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Matthew · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:29 am

Hello

It is the time when Magic happens and the time when the birth of this thread happens.
Since we have had Robots and everything else we now need Magic in the Sijun forum.
Feel free to post your vodoo, magic, and fireballs throwing Samurai pictures and anything related to magic, no spell-casting on eachother thou.

Here�s my picture:

Keep it up everyone
Matthew

spyroteknik · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:41 am

nice one matthew, this one's pretty old, but it's the only fantasy type image i've attempted:)

MCnasto · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 3:00 pm

cool idea matt! Very Happy

here's a necromancer i made for an english project, it was a storybook called "the timesphere"!

matt: that orb looks sweet in the center there... such realistic tones...

spyro: that brickwork is amazing!
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paranoid? · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:43 pm

damn, nice matthew...love that style =]

Mcnasto - hehe that necromancer looks a lot like the ones in WC3 Wink

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Critical Pete · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 9:40 pm

I was thinking the same thing about warcraft 3 when I saw the necromancer. This is a pretty neat thread idea...

paranoid?: Your signature is bizarre!

MCnasto · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:07 pm

haha... ya i was into wc3 pretty hardcore...
originally i was gonna make a warlock, but my story changed, and i needed a necromancer, so i just started drawin, and thats what came out Very Happy

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Matthew · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 2:15 am

Ah yeah thank you there guys. :D
I thought we could shake things up a little with having magic in this forum, nice contributions so far everyone. :)

Here�s another Magical Sketch:

Keep up the good work everybody
Matthew

Germ01 · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:52 am

Fun thread! Here's one I did awhile back. I called it "First Spell". Hey Mathew, how are your pics coming along for Mage Warfare?

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Matthew · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 10:24 am

Hey Tim, nice picture you have there. :)

The pictures are coming along pretty good, I have mostly put in some random monsters every now and then, thank you for asking. :)
Currently I am not working on any picture cause I thought I was gonna wait and see how the old ones would fit the new size and so on.

I like your stuff that you have contributed to Magewarfare. :)
Keep up the good work
Matthew

[666]Flat · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:56 am

FLAW RIDDEN COMIC STYL0RZ!!1

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Bobuke · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:27 am

"Germ01"

I like this one! Fascinating with all people so great skilled and here you have also put another dimension to your picture by expressing what, fore a lot of people, is obvious but not possible to see... Have you done moore pictures like this one??
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liquid1 · junior member Member # Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 48

Matthew, your mages are so beautifully tribal, thats phat!!!

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Matthew · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:11 am

liquid1 - Cool, thank you. :D

see you
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Hyptosis · member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 507

Sexy stuff guys, especialy yours germ, damn cool.
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noxi · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:51 am

Sketch for a CD cover. Quite magical. Awesome topic btw. Fascinating works every1.

Matthew · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:19 pm

I am glad you guys like the topic, thank you noxi. :)

I made another speedy one, tried another style.
Keep up the good work people. :)

Matthew

Migs · junior member Member # Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 13

I love that picture, Germ. The expression on the mage's face is just priceless!

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Matthew · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:43 am

cool work there Hyptosis. :)

Matthew

Hyptosis · member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 507

tnx matt, hey, you're at exactly 2000 posts right now...
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stevethomas · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 5:14 pm

Here's mine. It's a bit old.

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Bg · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 5:18 pm

Matthew: I like the first pic. Few crits: the base drawing's looks good, but I think the shading needs more thought. For example the face should be darker than the hands (hands are closer to the light source), some planes that aren't facing the lightsource have too bright values (the fingertips etc.), the dreamcast logo Wink

thingies on the shoulders are too repetive.. you could make some bigger, some smaller. More emphasis on the eyes, that's the first thing people usually look at (even if they're in shadow, which isn't the case here). Contrast is a thing that drives attention, you should choose carefully where to put the contrast and where to lose it (fe. I would tone down the background a bit). The hands could use some tightening (I don't mean rendering), I mean the structure. The hairline is quite heavy in texture (a good rule of thumb is that never draw a line if it isn't needed, less is more) I find my writing confusing even to myself so I threw together this overpaint to make my crits clearer. As a final note, don't be afraid to play around with lighting, I was positively surprised to find so dramatic lighting in this painting. Once again the concept rocks and the image leaves quite a bit for imagination (is that hair she? or he is hanging from Smile

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Very nicely lit image you've got there, MCnasto!

Flat, that's quite hilarious!

Can't say much about this, actually I shouldn't be showing it at all... Cool

(therefore the horrible quality)

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Matthew · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:09 am

Bg - I totally love it when you are over-painting, I can see what you mean with the lighting in my picture. I have played around with full opacity painting for a while now, something pierre inspired me to do. :)
With the hair I was thinking something that the magician was hooked up to something, what it is I don�t know ...hehe.
Thank you for digging my concepts cause I have heard a lot of negative response about my latest pictures, thank you. :)
Also I dig your picture there Bg. :)

Keep it up dudes. :)
Matthew

andreasrocha · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:02 am

I had this one done almost a year ago, but it fits really nice into this thread.

buki · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:15 pm

wah, i hate faces =)

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Nerfherder · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:40 pm

This is one I did for the portrait thread at the EBony Keep. The face is based off a picture of Redlily (her site is seafairy.com I think). About 10 hours in PS6. I thought this might work well in this thread.

Benny · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 11:00 am

this is exallence works really!