Art Requests

Snowy: Having some trouble with the facial expression. Did you want something more subtle, or something more overtly sinister? Also, when you say putting on airs like a haughty rich guy, do you mean he is a haughty rich guy or he's trying really hard to look like one?

He really is a haughty rich guy. His dad is the lord of a powerful city-state and he's damn proud of it.

I was thinking something more subtle, since he's a politician.

Gotcha. That also makes the hairstyle a lot more obvious.

@yuval and caspr.

Don't worry guys I can wait :)

Hey Fallen,

Sorry to leave you in the lurch, but I'm quitting TVT.

I hope whoever fills your request does a really good job of it!

You could still draw it. FL has a deviant art account...

Hey Y'all, I sort of have an art request.

Some friends in my unit and I got together when we were drinking a few weeks ago, and decided we wanted to do something fun and have a picture commissioned for us. We're all pooling money for an actual commission, however. I've been trying to find the right artist for us, but unfortunately a lot of them aren't accepting commissions when they're at the kind of style and quality we're looking for.

We wanted something so over the top epic and filled with carnage that it came across to us as corny. We plan to have our super serious ex-marine non-nerd SNCO prominently displayed in it, and then giving it to him to put on his desk as a promotion gift since he just put on E-7.

So I guess what I'm saying is, is there anybody who thinks they can either do it themselves, or point me in the direction of somebody, who is really good at gritty looking sci-fi sort of art who is taking commissions?

PM's would be appreciated.

edited 4th May '12 4:03:40 PM by Barkey

Check the Penciljack forums. There's a lot of fantastic comic book artists there who might take comissions, one of them should be able to do a good job with it.

I can't link it on my GOV computer, but my favorite artists on DA are flyingdebris and adonihs. I know they are top shelf quality artists, but that gritty style is what I was looking for.

I'll try Penciljack when I come home.

OK, you probably won't find that on PJ (again, comics), but I'd still look.

Are there any free-floating requests at the moment? <_< Otherwise, I'm thinking about attempting to (poorly) illustrate Invisible Cities, for Yuan, since it doesn't look like anyone ever claimed it... And, since that and my last request passed without comment I'm going to guess nobody else is very good with landscapes either. :P Would anyone be interested in envisioning one of these characters for me, then?

• Alford Keyes - A popular but reclusive horror author, in the vein of Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft. All of his stories overlap somewhat, as part of a shared cosmos in which they all occur, and he writes with the conceit that the stories of this world are sent to him in dreams, by one of its more nebulous residents for its own vaguely threatening reasons. Keyes knows more about his Muse than he's published, of course - as with most authors, most of his work never reaches the page. The Muse is among the more powerful of its world's eldritch abominations, much more so than most of those in the actual stories, but is slowly being crushed out by even stronger neighbors. By inspiring Keyes with its stories, the Muse hopes to build a link by which it can escape its homeworld and manifest in Keyes'. Naturally, none of it is true; Keyes made it all up. But that will hardly stop the plan from working.
• The Muse - An all-but-stereotypical Betentacled Monstrosity from Another Dimension, resembling something like quicksilver lava lamp wax. Because Keyes is thoroughly colourblind, the world he imagined for it is greyscale; once it escaped to Earth, rather than the devouring-the-world everyone was afraid of it promptly took to wandering about at random, reveling in *ALL THE COLOURS* and *TRYING TO MAKE MORE OF THEM*. (Like figuring out what colour things and people are on the inside, and what happens if you mix them together...) It has the usual tendencies of eldritch horrors, and all light that interacts with it is reduced to grey - in the non-visible frequencies, this does things like obstruct electronic communications and disperse unhealthy kinds of radiation.

edited 4th Jun '12 2:06:01 PM by Noaqiyeum

I could try my hand at drawing Keyes, if you wish. Or the landscape. It might take a while to me do it, however.

I don't mind; take your pick. And thanks! :)

Is there anyone available who can draw in an anime style? Sorry to be an annoyance, and here are some possible characters I'd like drawn.

• Matthew Streika is a tall, very effeminately handsome young man, though the whole effeminate thing stops with his face. In terms of body type, he is a very muscular young man, he has very broad shoulders and yet, most people don't really notice how big he is because he is almost always slouched and not really asserting himself. He usually wears a long sleeved white shirt, a gray jacket with a hood, black jeans and sneakers. He has long golden blond hair, and innocent looking blue eyes. He is usually smiling, and has his hands in his pockets. He is somewhat tan, but just a little.

• Shuuji Kaneshiba is a black haired young man of a menacing air, despite his kind personality that survived his father's attempts to mold his persona. He has short, disorderly black hair, dark gray eyes, and in terms of body, he is just a little shorter than Matthew, and has a lean frame suited to quick movements and whip-like strikes in martial arts. He has a light tan look to his skin, and usually wears a long coat with fur lining the top, and no shirt, despite the school teachers consistently trying to make him wear one, black leather pants and steel toed boots. He has a dragon tattoo that starts on his back and can be seen curving over the shoulder and on to his chest, at least the head. He has a stoic appearance, and a posture of leaning forward a little.

Anime is not my style, sorry. There's probably someone, though.

@ Noa: I actually have a mental image of the Muse hidden somewhere. >_>

I could try again? :)

Okay, thanks. I hope someone with that style is open...

edited 4th Jun '12 7:57:46 PM by NickTheSwing

...sure? You never told me this. o_O

Of course I didn't. ^_^ / :P

Mainly because it was the first picture I tried to scan with that awful scanner at home and it messed up all my colour... even the gray-scale stuff. -_-

edited 4th Jun '12 9:03:35 PM by StolenByFaeries

XD :P

I am reposed this one becuase the people that voluntered to do it unprtumately won't be able to do it :(

 I am designing a character called Luna Soledad that is a total woobie and has a horrible personal life. But that secretly is a Magical Girl with split personality . When in normal state she looks as a extremely depressed and atractive but yet frail looking  girl.  She has big blue eyes that are filled with sorrow  and she has a long black hair that she uses to hide her face. Probably she would look a bit unclean and her clothes simple not attention inducing 

Her superpowered Magical Girl form  (tentatively named Aurora Celestial) would look like her exactly phsycally . But yet as if she was another completely different perso . She would look happy and even extroverted, very sure of herself and even powerful but a bit dark/evil . She would have pink hair and she would use a more complex hair style, bright pink eyes and even expensive clothes.

Did I mention this character is a villain?

I wold love to see my idea on a drawing :) )

Then Alford Keyes it is.

@Noaqiyeum

This is my attempt at drawing him. If there are no objections, I'll try it again, but with an actual pose and expression. I hope it fits your mental image of the character.

I don't really have much of a mental image of the character at the moment, which is part of the reason I offered him up for illustrating. :P

I do like your impression, though - he looks like a reclusive author, I guess. And I think the tall, gaunt face suits him. :D

I'm hoping for a picture of my fantasy adventuring team to go with my upcoming web novel. I was thinking something in between realistic and cartoony. There are five characters; three humans, an elf, and a dragon. I can write up some descriptions if anyone's willing to give it a try.