Clever Girl... - Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge

[ChromeZephyr]

Hot damn, DAT SHIELD. Only complaint I have for the piece is the head wound. While everything else has depth and perspective, that just looks like a ripped piece of paper. A small bit of detail to show the edges of the cut receding into the helm (and the Traitor Marine's head) would make it perfect.

[fivepointedstar]

Oh its a proud day to see Fuegan re-did, and look absolutly spectacular. Nice Xenos drawing Greyall. Eventhou he's a foul Eldar Xenos he's the shining example of a non-SM member in the Order of the Dragon.

[AlexCrute]

Did Jes Goodwin have a secret son in Portugal?

[Greyall]

Renewed thanks to you, mates.

 

Aye, the wounds aren't that well done, I'm not great with materials...I'll have to see to that.

 

@Alex Crute: Don't know, but my plan is to reunite with him

 

(That sounded wrong in a million ways...)

 

The Bloodthirsters is coming along nicely, I think he's in a good pose for a mini. Be seeing you.

[relicblade]

http://s1242.beta.photobucket.com/user/rel...alFist.jpg.html

 

I'm having issues adding my picture so here's the link instead.

 

Yeah, I'm a bored freshman so it's not great, but just my tribute to the great Greyall. I hope someone puts a background on it. I left the rivets white so that they'd pop out.

[Greyall]

Pretty nice, mate. Again, thanks a bunch for taking your time to colour my artwork =)

[relicblade]

Thanks Greyall, but it was pretty bad.

 

I've done another of yours, the Night Lord - I feel I've done better than the Imperial Fist, like with shading and overall coloring, but I'm still being flummoxed by the light effect and making reflections and backgrounds in Photoshop. Well, practice will make perfect, hopefully even just a fraction of the skill shown by the others here.

 

http://s1242.beta.photobucket.com/user/rel...?sort=3&o=0

 

The link, as I still can't comprehend how to plonk my pictures here!

 

-relicblade

[Retributis]

Hi Relic,

 

It looks like your using the fill tool to colour it?

 

You could try firstly setting the layer with the drawing on to "multiply" and then creating another layer underneath it and colouring on that. It will allow you to keep the crisp line art whilst colouring. Lighting and shading is just a matter of using lighter shades much like with painting - Rather than using a white with low opacity, select the original colour and change it lighter/darker and using broad strokes, then get darker/lighter as you need to layer the colour to provide depth.

 

Obviously all this is just advice. Colour however you want to colour :D

[relicblade]

Retributis, you are my savior. The shading/highlighting techniques and the layer thing worked miracles. This one I just did is my favorite yet.

 

My problem with Lorgar is that I'm partially color blind, and I went through all the way, until my friends told me that the fire went red --> orange --> green... oops. I'm too lazy to correct it, but yeah. My first time doing this as if the light is coming from above (the flamey thing). Only now do I realize I forgot to shade the underside of the mace - well, practice makes perfect.

 

Link, as I'm an idiot w/ computers.

 

 

http://s1242.beta.photobucket.com/user/rel...?sort=3&o=0

 

Thanks to Greyall and Retributis!

 

P.S. Is it bad that I'm coloring all this stuff in the only way I can, my half-@$$ed way?

[Kol Saresk]

Hey Relic, since you are using photobucket, on the full sote there should be something that says "Direct Link", if you copy that(usually clickin on it works), come over here and paste it in tags, it should link better. Unless that is what you are doing in which case, disregard.

[fivepointedstar]

Hey Relic, since you are using photobucket, on the full sote there should be something that says "Direct Link", if you copy that(usually clickin on it works), come over here and paste it in tags, it should link better. Unless that is what you are doing in which case, disregard.

Or you could just put it into your own album here on B&C for user's like me that have photobucket/ Flicker, etc. blocked sites from my work computer. :( That way I can see it too. :)

[Greyall]

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/351/4/a/bloodthirster_of_khorne_by_greyall-d5o7m5v.jpg

 

"Allies from the Warp"...Everyone here had seen Daemons, yet the Word Bearer zealots kept referring to them as "allies from the Warp".

