Castle Paradox

Baconlabs · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: Need some Robe Designs

Looking for robe designs - I'll be using them on Katrina, my girl-mage who's starring in my Halloween '09 entry.

Specifically, I need robes that pertain to these themes:
-Fire
-Water / Ice
-Plant / Earth
-Darkness / Occult / Black Magic
Sources can be from anywhere IRL or OL, which means anything goes. Pull a design from your favorite game or MMO if you'd like.
Don't leave us hanging, now. She hates having a wardrobe of one item.

NeoSpade · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:20 am Post subject: Re: Need some Robe Designs

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Google is always a good place for references. You can simply refer to the Princess Bride for how a Fire Robe works. For water/ice, I recommend looking up "Ice Queen" images and apply how people design their dresses and apply such designs to a robe instead. For an earth robe, I can't really think of anything to reference, so you can probably go with a brown robe with moss patches, much like Torterra:

And then darkness/occult is obvious, if not bland. Probably have to look up cult stuff on that one or something, or just pick out something Tom Cruise wears.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

Robes? I'm no good at drawing those >;)

BlastedEarth · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 243

Hi here's one of my heroesin my game, she's Miyuki the dragon artist, maybe you'd like that style of robes...

edit:

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Baconlabs · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:34 am Post subject:

BlastedEarth, for some reason this just creeped into my brain:

NeoSpade · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:52 am Post subject:

BlastedEarth · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 243

wow he looks really cool!

Deadmanintheocean · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:25 am Post subject:

Robes from my game...

There weren't any plant/earth examples, or feminine dark robes.
...sorry about the ms paint.

NeoSpade · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:16 am Post subject:

Not exactly any of the categories, but the robe design itself is very nice, her flip-side looks more like something James would draw :p

...weird she has less skin showing than I recall xD, however looking at this makes me think of a fire robe.

hope this info proves useful :p

EDIT: Forgot to mention, for people who don't know these are from Grandier 2, while linear it's a very interesting RPG Big grin

Baconlabs · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:01 am Post subject:

Okay, got some preliminary ideas on the robes, seen in these walkabouts:

Needless to say I've still got a lot of work to do, turning these into battle sprites. But I think this is a good, solid foundation, I've got nifty little details on each of them:
-FIRE: Split down the middle and at the thigh, showing the legs. The tail is long, so this still counts as a robe. I will later add a flame pattern to the sleeves.
-EARTH: Went with the continental design inspired by Torterra, with the addition of a "river" belt. Need an extra detail to add onto the big sprite, though.
-DARK: The only one that has a hood to hold back the hair. I plan to add a diamond pattern to the sleeves and bottom half of the robe, and possibly an eye symbol around the midriff. Somehow, this was my design inspiration. I don't know.
-ICE: Inspired by a not-yet-seen character in Viridia, a priestess-type:

Admittedly, Katrina's version looks more like a princess than a priestess. Gotta love the deep blue though.
I may make a "vote for your favorite" thread when they're all finished.

Fun fact! SHiIDA's four elemental attack types are FIRE, ICE, DARK... and LIGHT. Hm.