Blood Knight

hey all, this was the Blood Knight skin i did for the most recent skinning contest on the Hive, however due to difficulties with the theme, i decided to drop it and start on a new one. the cape is teamcolour.

please give credit if you use this skin, don't modify it without my permission and enjoy!

Path is Units\Undead\HeroDeathknight\HeroDeathknight.blp

EDIT: New version uploaded!

An impressive skin I must say.... I love the golden armor in the horse and the face of the knight.

Excellent skin, congratulations.

He would be rather bad-ass if all the red parts were team-colour, but that's madness, I know.

Augh, I hate to see this not winning that contest
Great stuff

The horse is better than the rider....dear lord did I just say that

I dislike the rider's face, his eyes are way too close together and his mouth reminds me of a guy that just sucked on a lemon for an hour. Also, the obligatory team color cape looks way out of place with the rest of his color scheme on any team color except red. More of him should change color or it shouldn't be the border of his cape that changes, but the interior. His sword also feels way out of place with the style of the rest of the skin, its color, style, and design just make no sense to me.

The quality is there, but I think you could use a little more cohesion to really round out this fine piece of art.

New face, WIP of new sword.

yeah, the teamcolour has always bothered me - i wish the rest of the rider had TC, since the armor looks pretty damn cool with green or blue trim :D

Muuuuch better lips, but now his nose is a little too flared for his mouth expression to make sense. Try to make the facial expression he currently has in real life and you'll see that it's very unnatural and weird. I think it's just a shading issue, really.

And AR, as cute as it is to have a tuning fork as a sword, that makes him look much less epic than he should and it would splinter on his first attack. The thing that drives me nuts is that he's all totally demonic black and red, his horse is all red and gold, and his sword is obligatory silver.

Here, I just had an amazing idea for his sword. Turn it into a wing. See your sword's pommel? Take the idea for the wing there, curve it a little, and apply it to the whole sword. Try it in both a gold and the silver, I have a very strong feeling that you'll like the golden shade more.

Okay, screw you! I know it looks like a carrot! But that's because I fail at using a mouse in MSPaint, so I'll have to rely on your amazing interpretations of my gibberish. Try to take that general shape, curve it a bit and give it a billowing wing feeling. I think it'll match the rest of the skin much better.

hmm... i've tried similar stuff (like trying to turn the sword into a phoenix), but i'll give it a whirl.

as for the face, i was using this as a concept.

EDIT: rofl couldn't resist :D

The face works on your reference because of lower eyebrows, so he looks a lot angrier. You, however, can't change the eyebrow location on the DK model just by skinning, so he looks like he's got like 4 facial expressions playing across his features all at once. (Which is weird, seriously, try to make your face look like his, it just doesn't work) All I think it really needs is for some less drastic shading on the edges of his nose. See how you flared his nostrils and nose by shading those downward crescents? Smooth them out a bit and you'll find his expression much more reasonable.

OMFG CARROT SWORD! Dude, that looks a lot better than it did when I did my paintover. xD
I had to save the picture of that, that's super epic.

Release this version. Now.

Keep it that way! I dare ya ;)

I love thee carrot :P

amazing detail and very crisp. however, the only problem is, as the_dusk said, there is no coherence.