Phoenix Trial #4 - Weapon and Armor Upgrade Sequences

[Paladon]

I arrogate myself to know the style of the greatest part of the contestants.
Those, who are regulary posting wips, are out of suspicion aswell.
Elenai, if you draw your icons at 64x64 it´s fine with me. I guess nearly everyone here knows your style.

 

[Devine]

I arrogate myself to know the style of the greatest part of the contestants.
Those, who are regulary posting wips, are out of suspicion aswell.
Elenai, if you draw your icons at 64x64 it´s fine with me. I guess nearly everyone here knows your style.

And what about me?

 

[Paladon]

I´m sorry for this harsh message, but don´t be ignorant.
I´m not here to convict you for somekind of rule breaking, it´s a contest!

 

[SkriK]

Even though i said these were only gonna be practice, i'm too lazy to make new ones.
(I'm allowed to update them if i want to change something right?)

 

[Elenai]

I have a style? I didn't know that lol.

 

[Devine]

I have a style? I didn't know that lol.

Yes, everyone has a style ... I always tend to have very bright highlights and less shadings i think.
Just don't mix up with style ...(like stylish)
@ paldaon, i'm glad it's no big deal because i really liked the outcome.

 

[~Void~]

Wippy. Yes, it's 100% freehand, not a c&p. Took me a fuckin hour.

 

[Kwah]

I have no style. Mostly because I'm not very good.

Void, good job.

 

[~Void~]

Well I said fuck the boot because it was a bit awkward for an icon.

So I made helmets. Working at 256x256 this time. I accidentally saved over the PSD for the first helmet, but for the red and purple ones I still have them. Is that ok?

Done with my swords now too. I don't really like them D:

 

[Elenai]

Now everyone is making helmets D:

they look good though...

 

[~Void~]

I like helmets

 

[FamousPker49]

It's be more interesting if you added more than just some colorful flair. But a nice looking helmet nonetheless. The red sticks out too much though.

 

[~Void~]

Yeah maybe it would be but I'm too lazy to do that

 

[ike_ike]

Devine, your armour looks reaaaaaaaally flat. Perhaps change the angle to something more isometric?

~Void~, do those helmets be 100% freehand?

 

[LiOneSS]

I dont know if its a good idea to feed LiOneSS huge hunger for attention. she might transform into a huge pink hulk which gets stronger from attention instead of anger. And yes, this means she will smash things....

Mind your own business, sir.

 

[Thorneon]

This is my first icon in the set so far (although not complete) and when its 64x64 it looks a lot better. Edit: farther in the works.

 

[~Void~]

Devine, your armour looks reaaaaaaaally flat. Perhaps change the angle to something more isometric?

~Void~, do those helmets be 100% freehand?

Yeah. I used this as a reference pic:
http://ui22.gamespot.com/1429/spartan_2.jpg

 

[Devine]

what's so flat bout my armor? D:

 

[Hawkwing]

Well I said fuck the boot because it was a bit awkward for an icon.

So I made helmets. Working at 256x256 this time. I accidentally saved over the PSD for the first helmet, but for the red and purple ones I still have them. Is that ok?

Done with my swords now too. I don't really like them D:

They're nice, but don't look like something out of Warcraft at all.

 

[~Void~]

No they don't. That's the problem. But I don't know how to make things in the WC3 style.

 

[Linaze]

I like it a lot Void, but as mentioned above: doesn't fit in with the majority of other warcraft 3 icons.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

Ahhh Void took my helmet idea... D:

nah i'm jocking... anyway its the same based concept.. but totally diffrent overall.. ^^ cause i think we (void an I) that these kind of helmet are AWSOMEmm.. anyway good job void..

i will try to make mine even more epic

 

[Kimbo]

Yeah. I used this as a reference pic:
http://ui22.gamespot.com/1429/spartan_2.jpg

I totally agree with this statement

oky here's a wip of my Armor diffrent levels.. no i haven,t start to recolor yet.. i just don't want someone to have the same idea D:

cause that would suck alot

I also think this user deserves every bit of applause for his creativity and originality.

