Saraphim's Commission Thread...

oh nice you read my e-mail I was kinda confused with no-response

Now I'll wait for your masterpiece, take your time,

And let me know when you start working it plz, some changes in ele's armor and weapon set. c u

Hi ikarop, yes sorry I got your mail I should have replied to you directly as well as posting here. My apologies, I get quite a few mails a day and I tend to forget them if they sink too low, I have the memory retention of a sea bass. I'm going to keep this thread as up to date as possible now I've got some momentum going again, and will keep everyone aware of where I'm at.

Ok, another update on Moral's necro.

Changes:

Reduced the head size a smidge and moved it over which affected some of the armour around the shoulder area (most of it is out of sight though).
Repainted the skull and made it translucent, so you can make out her arm behind it. Also added more detail.
Changed the soft glow on her face to bolder strokes. I wasn't happy with the way her eyes were becoming too indistinct.
Added all reamining detail to the armour.

Going to start polishing up that background. It will probably not be as brown as this in the final image, it's just a blocked out base for me to work on.

Small full image:



Close up detail, roughly 70% of original size (full-size image is pretty big but is a lot higher than screen res deliberately).



[edit] ah.. crap, just noticed the detail wingy bit isn't painted in properly on the arm behind the skull. Dangit.

wow, lovely WiP ~ all those details and little adjustments, you're really a perfectionist

Thanks, doesn't always work in my favour when I have a lot of work on though...

Ok, seeing as I can't sleep I've knocked up a v. rough first blast on Racthoh's warrior. From a bit of wiki-ing I'm pretty sure those are Deldrimor gloves.

Not keen on the sword angle, will fiddle with that a bit more. Think the arm could do with dropping a bit so it's not obscuring part of his face and bring the angle up a bit. Not too sure..

Background has a few corpses and battered flags in for that extra "I win!" feel, lots of mist, and bleak grass / small fires etc... mountains behind the mist. I've done it in 16:9 format as it feels right for a battlefield.

Needs more dead people though methinks.

Forgive the roughness. Just trying to get a feel for it at the moment, it's a digital sketch... hence the blocked out greys.

Nice, but I think the sword is held back a bit too far

Can't wait to see that finished! I really need a new desktop pattern.

And I still need to give you payment sometime.

The new warrior one is awesome!
Racthoh you lucky bugger.

Okay.. provisionally finished on the necro now. I'll pm Moral55 with a link to a hires version and see it it passes muster.

Figure hasn't changed, but I completely changed the background. Still using the Isle of the Dead as a starting point, but it's a loose translation as I wanted the perspective to be a little more extreme. Also rendering the window as highly lit as the real hall would mean you wouldn't see her properly from that angle.. so I've taken a bit of artistic license with that.



Racthoh, I'm working on a tidier version of the line drawing, and I've changed the angle of the sword, it's closer to the same angle as the one in Rugal's painting now. Though I want it to be more realistic.. I doubt a skinny necro would be able to perch a fellblade over his shoulders quite so easily.

I'll go through the list as well and update stuff.

It's so amazing saraphim, can wait to have mine done lol nice work

Thanks Looking forward to getting to yours, should be pretty epic!


Ok, I've edited the first post to update the list... I've included people who have expressed an interest but I haven't responded to because I was absent for so long. So my apologies to those people, and I have put (maybe) next to your names, and added them in the order you posted. If you don't want anything then let me me know and I'll remove them.

I've also closed commissions after the last name for the time being as I want to catch up with it all. At a rough guess I'd say it probably took me about 2 full days to do the last one, scattered over a bunch of snatched evenings and finished it off today. So it's gonna be a good while before I get to the bottom of the list, as is.

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Back again.

Got a new drawing for Racthoh. I wasn't happy with it and decided to can the figure and start again. Much happier with this one. He's quite beefy... but the warriors do seem that way. I probably made his feet a little bigger as FoW makes male wars look like they have really small feet....

Wide angle



Close-up



Hope you don't mind him resting his leg on that conveniently placed corpse.

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Nice pieces of art once again! great improvement with the necro's background. Much more perspective now ^^
And the warrior is definately better. The first one looked like he was scratching his cheek with his sword pommel xD

awsome!

