Art Attack!, One Hour Character Sketch... Options

[mmu1]

Coming into the game late, here's my street sam, Blake. (hopefully someone can get around to him eventually)

He's a stocky but fit male dwarf, very tall for his race (almost 4'10"), with short cropped brown hair and beard, solid gunmetal cybereyes, and light dermal sheathing. (alphaware, designed to make his face look merely unusually craggy rather than lumpy and lifeles) He usually dresses in a military-surplus looking armored jacket over a couple of t-shirts (black, gray or navy, with no designs), heavy-duty cargo pants or baggy jeans (baggy, not ones with the waist around his knees, thank you ;)) and strong leather boots. (doesn't tuck the pants into the boots) Usually accompanied by a palm-sized arachnid drone riding on his shoulder or peeking out of one of the jacket pockets. Quick to smile, and very laid-back and relaxed looking - often munching on a bag of pretzels.

Or, perhaps as he looks right now (as of the end of the session last Tuesday): He's wearing a full camo suit, most of his face is covered by a FFBA hood, he has on a light helmet (an anti-impact kind, not a ballistic one - curse the availability on Security armor), has an AK-98 with a grenade launcher slung from a harness connected to his combat webbing, which is festooned with grenades (two incendiary and one concussion still left) and spare ammo clips, has a Predator III strapped to his right thigh and a field electronics kit to his left. He's liberally splattered with blood and charred bits of... something. His armor has been struck with bullets several times. The spider drone is sitting on his shoulder, looking excited (insofar as it can do that).

A long armored lead coming out of a datajack behind his right ear is connected to an unusual looking drone - it looks like an upright piece of armor plate on a squat tracked chassey, tall enough so that it covers Blake to roughly chest level. The "shield" is hinged about 1/4 of the way from the bottom and attached to some heavy-duty actuators so that it can be made horizontal and serve as a stretcher if necessary. The front of the armored plate has clearly seen use. The back has a step big enough to put both feet on at the bottom, handholds along the other sides, and places to attach spare ammo, grenades, and other tools.

[JaronK]

[mintcar]

SuperSpy: It shows you put a lot of work in there, and it looks real good. I just think it shows a bit of uncertainty aswell. Am I wrong to say your more at home with line drawings? I am too, you see. I find that one of the most important things to remember when painting is to be bold. Dare to use different colours to make up a surface, light that reflects from all over make it so there should be a lot of yellow spots in the brown, blue spots on the skin, and god knows. You can be subtle with this or not, depending on style. And most important of all, by far: Contrasts. There should be a BIG difference between the dark parts and the light parts. Make it a rule to always go from pitch black to bright white on every surface (not really, when you´ve done that change it so it doesn´t look stupid. But it´s a good thing to keep in mind). The more bold you are with contrasts the more professional it will look, trust me. Try opening your picture in Photoshop and go wild with the dodge and burn tools for a while, se if you like the result. Then put in colour reflections from an imagined background. Or better yet, do a rough background and then figure out shading and reflections. Wish I could illustrate this with pictures, but I don´t have time. I´m too bad a painter myself. I have had schooling though. Hope you can use the advise. Cheers! :)

[mintcar]

JaronK: Yea. I took some liberties with that picture. I wanted it to remind of Janet´s picture so I made the face, the clothes and the hand mildly resemblant. I didn´t think he was an elf when I drew him, just changed the ears once I found out. So there you go. Thank you for the inspiration anyway.

[torzzzzz]

[dEdDaWg]

You guys should put your artwork up on the Yahoo! Shadowrun Amateur Art Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SRartgroup/

[SuperSpy]

[mintcar]

no sweat (or as it would cheesily be called in a shadowrun novel: null prespiration :sleepy: ;) )

[Weredigo]

Kinko Copies does scanning for a charge right?

[MagicalGirlPrett...]

All right, since it seems to be the fashionable thing to do, I'll throw my latest character onto the pile, if I may.

Layla is a female human changeling. Her skin goes from a deep magenta to a cotton-candy pink, depending on how much sun she's gotten, and she has long straight sky-blue hair to about the base of her shoulderblades. She's extremely muscular, yet still pretty lean: those muscle enhancements really show. She also has quite a long white hairless tail, and this protrudes from customized red leather pants. She wears a white T-shirt with a hammer and sickle on it and a simple red leather jacket. She carries an ingram smartgun with a happy face and the word "MOKOMA" printed on the barrel, and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones around her neck.

Totally up to you guys if you want to draw her or not. I'm not in a hurry. :)

[Talia Invierno]

Belated thank you, SuperSpy. That was amazing :)

[Wireknight]

Aww, no one got around to drawing my character.

Still, all the artwork I've seen on this thread is pretty good. Ever considered charging something menial ($5-$10, paypal) for the service of quick character sketches? I'd say, on these forums, you'd probably find a decent market of clients. I'm not making the insane suggestion that one attempt to make a living this way, but if you make $30-$40 a week and keep yourself from going insane when you have nothing better to do, it'd be nice spending money.

[Tarantula]

[Kenshi]

Apologies for the lack of art over the last week. I've taken over as Editor & Art Director on the new Neo-Anarchists Guide to Everything Else and it's kinda sucked up my attention. I posted about it last night.

As an aside, if you submit to the NAGEE, you will more than likely see some art put to it. This includes Gear, Archtypes, Contacts, and just about anything else.

Sorry again to everyone I haven't gotten to...

[Tarantula]

Thats awesome that you're the NAGEE Art director. Looking forward to picking it up.

[Kenshi]

Thanks. I'm really excited about this. It's a chance to not only show my illustration skills but also, it's a chance to flex some design muscle.

[Raén]

Well, I'm also looking for a draw for one of my characters, if one of you would like to make it, it would be really nice.

Delarediel is a young elf woman (18 years old). She is very attractive, and has long straight dark blonde hair (which end around the middle of her back) with silvery blue eyes. She is very slim, as she weight 46kg for 1,67m (101lb for 5ft and 6inch).
About her mensurations: she doesn't have a particularly big breast (about 85B, or 33B), and have slim hips. For the waist, I think it is obvious, due to her weight, that she is really slim.
About her personality: she is fond of adventuring, interested in everything new she can come across. She is a bit rebel and wild but nice and gentle. Daughter of a Tir Na Nog CEO, she ran away from her parents to "discover the world". Her passion is the roller, and she's a member of a roller gang, the Riders.
She prefer to dress with convenient cloths, which allow her to skate (she has cyberskates, to be able to skate anytime), but try to look attractive too (she's looking for a boyfriend).

If you have any questions, you can ask me for further details.

[SykoBear]

Hi Kenshi!

I normally don't post unless someone makes the mistake of mentioning rigged power armour *twitch*, rigged bikes *twitchtwitch* or sensor-enhanced gunnery through cyberarms *twitchtwitchtwitch*....

BUT...

Great work!

[Omer Joel]