Caemgen

lol, you didn't have to do that

But Woot!! I got two Foo originals for the price of one!!

And it makes a great avatar too!!

OW!!!

What I ever do to you to deserve that???

(Well, excepting all those leers, innuendo's and attempts to spank you???)


Thanks!

But go tell the artists!! All I did was rent them out for a bit of time...

Ah, I can see that... The looking down upon the city bit. Dunno, something about the moon had me thinking more mystical or something

As for the cat face... I suck with keeping events straight but I think I may have hired you on for these before I got the CR sketch I use as my avatar... I used the feral face in game more for the general look than the specific but once I saw CR's sketch I decided that that was definitely Caemgen's face to a T. But at that point I didn't want to go back and retroactively ask artists to change things after I had already sent reference pics... Maybe I should be more assertive but for the most part I try not to change things after the may already be mid stream...

You trying to turn me into a smurf or a reindeer???

heh, and my next post is even longer! Pffft!

Ah well, long as it's just my fingers that are blue.

Thanks!

Some are more hit, some maybe a tad more on the miss side, but there's not one I don't really like for one aspect or another.

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Those inks by Tim Kelly have a cool exaggerated (almost caricature) grungy look to them and some of the details make me chuckle, like Alpha's jets puffing out little cute clouds, hah love it. I've drawn stuff similar to that in the past just for fun but didn't think anything about making it it's own style, it looks like TK has done just that and with great success.

Yeah, I definitely love the little puffs of smoke... Reminds me the early days of Alpha's being able to fly when it felt all he was doing was puttering through the sky!

But yeah, I definitely like the grungy/caricature type look here, especially how he applied it to my characters. Like I said, his work kind of reminds me of the old The Maxx cartoons... One sec while I see if I can find some examples...

Nope, can't find any good images I can just set in here but I have links!
http://www.oldmanmusings.com/2005/12/03/the-maxx/ brings you to a page about The Maxx and has a bunch of pictures from it...

http://timkelly.deviantart.com/art/The-Maxx-Mr-Gone-and-an-Isz-90104851 Apparently Tim Kelly has done some Maxx art before for someone...

http://wya.deviantart.com/art/1995-MAXX-102645846 Another DA artists take on Maxx

http://spasmaticgonads.deviantart.com/art/The-Maxx-6261053 yet another one, this one containing hundreds of Isz... I loved those little beasties!

Anyway, to me at least, the art of The Maxx was more about just having the right mood and feel for the characters without worrying overly much on silly things like anatomy, consistancy and such It was rough yet skilled art... Eh, I'm not an art critic and cannot describe it all that well but I always thought it was very cool... And when I stumbled upon TimKelly and saw how much his stuff reminded me of that I had to grab some no matter he's not doing typical "superhero" arts.

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The trio by studio has a real cool comic art look to it and the poses are well executed and bonus it looks like Caemgens nose isn't human though it's too small to be sure (there is something not quite right with one of Caemgen's horns though). I am curious though that Daybreaker Alpha and Caemgen appear to have the same power FX on them... thought they were different sets or perhaps this is one of those artists you mentioned that is not familiar with CoH?

Did I mention something about people not familiar with CoH? I do not recall... I have no problem with those who aren't at all, that's for sure. I already went on about the powersets but I often think little of the powersets when it comes to the arts... How my characters would be ideally in my head and how the powersets let them be aren't really all that similiar so I have no problems with artists not taking CoH powersets or poses into mind when doing the arts... (I will admit though that Electric Melee for Fen's primary is winning me over...)

As for the StudioCultComics piece specifically...

I wanted a piece featuring my trio all together, studiocultcomics came on my radar, they were priced nicely and so I jumped When I contacted them I told them I wanted a pic of my 3 mains and provided them with the following image telling them I wanted something like this but obviously much better done and cooler And of course gave them reference shots...





I told them I wanted Alpha in the center, kind of powering for battle, and the other two on either side, almost partly using Alpha as a shield, while attacking unseen enemies around them.

Generally I really like the piece they turned out. I do think a few things could be a bit better (yeah, his horns are lopsided I think... if they went with one curve or the other it would be ok but it seems each has it's own curve.) but overall I like it.

One thing I missed was that Caemgen should really be kind of facing the other way. My idea was the three kind of creating a semi circle to face off against the oncoming horde but Caemgen instead looks to be heading more over to Fenian's side than defending his own. I should have caught that when they sent me the initial sketch so I take blame for that... Note to self - Check sketches out on real monitor, never ok based on just seeing on your iPhone!

But despite those two things I still think this is a pretty solid piece, and definitely more in the classical superhero genre than some of my other recent acquisitions...

As for Cae's nose... Heh, you have a thing about that! I actually touched on the topic in Foo's art thread so go read it there if you want my commentary on that, this is already getting too long here...

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The real standout to me in this recent batch is Denby's Fenian (thought his alpha kicks a$$ too). The bolero is well done (almost hints at dragon wings) but her face is what really grabs my attention, exceptional work.

Yes, that is one of my most favorite... That and the loish piece, but for different reasons. Denby's Fen, I think, does a great job of showing that she's more cute than beautiful and I love the look on her face, though I can't exactly describe it... Innocent, confused, wonder, a mix of a bunch of stuff? *shrug* And I just absolutely love the cape tails...

I don't think I can take credit for him as my find but I'm happy to be the one who brought him to you But yeah, like I think I said previously in this thread, I like to occasionally just surf from peoples favorites to favorites, going further and further out trying to find people who aren't totally on the radar for this kind of superhero art...

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P.S. Not to get ahead of the thread here but I went ahead and checked out his DA and he has another piece done of yours already of Caemgen and it totally made me LoL that the way he puts his row of "done" thumbnails right next to the recipients pic makes it look like my pencil sketch and his colored piece are staring each other down hahaha.

Oh, this piece?



That came in like a day or two after the others. Was sitting in my Art folder waiting to be resized for showing here, uploaded to dA, etc... Guess I kind of got sidetracked.

He asked a bit about each characters personality before doing the arts and I mentioned to him that While Cae looks like a demon he's not and that truthfully he's more the shy, reserved, homebody type and only results to the whole "demon stalker" kind of mode when neccessary. I guess lukedenby went with the more shy side. I could almost see Cae reading a book in that pose... And there should at least have been an outline of a rock he's sitting on, he looks a bit uncomfortable hovering like that

Oh, and speaking of noses... He actually asked me if Cae's nose should be more normal or more beastly as seen in the sketch you did. I told him more beastly, definitely... That you're sketch had it dead on... *shrug* I guess even when they know they still can't get it right.

Still, can't be too upset... I think he did a great job on most other details... I really like what he did on the shoulder pads. Hard to see if you don't have the image large enough but he did a pretty good job on the detail work there...


Ah well, I've done my babbling on my arts for now... lol. I guess your comments gave me a chance to express a few thought that'd been running through my head anyways.

Bad Katt!! Pushy Katt!! No Aemerisnakk for you!!

+1

I never seem to be able to get mine to look right when I sit anywhere but the ground...

A challenge, yes... Truer to the genre? Errr, what superhero hasn't died and come back somehow or another at least once?

But it sounds fun... Unfortunately my time in game tends to be early mornings and I'm mainly a solo type so due to those I'll have to refrain from giving it a try for now but good luck and give us updates on how its going.

Got your Crayola's handy??

Suprisingly, none of the people in the video looked drunk... So no, they couldn't be my siblings.

Monitors are like women - More is better.

Also, I may not know what to do with six at once but I'd have fun trying to find a way to keep them all busy...