A tale of souls and swords, eternally retold...

Krishna's really fun! I've gotta admit, the bright colors are an assault on the senses, but they definitely grip the viewer's attention like a vise. The cloth materials like the pants and the bump mapped shawl are purple, a popular choice of color for Indian robes. The skin appears red while the head is blue, which puzzles me. It seems that you're saying that the deity's actual skin color is red and that the mask isn't her real face. The mask itself is well made. The elongated ears and blank expression are very characteristic of Hindu and Buddhist deities. The golden hair and maid hair band merge nicely into a legit Indian headdress, even if it still kinda looks like hair up close. I like the work with the horns to approximate black hair with jewelry. The pattern on the samurai helmet ornament is also angled so that the colors seem to be emitting from the face like super cosmic powah. A mistake I noticed is that forehead has both a red dot and a golden eye. The red dot (bindi) is supposed to act as the forehead eye, so you should only have one or the other as far as I know. Eyes are poking through the shawl around the upper arms. This is perfectly natural for all-seeing deities. There also seems to be a small, angry asura peaking out from behind her bra, but I'm can't quite figure this one out. If it were me, I would've simplified the color scheme a bit. Cutting the colors to 3 + rainbow. She's certainly a blast of fresh air, and she's as enigmatic as she is colorful. Would you mind providing a few hints about the questions I noted above?
 
Thanks for the review mate ! As always, you noticed a lot of small details and picked out interesting areas to improve upon.

Let me respond to a few of your questions, and explain more about the design process...

The bright colors : what i think you can notice from the ingame pics (no mention of the win stance in the last two pics i'd thought would earn me some praise lol)...is that it works like a charm in-game...

Of course you know how much i usually go for softer hues and tones. The idea here is to go for vibrance to reproduce the vivid colors seen in portrayals / drawings of Krishna or other indian deities, and give some god like shine.

One thing you didn't mention is how the Isis ornament is showing a heart pattern in the middle (look first pic, yellow color). May i ask where you saw a samurai helmet in the first place :P ?
Also you didn't pick the scar sticker for the double chin :)

Quite happy you liked how the horns are used to add extra jewelly hair (i guess i invented a new word here :P).
The belt is colored so it looks like a bag of coloured pearls and responds to the ornament colouring adding balance and harmony (which is very indian)

I understand the red skin puzzles you, i went for blue at first, but the reason for this is that as much as i nailed the blue of the mask, the blue of the skin could never match (too pale, you can really match bright blue on the skin, another wonder of the editor).

So i went for red to add an extra color and balance the whole design.

I will show you a pic of an alternate i did when working on the CAS, and you tell me which one you prefer.

I thought using the Geisha hair was a cool trick along with the golden maid band, and i also think it merges and looks cool in-game, while not screaming indian. The alternate design with a turban and a flower is more Krishna actually, wearing either turban or high golden indian hat (name please ?)

Also, at the beginning, i had a very slender version, then i went for a fatter build...

May i add that i managed to do a perfect dot (bindi?) on the forehead by using the dot pattern and covering it with an heart shaped sticker, otherwise, there is no sticker to allow you to do such a tiny and perfectly round dot...i was proud of that one + lotus add-on...until you told me i fucked up with the eye lol ! How embarassing, but thanks for the tip though, i must admit i did not do that much research...

About the tattoo, it screamed india to me, and i wanted to add touches of blue throughout the design (arms, chest, feet, mask etc.), so i added it for extra details...I tend to agree with you that i might rather stick with blue skin and maybe less colors.
 
 
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From start to finish : realistic (kinda) Marsupilami :









Final version :


How does it compare to the CAS version ? :

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Great sketches! Especially that Cyber Wasp n' Bee. Lovin' how their personalities shine through all the cyberpunk and stuff. One thing that caught my attention is how the female's clearly relying on the male despite that massive gun she's totin'. Traditional gender roles ftw. I, myself, give all women a chance, traditional or non-traditional :P Still massively busy with junk so forgive my lack of detail.
 
