[Grimjust Bearegular]

Well, finally I can contribute some thing again. This is my entry for the contest over at Malazan-art- Guild on DA.

I present to you....Burn:

 burn7.jpg (354.38K)
Number of downloads: 38

and a close-up:

 burn_closeup.jpg (522.38K)
Number of downloads: 26

[Aptorian]

Awesome.

I think I'd liked it better if you'd done something else with the hair though. It's sort of boring. Perhaps if you'd made it out of fire...

[Macros]

Adouble take at the hooves but I like

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Aptorian, on Feb 1 2009, 03:58 PM, said:

Awesome.

I think I'd liked it better if you'd done something else with the hair though. It's sort of boring. Perhaps if you'd made it out of fire...

Thank you:)

If I could paint fire fire-hair would look awesome, but I can't so it would look pretty bad:P I think the hair serves as a sort of counterpoint to the strangeness of the rest of the painting...or something

Macros, on Feb 1 2009, 04:03 PM, said:

Adouble take at the hooves but I like

I'm glad you do:)

Yeah, I just thought they would look cool and make people look again:)

[Binder of Demons]

RE: Fire-hair

Hey there Grim, did you do this on your comp, or draw/paint it and then scan?

Cos if it's on the comp, you could redo the hair relatively easily to make it more fire like (by doing the hair again as a separate layer).

But since Burn is "of the earth" maybe it would be better to make her hair seem like it's glowing from the heat of the earth (i.e. Lava)?
If you do the hair again (or even cut the hair you've already done out) and mess around with the hue/saturation levels, you can make it look quite fiery fairly simply.
Also, you can then duplicate the layer again and mess around with blurring effects before merging, to give it more of a glow/heat haze.
Now that said, it's easy to make it look fiery red, a fiery kind of yellow i found much tougher.

My photoshop skills are really rusty at the moment, and i got told off by other forumites before (not the artist) for redoing a pic to illustrate my point, so I'll just leave it at that.

But it's a nice image, and I'd love to see how much further you could take this idea.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Binder of Demons, on Feb 2 2009, 09:49 AM, said:

RE: Fire-hair

Hey there Grim, did you do this on your comp, or draw/paint it and then scan?

Cos if it's on the comp, you could redo the hair relatively easily to make it more fire like (by doing the hair again as a separate layer).

But since Burn is "of the earth" maybe it would be better to make her hair seem like it's glowing from the heat of the earth (i.e. Lava)?
If you do the hair again (or even cut the hair you've already done out) and mess around with the hue/saturation levels, you can make it look quite fiery fairly simply.
Also, you can then duplicate the layer again and mess around with blurring effects before merging, to give it more of a glow/heat haze.
Now that said, it's easy to make it look fiery red, a fiery kind of yellow i found much tougher.

My photoshop skills are really rusty at the moment, and i got told off by other forumites before (not the artist) for redoing a pic to illustrate my point, so I'll just leave it at that.

But it's a nice image, and I'd love to see how much further you could take this idea.

I might just try some of that...it could be cool:)

[Ain't_It_Just_]

This is terrific! Just what I imagined Burn to look like. Hooves are a nice touch.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Ain't_It_Just_, on Feb 6 2009, 07:42 AM, said:

This is terrific! Just what I imagined Burn to look like. Hooves are a nice touch.

Thank you! That means a lot to me