[Highfive]

I just saw Feng Zhu's web-site today. His concept artwork's brilliant!



Anyone interested in colouring it? Abuse over lions in Mongolia are welcome, too

[ December 06, 2001: Message edited by: Highfive ]

[Brain]

Sif this doesn't r0x0r my j0x0r. @;-)

I've already starting colouring it. Shall post when I'm up to a point I'm content with.

[Probus]

i just love feng zhu�s vehicle designs, this guy is very inspiring indeed. You�re great yourself too, nice detail.

[maceface]

hey highfive another great pic...love the line solidity again...and god damn i love that sword design

[Manik Monkei]

Highfive- I like this a lot. The beast is especially nice and you have some great detail in there. The leg wrappings are cool I wish I could spare some time to color this (finals.. gah) but I look forward to seeing what the others come up with.

Raiden- www.artbyfeng.com

[Highfive]

Brain - thank you, I think I'm "r0x0ring my j0x0r" in anticipation!

Probus - Aren't they mint? I'm a big fan of his level concepts, too, and thanks for the comments.

maceface - hey man, thanks for your words! The sword's loosely based on the Nepalese Gurkhu knife (Is that how you spell it?). After I drew it, Shiro told me the weighted end of the blade was the wrong way round Shoulda done my homework.

Raiden - cheers! Looks like Manik Monkei beat me to the URL, tho.

Manik Monkei - Thanks, dude. Appreciate those comments, too.

Concept art seems like an amazing thing sometimes. I read about the lead concept art for Everquest, and he found it incredible how people would attend RPG conventions wearing amazing hand-made costumes of the characters he designed. It was like one little detail he added as an after-thought would be brought into reality by days of hand-crafted work by a fan

[maceface]

i admit concept work is the best! nothing beats being creative with ever picture. you have a website highfive?

btw yeah now that you mention its based on the gurka knife...its bent backwards but its still a sweet ass knife!

[Highfive]

I used to, but I haven't bothered to upload it to my new isp because the works so out-dated, the design is ugly and I'm not in any desperate need to have an on-line folio.

There's the company web-site tho: http://www.bungarra.com

[maceface]

do you work or live near shiro? i know australia is a big place but...you never know

[Blue boy]

Highfive, Great work

the coloure work is'nt finish, i got so tired

[Highfive]

Damn, Blue Boy! All I can say is WOW! Thanks for going to that effort! Your metal-painting techniques make that sword look unreal, esp. with that blue reflection on the blade.
The lion looks twice as scary in technicolour, too.

maceface - rumours suggest these two photos have been taken in the same room, but there's been no hard evidence to prove that fact:

[Shiro_tengu]

Holy cow!!!
Love that picture Highfive. Blue boy did a nice colouring job too.

feng is one of my favorite artists along with craig Mullins. I do love marker rendering - it is an awesome and quick technique.

Maceface - Australia may be a big place but if those photos were from the same room... I could throw my coffee cup and get highfive on the side of the head. Only I wouldn't do that cos he still has that damn gurka knife he used for a reference and I need all my limbs intact!!

[ December 06, 2001: Message edited by: Shiro_tengu ]

[maceface]

arg you lucky guys...damn that would be so cool to hangout with another top notch artist and draw all day (i assume thats what you all do)

anywho i love the coloring on that sword...damn that looks awesome.

[Raiden]

Heya!

Cool stuff I love it! But I've never seen Feng Zu's page. Please give me the URL.

Greets Raiden

[Sukhoi]

I'm really sorry to say this, but...
Thats no lion, it's a wolf!!!!
It's has too long a face/head for it to be a lion, but it still looks menacing. All it needs are a pair of wolfie-ears.
Hehe, anyways nice job, and yeah Feng rocks!

Sukhoi

[Muzman]

I have nothing to say about the art. But the remark about Lions in Mongolia on the other hand...
Lions had extensive range throughout Asia in the past, as did wolves and bears (just as the tiger once ranged well into Eastern Europe). Their featuring heavily in traditional Asian art and culture, from north to south, is testament to this.
The only real problem with the pic is they're tough to domesticate

[SWANY]

Hey highfive after I've finished uni in Melbourne do you think you can hook me up a job where you guys work, even if i have to make coffe for you guys, I'll even do sexual favours, please please please!!!!!


(maybee not sexual favours)

[Highfive]

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Our DSL connection is working properly again and Sijun's popping up quicker than a hummingbird fart. Glorious!

Sukhoi - if the wolf had grown a mane and shaved its tail, maybe You're referring to his proportions, though, so you're probably right. His nose is a little too long and he's pretty stocky for a lion, but that's to make him look like a powerful and savage riding animal. In the Death Dealer comics, Frank Franzetta's horses are so muscular they look like giant dogs. Thanks for pointing that out. The pic below adds a few more lion-like details so I hope that helps.

Muzman - Lions did exist in Northern Asia? I guess civilization must've wiped them out from that continent. Very interesting piece of info. Thanks heaps! And yes, lions would have a big problem with humans riding their backs, but this IS a fantasy pic

Here's my coloured version of the above pic. Took about two hours to colour. I'm so-so about how it looks. Feel free to crit it as I'm interested to find out what looks wrong about it.


[ December 09, 2001: Message edited by: Highfive ]