Monk of the Iron Hand~KR

Here he is.
Notes: I may use him after some small model edits for EQmod, so until that is decided, I will have no plans of release. I will most likely release it. Chains by WhiteHorn, I pretty much used the patch tool around on it to make it look more uneven, to make it more realistic. Im actually quite proud with the outcome, but the tail uses the same texture as the "whiskers" My favorite part was the hair, I think i finally perfected freehand hair! I also like the metal. Its meant to look somewhat like a less-rusty version of morrowind's iron :D my only complaints are: the arms wrap TINY around the wrists. see blp, theyre all about even spaced and those ones are dwafed!

I did about all of it freehand. I'll do the cape and head thing later :foot: I recolored the ears and hands though... the rest (well, other than chain, but i said it already) are my Dodge n Burn work :D

I've probably learned more from this skin than every other. I can now deal with bad wrapping (whitehorn's suggestion on irc :foot: ) do more realistic armor (im shooting for a real-life mideival look without the dirt..) and hair.

I havent completed the face, as I messed up, forgot to save a psd (lost my layers!) and I am too lazy to redo it. It looks Okay for now, though.

Skin:
constructive crits, comments, etc welcome!


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Very nice. Looks like there's a hole in the tail, though. Maybe that's just the viewer.

The only thing not dressed in iron are his hands...

It needs a lot more shading. In my opinion drop the chainmail. It doesnt blend with the rest of the skin. Replace it with cloth or more armor. Face is and hair is very well done. The eyebrows look really weird.

yeah, the choice was: Weird eyebrows or Holes in the head :bgrun:

update v2. new cape too.


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did this for fun, and it looked good! [blood added :foot: ]

better or worse?


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The blood makes it look worse and I agree with Mock, the chainmail looks rather horrible.

Make the blood less hard around the eye. Make only 1 drip mark from center or one drip mark from the corner of the eye. if useing the corner add a smaller drop to other corner giving slight appearance of the lid overflowing with blood.

For splatter make some vertical streaks and some that go overthe nose but dont forget about how a liquid runs on the skin use some water and put on your face your fake blood for a really good ref.

Now for a lot of blood make the eye itself a blackish red and missing. gradient with diff tones and opacitys of red mixed in. Use a smudge tool and pull some streaks at a low opacity up over the Eye socket. dont make them too long. when satisfied add more blood below the socket make it look as if it oved or is moving in the dir the wound ocurred or the way gravity has made it fall.

GJ, but he looks like homo(due to the model ^_^)
the face definitely needs more shading, but u chose a wrong model ^_^

alright, made it look more asian (the face hairs screamed asian) thanks to sansui's brushes he gave me (thx!) a bit more arm armor, different color chain, and added some chest cloth.

I not really sure I like the way you shaded the armor, there is no consistancy.
I recommend you add more highlights to it as well as areas of more intense shading.

he looks Chinese I would remove those long chin hairs and spikes. If you can alpha them out. Try sharpening some areas.

He wanted it to look asian.

This newest version is VERY nice. It looks much better now, I think.

ahh, just notices that anti! I did the armor through a timespan... i did the thing between his legs first, then the chest, then face work, then about an hour later, i went back and did the legs, and then 3 hours later i did the arms (i only worked for 1hr, but i had homework :foot: ) so my burning is inconsistant, ill make it a bit more to-par with the chest. It looked horrible with highlights, and besides, im trying to make him look morrowind-ish, and they alwas cut out the highlights :P


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Iron "hands" coming soon. gloves of iron looked like shit and unrealistic, but Sansui's making me a "claws of attack" model, and hes gonna attempt to geoset it :foot:

Viva La Bump!

Shame it fell closr to page2 in a day :(

Me and sansui are working on geosetting weapons, but something happened, and sansui no longer has an archimonde model :P