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Death By An Arrow · Feb 05, 2011, 04:43 PM // 16:43

I could post the screenshot im working from but...
not yet; need moar mystery :3

Nemesis-of-the-Gods · Feb 09, 2011, 03:05 AM // 03:05

This sounds like a lot of fun and a heck of a great contest! Count me in, if I ever get the time soon! XD
I've already got some ideas for my entry ^^

Death By An Arrow · Feb 10, 2011, 10:57 PM // 22:57

-pokes-
i cantwork on my piece until the weekend, so i thought id leave a present.

Epic gallery is epic

if you use one of these, it would be polite to source the website ;p

Nemesis-of-the-Gods · Feb 11, 2011, 01:31 PM // 13:31

Ooh that website is amazing! Thanks so much Death. The screen-shots on there are really inspiring, and that totally saves me time because now I don't have to go running around the continents and take my own screen shots XD
Sweetness

I Hope that I can actually start and make a piece for the contest though, I kind of want to do the Jade Sea in watercolors, but I'm not sure yet.

Invertation · Feb 11, 2011, 08:41 PM // 20:41

Best of luck to you if you do.
I'm under the impression, as observation of contest trends over time would have it be, that many participants will be much later on. Nothing spells efficiency like a deadline that draws ever closer.

Death By An Arrow · Feb 11, 2011, 09:00 PM // 21:00

O: sounds quite interesting.
I dunno if I could do the jade sea.. It's far too vast, in the sence of other than things living on it, theres not whole lot else to take up space besides cliff face and more jade.
I like having things in the frame to sort of distract from the vast endlessness; giving something to look at.

If you can find a way to get it to work, though, it should work. Ships or creatures could work for things; unless you've already got ideas.

I'm going to an art supply store (yaey Curry's

) tomorrow so I might pick up some watercolour paper with my new sketchbook. Maybe I'll do a water colour as well as my digital piece. I feel like the charr homelands might be easier to do in watercolour because watercolours have nice soft colours, and the homelands have a nice, soft autumny feel (even though its a raging warzone Dx).

Perhabs something more sharp and defined would be better for digital for me...

Invertation · Feb 12, 2011, 07:27 AM // 07:27

After a fine donation from Alacrity, the prize list has been modified to the following effect:

-Tier 2 now offers 250k, as opposed to 200.
-Traditional Media (subtheme) now offers 100k, as opposed to 50.

Smilin' Assassin · Feb 12, 2011, 08:03 AM // 08:03

this contest has Alacrity's seal of approval~!!

am really looking forwards to what you all come up with :}

Death By An Arrow · Feb 12, 2011, 03:08 PM // 15:08

Thanks alacrity^^

i suppose when i get art supplies today ill get some watercolour paper O;

Death By An Arrow · Feb 13, 2011, 12:54 AM // 00:54

Alright, so I started my piece today. Sorta, it's the sketch.
I also included what my refrence is, so you can see it better. It's drawn in 2H because I drew it on watercolour paper [guess what medium i'm doing now? :P] so it wont be as visible when i paint atop it.

Edit: You may notice I didn't draw in the leaves around the trees. I've been told I make my trees too shapely when I paint the leaves inside a pre-drawn guideline, so I'm just going to eye ball it with my brush instead of my pencil.

Death By An Arrow · Feb 13, 2011, 09:40 PM // 21:40

gah... double post. But i guess it's necessary. Wheres all that action D:

Started painting today. I'm only putting in base colours an such here;nothing detailed yet [unless you count the tree, which Ill still work with].
I cant seem to find the right mix for a strong ice blue for the water, as well as a good rock colour. it will deffinatly need to get darker without looking black. The cream colour for the sky shouldnt be too tough, so I'll save it for later.

Perynne · Feb 14, 2011, 05:37 AM // 05:37

That's looking really good so far. Watercolour is a fun medium to work with, especially if you got good paper that doesn't go all crinkly under lots of water.

Can't wait to see more from you! I think I'll start on mine sometime this week (hopefully), so I should be posting progress screens soon too.

Tommy's · Feb 14, 2011, 06:42 PM // 18:42

Thats looking great Mr.Redpandavatar, I really like watercoloring.

Here is my first scetch:

Its 2 humans exploring a big cave with an asuran gate inside it. I'm thinking about adding more asuran architecture in it.

Death By An Arrow · Feb 14, 2011, 08:16 PM // 20:16

Been sick for a few days, sort of hit the peak last night so I took the day off school. Just more time to work on my painting ^^

So I focused more on the water and the rocks; didn't touch any of the grass. I like the rocks right now, however they need more texture. The rocks near the waterfalls need a darker hue, and I think that will help brighten the waterfall all togethor.

Then I need to work out the bottom right corner; i need it to have an edge instead of this sort of meldy colour mess it is right now.
Depending on how things go I'll then work on shading in the grass.

I apologize for my camera; not only is it blurry but those aren't exactly the colours I'm using. The colours are honestly a lot more rich, but the photo makes them look saturated. (the grass in particular looks like a sickly vomit when in fact it's more the colour of these leaves)

I may have a friend with a nice SLR camera (fancy lens camera), so hopefully I can arrange a way to borrow it/have her photograph it when it's finished.
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@Pery GOGOGOGOGO we need more landscapes

What do you have in mind?

@Tommy I'll have you know that red pandas are the "original" panda, as they were discovered before the more popularly know Giant Panda.

Your layout looks so epic; are the people the blacker squiggles on the left? I fear it might be unbalanced, however. If you look on the right you've got:
The Gate
The Staircase
The close up fungal plants

yet on the left you've got
A large opening.
perhaps moving the plants to the left side could help?

Smilin' Assassin · Feb 14, 2011, 10:20 PM // 22:20

I recognise that landmark~!
coming along very nicely :}

I think almost all trad stuff looks washed out when scanned; you'd have to adjust saturation after so it matches the original ..
@Invertation, that'd be okay, yes~?

Death By An Arrow · Feb 14, 2011, 10:34 PM // 22:34

I was actually in grothmar today and pulled up to this; i took that screenshot so long ago I forgot what exactly it all looked like. O.O

And my friend said she was totally fine with me borrowing her camera for a day. So hopefully I'll have an image that actually resembles what the piece looks like ^^

Invertation · Feb 15, 2011, 01:58 AM // 01:58

If at all possible, see if you can't scan it. I'm sure it would do wonders for the quality.

And, as far as touch ups, I'd much recommend it, so long as it's within reason (completely subjective). It'd be a shame to let an under or over exposed image ruin the effort you've invested.

Perynne · Feb 15, 2011, 06:57 AM // 06:57

I was thinking of painting Gwen's garden, or some other place in the Norn Lands. I really love the snow and mountain effects there and I've always wanted to paint something similar.

Ravenhawk · Feb 15, 2011, 12:17 PM // 12:17

I really like how you painted the rocks so far DBA. Just sad that we can't really see the true colors. I think scanning will help tremendously if the SLR option still doesn't give this beauty justice

Invertation · Feb 17, 2011, 06:36 AM // 06:36

Less than a month to go and a third of the way through. I hope everyone is making some progress.