WIP: contest entry

but how do you have your pic so clean? without any trace of pencil..

after the first ink layer, i erase my pencil, anmd then i go make the pretty ink layers. Then i scan it with photoshop in greyscale, and then adjust brightness/contrast to higher levels.

I love this alchenist guy :D
Grunt looks like he was fed with sling by his goblin father emote_sweat This headhunt wouldnt survive friendly punch... lol... bunch of n00bs on their quest :D

Well, it have good sides, enemies would die from laughter after spotting them 8))

just trying something new.... a bit darker then usual, with some more skin texture... tell me what ya think.

as you can see only the anorexia orcs skin is done :D

soooo niice! :D Really god, very realistic texture! I have to learn the texture thing in PS7! :(

thats sweet but its to dark not enought contrast between light and dark

Great coloring:D

One thing though, if ur gonna color them this way u have to make background darker

Carl: what do u mean by 'the texture thing'? i never use textures..
Butt: its not done yet, i dont think i'll lighten it up, i like the dark, but i will add some highlights to it.
and besides, when its all done and i dont like it i can always change the opicity of the shadow layer (another great plus for this shadowing technique)
Mou: yes i will make a darker background. If you look in the lands of anchanor thread, youw ill see that the orc village in that game is ebil, with blight and undead buildings... thats why i discided to make em really dark and the eyes black.

not to be followed...

a orc with a mustache....

never seen that before

i think the it would look better if you gave it a goatee thing.

thats just my opinion

AHEM

thats a beard

not a mustache

lol

stop smokin crack bob.

do you mind if i try to color the image? im relatively slow, but i think i do descent work (for a complete noob to the whole computer art scene!). Right now ive only done the face of the big'un, excluding the eyes and the teeth, tell me what you think, and also, if you dont want me coloring just tell me and i will delete the image. THX :D

(I know the mustache is a little dark, but orcs have to have dark hair right? And i wanted to try going at it so that the final image would be black lineless... i know it departs from the cartooniness of the image, but im just experimenting/gaining experiance here 8)) )

its fine if you color it. it's fun to see my own work in a completely diffrent fashion from what i am doing myself. I cant really give comments right now, 2 early stage. only that i think its a shame you went over my lines :no:

check my gallery for some new stuffs :D

the end result will have shading, proportions and shapes all the same as your pic. I have it in two layers, your pic in the backround and im coloring on another. Because of this, i can make the top layer transparant which allows me to see your lines and shade accordingly

:D have faith :D