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#1 User is offline   Toraneko 

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 09:07 AM

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Left to right, top to bottom:
- Storyboarded scenes from prologue and chapter 1 of GotM for a now-scrapped project
- Fiddler fighting the dhenrabi in DG
- Apsalar and Crokus concepts
- Cotillion concepts, inspired by this: http://fav.me/d4f14yb
- Kalam colour test
- Concepts for Moby
- Adjunct Lorn
- Kalam colour test 2

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Left to right, top to bottom:
- Raest fighting Silanah
- Anomander on Moon's Spawn
- (fictional?) fight between Anomander and Silchas Ruin
- Anomander concept
- Tool concepts
- (bottom left) Raest colour test

A few of these were done on my iPad.

Have done a couple of shippy art too, but I'm not sure how content of that nature is viewed upon in this community so I won't post unless asked. ;)
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 03:06 PM

Another!

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Left to right, top to bottom:
- Whiskeyjack concepts
- Dujek
- Ganoes Paran
- Fiddler
- fun doodle of Shadowthrone on his... well, throne
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 07:42 PM

awesome pictures thought they do seem cartooney but in an awesome way.
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 08:36 PM

very nice sketches. i like that you've done moby, cuz i don't think we've gotten a very close look at bhok'aral'a in any of our residents artist's pieces. he looks really sweet, but i always pictured, and thought they were described, with round ears, not long, fox-bat like ones.
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 06:23 AM

I like the work, especially Kalam. The only minor nitpicks would be that Cotillion is Dal Honese, so he should have much darker skin and that the bhok'aral'a are described as having apelike features. I'd love to see your take on Quick Ben if you don't know what to draw next ;)
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 09:09 AM

View Postsappers rule, on 06 May 2012 - 07:42 PM, said:

awesome pictures thought they do seem cartooney but in an awesome way.

Thank you. I hate to pawn off a well used excuse, but I often have difficulty conveying some things in the style I draw in. Hopefully this doesn't detract from anyone's enjoyment of the art. This is actually one of the reasons why I held off for so long on posting here.


View PostSinisdar Toste, on 06 May 2012 - 08:36 PM, said:

very nice sketches. i like that you've done moby, cuz i don't think we've gotten a very close look at bhok'aral'a in any of our residents artist's pieces. he looks really sweet, but i always pictured, and thought they were described, with round ears, not long, fox-bat like ones.

Thanks. I hadn't really recalled any specifics about them aside from them being ape-like, and I have to admit I was channelling Momo a little when I drew this.


View Postalt146, on 07 May 2012 - 06:23 AM, said:

I like the work, especially Kalam. The only minor nitpicks would be that Cotillion is Dal Honese, so he should have much darker skin and that the bhok'aral'a are described as having apelike features. I'd love to see your take on Quick Ben if you don't know what to draw next ;)

Thanks! It took me a while to get the skin colour right, but I'm glad I did the research. I don't recall reading anywhere about Cotillion's origin, so I just went with what I thought felt right. (I double checked both wikis and it doesn't say. Don't want to read any further since I'm only on Deadhouse Gates)

Anyway, here's some things I did today...

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Concepts for rhizan. I like them both equally for different reasons...

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Fiddler and Moby (now with corrected round ears)

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Kalam and Quick Ben in Darujhistan. Not sure where to go next from here, but it was a fun composition practice.

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My headcanon Quick Ben. I know in most artworks and official art he is depicted as bald, but nowhere in the books is it mentioned that he is... so this is just my take.

*runs back into a hole*

This post has been edited by Toraneko: 07 May 2012 - 09:11 AM

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Posted 07 May 2012 - 06:22 PM

Very cool. Like your style. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 10:03 PM

Amazing talent you've got. I love the artwork and your take on various characters and creatures. You have a tremendous sense of motion as well.
If you're at all interested in contributing to the Malazan Card game that we have begun (www.cheekydingo.com) I would love to hear from you.
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 12:43 AM

View PostSeiko, on 07 May 2012 - 06:22 PM, said:

Very cool. Like your style. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks :'D

View PostLaymanK, on 07 May 2012 - 10:03 PM, said:

Amazing talent you've got. I love the artwork and your take on various characters and creatures. You have a tremendous sense of motion as well.
If you're at all interested in contributing to the Malazan Card game that we have begun (www.cheekydingo.com) I would love to hear from you.
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Ohh I'd love to! I'll send an email later, have to run off to class now.

And just so this isn't a shameless bump...

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Oldish colour test I did for Ganoes on my iPad.

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Togg finding Toc the Younger in the Chaos warren. It's inevitable, but I always stumble onto spoilers when looking up character descriptions. *sigh*
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 01:28 AM

It won't be inevitable if you finish the series already JEEZ LAZY.
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 03:15 PM

Nice! I hereby nominate you to draw the Malazan graphic novel. We'll pay you in rep...or cheeseburgers.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:36 PM

Did someone say GRAPHIC NOVEL?!?!?
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Whoops. Better clean this up.
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Posted 13 May 2012 - 08:57 AM

View Postworrywort, on 08 May 2012 - 01:28 AM, said:

It won't be inevitable if you finish the series already JEEZ LAZY.

Hey I'm slowly working my way there...

View PostKruppe, on 08 May 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

Nice! I hereby nominate you to draw the Malazan graphic novel. We'll pay you in rep...or cheeseburgers.

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View PostTheBlindSapper, on 09 May 2012 - 09:36 PM, said:

Did someone say GRAPHIC NOVEL?!?!?
*looks around*
Whoops. Better clean this up.

If only... Dream job tbh.

Well I finished Deadhouse Gates on the weekend, and of course I had to draw some gut wrenching stuff.

Spoiler

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 01:46 PM

awesome pictures they look like they should be in either a graphic novel or a cartoon series imagine that malazzan empire the cartoon
the art looks exactly like how you would picture a cartoon series and it would be epic good jobPosted Image
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Posted 13 May 2012 - 03:55 PM

Finished with work for today, obvious answer is to draw more!

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Kalam in Malaz City being saved by Minala. Deadhouse Gates was pretty much chock full of scenes that were like DRAW ME!!!
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 07:26 AM

I really like the fact that you're so flexible with your style. You'd really make a great graphic novelist.

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Posted 17 May 2012 - 08:22 AM

View PostDolmen+, on 17 May 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:

I really like the fact that you're so flexible with your style. You'd really make a great graphic novelist.

I'f I could I'd rep this entire thread. Please keep at it.

Thankee, sai. :'D

I'm in Memories of Ice now, and loving every second. Plus I finally got to read about a race I've been dying to draw since I heard about this series, the K'chain Chemalle!

Really busy with school crap now, but managed to doodle two K'ell hunters.

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Posted 17 May 2012 - 05:57 PM

Awww, your Kell hunters look cute, I just want to pet them.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 10:34 PM

View PostNocturnal, on 17 May 2012 - 05:57 PM, said:

Awww, your Kell hunters look cute, I just want to pet them.


What I think you mean to say is this is Malazan-ish Pokemon art.

Honestly, there must be people that appreciate this sort of thing , but I'm not one of them.

You clearly have talent - I just wish you would expend it in other ways, no offense :D

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 09:29 AM

But... the cutesy... I'm going to imagine them like this the next time they appear in the book. I couldn't manage a complete vision after reading the description in MoI, so I googled some art and found this. Needles to say, my reading experience had become way too scary.
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