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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CCThrom" data-source="post: 4100952" data-attributes="member: 59262">Hello All,Seems this is going to serve as an introduction as well a process thread. I’ve been a lurker for some time, but haven’t posted until today. There are a few familiar names though.Empty Room Studios is putting together an art showcase book. I'm more of a traditional artist than digital, and my bread-and-butter seems to be pencil these days, so I will be turning an author’s brief into pencil linework, ready for a colorist. You can follow my progress here if you are so inclined. Heh, enough blather... my brief was written by the talented and versatile Andrew Schneider:The first step is thumbnailing, starting with at least 3 sketches… I focused on the moment of confrontation between Max and dragon… attempting to show both of them at the same time without losing too much of Max’s character, since that was such an important element in the brief. For me, the brief had a very “Shadowrun” vibe to it, but the final will not be overtly Shadowrun (unless I decide to put troll horns on the bruiser).<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/emptyroomstudios/Throm/ArtBook_DungeonPunkThumb01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/emptyroomstudios/Throm/ArtBook_DungeonPunkThumb02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/emptyroomstudios/Throm/ArtBook_DungeonPunkThumb03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />After some review and commentary (bigger characters and make the trenchcoats more interesting!) we settled on a further modification of thumbnail #3.<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/emptyroomstudios/Throm/ArtBook_DungeonPunkThumb04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The next step will be working up a more thorough sketch. The main direction I’ve been given is to show more “crashing through the wall” and to make the dragon not so traditional. My plan is for a twisted/mutated dragon, probably with bits of metal grafting and cybernetics. We shall see…If you enjoy this, check out Jeff Koch’s related thread right here:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=218863" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=218863</a>And visit Empty Room Studios or the Tangled Muse forum, Thanks for reading!<a href="http://www.emptyroomstudios.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emptyroomstudios.com/</a><a href="http://www.tangledmuse.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tangledmuse.com/</a><a href="http://www.ccthrom.com" target="_blank">http://www.ccthrom.com</a> (my site is on development hiatus right now, but you can still see lots more work there)PS - let me know if I commit any EnWorld faux pas here, thanks.</blockquote>

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