really say, though, to stick to the creatures on the "converted" page. many of the creatures in the current gallery have been subsequently printed in one WotC product or another, and are thus not on the converted page any longer. you can do creatures that have been in the Tome of Horrors, but we'd prefer to see those that haven't.
the answer is YES! why not? there doesn't need to be a single definitive version. if you like, you can even do your own version of something already in the gallery. that's fine. just don't be repititious on purpose. but to answer your question this way: don't think that just because someone has already done it that you are excluded from trying your hand at it. Edit: i should really say, though, to stick to the creatures on the "converted" page. many of the creatures in the current gallery have been subsequently printed in one WotC product or another, and are thus not on the converted page any longer. you can do creatures that have been in the Tome of Horrors, but we'd prefer to see those that haven't.
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