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Gee I don't know what to say, other than thank you all for your kind words.

Spino was a great host and introduced us to a great place to eat!

Here's the start of a piece featuring him and his daughters toons, I call it vs:

CrazyDad and CrazyLucy vs Frozenrider and Chilly Cherry

Hey there, I think I recognize your avatar! Welcome back!

Give Frosty a nice welcome back kick!

And yes I am wearing the enforcer boots you love so much!

In fact if I have time, I might draw Frosty herself wearing a pair and extolling their virtues for all to hear!!!

Welcome back grumpy! See you on Liberty, I have a Speed Boost with your name on it!

Thanks, good to be back! Had a good time running with Dark Lilac and Aldrazar tonight! Nice to see more of the art forum folks in the Envisionaries!

Sapphire Raine again, with a new haircut

Sapphire Raine

Well was back the weekend, but been too busy playing and catching up. Good to be running with the Envisionaries again!

Here's a little something I've been working on.

PyroMindi in her original costume.

Yeah you were voted most likely not to show up to vote.

Black's Knight was voted most likely to convince you to attack your own team.

And just because everyone else wants to make out with Pyro's Dark Servant doesn't mean...okay yeah it does....

Kilo Voted most likely to hold Aggro

Aurvandial

I'll be putting the sketches in the sketch thread and the finished colored pieces will show up here.

Queue:
Lady Judgement- Voted Best Dressed
Goat Lord- Voted most likely to eat a Freak's arm or leg
Crestant-Voted last person to show up on the mission map
PyroMindi-Voted most likely to burn down the school
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Cosmic Firefly-
G-Wiz
Spinomania-Voted most likely to take your eye out
Buck Nekkid-Voted most naked
Syrus B-
Damonaeous-voted most likely to lead the TF of DEATH!

There's more but this should keep me busy for awhile!

So PyroMindi just got her dark servant. While the smokey figure is cool, I think I would prefer if it looked more like this.

Here it is INKED!

It's CAKE TIME!!!! from your friends The Envisionaries!

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Very cool Alex! I actually have a bit of a proposition for ya. If you ever feel like colloborating, I'd love to ink over and color one of your pieces at some point As a thank you for including my guy in your sapper chicks piece

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I might have to take you up on that one day!

Basically it's a midtone, so it sets up the pic with a middle tone. Now if I were just going greyscale, no colors, the pic is already 1/3 done. I just need to add darks and lights. Alex Ross does this with his paintings, or so I've heard, basically, he does it all in greyscale first and then just adds color without worrying about values. Getting the values right is really hard!

By Values I mean light and dark, color has Hue(the color red, blue etc) Value(how light and dark it is), and Saturation(how intense or dull the quality of the hue), HSV, I put them in the wrong order.

I try not to color on white because the colors tend to be too intense or saturated. You get really super bright colors, and if that's what you want that's cool, but you really want more control. Even for pics with a white background, I"ll drop a middle grey background down first and take it out when I"m done.

The old masters used a combination of burnt sienna and burnt umber as a nice mid tone/underpainting, it helps to create a warm base.

It's all color theory. It's a pain, but very very useful. Hope that made sense. I'll ask Felicia to read this over later and I'll correct any mistakes I've made, she knows colors sooo much better than me!

*Felicia reminded me that it's burnt sienna AND burnt umber.

PyroMindi Flying the process
Well another pic of PyroMindi, gonna paint this one(in Painter), see how it goes, here it is so far!

Maybe I'll just make this the PyroMindi thread. Flying

Here's a little update on the piece, it's morphing and changing as I go!

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I also did this one as well: Yeah, another PyroMindi

'Doh!! Thanks, fixed it!

Thanks Turboski!

Was discussing with Liz where the devs hid my goddess button for PyroMindi and she did this awesome piece:

Goddess Button by Liz

So of course I had to try my hand at it, wanted to use charcoal and watercolor again, but no room, so went to Painter instead:


PyroGoddessMindi_WIP

This is like 15min or so of goofing around, so the final piece might not look anything like this when I'm done, but I kinda like it now, might not later, but we'll see.

Glad you guys like it, here's another update , I think I'll let this sit for a bit and work on some other stuff, might come back and work on it a bit more later.

Would I draw a pic of Kilo sneaking a peek!?! Maybe....

Didn't ink last night so these were done this morning: Update

Forgot to check but does Draken Knight wear his kilt like a proper Scotsman?

Yes, thanks so much and Happy Birthday!!!!

Got some inking done this morning: update

Oh there are already predators waiting for our falling mens.

It's a bit confusing and sketchy, but that's how I work.

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