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Deck of Dragons - page 1 progress let's paint the deck of dragons! 2018

#81 User is offline   Coltaine - 

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Posted 27 January 2017 - 02:10 PM

I just reread the description. I always interpreted it, that the Knight was humanoid below the hips, just with scales and maybe a tail. But your interpretation could also be correct, MA. It is only said that his lower body was draconean, without a detailed description aside from the colour of the scales.
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Posted 10 February 2017 - 02:06 AM

Great Job on all of these so far!
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Posted 20 February 2017 - 05:07 PM

Coltaine- Interesting! Admittedly, the card would probably look cooler if it was a closer up image of Rake and just had scales trailing off toward the bottom... more intense and character focused. I will experiment with that.

Thanks Santos.

I am not happy with Oponn yet, so I decided to do a quick color comp, which I like the direction of more. From here on out, I plan to render it much nicer, touch up the others I've done, and increase the image sizes to 11x19".

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Posted 27 February 2017 - 10:48 PM

I look forward to seeing the revised versions on the Wiki :p

Like the changes very much.
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Posted 28 February 2017 - 11:03 AM

View Postmisteradam, on 20 February 2017 - 05:07 PM, said:

Coltaine- Interesting! Admittedly, the card would probably look cooler if it was a closer up image of Rake and just had scales trailing off toward the bottom... more intense and character focused. I will experiment with that.

Thanks Santos.

I am not happy with Oponn yet, so I decided to do a quick color comp, which I like the direction of more. From here on out, I plan to render it much nicer, touch up the others I've done, and increase the image sizes to 11x19".

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It looks very nice, although I also really liked the original background colours. Would it perhaps be an idea to combine them? So give the female twin the lighter background, which then gradually phases in to a darker background for the male twin, to stress their push-pull opposites?
Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
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Posted 16 March 2018 - 11:51 PM

It's been over a year since I've done anything on this project. So I started up Oponn again and it's getting there!

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#87 User is online   Whisperzzzzzzz 

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Posted 16 March 2018 - 11:53 PM

I love it! This really captures their duality and sociopathic mischievousness.
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Posted 17 March 2018 - 12:07 AM

It's the bomb.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
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Posted 20 March 2018 - 09:54 PM

Looks great. The darker background is very fitting :p
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Posted 20 April 2018 - 09:12 PM

Here's a progress closeup of the Orb - it's almost done! I switched up the design to make it less scepter/swordish and more orby.

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Posted 21 April 2018 - 04:06 PM

View Postmisteradam, on 20 April 2018 - 09:12 PM, said:

Here's a progress closeup of the Orb - it's almost done! I switched up the design to make it less scepter/swordish and more orby.

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I like it!

Your final on the Twins was brilliant! it needs to go in the wiki if it hasn't already!
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Posted 21 April 2018 - 06:38 PM

Thanks! I'm excited to revisit this project and bring the art closer to where I want it to be. I visited the wiki the other day and need to get ahold of whoever puts the images up, so I can send the final versions and remove work in progress ones.

BTW dude I love your recent painting of Quick Ben and Kalam fighting on the rooftops.
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Posted 12 June 2018 - 04:36 PM

Here's another in progress closeup - Mason of Death. Getting very close to how I envisioned this character.
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Posted 14 June 2018 - 09:42 PM

Looks great :)
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Posted 05 October 2018 - 04:29 AM

These are so beautiful, I'm in awe! I just foolishly decided to attempt to make a deck but nothing this ambitious with detailed (and did I mention BEAUTIFUL artwork of such talent?). Thank you mate, this is amazing. The Mason takes my breath away.
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Posted 05 October 2018 - 04:21 PM

It's perfect.
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Posted 12 August 2020 - 11:56 PM

I love the idea and artistry so far. I would recommend doing a unique border with arcane symbols for each house like a proper tarot deck.
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Posted 03 April 2021 - 12:13 AM

hey these are all amazing, and congrats to you and you're progress!! I'm hoping if you're still actively working on the deck, would you be interested in working on the back of the deck? I'm imagining a tan/ light brown with an etched dragon outline maybe some gold foil, can't think of other details, does the book describe this at all?
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