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Doppel

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Re: Artifacts Sketched
« Reply #240 on: August 20, 2008, 10:43:14 am »

Bukith Sherith, "The Turmoils of Perplexing", a goblin bone throne.

This is a goblin bone throne. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
It is decorated with Tower-cap and encircled with bands of goblin bone.
This object menaces with spikes of goblin bone, Tiger iron and Light yellow diamond.
In the item is an image of Obok Calledsmiths the dwarf in Light yellow diamond.
In the item is an image of Obok Calledsmiths the dwarf in green glass.
In the item is an image of sailfin mollies in green glass.

Weight: 275 dwarven pounds. Basic Value: 84000 monies.

In 11, the cyclops Cagui Topbrisyles attacked Obok.
In 11, Obok's left eye was smashed by the cyclops Cagui Topbristles.
In 11, the cyclops Cagui Topbristles was forced to retreat from Obok despite the latter's wounds.

(He also fought and killed another cyclops earlier, and fought a minotaur in the year 11, my fortress is founded in the beginning of the year 39. Artifact is made just before summer of 42)
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Silfir

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« Reply #241 on: August 22, 2008, 07:25:26 pm »

Nicatbem Ustosān, "Chainflute the Angry Clods", an iron crossbow

This is an iron crossbow. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with iron.

On the item is an image of Chainflute the Angry Clods the iron crossbow in iron.



This artifact SOUNDS boring... Until you realize that the image of itself on it bears another image of itself, which bears another image of itself, and so on and so forth, making this artifact both hella confusing and artistically stunning. I would like to see someone with drawing skills tackle this, and how many images of the crossbow he or she'll be able to squeeze in :)
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Glacies

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« Reply #242 on: August 22, 2008, 10:29:02 pm »

Bukith Sherith, "The Turmoils of Perplexing", a goblin bone throne.

This is a goblin bone throne. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
It is decorated with Tower-cap and encircled with bands of goblin bone.
This object menaces with spikes of goblin bone, Tiger iron and Light yellow diamond.
In the item is an image of Obok Calledsmiths the dwarf in Light yellow diamond.
In the item is an image of Obok Calledsmiths the dwarf in green glass.
In the item is an image of sailfin mollies in green glass.

Weight: 275 dwarven pounds. Basic Value: 84000 monies.

In 11, the cyclops Cagui Topbrisyles attacked Obok.
In 11, Obok's left eye was smashed by the cyclops Cagui Topbristles.
In 11, the cyclops Cagui Topbristles was forced to retreat from Obok despite the latter's wounds.

(He also fought and killed another cyclops earlier, and fought a minotaur in the year 11, my fortress is founded in the beginning of the year 39. Artifact is made just before summer of 42)

I'm picturing a spear-dwarf riding a giant swordfish stabbing a cyclops. Some creative license taken, since sailfin mollies are hardly seahorses.

Tayrtahn

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« Reply #243 on: September 11, 2008, 03:32:35 pm »

Asmelsulus Kākal Zeg - Merchantcrater the Brim of Tatooing, a spiked Electrum ball

This is a spiked Electrum ball. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with Electrum and encircled with bands of cat leather and goblin bone. This object menaces with spikes of Granite and turtle shell. On the item is an image of a gauntlet in cave spider silk. On the item is an image of a dwarf in Pyrite.
On the item is an image of Skullflighty the troglodyte and dwarves in Emerald. Skullflighty is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the rise of the troglodyte Skullflighty as an enemy of The Tomes of Discovering in the early spring of 55.

Valued at 105,600☼
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Re: Artifacts Sketched
« Reply #244 on: September 11, 2008, 03:43:01 pm »

Nomadic,
what do you use to make those images, i like the style of them
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« Reply #245 on: September 13, 2008, 07:57:13 pm »

Woo! I'm back. Sorry about that. I just kinda drifted away, and for a while, other things totally crowded out Dwarf Fortress. But now that I'm here again, I'd like to get back to work on some of these requests.

