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Noctali · member Member # Joined: 06 Jun 2001 Posts: 91 Location: ?

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,... POST YOUR ELFS!!!

Ken McCracken · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 1:41 pm

Okay, here is my bestest elf:

Noctali · member Member # Joined: 06 Jun 2001 Posts: 91 Location: ?

Cool I Like, Its Very Beautiful!!!

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Dryfire · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 1:47 pm

i know.. this is really bad nad unfinished, but what the hell!

Gandalf · junior member Member # Joined: 08 Jun 2001 Posts: 9

McCracken: That's one wrinkly dress!
I'd try darkening the skin (to a black/cold blue tone) and make here a drow elf, as that's what the background remins me of.

Hoepfully you know Ad&D well enough to know what I'm talking about.

Ken McCracken · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 4:10 pm

That is too funny!! She STARTED OUT as a drow!!

Salty Dog · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 5:05 pm

Collaborative effort by Makotierra and myself. (I did the linework, he did the coloring.)

feebsaint · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 5:18 pm

Noctali & Ken.... great stuff! Salty Dog..

OH MY GOD

Dryfire... fine start, but there's nothing to it that really says, "Elf!" to me. Maybe zoom out a bit, and give it the proper ears. Also, try to experiment with your brushes to get a less messy feel. Smooth line transitions are key in good illustration. Keep pluggin!

Hahah!! I exceeded the maximum number of images per post! Ok... I'm gonna break this in two...
I've done a few elves in my day. Hope this doesn't get too crowded. Sorry, if it does.

[edit] Oops... I just realized that I posted an image that is not an elf... the girl on the branch. Lemme know if you think I should remove her, as she doesn't really fit the theme.[/edit]

... continued below ...

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feebsaint · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 5:18 pm

... Just lemme know if you wanna see more.

Yeah, right. Hahah.. Sorry, again, if I overcrowded... at least I didn't post the PC Portrait elves individually!

Salty Dog · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 5:53 pm

Feeb..... as to your girl on the branch..she has pointy ears does she not? Welp...an elf she be. Not to mention her elven buttcheeks. Scrumptious! heheh.

I need to get out more.

Ivey · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 6:17 pm

this is one I did a while back... the picture was taken with a digital camera, so it result isn't that clear

Cicinimo · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:09 pm

Everyones stuff is great. Saltydog, I gotta ask you, whats the basic coloring meathod here. Were the lines done digitally, in a layer above the coloring. I donno how to keep my black lines small and clean like that when they're scanned, I'm guessing thats tablet work. Either way, yours is amazing. Could you share the basic process?

autobots transform · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 8:32 pm

Here's my contribution.....

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Salty Dog · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 9:11 pm

Cicinimo... to be quite honest, the coloring is a bit of a secret to me as well.

I did the line drawing by hand and scanned it at 300 dpi. I then cleaned it up a tad (not as tight as I usually get it) and gave it to Makotierra. From there it's vague. Mako, I believe, does colors for some of the Battlechasers comics, amongst other things. If his technique follows suit with other colorists, he puts the linework on multiply and paints layers underneath it, utilizing the lasso tool to make all the highlights (which are badass!!)
But..as I say, that's all speculation!
I had fun drawing it, I'll tell you that!

Just to show you...here's an earlier version (without the rock wall I put in later) of the linework...pre-clean up

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Liquid MTL · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 9:28 pm

here is mine

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Liquid MeTaL

ps sorry for the crappy site that all i got right now

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Evon · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 9:31 pm

my post for elves.

pixualize · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 9:33 pm

Geez feebsaint! I have that issue of DRAGON with the elf characters. Those are great! Hey, how do I get ahold of those Dragon folks anyway?

Everyone else's stuff is so cool! Here's my feeble attempt.

It is a paint-over I did as a commission for some friends of their D&D characters. I had it printed poster sized for them. Sorry for the large size, this was the only one I still have online.

Pat · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 9:37 pm

Did this one a while back.

-Pat

nova · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 10:56 pm

WOW. Great job everyone

These are really nice. Feebsaint: those are some of a favorites off your site.. I glad you put those up.

I remember elves are all I used to draw. Scary. They were awful, too.. with these huge eyes and ears *shudder*

The first one's an ink drawing from two years back. second is a christmas drawing for a friend for last christmas, third one was done this year.. a dark elf.. mmyeah.

pixualize · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 12:54 am

Here's something I scribbled a while back as an experiment in Painter Classic.

Nice elf Pat! There's a couple of things I noticed right off

Briareos · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 2:11 am

ew, here's a moldy oldy

Metahari · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 4:59 am

meep, my first post. I love elves...

hwei · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 5:09 am

Feebsaint: I've been to your site before, I remember those elves, but where I can't recall...

I've seen Ken's elf before on an Elfwood tour of, surprise, elves.

Just finished this. His hair sucks because I'd spent too long on the ponytail and then I didn't want to do the fringe, just to piss him off. Yes, he can be pissed off. Salvatore's Zaknafein, mercifully dead and unavailable for further books. Unlike his poor son. Damn.

There's a bigger picture up on Drizztism, with bluer eyes. I figure some Salvatore fan's going to come whump me over the head some time soon.

levik · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 5:43 am

Awesome pics everyone. Here's my humble attempt. The only "digital" part of this is the parchment... Oh well...

Gordillo · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 5:59 am

Here�s the mine ( a quickie pic of an elf gal)

Enayla · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 6:01 am

Ah well... this one isn't a new one... I thought I'd post it anyway. It's also a guy, not a girl, so there =P

SoMK · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 6:34 am

ok, let's post the oldie... Newies later tonite.

jeshannon · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 8:57 am

Okay..here us my example of a Dark Elf.

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Ilmari · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 1:01 pm

an old portrait of my elven neutral evil bg2 character. he doesn't exactly look like an elf though, ears hidden and stuff, heh.

feebsaint · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 1:39 pm

jeshanon... go back to your image tag, and take out the ".html" part. That will make the image work.

I did that, and the image came up, when I copied the address from the properties (by right clicking) and pasting it in the address bar.