Knight & Bandit Lord (WC1)

[Moderator]

14:36, 4th Feb 2014
Kimbo: I think you need to do more freehand than just draw a helmet on him, and as stated it is blurry. Try to add some highlights/shine to the helmet to help solve this?

Sin'dorei300: The helmet needs improvement, as proper shading\highlights and blurriness reduction.

17:22, 8th Mar 2014
Sin'dorei300: Improve the shading on the helmet to look like metal and make the icon clearer, and we'll see.

09:29, 22nd Mar 2014
Sin'dorei300: The helmet needs stronger highlights and the horns are too dark.

12:04, 27th Mar 2014
Sin'dorei300: U colored white the whole helmet instead of adding stronger highlights where it's needed. Google some helmets and metal textures to see how to shade properly.

08:54, 30th Mar 2014
Sin'dorei300: It's a bit better but it still doesn't look like metal. Look up to some tutorials on how to draw metal textures.

20:30, 30th Mar 2014
Sin'dorei300: Approved, although there's space for improvement.

 

[Chaosy]

hmm...
the shapes look kinda bad and it seems a little blurry. But its not bad and I guess it could be useful in some cases.
3/5 from me

 

[loktar]

Updated, looks much better now. But still a bit blurry.

 

[Razosh]

The blurriness definitely needs working, right now it's just the WarCraft III icon with with a low quality helmet.

 

[loktar]

This any better?

 

[Razosh]

This any better?

It looks a lot better but your drawing skills could still use some improvements, don't worry though practice hard and it will come.

 

[loktar]

Thanks
I'm kinda limited by my mouse too ^^ I've never been able to draw very well with a mouse

Edit: decided to remove the custom beard, didn't really look very good anyway.

 

[loktar]

I made a new helmet from scratch, and zoomed out a bit to make room for the horns.

The horns need some work mostly, but I thought this was a good update for now

 

[PlankingWolf]

Flip the icon and maybe change the background to something blue or alliance-like.
Right now it looks dull.

 

[loktar]

Thanks for the suggestion! I added an arm and some blue background color. What do you think?

Edit: also gave him an open mouth

 

[PlankingWolf]

It looks better now, could also be used as a warcry icon.
But, I have another suggestion. Maybe lighten the horns and the helmet a bit? I took a look at your model and it had a more silver-ish tone than what you have in mind in this icon.

 

[loktar]

Hmm, good point. Maybe I'll try to make the lighting match my Footman icon a bit better (icons should fit in with eachother more than they should resemble the matching unit, imo).

 

[Heinvers]

Hm, it's a nice one. Simple but useful.

 

[loktar]

Thanks! It's come a long way since I first uploaded it

 

[Edge45]

Quitely impressive for the face, but the helmet does need a highlight. Its pretty useful for WCI Units

 

[Cakedog345]

The texture of the helmet doesn't look good, though not as metal. Try to learn how to draw metal textures (tutorials, see icons representing metallic armor ...).

 

[loktar]

Added some highlighting, it's a bit better ^^

 

[Heinvers]

Added some highlighting, it's a bit better ^^

Yep

 

[loktar]

Did some more improvements, looks pretty good now I think

 

[Streak]

I take view icon in the game
This what I can say the icon seems work pretty fine in wc3 and the graphic I's normal makes perfect for a melee map and seems this Icon can be approved by moderators and pretty impressive for making this kind of ideas bringing back wc1 icon back to life one's again you got a chance of approval by moderators I request ralle for approval.

Nice your icon is approved

Loktar don't worry I review first before I request
And keep up a good work

 

[loktar]

Thanks Streak

Thanks for the approval! I'll try to improve it some more, not sure if I can ^^

 

[Heinvers]

Almost, good job nonetheless :]

 

[loktar]

Yeah, still looks a bit off... not sure why ^^

 

[Streak]

its not bad

 

[Sin'dorei300]

It looks way worse than before.

 

[loktar]

I'll update it later today. I don't want to keep working on this so if I can't get it to look as least as good as the other version today I'll just reupload that one.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

It looks way worse than before.

Still.

 

[loktar]

Well, ok.. reverted.

 

[MSTVD]

Useful!