If you have the balls to enter this contest then have the balls to admit to your proper sources.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Kimberowned.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

lol .. you got me on that one.. but like void said.. i took this picture as a reference... but anyway... if you totally desagree with my choice.. i can still redo it.. cause i haven't worked on it.. again anyway

i'm happy to see our moderators in alert

and for the concept.. i'm not redoing the same thing.. i'm aiming for a Highelf concept.. and NO! i'm not doing gladiator anymore

 

[Elenai]

...But I did High Elven Helmets...

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/973443-post22.html

Quel'Thalassian Unicorn Knight. :<

(notice the symbol on the second helmet, is a unicorn like the one seen here)

Except it is unfortunately reversed...

And the unicorn featured on the rapier.

D:

 

[Mr.Goblin]

oh really? it looked more like ELENAI's concept style (witch is awesome ) and works with warcraft3 but it doesnt work for any races thats all

 

[Kimbo]

There is a difference between copying, referencing and tracing. 2 of those cause a major unfairness in a contest based on skill, creativity and originality.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

oky fine.. will start a new concept ^^

Edit = i was wondering if i can do something similar as that WoW concept? http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/4504/2001819083721300288_rs.jpg

Edit2 = Oh never i just found a nice concept.. for an Orc theme icons

 

[Thorneon]

these are my armor icons. I think they are done, cept they need borders.

 

[~Void~]

Aight well I'm just going to withdraw my entry. I don't want to go through a whole lot of drama right now.

 

[FrIkY]

No, Thorneon, that kind of "gradation" isn't well... it's like you made "Level 1 shield", "Level 1 shield + dot", "Level 1 shield + horde sign". It needs more imagination, make something of iron, Steel, GOLD!!
Make your third one be the first, and start making lvl 2 and 3

EDIT: oh, and you should ad more shadows and highlights, too! ^^

 

[Pyritie]

these are my armor icons. I think they are done, cept they need borders.

Wood needs more shading. At the moment it looks very flat.

 

[Thorneon]

New update. Still needs shading however, and borders but i think I got the "color themes" pretty good. starts off a wood Orc foot soldier shield, then goes to a gold trimmed steel officer shield followed by a dragon skin warchief shield. The gold color is pretty sad at the moment but I'm looking for a good gold color. Another thing, is it ok if my sister helps me with my weapons? She is an insane drawer so, just wondering.

 

[~Void~]

It looks like you used a lot of smudge. Don't. It's bad!

Here's a tip for making good metal textures. Make a spatter brush that's fairly dark and dense, then set it to 20% opacity, take a larger size of it and go over the whole thing a few times (use variated darkness). Then take the same brush but a smaller size and go over the whole thing again. Now just use dodge and burn for the shading (fuck anyone who says it's bad; it usually is, but in this case it makes things 100 times easier and doesn't do too much damage)

 

[The_Silent]

Damn i didn't see this before... I'm gonna join if its still possible. Probaly making somthing Starcraft stuff.

 

[Thorneon]

Make a spatter brush that's fairly dark and dense, then set it to 20% opacity,

Do you mean scatter?

 

[~Void~]

Yeah.

 

[FrIkY]

Hello! This is just me, stopping by and coming to tell you that... I've started with my "masterpiece". This is just a beginning, you haven't seen anything! Muahahaha!!

And on your left side, you can see a brilliant artwork from a crazy Panda who drawn something using "Bamboo One"

EDIT: New WIP! ^^

 

[Volvox]

Very nice shading!

 

[Huinipachutli]

Very nice shading!

Seconded!

 

[FrIkY]

Hey, I'm done! (am I?)
Please tell me what you think! Oh, and I used sharpen filter, is that ok?

 

[shamanyouranus]

Epic Jedi robes? I like it

 

[Thorneon]

is this what you meant or is it epic fail? (dont pay attention to burn and highlights, they suck)

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Did you use burn?

 

[Thorneon]

yeh...I wasn't really going for the shadows at that point becuz it is pretty much a test for metal textures.

 

[Devine]

Thorneon, it looks somewhat better but ... you should redo the whole thing without using burn and that other thingy that makes highlights *can't find the word*.

 

[The_Silent]

Here is my first wip.
Space Marine Armor...

 

[Paladon]

I am just stepping by to say hello and whooo!
What a large bunch of of quadratic art.

However, i´ll look through the thread and will try to give general (not completely direct) feedback.

 

[FrIkY]

Epic Jedi robes? I like it

damn...
actually, I said I'm gonna make Pandaren... so, needs more work...

EDIT: Is it Jedi now?