Very cool. I really liked the warrior one your working on, amazing picture.

A little sneak peak for Yakusa. I haven't drawn the rest in detail properly yet, but I thought I'd post it so you know I am on the case.

Ohh! Looks great, excited to see the rest

Saraphim, absolutely gorgeous work. Most of the stuff that I do is handdrawn and scanned, as my primary income isn't from artwork (freelancer on the side, so to speak), so a digipad is out of the question for cost vs. usage.

The stuff on your site is great fun to troll thru, I love seeing the sketchwork, as that is how most of my finished pieces turn out (I like draft lines... I'm weird like that) unless I get a client that needs complete and total stark when it comes to the finished product!

Lyssa's luck in finishing this load of commish-work!

~ Nihilist

Thanks I'm gonna need that luck.

Ok, this week was a bit bonkers as one of my contractors were going Alpha on Friday just gone so I never got much of a chance to do anything since I last posted till about 2 hours ago. Plus my hubby gave me a stinky cold.

I have a full sketch up for Yakusa now. She was in a completely different pose below the waist which is why it's a bit scibbly. I came back to it tonight and decided to go with something different.

Background is meant to be the Jade Sea, with bodies / smoking remains and a big ol' dead siege turtle off to the back.. petrified outcrops etc. She's standing at the 'crest of a wave', having just walked up it.

I just noticed, I need to push her sword arm back a little, it doesn't match her stance as well now.



I was hoping to get one paint finished and start on Yakusa's paint this weekend but work and my cold got in the way a bit.
Will update again soon, probably the next couple of days.

Got to go and get some screenies now.

WOW! That's looking amazing, I'm super stoked to see it in color

wow jus... wow...

ugh, i'm kinda thinking i shulda went the whole hog and requested a full body drawing instead of a measly avi one... lol...

is it too late to change my mind? lol xD

seeing the progress on the past 3 drawings has been fantastic! your work really is gorgeous and i'm glad to be in line to receive a commission

Sure, no problem. Just update the original post that'll be fine.

Ok, small update for Racthoh, although your warrior is actually invisible at the moment..

Working on the background, using a painterly approach this time, as it's meant to be in the style of the Theoden image, but in colour.

A lot of the midground will have mist and fires so I'm trying not to anally retent too much about the mountains as they'll get covered up towards the bottom. Obviously the ground etc is far, far from finished. But I wanted to get the sky right, because that will be seen in the finished paint.



I'm getting there...

Looking nice. Can't wait to see it all come together.

Crap.. 11 days.... and wtf happened to the smileys?

Ok, I'm here. Stressful week, 2 reformats, 2 sticks of memory, 1 hard drive and a major amount of hair-pulling later...

Today has been the first day I've really had more than half an hour spare, and I was still installing some apps this morning so because Photoshop is such a hungry bugger I did a little work on Yakuza's image (more on that below) before settling in on Racthoh's warrior when I had enough processing power free.

I'm getting there. I have a client-free day this Wednesday (woo-hoo!) so I'm going to do my level best to chew through the remaining bits then, if not before. I still have the lower left arm and sword arm, and left leg / helm to do, along with the battlefield.

Here's a reduced full image and a close up on the face (which is also not completely finished. I have a tendency to flit about a bit when I work). I'm trying to keep that slight sketchy feel as per the Théoden portrait, while keeping the colours and dark areas strong. And also that slight grain to the image as a final overlay.








Yakusa, I started painting your warrior while I was installing apps this morning, as Sketchbook Pro is a lot more forgiving on available memory. I haven't gone very far but I've got a base sky colour in and have worked on the faces. Your warrior is not quite finished in the face dept, I continually tweak as I go along, but I'm pretty settled on your victim.. will prob do some final lighting tweaks (the headpiece I just remembered is not finished) etc so she may change a little in the final image.

Wide shot and close-ups below. Actually, seeing as one person in that shot is just a decapitated head I guess I should link it rather than post it!

http://www.ninjabeaver.net/GWG/yakusa-002-wip.png
http://www.ninjabeaver.net/GWG/yakusa-002-1-wip.png

I should be posting again Weds evening (UK time).

Any problems with any of the progress so far please do yell. I'm not precious.