Castle Paradox

Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

http://www.geocities.com/klharrismith/creature/malacat.jpg

Questions, comments, flames, cretiques... all are welcome. It's STILL not finished, that shadow needs work/help/surgery. I was/am planning a second malacat cub in the back... do you guys think it's needed? I think something else is missing... it just needs something. Dunno what.

OH, and a reminder: yes, it is a GeoCities site and thus doesn't allow remote linking. Most of you already know how to handle that, but the question seems to keep popping up every once in a while on how to view a picture on a site that doesn't allow remote linking. So, for those who don't know... copy and paste the url. Can everyone remember that, boys and girls? Yes? Good! Nap time!
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Mushitori Okuro · Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 43 Location: South Florida

Ah, a proffesional artist.

Yes the mythical animals look good. I have no critiques since Im not a good critic. @_@

The scorpion tail reminds me of the Manticore, body of a tiger, face of a man, and scorpion tail, I think thats how it went. It kills people from 100 feet away or something like that. But yours are different, this one has wings and a non human face.

I had a mythical animal obsession when I was a preteen caused by Warcraft 2's Dragons and Gryphons that led me to read about mythical animals and stuff. @_@

Megumi · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

*Is killed by the prettiness* I'd love to be able to do stuff like that someday.
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Uncommon · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:22 am Post subject:

Wow. Great work. Out of curiosity, why is it only "almost done"?

Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

because i've been planning a second cub, i need to rework that shadow (can't seem to get it right), and do some spot work here and there
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject:

Those scorpion-ish tails don't fit with the other art too well, and the shadow on the beach of the big malacat looks... awkward. Also, I don't think it matters for a second cub.

Also, Kommie(maybie I shouldn't refer to you as that..), use the change images into .txt files trick.

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Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

Very sweet.
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Seth · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 2:39 am Post subject:

Wow, pretty! I love the planets in the background (planets/moons/sun?) and the shadow is FINE... stop worrying.
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sephy99 · Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 43

It looks really nice overall; however, as mentioned before the scorpian tail sticks out... almost as though it was pasted (which it obviously wasn't). It could be the contrast between the extremely light body to the pitch black tail without any sort of connection (especially on the cub). Also, the texture on the main body looks very realistic while the head-dress like object with the blue crystals looks odly shaded for a realistic drawing. Has an strange cell-shaded look to it almost, but it could just be me.

jabbercat · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject:

Its so nice to see a fellow professional at work, It' really good ,Did you use grapites and stumps or standerd b's?
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Aethereal · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 7:55 pm Post subject:

Why are we reviving dead threads?

I could say more regarding that picture, but Komera might hit me over the head if I did, so I'll hush up now.
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Rpeanut · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

lol, dead threads, anyways nice, kool pic, and stuff.
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Melnazar · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:58 am Post subject:

this was a dead thread? Then does it mean that the picture is now finished? Because I must say it's quite magnificient already!
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Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

i tried replying earlier, but it wouldn't let me reply (to my own thread? :boggle: )... but this new server let me post the cretique for royal, so maybe it'll let me post this one, too.

seth: the planets in the background are a couple of imagest i snuck off of the hubble space telescope site, a kupier belt object, and mars.

sephy99: it's probably the contrast that's getting to you. the tails in fact are not black. they are grey with three layers atop them (two for highlights, and one for purple overtones, althought the layer setting turned the purple into red and yellow). the headplate probably seems so unrealistic because it uses only two layers, while the body uses six. oh, and those were not supposed to be blue crystals, they're supposed to be eyespots.

jabbercat: i use portions of public domain pictures to create backgrounds, but never more than 20% of any one picture. the subjects are all hand drawn.

aethereal: i would neeeveeer hit you over the head... gryphon claws aren't designed that way. *evil grin*

melnazar: the picture i originally posted was less complete. when showing pictures online, i save over older pictures so that the url remains the same. the picture as you currently see it is finished.

this thread should probably be closed now, now that i'm not working on the picture anymore.
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