 

Rutger sighed, but it sounded more like a growl. Couldn't be helped, a World Eater's place in the universe was it a weapon in his hand, either eviscerating an enemy or practicing with a brother (which sometimes ended in the same gory way). Instead, here he was, surrounded by others of his Legion - each and every one of them showing the same impatience, apart from Phract, who always seemed focused on whatever he was doing - and the crimson marines of the Word Bearers.

 

Usually, Angron's legionnaries would never have agreed to this, but the Word Bearer Chaplain leading this detachment had pleaded with the World Eaters' commander, Sagittar Phract. Pleaded so much that he managed to accomplish the extraordinary feat of exhausting the impassible Terminator's patience, and earning himself a decapitation. The Word Bearer's second-in-command was much more to-the-point, making Phract understand that this was not a convocation of mere Bloodletters they were talking about.

 

So here they were, far away from the main joint force, waiting from something to come out of the blasted portal howling a few metres from them. The Word Bearers had been chanting for an hour, yet, apart from a few Bloodletters, nothing had come out. Certainly nothing that justified Lorgar's lapdogs' enthusiasm.

 

"Lend a hand, brothers", Saggitar Phract transmitted on a private channel, and seven hundred weapons activated, muting both the portal's incessant howling and the Word Bearers' chantings. Both resumed the next moment, the chanting now much louder and with a tinge of despair that made more than a few laughs erupt from the World Eaters assembled on the site.

 

It seemed to work, but as soon as the silhouette inside the portal became clearer, Rutger wondered if it was for the best. He felt discomfort, so deep it seemed to make his blood run different, hotter. Then, as the creature emerged and advanced between both Legions' ranks, the feeling vanished, yet his blood's temperature kept rising.

 

The size alone was staggering, more than twice the height of a Terminator and much wider. It was hunched, with a lionine mane and a snout that resembled a skeletal dog's, with no lips covering the great fangs. Two great hors protruded from its head, ivory and covered in iron spikes and trophies.

 

It seemed covered in dry blood, a disgusting brownish red, but Rutger noticed it was simply the colour of its skin. Powerful, hooved legs carried the Daemon, but it was its upper body that demonstrated this beast had been created with pure violence in mind. Disproportionally muscular, with two arms wider than a Space Marine, both covered in plaques of brass that clanked together with the sound of a fortress gate shutting closed. From the back of the Daemon, two huge leathery wings emerged, black as an abyss.

 

And it carried an axe. An axe almost as tall as its wielder, with a daemonic face carved on its iron surface and with a handle covered in patched skin. Human skin, something told Rutger.

 

The Daemon stopped a few metres before Phract, and Rutger could barely keep himself from striking the word Bearers across him. Or even one of his brethren, so strong was the bloodlust this creature carried with it.

 

The World Eaters' commander rolled his shoulders and snorted, but Rutner noticed his breathing was faster. He looked to one of his bodyguards, another Terminator.

 

"Horon", Phract said simply, and the hulking warrior came forth, putting himself in front of the Daemon and attacking a second later.

 

To his credit, Horon didn't fall to the old cliché of the supposed champion who gets swatted aside with ease. Too many times had Rutger seen the leaders of non-compliant worlds call forth "the greatest of their warriors" to duel Angron, Phract or Khârn, only for the fight to last a mere seconds, the outcome invariably bloody. Horon was proving capable, though Rutger knew he was a warrior, not a duellist, at heart. The World Eater swung his Eviscerator at the creature's legs, but the Daemon took flight, coming down the next second, the impact that of a Land Raider dropping from a carrier. Horon evaded the descending monster, but it grabbed the Terminator by its shoulder with a speed that shouldn't have been possible for its size, and smashed his weapon arm with a hoof. It held Horon in the air and, with an upwards slash of the huge axe in inverted grasp, rent the Legionnaire open from groin to head.

 

Then it simply hoisted the dead Astartes above its head and drank his blood, before throwing the body into the midst of the Word Bearers.

