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[Kyoto Kid]

...yep, that's my little street urchin bomber all right . The unkempt hair and innocent child like face. This is the same girl who would hand over a grenade to a Serb soldier, pin intact, telling him she found it while she was playing. Little would he realise that she had disabled the mechanical trigger and rigged it with a micro radio detonator keyed to her micro transceiver/transducer implant. As she would skate away he would chuckle at her innocence only to be blown to bits moments later when she "thought" the trigger phrase after safely getting out of harm's way.

The phrase was her nickname "Starflake" which her late father referred to her by. Leela's family and ancestors were renowned throughout Europe for staging impressive pyrotechnic displays for major holidays and celebrations, hence her interest in all things explosive.

I have considered writing an actual story around her, but with all the licensing issues & such plus the latest news on the future of the Shadowrun property I figure I would have a better chance at winning my state's lotto than seeing the work published.

I have all your previous sketches of her downloaded on my system. I know you are just getting back into the swing of things, but after seeing your swimsuit Ork, I was wondering if you might not return to attempting the full body pose of Leela sometime down the road. No big rush. It would be interesting to see that pose done on a larger scale. In many ways, that little sketch has a decidedly graphic novel/animated feel to it as well.

[DTFarstar]

If you are still open for business, Trigger, I would very much appreciate a sketch of my runner.

Alexei "Zeiner" Stalin - He is an elven male approx. 1.9 meters tall and 42 years old. "Zeiner" as he prefers to be called is a Russian elven mage, in control of his own initiatory group. He looks substantially older than most elves his age, though that might be due to the fact that his hair is a dirty gray color or the fact his eyes are nothing but acid pitted sockets. His face seems lined with pain at all times. Zeiner found out the hard way why people do not astrally travel outside the Gaiasphere. (what comes next is something cooked up between myself and my GM, and in no way is supposed to represent Shadowrun Canon in any way, no idea if it's at all accurate or possible) Zeiner, as the focus for his ritual group, tried to force his way out beyond the Gaiasphere as a way of tapping power from the manasphere of the sun. Their theory was that the Gaiasphere was interfering with their ability to connect with the mana of the universe as a whole. So, obviously an arrogant and impulsive man in search of power.

He always wears a hooded robe of the same color as his hair with a pure white headband wrapped around his eyes. Sometimes it is facing out with the symbol of the gang he belongs to, the Remnants. (bloody shards of class within a circle made of an Eastern Dragon). Whenever Zeiner is using magic, or even assensing a flesh devouring mist leaks from his eyes(also gray of course), hence never replacing them with cloned copies, he found out that just leads to intense amounts of pain unless he doesn't use magic and since he isn't willing to sacrifice his magic for cybereyes, he certainly won't take not using it at all. He has an incredible force of personality, and can be quite charming, but for an elf he is not at all pretty(Cha 8 with acid pitted holes in his face).

I think that is enough for you to be able to sketch him. Oh, if you want to do a full sketch with figures, Zeiner is always(well, as often as he can be anyway) accompanied by two ally spirits inhabiting plasteel homunculi in the form of imps. Clawed hands and feet, wings, the whole she-bang.


Anyway, if you feel up to it awesome, if not, that's ok too. If you need more detail/want more, let me know. Same goes for anyone else if his story is garbled a little, it's been a bad day so I'm basically stream of consciousness talking here.


Chris

[Trigger]

Sounds like a fun drawing to do, I am on.

I have been meaning to open this back up anyways.

[Fortune]

I would have opened it up, but Fisty has forbidden me from having you draw Toby. :(

[Redjack]

Well Trigger, I'm interested to see your impression of Nix now that Aiden has ran with him a while...?

[Kyoto Kid]

...good to see you back on the thread again.

Not sure if I asked this before ("old timer's disease" setting in) but I have a technical, question. I recently posted my swimsuit sketch of Leela to DA and am preparing to upload more of my work soon. All of it is pencil. I was wondering what settings you use to preserve that soft style that graphite gives (like in your first portrait sketch of Leela). I had to mess with contrast and brightness to get the image to show up, but am not terribly pleased with the output as it "grayed" the paper.

I do not have Photoshop, but I do have GIMP (which is very similar).

Looking forward to your next art posting of Alexi. May send another of my own.

[Trigger]

I don't use any programs on my artwork to alter it at all, besides a slight change in brightness if needed during the scanning. I am almost clean my pages up a lot physically before scanning and I also make sure that my lines are of consistent darknesses. Those things usually make my scans come out a lot better.

[Kyoto Kid]

...maybe it's the scanner then. What model (& DPI) do you usually use.

[Trigger]

I have been using a basic HP all in one printer/scanner

[fistandantilus4....]

[DTFarstar]

Wow, this is promising, since it had been over a month since the thread was last used I was afraid it would slip past unnoticed. Seems that everyone is quite on the ball, however, which is awesome. I look forward to your impression of my arrogant, blind, Russian.

Just wanted to also say that I am no critic, but I envy everyone whose drawings I have seen here. I have beautiful images in my head, but I cannot seem to put them to paper. Inventions are more my thing.


Chris

[Fortune]

[icharbezol]

@ the collective artists with their stuff on dA...

All of you have some great stuff, I'm really impressed. I have an account there as well (I write crap, no drawing skills to speak of), was going to look through your stuff there this morning when I found this thread, but it's in read-only right now so now faves or watches yet.

I will give it a try later today though!

Cheers, and see you around on dA probably :)

/edit heh, that's what I get for reading 2 different threads in 2 different windows, this was actually for the swimsuit thread with multiple artists posting there...

But your stuff is cool, Trigger ;)

[Trigger]

Thanks, and if I had a scanner that worked at the moment I would have a lot more up there and I have right now, as well as a lot more up on here (not all of which is on my DeviantArt either).

Thanks for the kudos though.

[Trigger]

And so it came to pass that a certain runner would rise from the ashes and return to the shadows....

I figure this is a good a place as any to post of my return...

Well, I have been gone for almost a year now, trying to make it out in the vastness of the world on my own, and it seems that I now have a chance to return to a life that I have missed. I may not be able to reopen my work here (still don't have a scanner of my own) but I am going to try to return to posting on this site like I used to. I am sorry to any who were affected by my sudden disappearance, but some things just can't be helped.

[kuatous]

Say, could you do a character render of my Egyptian technomancer with a profile of my Sirrush dracoform that would be amazing.

pm me


the always grinning Kuatous

[Squinky]

Good to see you back dude!

[holychampion]

Agreed! If you need a scanner I bet I can scrounge one up, a decent one too. Just let me know.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Glad to see you back, and would be glad to help you be able to upload your art.

[ElFenrir]

Yeah, welcome back! It's always great to see folks come back after awhile. Hope everything is well with ya! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)