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DarrkestDrow — Surface Drow

Published: 2005-11-01 09:51:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 24627; Favourites: 229; Downloads: 5534
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Description Another commission, this one for ~Arcanthia of two of her characters she is writing a story about. The male on the left is Le’Norien Phydairre. The female on the right is Shrithra Mae’Lyl.

Per ~Arcanthia ’s request I referenced a picture of Le’Norien that was done by *Mistresselysia to get the dragon scale armor right.
You can see the picture I referenced here: [link]

There was a lot of blue in this picture and it was hard to keep things from blending in too much, but I think I managed it well enough. I did cheat on the background though (because I still suck at drawing them myself). I read an encounter between these two that ~Arcanthia wrote and it took place on the surface, so I put them on the surface in the pic as well. I made the background by taking a photograph of some trees on our property and then I played around with it on my comp to come up with a simplified background.

Credits:
Characters are © Robin Lynn Race / ~Arcanthia
Dragon Scale Armor References from *Mistresselysia [link]
Art/Image by me, *DarrkestDrow

Please, no crits on commissioned pieces. Thanks.
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Comments: 60

TheDalishRanger [2005-11-01 12:44:32 +0000 UTC]

Awesome as always. Looks like I'm not the only one who "cheats" on backgrounds -- I do almost the exact same thing you did, except I use photos I find from either Google/Yahoo's image search, or fotosearch.com. Sometimes I combine photos to make one background. 'Tis a great shortcut for us artists who can't/don't want to draw backgrounds.

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DarrkestDrow In reply to TheDalishRanger [2005-11-02 08:27:56 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty much the first time I've tried something like this before (Well, aside from the Aldaar Watercress picture). I did it this time because...well, let's just say that there was indeed a hand drawn background in the original and it SUCKED.

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MidgetNightGoblin In reply to DarrkestDrow [2006-10-17 03:22:36 +0000 UTC]

I love the avatar were did thou get it!

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DarrkestDrow In reply to MidgetNightGoblin [2006-10-17 15:11:37 +0000 UTC]

My avatar? My spouse and I worked on it together. I just drew the little silhouette of the drow and explained what I wanted it to be doing, then my spouse animated it for me.

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MidgetNightGoblin In reply to DarrkestDrow [2006-10-20 01:54:53 +0000 UTC]

Well isn't that just dandy,that is cool like your work, also I like the signature.

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TheDalishRanger In reply to DarrkestDrow [2005-11-02 09:03:45 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I'm horrible at drawing BGs by hand too. I just use the photos I find online, tweak them in Flash, then bring 'em into Paintshop Pro to put with the rest of the picture. If I ever do comics for a living or something, I'm gonna hire a background artist. >.>

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Blind-Leviathan [2005-11-01 12:18:53 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful work as always, I love the blue

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Cyzra In reply to ??? [2005-11-01 11:52:03 +0000 UTC]

wow! very beautiful. I love the costume design, there's so many little details everywhere. and the look on their faces is great. love it!

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stonewolf [2005-11-01 10:54:08 +0000 UTC]

Sweet! I love it! Your work is awsome as always and just keeps getting better!!!

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