Horde Cieftain

[bizarde]

Yeah, how true is that. I just finish it!
Yet another character from the same RTS game that we push here.
He's suppose to be a Horde Cieftain.

Excuse the lack of infos.

http://www.imagemagician.org/images/bizarde/HordeCieftain.jpg

Please, what do you think?

[Smeagol71]

Hey Bizarde, I've been a big fan of your work for some time now, and this piece just adds to the admiration I have for you. Great job. This is a great piece.

I guess if I had one critique, it would be more of a "wish" of sorts. I love the coloring of this piece and it makes me wish I saw less of your ink lines and more of a painterly quality to the whole piece. I think the high visibility of the ink lines maybe take away from it a bit. I think that's purely my opinion though and a very picky thing that really doesn't matter in the long run.

I really love your stuff and this pic is no exception. Fantastic! Keep up the truly inspirational work!

[mcotie]

not just yes, but Hell frickin yes!!!

mitch

[Lono]

looks great!

id have to agree that with the painterly committment you have made to this guy it would be better if you suggested your lines with subtle or dramatic value changes instead of streight up black lines.

the head looks great,, but i really dont notice your line work in there as much. the real trouble spots for me are on the back of his arm and his side, mainly in the lighter orangy areas.

-Lono

[Batteram]

I kinda like the linework in this piece. However, I agree with the others that you can make this picture even better by excluding the lines and make the edges of the body blend into a suttle tone, much like a painting. However, I feel the linework in this piece is done very professionaly and this picture just kickass imho. The colours you have used are the main highlight of this piece and I also like your use of lighting.
Damn good effort!

[keenerbean]

:eek:Sweet fancy jeebuz! I love the translucent slime effect you've got going on with the skin and the semi-pig nose is great!
My only crit, may be just trippin' here, but it seems like the brow portion of his head is in straight profile and the mouth and snout are close to 3/4. I think there should be a slight suggestion of his right brow visible.
Had to think of something to crit so I didn't come off as the gusher I feel like when I look at your work. Like Smeagol, I've been a huge fan for a while.:D

[bOne]

This is so great !

I like very much the way you place details only in important areas !

The colors, the lights are very well rendered.

It's a great concept Art ! It will be a hard task to make it in 3D :)) Especially for the textures

[Fozzybar]

AWESOME!

As for me, i like the black lines...it's a matter of personal taste i think. Some like it more painterly some like it more with lineart...:chug:

[Mort]

yay.. :)
really nize colouring

[Loga4]

And I like the inking,too,it have
comic look styl,so I think it`s great.
I just see your stuff on site,Awesome.

[chukw]

Beautiful! Great levels of contrast combined with smooth and graceful rendering- well done! As far as the Great Debate on line vs paint, I've got to agree with Fozzy....

[Oblio]

hat off :bow:

Oblio

P.S. Mai aveti la rts-ul ala?

[bizarde]

That's why I'm feelin' a bit frustrated.
Getting the rid of black lines seems be such a damn painful step for me, anyhow, concidering that I feel myself mostly a graphician and not a painter, you can easily understand why I'm still in "the bussines" with the black lines, but I do try to improve my painting skills, and maybe, one day the black lines (not again!) will not make too much sense to me ... kidin'

Yes, I put too much orange in there =(

This goes for Keenerbean.
The big problem is that I picked from the very beginning a wrong angle for his head, and I don't have any excuse for doing that. And the second mistake is that his first "stripe" of hair (forehead, dark side) is placed a bit rear. My mistake!
Thanks for pointing that.

For the fun of it:
200%
http://www.imagemagician.org/images/bizarde/screen.jpg

And the line art
http://www.imagemagician.org/images/bizarde/warriorBW.jpg

Oblio ... long way!

Thanks everyone for replies!