it's been awile...

[JoShuA]

it's been a while since ive posted anything..."sigh" mostly out of intimidation. There are some damn fine artist posting here and I sort of get discouraged vs. Inspired when I see how they blow me out of the water artisicly. but ive been trying to "grow" i guess you could say. I know my anatomy is wanting but im tryin to get some where with my coloring and the palattes I use. Ill be the first one to tell you I have a long way to go. BUt I am trying to evolve, hopefully one day to the professional level. Constructive crits are why im here. Im just trying to be a better artist.
these are some concepts Ive been working on for a mmorpg called imperiumonline (www.imperiumonline.com ) all of these races populate the world me and a few other guys are tying to bring to life. These are the generic phenotypes for the males.

the first one is called the Magna race, proud, strong and basically dicks.

http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/indymisc/magnasplash.jpg

the next is the akiak race. stealthy secretive race. this one has a traditional mask on. akiaks are assasins by tradition. this pic is more to descibe th mood of the race rather than a attempt to show costume and detail.

http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/games/akiaksplash.jpg


this next one is the draconia race. wild, tribal and taught to fight with edged weapons from an early age.

http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/indymisc/draconiansplash.jpg

and this last one is the vogar race. canine, extremly loyal, social. yet their strength and at times ferocity make them intimidating. but basically good natured creatures.

http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/indymisc/vogarsplash.jpg


there are a few more races to go but these are some of my favorites.
these are all wip's so if you guys could think of something that may flesh out the race a bit more please share your ideas. and just let me know what yu think about the overall drawings. thanx

[Carnifex]

first of all these look pretty good,i favour the draconian.
dang,somewhere i have pictures of huge lizard-humans called draconians too,and i had invented them on my own(i didn't even have internet when i first invented them),but they somehow look quite different...as you might tell;)
it's so irritating if you think you had an original idea and then somewhere you find something that is nearly the same idea as yours:bash:
well,i will still claim mines to be original;)
as i said good pics:)

[JoShuA]

yeah, I didnt come up with the names. the guy incharge of the project did. I think draconian is an actual word,
like " those methods are so draconian" I haven't a clue what it means though.:D

anyways thanx for the compliment.

[thomasaurus]

very cool concepts!

One comment though. Based on the other's style and appearance of their armour, the last "vogar" character seems to have more streamlined, futuristic armour. Is this intentional?

[adien]

great concepts. I like the Magna the best i think

hmm.. the first time i came across a humanoid dragon/lizard race that was named a draconian was in the dragonlance series of fantasy novels, which was written to support TSR's dungeons and dragons game world of Krynn. the first novel of this huge series was published in 1984 by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, although i don't think the draconians made an appearance until a few novels later.

here's a link to a TSR draconian, i think this is of the Sivak type. not sure. it's been about 8-10 years since i read any of those books (high school)

http://www.dlvault.com/art/jpg_draconian.htm


the pad armor on the left leg of the vogar looks alot different from the right leg, and some of the muscles of the upper thigh of the left leg look like it's over-lapping the armor.

also, it sort of looks like the left hand of the Magna has 4 fingers and a thumb, but the right hand looks to only have 3 fingers and a thumb. I really like this guy. looks haughty and powerful. like a dick, just like you described him. :D

[JoShuA]

thanx for all the comments
carniflex: Yeah, ive posted these on some other boards and it seems as though there have been quite a few draconians floating around. I may take it up with the games designer and suggest a different name. but it's completly up to him

jnorish: the whole artistic motif of the whole world is this futurisic "macavellian" (spelling?) world where higher classes wear more classical clothing (their technology is more advanced and thus less noticable type theory i guess) while poorer classes get more into the cyber punk stuff, these are all WIP"s so i will definitley add more techno gadjets and whatnot but for the vogar I just wanted him to look tough and yet not primitive (like the soon to be renamed draconian) so the armour just sort of materialized. so It was not directly intentional but could very well surface onto one of the models in the actual game.

adien: thats a sweet painting of a draconian. dont look anything like mine though and that's a goood thing. like i said to jnorish and carniflex im gonna chime in to the game designer that we change the name, cause ther's just too many "Draconians" running around. But who knows he may decide to keep it and try to make this one the draconian everyone thinks of when the word comes up, who knows.

I appriciate the crits as well. I notices the weird leg as well after posting and the vogars left foot is kina smudged.
yeah and i do see the 3 fingers v.s. 4 on the magna, i just get into this habit of not showing the pinky but it looks like i forgot the actual knuckle as well.

do you guys see anything else that could improve?:blue:

[Carnifex]

well,just for the log:
http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/fisite/sketch6.jpg
that's my version of a draconian.











...wonder why ppl keep spelling my name wrong:rolleyes:

[JoShuA]

here's the pig race called the "gordians" just got this done today.
working class, foul, bad manners and all that. went for a constuctin worker, miner,hot head- type feel.http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/indymisc/gordiansplash.jpg

cc is apriciated:D