So, give me a while, I'll pick out something interesting, and post back when I've got something to show. :]
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« Reply #246 on: September 15, 2008, 02:16:16 pm »



An old one, but a favourite of mine. I promised I would do this a long time ago - so here it is!

I did this in OpenCanvas. I've pretty much abandoned Photoshop for painting. One massive benefit of OpenCanvas, besides its amazingly realistic tools, is the ability to save 'Event' files that replicate the entire painting process from start to finish, exactly how you painted it.

So for those interested in how I paint, the Event file can be found here: http://www.soulsreach.net/misc/df_chain2.oe4

OpenCanvas is available as a free download, and is super lightweight (only a few mb!) - Get it here: http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/

(If it's in Japanese, go to the last menu and switch to English. Then, in the View menu, pick a value for Wait - 2 or 3 are good speeds, otherwise it goes superfast)


P.S. I painted this in one session. MY HAND ACHES.
« Last Edit: September 15, 2008, 04:47:13 pm by Moogie »
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« Reply #247 on: September 16, 2008, 04:29:05 am »

I'm curious, how long does the color take you VS.  the sketching inking and so on.
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Moogie

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« Reply #248 on: September 16, 2008, 08:38:36 am »

Sketching is the longest single step, because I'm constantly editing and re-drawing parts to get it to look right. You have some leniency in the colouring stage to experiment and have 'happy accidents'. I'd say the sketch took about 1.30 or 2 hours, and then I skipped the inking and just did that during the actual painting (which took 2 hours, which seems longer, but it's a much smoother process).

Also, I suck at bone decorations. :P
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Alabaster

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Re: Artifacts Sketched
« Reply #249 on: September 16, 2008, 09:37:59 am »

Bukith Sherith, "The Turmoils of Perplexing", a goblin bone throne.

This is a goblin bone throne. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
It is decorated with Tower-cap and encircled with bands of goblin bone.
This object menaces with spikes of goblin bone, Tiger iron and Light yellow diamond.
In the item is an image of Obok Calledsmiths the dwarf in Light yellow diamond.
In the item is an image of Obok Calledsmiths the dwarf in green glass.
In the item is an image of sailfin mollies in green glass.

Weight: 275 dwarven pounds. Basic Value: 84000 monies.

In 11, the cyclops Cagui Topbrisyles attacked Obok.
In 11, Obok's left eye was smashed by the cyclops Cagui Topbristles.
In 11, the cyclops Cagui Topbristles was forced to retreat from Obok despite the latter's wounds.


 
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Re: Artifacts Sketched
« Reply #250 on: September 16, 2008, 12:16:14 pm »

Well here is a picture of an old artifact I had. I spent at least ten minutes on it, so I hope you are happy...
 
It is a platinum bed that menaces with spikes of steel, fusing dwarven luxury and madness together.
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Re: Artifacts Sketched
« Reply #251 on: September 17, 2008, 04:47:12 am »

Weepbusts - An alligator bone cage, worth 39600.

Encrusted with haematite.
Decorated with donkey bone and turtle shell.
Encircled with bands of alligator bone, donkey leather and willow.
Hanging Rings of donkey bone and turtle shell.
Menacing spikes of moss opal and birch.

He collected a grand total of ten items to build this thing. I was overjoyed when it turned out to be something useful and not an earring.
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Skid

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« Reply #252 on: September 17, 2008, 12:04:49 pm »


 
MSpaint
For MS paint, that's a truly awesome job.
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Alabaster

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« Reply #253 on: September 17, 2008, 01:22:59 pm »

thanks skid, I'll have to check out that open source art prog moogie reccomended.
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« Reply #254 on: September 17, 2008, 04:54:21 pm »

FYI, tiger iron isn't normal-colored iron like that. In fact, I don't believe it has any elemental iron at all. It's sort of glowy and banded and red-orange.

See: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Tiger_iron.jpg
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