No sweat, go heal the world my friend, and thanks for dropping by with a mini review.
Come back with more when you have discovered the panacea for world's deadliest diseases, or what is the "junk" you were talking 'bout ? :P
 
"Fatty?" Really? Your Marsu's kind of a dick, man. Well that's what Po gets for sleepin' on the job lol. On that note, I like the turbaned version of Krishna above alot, now that the skin matches the mask. I don't really know what the actual "junk" at work is tho lol. Pharm Co's only release info to employees on a need-to-know basis. Kinda exciting, really. Cuz I just might be synthesizing the T-virus. All I know is that a couple deadlines on study were moved earlier.
 
Namaste man, glad you liked the turban...hope my Diablo did catch your attention too, among others...

Well mayyyybe you are working on Ebola without knowing, wouldn't that make sense ? T-Virus is way overrated :p
 
Almost finished, still a few tweaks to be done with a pic editor, especially on the background character, but this pretty much the final sketch, inspired from my own CAS with bomb ExEq and Lil Vil' caltrop madness.
Second time after the marsupilami i go the extra mile and actually ink the whole thing.
Took quite some time from start to finish, a couple of hours that is for sure...

EDIT : now the final version with final tweaks

 
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Love all the motion in the drawing. Very dynamic. That big scary guy's a really cool design. Like a samurai/wrestler hybrid. I recommend some chest hair for extra manpowah. I think I'm gonna try making him in CaS.
 
brucege said:
Love all the motion in the drawing. Very dynamic. That big scary guy's a really cool design. Like a samurai/wrestler hybrid. I recommend some chest hair for extra manpowah. I think I'm gonna try making him in CaS.
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I'd love to see that, a sketch of Vil reborn in brucege's CAS lab.
 
This one i did because i remember a friend of ours when i was a kid who used to draw Thor and Iron Man and a few others freehand. He was a couple of years older than me and the way he drew them flying and fighting just fascinated me...With my 7 yo's eyes, they all seemed so unbelievable and perfect to me, so close to their comic book alter ego, even though they probably weren't :)
Later i learned he committed suicide as a young adult :(, so here is my little hommage to him, and my first foray into drawing superheroes...



 
A quick sketch i did for my wife (Maman Croquemou is Mommy Toothless in french)...she loved it



A much more elaborate drawing i did for my nephew who has justs turned 6 yo, our guest for a couple of days, and a biiiiiiig fan of HTTYD (you know : How to Train Your Dragon). We just watched the movie for the tenth time or so together with me and my kids :



I am not completely sure Brucege will try to do a CAS version of those two, but why ??? It is a shame, after all he did recreate the impossible with Amy Pigtails :P
 
That's a sweet ironman. U shined him up real nice. Beautifully executed foreshortening too. This must b the fresh-off-the-grill model. Never seen the movies, but cool dragons. Very cute. I'd have a very difficult time harnessing and enslaving them while staring into their deep, soulful eyes. Then again, who knows what those little dragons are munching on. Not human, I certainly hope.

And I'm definitely gonna try making that wrestler-ninja. Dragons seem kinda difficult though. I'll probably leave that to those with the Lizard Man DLC.
 
Not sure my ironman is accurate lol but yeah the guy knows how to shine in society,not french, prolly polish :)
The dragons in the movie befriend human vikings so yeah 100% fish and sheeps (pun-tiiiime).
I can't wait for your wrestler Ninj, drop that silly job of yours...'ceuticals ? Who needs that kindaffing anyway :P
 
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I lost count of how many times I've seen HTTYD1 somewhere around 40.

HTTYD2 comes out on BluRay in less than two weeks.
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Still thinks first instalment has more soul than sequel, even if technically inferior. Nothing in the sequel comes even close to the part where Hiccup and Dragon meet in the clearing by the pond where toothless is trapped.
And why on earth put a stupid Disney song in the middle of 2, OMG !

I am nowhere near 40 but i drew more than a few toothless as you can see :)
 
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