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Aeronwen · Jun 14, 2010, 01:20 PM // 13:20

Raven

)) it all makes sense now - looking really good

Tommy - I agree with what everyone else said about the waist/legs tho I couldnt have said it half so well. love the colours. There is something slightly mad about her expression.

Kiya, thats looking really good - I want to play that game!

Mr. G · Jun 14, 2010, 02:43 PM // 14:43

Gah... I am so not finishing on time..

Stupid city.

Tommy's · Jun 14, 2010, 06:06 PM // 18:06

Work harder G.!

You got about 35 more hours or something. The submitting ends when its the 16th every where on the world. Still got to find out when that is in my local time

Ok so I totaly had it with this entry lol, everything went wrong. Dont want to work on it any longer

IWANTTOENTER! D:
Artist Name: Tommy
Artworks Name: The birth of a Dragon

They come out of eggs right?

Ravenhawk · Jun 14, 2010, 06:34 PM // 18:34

G!! Don't give up! I am also pushing it to the deadline. lol, might even end up submitting the night of the 15th US Central Time.

Tommy: I like the Kuunavang surprise! And yeah I think they come out of eggs. The problem you mentioned about her legs is not even noticeable anymore.

Here's my progress as of last night. Will try to fix her left arm, put something on the ridges and fix the rendering in the background and yeah the pic is all dark because I haven't even put the highlights/lighting yet =P.

Mr. G · Jun 15, 2010, 09:57 PM // 21:57

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Work harder G.! You got about 35 more hours or something. The submitting ends when its the 16th every where on the world. Still got to find out when that is in my local time

My maths is a little dodgey but I think that would be midday on the 16th (whereever you are

). Though that could be totaly off hehe...

Almost done at least... one final WiK before I put up the final draft:

Think I'm going to remove the globe in the centre - too distracting.

Ravenhawk · Jun 15, 2010, 10:03 PM // 22:03

Wow G, that's looking REALLY REALLY GOOD! I love the dragon idea. The rendering on the guy on the left looks amazing and the background. I assume you're still gonna work on rending the guy on the right and the dragon. Can't wait for the finished piece.

this is how far I got to last night. Still got some fixes to do such as her arm, hand. I'll finish it tonight

Tommy's · Jun 15, 2010, 10:09 PM // 22:09

That dragon is really cool G! (lol so funny calling you G.

) Really good. Gogo finish last bits

Looking nice Ravenhawk, would make her lips a bit wider though, she looks like she ate a sour prume

And whats the think on the back? is it a mask?

Mr. G · Jun 15, 2010, 10:33 PM // 22:33

I like her lips - She looks like she's concentrating on something... or someone.

I love the hair...I must have taken ages to get it that perfect.

Mr. G · Jun 16, 2010, 02:05 AM // 02:05

Not even close to what I was aiming for - But I need sleep and by the time I wake up the deadline will be over

(I think)...soooo:

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IWANTTOENTER! D:

Artist Name: G (it seems to have stuck around here

)
Artworks Name:The honoured guest

The bridge and sunn's right arm are a bit 11th hour.. I can still see me touching it up for days to come aswell

It turned out waaay different from my original vision - But I'm not too disappointed with the final piece.

Also thanks to you guys I learnt a lot - So a big cheers to you all for putting up with my constant spamming of this thread

I think its safe to say scenery is more my caliber than people though hehe.

Next time I'll pay more attention to these things so I have more time in advance

and now...it's 3am...zzzz

Ravenhawk · Jun 16, 2010, 02:23 AM // 02:23

Wow, I love that bridge Mr G!

Guess it's my turn:

IWANTTOENTER! D:
Artist Name: Ravenhawk, character by Omens
Artworks Name: Canthan Nights

Artist's Notes:

As soon as it was Omens' turn to get a commission, I immediately realized that theme he requested fits the Canthan Workshop contest:
If I remember it correctly, Omens wanted something "Action-y and has a Canthan/Asian feel".

Since I started my commissions thread, I knew that anatomy, action poses, foreshortening and backgrounds are my main weaknesses. I can't say I am good at any of those right now but I am still working on it. Those are pretty much what I wanted to achieve in this piece. Although the pose was more subdued/stealthy than action-y, the angle and overall anatomy really challenged me (In fact, I still see stuff that I need to fix but the deadline is already passed so I will not update that entry lol, just the one that I send to omens later).

I also tried drawing the background this time instead of using custom brushes or screenshots. I used photoshop's blur tool to emphasize the foreground from the background and try to denote depth and distance. I always like dramatic lightings and it's also one of the things I enjoyed doing the most while doing this piece.

Special thanks to Omens for letting me use his badass ritualist

I really had a lot of fun and thank you for the opportunity to join in this contest.

StormX · Jun 16, 2010, 06:33 AM // 06:33

Very nice submissions...looks like the judges will have a hard time deciding. the celestial dragon looks great, like a screencap of guildwars the animated series (but not in a bad way) The rit/assa too, the lighting and color composition is well done..gj =D

Tommy's · Jun 16, 2010, 08:46 AM // 08:46

Okido

Good entries everyone! Now its the judges turn to decide who wins what

They won't have it easy. So please wish our judges all the best!

-Submitting is now no longer available (at least that is if its the 16th everywhere on the world, gogo check timezones)-

Eastern Magik · Jun 16, 2010, 10:45 AM // 10:45

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Originally Posted by Benderama

howdy hoo all ^^ sorry this is a post about those pieces of art mentioned on the first page.
you know the dragon in "the dragon and his lady"(?) how do you get the lighting effects and the textures of the scale on the underside of the dragon

? are you guys using a specific art program? (since all i can actually afford is PSelements 8), i don't have a scanner or graphics tablet yet so i haven't been drawing solely from that program.

srry, i saw this just now :***

anyway, i've used photoshop cs3 (you can see with what program is picture edited if you right click it > properties)

and for the textures, its basically what Tommy said, although i often use brushes with applied texture on them, i like it that way because its more customizable (i hate when "transform wrap" messes up my texture >_<). For dragon scales, i used combined custom brush and pattern and some other tiny settings. You can probably do that with pse, but im not sure, you can always download trial version of both programs, and see what function you'll have. Or you can try some free programs, Gimp or something like that.

Oooooooh and i see more finished entries, yaaay ^^ too bad there's just a few

(( but still yaaay ^^

p.s. Tommy, you forgot to add Lili's entry in OP

Tommy's · Jun 16, 2010, 10:59 AM // 10:59

*Ashamed!* Sorry Lili, adding you as we speak. Thnx for pointing it out Magik!

Tommy's · Jun 16, 2010, 11:05 AM // 11:05

Yay I hate funny internet

Tommy's · Jun 16, 2010, 11:11 AM // 11:11

Want to spam you with more posts

Ravenhawk · Jun 16, 2010, 05:28 PM // 17:28

Good luck to everyone. I had fun participating.

I also added an additional description to my entry, more like personal notes/thoughts on the entire process of creating my artwork.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/c...52#post5175352

Perynne · Jun 17, 2010, 12:51 AM // 00:51

Very, very nice entries everyone. This is definitely going to be hard to judge, I know I couldn't pick my favourites.

Good luck!

Aeronwen · Jun 19, 2010, 08:04 PM // 20:04

So when are we going to hear who won? It's been days...... (I know it will be difficult all such wonderful entries)

Tommy's · Jun 19, 2010, 09:04 PM // 21:04

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Originally Posted by Aeronwen

So when are we going to hear who won? It's been days...... (I know it will be difficult all such wonderful entries)

We are going to hear who won when I get the results back from the judges

I set the deadline for that on the first of July. So you will have to wait a few more days