Team Chow II: Team Baguette

[smokenmirrors]

heres my start to my good wolf battle preist.... I was thinking of having a pack of wolves in the background.... hmmm... I think we should incorporate our animal avatars hanging out just for kicks....

[JailHouseRock2]

Fantastic work guys, everythings looking great!

[xinranliu]

nice smoken damn dynamic
i'm redoing mine, there were too many anatomical issues that I didn't fix in the beginning.. oh well

[smokenmirrors]

Thanks Ron,

and if you have some anatomy quirks, just post what specifics youre struggling with and I can do a paint over if I see something funky. Dont sweat though about starting fresh... Ive done that many many many a time! all part of the creative process.

[xinranliu]

smoken: I'm not really starting all over, just redrawing the thing, thanks though

yeah still in progress

[PowleyMan]

Inspirational work guys! keep it comin.

[Vorace]

hey guys great work!! Well I already give my advide to ronald via msn and Im too lazy to repeat them here hehe

Smokken : you are doing great! The only thing bothering me right now are the legs. Maybe we could se his left leg a bit more from a front point of view? because right now they look a bit weird !

I continued the elf (changed the legs that were awkward) and sent it to Ronald. Also I painted over the mage.

[midknight523]

great stuff!!

that woman reminds me of the dinosaur from Jurassic Park 1. the one that eats the fat dude in the jeep

[smokenmirrors]

Yeeeeeeayahhhhh! very nice set up, and I agree, the legs on mine look a bit funky, Ive worked some more on it since with some more tweakage, one more session this afternoon and Ill send it on over to you. In the mean time: its DEMON TIME as our designs for the good versions are nice and solid, just need to get the demons stirred up and fleshed out. I choose the elf!!! but if Ronald wants it I can take the mage. Its all good.

7 days left...

[smokenmirrors]

alrighty, heres a bit more: ill send it on ova to my mates, see what comes of it. In the mean time, Im working on the demon...

[smokenmirrors]

sketchup of the demon side of the elf....

[xinranliu]

alright we're almost there

[Vorace]

great stuff guys! Im going to work on the priest Smokken sent me yesterday ! I'll send you the mage girl as soon as im home!

keep it up there is not a lot of time left!

[smokenmirrors]

cant wait to see what you do to it Vorace! and Im guessing, aside from fellow baguette input, our demons sides are largely going to be up to us as individuals vs. the collab treatment with the good sides given the impending deadline.... ?

in any case heres a comp i settled on for the demon elf....I suppose he was taken over by a berserkeresque demon....... hmm......... more to come....

[Vorace]

yep for the demon because there is not a lot of time we will need to trust each other first ideas hehe

I got some new freelance jobs to do, so I wont be able to put as much time as I wanted on the TCHOW this weekend... will do my best guys, but I cant garantee anything

Anyway, It's fun to draw on each other stuff! Will update the priest tomorrow or friday (sorry cant to faster )!

[smokenmirrors]

ahhh dont even worry buddy boy: real $$$ jobs always take precedence and nobody can fault ya for making that art bread money!

heres a lil more progress with demon elfy....

[Niva.]

Holy cow you guys are doing some awesome work. That elf in the forest with the bird is elite. I also like the last one, very dynamic pose, angle and expression on that dude.

Cheers!

[xinranliu]

okay guys just to let you know i'm working on the evil possessed priest (kinda necromancer-ish i guess)
he's into the dark white magic or something, ima add maybe a little shamanism
i'll post the sketch for feedback tonight
gotta leave for school now

[jozulus]

wow! some elfs looking great! nice work guys, up to the finish

[xinranliu]

this is the rough sketch for the evil possessed priest, i'll do a refined grayscale version then we can wrap this one up!

[smokenmirrors]

ahahah! NICE!

love the demonic meditation stance!

really try to push the "evil" of the priest... be it needle teeth.... glowing eyes.... maybe some horns popping out here and there... go nuts!

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heres a bit more progress.... going to do another pass, then on to color.

and Ronald: after I finish with my contribution of your rept-fem-mage, do I send it back to you for the final pass??? or am i supposed to polish everything off? hmmm....

let me know!

[smokenmirrors]

alright my baguette brigands, heres my contribution to our fair reptile inspired mage...

Ronald: you have the veto power to add or subtract from Voraces and my design/illo changes with your final touches. So do it to it brotha! polish up those edges/details and put your seal on it!

[xinranliu]

im gonna leave this one here for now, i'll probably go back on it tonight or tomorrow, i'm going to finalize the dryad mage now

if you guys wanna work on this evil warpriest please tell me i'll send you the big jpeg

[xinranliu]

I hope I didn't abuse of my veto right
Progress for the evil warpriest, probably needs a little polish or something

[smokenmirrors]

looking good looking good. and no sweatin your veto powers my friend, although I will miss the frilled beasty....

alright: heres my addition to our good elf, which was sent back to Vorace for his final nay or yays.

final stretch, finishing up my demon elf...

Ronald: if you have time think about what type of template we can apply to all of our characters for the final presentation.... Ill do the same. after all we got to pull everything together by the end of tomorrow...

[PowleyMan]

one small touch on the good elf i think would be cool. have the crows eyes just as blue as the elves. maybe a little glow to each. it would show more of a connection maybe?just a thought. keep up the good work.

[smokenmirrors]

hey gents,

how bout this for a template?? in the shield you can write the character type... and I figure for our team banner a repeat of the skull and baguette cross bones???

also, i can sharpen up the lines.....

[smokenmirrors]

and I was thinking that the corner triangles, the ones with the baguettes would be opaque with the white...everything else would show the image coming through.... maybe ill break up the black frameing also with some frayed/stone pattern.....shrug. open to other ideas too!

[Swordhand]

Go team baguette! really hope you guys finish. superb teamwork here.

[xinranliu]

yeah nice smoken it's swell

trying some bg?