 

The Word Bearer Sorceror was at Phract's side, his anxiety almost palpable. Without ever taking his eyes off the monstrosity, the World Eater sated the other's expectance, and Rutger thought he saw a smile pass across the old warrior's expression.

 

"Welcome, bloodgorger. You are among equals"

 

---

 

This being a study for a miniature, I must say I'm proud of Bloody, especially his pose. Unarmoured fellows give me a chance to drink deep from the inspiration granted by artists like Wayne Reynolds, allowing for more fluid poses. The wargear I like, as well, this piece being its primary inspiration.

 

Classical Khorne art

 

Hope you like him, mates. That concludes my non-Astartes pieces, for now. I'm returning to our fine Power-Armoured brethren, along with some drawings I'll be doing to enrich my Curriculum.

[Firepower]

Epic as always. Though like the Changer, the negative space on his flank seems odd. Granted negative space is good for composition, but that seems like a part that would have some notable anatomical definition. :huh:

 

But still, to repeat, epic. ;)

[Zealot Of Chaos]

:D

 

B E A Utiful, absolutely beautiful, if I could have a Bloodthirster looking like that on the table I would win as soon as he arrived as my opponents would be too awe struck to play

[Shadowstalker Grim]

Wow Im really liking this one, I can almost see it in model form the pose is so crisp! Great job Greyall!

[fivepointedstar]

oh wow that Bloodthirster is wickedly awesome.

[Greyall]

Thanks, everyone.

 

I updated the Bloodthirster pic, thanks to Firepower's critic. It's a bit troubling how deceiving my drawing-trained eyes can be, but truth is, the beast lacked muscles in a serious way...Not now, I think. So, Brother Firepower, I'd very much appreciate if you could provide me with a request describing a Power-Armoured character of your choice. You've more than earned it, thank you very much.

 

Hope the differences are noticeable, I'm happy with this guy. Cheers, everyone. I'll be drawing Raven Guard next.

[Firepower]

Thanks, everyone.

 

I updated the Bloodthirster pic, thanks to Firepower's critic. It's a bit troubling how deceiving my drawing-trained eyes can be, but truth is, the beast lacked muscles in a serious way...Not now, I think. So, Brother Firepower, I'd very much appreciate if you could provide me with a request describing a Power-Armoured character of your choice. You've more than earned it, thank you very much.

 

Hope the differences are noticeable, I'm happy with this guy. Cheers, everyone. I'll be drawing Raven Guard next.

 

Looks much better, super demonicly buff :D.

 

Also, YAY! :D Now I just have to think of an appropriately awesome Templar piccy...hmmm.

[MagicMan]

Love it with the filled in muscle definition, before i found my gaze drawn to that blank spot of torso, but now i find myself looking at his face which is where i should be looking.

 

Love the lumpy, ogre-like muscle definition too.

[Xavier Targhost]

Dident think of it until you changed it and wow its even more awesome now mate ;) very well done!! <_<

[Greyall]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/355/9/f/kayvaan_shrike__captain_of_the_raven_guard_by_greyall-d5ophrt.jpg

 

A reimagining of Captain Shrike (Most Badass Name Award) of the Raven Guard, whose current miniature is not very stealthy. This version was thought out to be all in black, with silver details. Oh, and I tried to give him a pair of Lightning Claws worthy of having belonged to a Primarch.

 

Lots of fun drawing this guy.

 

Cheers, Brothers.

 

I'll be working on Firepower's request, next.

[Messor]

Best looking Raven Guard/Corvus helm I ever did see!

[Olis]

Great stuff, brother. It was about time ol' Shrike got a makeover. :)

[fivepointedstar]

Good gods, that Shrike is superbly awesome. I wish GW would take some pointers from you, and make this.

[Shadowstalker Grim]

I really like the drawing, the claws I think you've got down to a T, it looks better than the minature which kinda looks like its prancing round a bit.....

 

But can Shrike really be stealthy? He has a jet engine on his back! :sweat: