Team ChoW II - The Howling Loveboys

[DefiledVisions]

Intruder allert; swedish spy in camouflage incoming.. no not really.

Just wanted to say you guys do an amazing job, your sketches are great and so inspiring! So manny different designs and stuff, can't wait to see your finals
enjoy.

[trevor]

they're surrounding me these swedes! i work with 2!
thanks for all the kind words people
i havnt had this much fun in a while
spent a couple hours on this tonight
trying to see where i want her design to go before i design the armor (good 1st i think)
cant wait to do the weapons too!
i think ill start on my brawler now

[daestwen]

hey trevor! loving the mer/dragon. I really like the kind of speckled patterning on the first one, but the colouring of the third.

[trevor]

thx britt
not sure which i will use yet
prolly a combo of 2 of them
did this crap
try again tomorrow

[Beelow]

Trevor your a bum, You'll never be anything in life, LOL. hip stuff as always, trev, how you doing in the Atl?

[Twitchfinger]

Had to get out of a little art funk for a couple of days, but I'm ready to roll now!

Currently the characters I have planned are:
1) Human Cleric (good) / Necromancer (when he's eeevvvill)
2) Dryad (or maybe Wood Elf) Beastmaster
3) ???????

Sketched a bit tonight:

[Marco Mazzoni]

...and with that, The Loveboys have assembled.

Thanks for all of the encouragement guys, turns out I'm having a blast with these, despite my having never really attempted high fantasy.

I'll be running with:
1) Satyr Archer
2) Centaur Pikeman (see 50 CENTaur below)
3) Halfbreed Orc/Elf Assassin if time permits

Here's a quick sketch

[Mark Tarrisse]

In fact you guys are making self portrait. We all know you are not HUMANS !

[Dished]

omg.....you guys are sofrigginawesomscooolsogoood! cant wait to see your guys' finals

[Genius_Malignus]

The talent in here is awe-inspiring.

[robinchyo]

looking sweet, fellas! lots of exciting ideas formulating here!

[trevor]

thanks robin!
i drew this for you
like
right now

awesome

[trevor]

ok so we are all getting together and sketching tonight and creating our team banner
i am hoping we will all have our rough designs done by sunday and we can spend the 1st half of next week doing POs and critiquing each other to make sure we all have solid cohesive designs
go team go!

[Mr.Delicious]

whoa we're all meeting up?

[trevor]

your welcome

[Marco Mazzoni]

It has been a powerfull evening.

[robinchyo]

look what you've done, trevor.... -___-

[Mr.Delicious]

woooooooo

sketchin around trying to stir up some ideas! Don't wanna go toooo tight just yet... NOT YET

[trevor]

oooooh david!
what classes are they?
love the lizard/bird thing so far

heres my work from tonight

[m0uS3r]

ok dude lets sign out this boys gonna f&%k everything

hehe like ASUS says rock solid, heart touching

nice stuff loverboys

[yoitisi]

So romantic...*sighs*

Great stuff in here dudes

[daestwen]

Guys, that banner is absolutely terrifying. Just so you know.

[Adam Schumpert]

I must agree with Daestwen that banner is terrifying... terrifyingly awesome!

You all have got some great designs going on here, really pushing your characters beyond the standard high fantasy hero types, and producing some badass results. I can't wait to see the final line up you guys come up with. I just have a few comments which you guys can pretty much ignore if you want because you are all so much more kickass at this than I am... but here it is anyway it might be helpful?.. maybe... probably not... but anyway...

Mr. Delicious- So far out of the ones you posted I think the bird/lizard one in you last post has the most appeal. You've really been able to capture a lot of personality in the character which can be difficult when working with a creature with avianesque features. Awesome.

Twitchfinger - I like the visual designs you have come up with for your cleric and the dryad but I think you could push more with the concepts. Make them a little more unique. Maybe instead of a dryad beastmaster, wilderness/warrior, druidic type maybe a dryad who has uprooted her tree, planted it in a mobile planter and has become a traveling druidic evangelist converting farmers to druidism, or an embodiment of nature's revenge slaying peasants for clearing forest for farm land or something... by now I'm just talking out my ass but you get the idea. As for the cleric my only suggestion is... more pope hat... and when he turns evil... even more pope hat!... Necromantic pope hat of DOOM

Marco - the centaur is badass I'm loving the armor design. I like the halfbreed assassin idea it also looks like an interesting way to go. The sayter design is also good just make sure it doesn't end up looking too much like a Gamesworkshop Warhammer chaos beastman, maybe a more refined, less wild looking sayter? I dunno I'm sure it will end up awesome as well.

Trevor - I'm liking your halfgiant brawler but I think the style with the tattoos and the mustache from pg. 1 has a lot more personality and unique style than the last few versions. Maybe a mix of the two since the mustachioed version looks maybe a little too human? Also the mer dragoon is coming along nicely out of the colors you played around with I like the third one the best but the yellow spots on the 2nd one really stand out to me. They remind me of some bioluminescent sea creatures which could be a really cool effect... here are some pics for reference of what I'm talking about.


Anyway sorry about the long post. I hope something I said might be useful...
if not just throw it out or ignore it or whatever. Like I said, you guys know
more about what you are doing than I do so take it as you will
You guy just keep rockin' hardcore can't wait to see the final pieces.
More... more...we want more inspiring awesomness!
Later.

Take care,
Adam

[trevor]

thanks adam!
you bring up some valid points
i know what your saying about the brawler the wraps from the human one are way more fun and i think i want to tie them in more to this dude
as far as designs and unity i think it would be really cool to
make the materials from good vs evil really different
ie: good is man made artisan sort of gear quality engraved and ornamented metals and maybe some refined scrimshaw and for fabrics
fine hides with quilted, embroidered fabrics in between the armor

for evil mainly creature materials like bones scales and shells
again all engraved but dirty and jagged
just a thought

[trevor]

thanks adam!
you bring up some valid points
i know what your saying about the brawler the wraps from the human one are way more fun and i think i want to tie them in more to this dude
as far as designs and unity i think it would be really cool to
make the materials from good vs evil really different
ie: good is man made artisan sort of gear quality engraved and ornamented metals and maybe some refined scrimshaw and for fabrics
fine hides with quilted, embroidered fabrics in between the armor

for evil mainly creature materials like bones scales and shells
again all engraved but dirty and jagged
just a thought

[trevor]

oh and brit
there is WAY more where that came from
we did a lil hour long photo shoot ( dont own studio lights anymore though.....sigh)
heres a lil sneak peak


oh
and nobody will be safe from this photoshoot until this contest is over
by that time
you will have a whole new photoshoot to worry about hahaha

[Twitchfinger]

Thanks Adam, great suggestions! I'll keep them in mind as I go along.

Sketching out a pose for the corrupted cleric/necromancer.

What a magical world we live in

[Marco Mazzoni]

Lookin great guys

Here's a little more motivation

[trevor]

this is amazing
i saw it happening and then BAM
instant awesome
adrian
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
might i suggest some animal materials? bone, shell or scale sorta stuff? or nasty hides?

heres my rough designs for pure/corrupt brawler / berzerker
i need to push the corrupted bit much further but my plan is there now so im good i think
could also use more personal items as well for both of them just to add character

how do YOU spell victory? hahahaha

[conte]

what the hell?!
awesome stuff, guys!