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    Quick addition of a piece I did for a friend.

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    Phenomenal artwork
     
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    With the new Heraldry system working, it was time to start working on ideas for my own. The theme falls in line with my characters name.

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    Orc practice piece, and some progression on it.

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    After getting heraldry in game, I was looking over my character and snapped a quick screenshot. Ended up doing a self portrait of sorts.

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    That is fantastic shadow. It is just beautiful work you do. I also love the trolls.:)
     
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    That looks so much better than the way my heraldry looks lol
     
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    I have not seen you around Shadow. Baldrith was mentioning he would be interested in you doing a portrait of Baldrith. I thought you had done some for the game. If not you surely should. You are so talentted. @Shadow
     
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    These are beautiful! Thank you!
     
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    It's been awhile since I've been able to work on any art, so I was happy to get a chance to practice more this past weekend. This is another character portrait, of a Brudvir named Frost.
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    I’ve had more time for art this year, and thought I’d share a couple of pieces I did. One I’m particularly happy with, but can’t show it here due to mature content.
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    This one is still a work in progress. I don’t have a lot of time to work on it, but every few days I get more ideas and go back in and start painting more.

    A couple of spots need correcting, and I want to add dragons or wyverns to the image. Intended to be a medieval dragon aviary.

    Made a little more progress.
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    I think I’m getting near done with the landscape itself, but not happy with any other additions I throw in there.

    Some ideas I have:
    1. The left mountain is sort of fighting the composition, and I may shorten it.
    2. There are still some minor perspective issues I want to fix.
    3. Every time I throw a dragon in, I’m not happy with how it affects the rest of the piece.
    4. Thinking about opening up the sky on the left, and maybe adding in the broken moon. This one is iffy, as I want to maintain a higher contrast and need the sky dark. And it’ll be one other piece fighting for attention when you should be drawn to the main keep.
     
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    Almost there.
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    It's gorgeous as all of your work is @Shadow. I love the shading and blend of colors. You are so talented.
     
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    Thank you, Majoria. I find painting relaxing, and feel I’ve improved a bit in the last couple years. Was always something I had a passion for, but never did professionally. Closest I came was working with Hi-FI Color designs on comics back around 2000. When I was a kid (mentally, I still am), I wanted to be a fantasy artist. Other kids wanted to be astronauts and such. Ironically, I work on spaceships for a living but at least I get to do this as a hobby.

    One day, I’d like to do a piece for SotA. I should have knocked a few out back in the day when we had the dev perks and could create assets. This piece probably wouldn’t work so well for in-game. (Aside from the fact that it’s not finished) It would have to be fairly large. I’m not sure what texture size they’re using.
     
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    @Shadow, your art is great! you should endeavor to get some turned into SotA in-game paintings.
     
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    Ok, I need to call this one done and move on. I think I already overworked it a bit. That’s what happens when you get bored and keep going back to noodle on things.
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    Here’s how the sausage was made:
     
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    Couple more I had been working on.
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