Nai Aruluk - Half-Elven Archer for TTOA (WIP)

This is my first skin I've done in greyscale (haven't skinned for quite a while either) and then colored. Its still a WIP, and I know it lacks details atm.

The face and 'skin' is from one of Maverick2000 (aka Jester-Of-Death)'s skins. Its what inspired me to start the skin, as the face looked exactly like how I envisioned Nai. You can download Maverick's skin as well as some others in his skin pack here.

I have yet to skin the bow, cape, or gloves. I also haven't quite decided on a color scheme yet. I might stick with the gold lining, or I may change it to green. The armor will probably be darkened, but i want to know what you guys think of it atm.

Also, how much skin should she show? Should I cover up the legs or arms? Or should I uncover her stomach again?

- Iron_Ian

BTW: Ignore that little piece of skin that is on her right boot, I'll have someone on my team fix up the wrapping there.

download this skin among others here
this is wip, wips have a forum now. meh i should be mod with all knowlegde :D

Oh yeah shoulda given a download link, sry. I'll update my post with the link. ^_^

Shit I forgot they just recently added the WIP section. Sorry bout that.

I haven't done the bow and arrow yet.

I'm working on messing around with her upper body a bit (the breasts on the model are waaay to big, and I'm trying to find a way to make them fit the model better).

Little bit of an update, redid the chest (still not happy with it). Also I fixed the lining of the armor on her inner shoulders. I smoothed out the muscles on her legs as well.

The hair is the main think, that I think, throws it off. Try making it look like her hair is pulled back, the bangs across the forehead thing just isn't working.

Just my opinion.

-MadBagOfHorses

Gosh whatever happened to this place? I remember the days where you would go to sleep at night, and when you woke up in the morning your thread would be on the 2nd page with 15 comments... ^_^

@MadBagOfHorses - I kinda like the hair, I may change it though, as it does look a bit strange in some ways. Thanks for commenting :D

dude you an a-hole
besides with all your critisizing i havent seen 1 piece of skin/modeling done by you
i long to see it as my epectations will be mountainous.

it looks real good now!

I think her eyes are way too little, especially the circle (what's the English word for this ?). It still needs some work, but quite good.
And Iron_Ian, maybe it's because most people (not me) are away on vacation.

I believe you mean the iris.
Anyway Ian, nice work but I think you might want to redo the boots and ditch the filter, it doesn't really give the cloth a fabric look to it

that would be a 2 poly penis :P

anyway, the only thing wrong with that skin, IMO, is the hair. particularly the bangs. it looks like her hairline is receding like an old man. push that hair further down her forehead...

-flames'

Further down? Really?

Hmm maybe you're right, something does make her head look somewhat ovalish... I'll check the archers hairline and see if I can mimic that.

@Armel - Hmm I'll do the hairline thing first, then i'll take a look at the iris'

@antihero - Alrighty, I'll redo the boots and try a bit different of a style. ^_^
The boots look really neat on the unwrap (I didn't use a filter for the lines, made then by burn and dodge), but they wrap wierdly.

Might do some of these changes tonight, but I've been really tired all day, so I might just wait until I have some energy and enthusiam tommorow ^_^

Ok heres a big update!
Changes:
- Redid the eyes, they're a bit bigger now.
- Shaded her breasts.
- Redid the boots with a darker color.
- Painted the bow, gloves, and cloak.
- Removed the armor over her stomach (No belly button yet)

I still haven't worked on the hair yet. Her hairline in further down then the archers already, I think I'll try removing the bangs, that might be throwing the skin off.
I'll may change the color of the upper armor, and maybe redo the shoulder pads.

Need a few opinions:
- On the cloak, should I keep the border? (the wrapping messes with it, and I will have to make it thicker, because it doesn't show at the top).
- Does she look like shes showing too much skin/too slutty w/o the stomach armor?
- Should I try making her boots have a more hardened leather look?

Ahh nice boots now, the unwrap for this model is strange in that place; why I suggested that you make them simpler. The bow is very nice also

if that 'bow thickness' is the blizzard standard, u should really do something about it, its almost bigger than the hand make it go a little inwards close to the hand, and the bow is supposed to e a 'precision' weapon. not that big bulky nuclear launcpad u got there.. ( the comments may e directed to blizzard, not you) about the skin, yeah its good, but i think i have seen better from you. like mr archon f.ex really good details on the face thoug