Herr-Kriegs CAS-Collection

[Herr-Krieg]

Greetings my friends :D! Here is Herr-Krieg writing again :).

Sorry for taking this time for answering to all of your comments, but my recent days have been rather hectic activity WISE, and I haven't really found any proper time to reply to your comments. Now, I will fix that with this one answer text ;).

It's nice to see one of your updates again. Isamu Akiyama looks alright but seems a bit basic in terms of patterning and stickers. Your Poison looks pretty good. I like how you made the leather wrist bands using the Serpent armbands and the leather patterns. The way you used stickers to make her crop top is pretty clever as well. Aziza looks amazing as ever and I like how you draw inspiration from African animals for her recolors. I feel like you still need to work on cutting down on your long introductions but since you have been gone awhile it is understandable. All in all this is a pretty good batch.

Thanks for all your nice compliments and constructive critisism on this batch of mine my friend ;). Yeah, I do admit that my creations in this batch are rather Basic looking, compared to my previous ones and particulary to my Alien CAS, which has received more attention that I could have ever hoped for. As I may have said this already, I have been bus re-organizing my life and I think it and the overall hurry played their parts of these creations being a bit more simple looking than my usual ones.

Still, I'm glad that you liked my Poison ;). After one of my PS4 Network friends showed me how I could change the stickers via altering their vertical and horizontal angles I wanted to try it out on Poisons top crop, which worked out rather well. Sure I had to improvise some of her gears, like her wrist bands like you wrote, but overall it turned out well :). For Azizas crocodile theme I got pleasant help from my friends in PS, which kinda contributed to her overall good look, with me off course realizing it, having my own touch to it and adding all the details.

Now that I have taken several looks on this update, I also realize I should just cut off the long introductions and just go straight to the point like I kinda used to do at the beginning of my career here. I will see what I can do about it on my next batch ;).

Hum, this will probably ruin my chances for reviews but i need to be honest here : with such a flamboyant intro, i was expecting you to up the game after your xenomorph, now i am left with crocodile reskins, sticker placement tweaks and a good RC of a weakly designed fighter from another game, even with goog technique.
I was expecting much more from this batch, so i am kinda disappointed sorry.

Now with the good bits.
Of course the drawings are fun and bring life to your iconiCAS, and i am extremely happy for you that the CAS which swept me off me chair won 2nd place in this contest of rob cram you probably spotted on reddit. I dropped reddit completely and the xbox sc creation nation cuz i had enough love and glory, ´stead been spamming the ccc Twitter contest with my best stuff, i don’t care if i am in the credits and it’ll probably be biased results as always plus what a lame in-game prize btw :(

Wyldsmash was the one who impressed me with his latest batch and drawing, so can you up your game, HK ? :)

Enjoy your new friends and online gaming, i al really happy for you, have fun creating and come back with something really new and cool, and i’ll be there. I have taken 10 / 15 min to type this on my bloody iphone, just for you ystava

Mon ami, thank you for such an honest opinion on my stuff on my latest creation batch :). As I already explained to Wyldwarrior, my overall tight schedule and different things to attend to and think about kinda affected my inspiration to come up with something unique and spectacular like my Alien OC which you liked so much. I shall fix this in my next creation batch, together with my bad habbit of overblown entrances XD. Still, thanks for the positive feedback ;) and no, your chances of getting reviews are not ruined.....yet XD.

Merci for liking the artworks as well, I too enjoy greatly when my Aziza comes to life in such a way through such fine artworks :). Nice to know you feel glad for my success in the contest as well. Admitedly it wasn't any huge, official contest, but it sure gave me good publicity and a way to get my Alien CAS really well seen and viewed By people :). Not to mention all the nice comments on my Alien in the videos comment section which really made me happy too :). Yeah, my friend mentioned about the competition in Reddit.

I too saw Wysmash creations in his latest batch and they certainly look most impressive indeed. And yes, I WILL improve my game on my next batch, mark my words ;). Gotta review Wysmashs creations at some point as well. That's just yet another addition to my long list of reviews in need of being written XD....

I will most definetily enjoy my new group of friends, whenever I have time for them that is XD. I will try to arrange time for all of these activities equally, altough now my situation in PS4 Network has kinda eased down to the point of giving more time to this community and creating CASs ;). And I appreciate you giving such a long time typing your answer viva iphone, mon ami XD.

Yeah, gotta agree with VC and Wyld here. After a long break i was expecting a new and improved CAS... but what you have here don’t look that impressive. Tho i like what you did with poison ivy... she looks pretty hot and i’d Wysmash that ass. lol sorry Wyld, had to do it.

Well, i’m not saying my recent CAS are that impressive either... but i tried something a bit different. So you should try something unique like you did with your previous ones like the alien that stands out in the crowd.

Indeed, I do admit my latest batch isn't that fancy compared to my older stuff, but I hope you understand my reasons for this as I explained to VC and Wyld. Heh, still thanks for liking Poison, I kinda thought that you would like her XD.

Yeah, I have seen your latest creations and they sure look very fabulous and great ;). I will write a proper review of them at some point, I swear to Gott in himmel XD. I will also come up with something more fancy in my next batch for sure ;).

I enjoy the simplicity of these designs, especially the Nazi-themed characters. I also greatly respect your confidence in your work, perhaps even a dash of cockiness. You must be quite the charmer off the forums. Also How did you recolor the border on Isamu's collar?

Oh I feel so happy to see that you appreciate my way of taking a bit simpler approach on my creations on this batch as well as with the slight improvements to my older creations :D. Considering my confidence in my works, well, heh, as VC kinda put it, sure I do have confidence for them, but in the end I kinda want to take the more respectful and humble approach towards the subject. As for my manners, I'd like to think I have been raised in such an environment that appreciates such manners and that it has left it's mark on my ways of writing on the Internet as well :).

About Isamu's collar colouring, I did it By adding different shaped stickers which I naturally coloured white. The trick with fitting the stickers on to the borders of the collar was to adjust the stickers horizontal and vertical angles just right to make them fill the collar but not to extend to outside of it. It sure took it's own time to finaly get it right though XD. I learned trying out these different angles with the stickers from one of my PS4 friends, so I wanted to try them out on Isamu :).

Hi ! hmmm… i know you like cocky, but you are mistaken, i can vouch for HK here and say he isn't cocky at all, quite the contrary, extremely respectful, even under criticism, he just gets carried away by his passions and discovers the world of online friendship and gaming, meaning he has less time to devote to SC6 and the community...
And he has the most extravagant intros to his posts ever seen on 8wayrun, or in the hole world (wink to HK) :)
So maybe he is finnished posting here regularly, and that's cool, or he'll come back eventually with a bang.
And you, how are you now ? PM if you want...cheers, mate

Merci beacoup mon ami for vouching me with such positive traits :). As I wrote earlier, my overall activity there has recently calmed enough so that I can give more time for both SC6 and the community as well. I sincerely hope and try to make this process happens during this week ;). And of course, in my next batch, drop out the too extravagant intros as well, as I think I have already established my passion for creating these characters rather well XD. You are just not gonna leave me alone about that "hole" pun are you VC XD?

And no, I'm not finnished posting here regulary XD. Not just necessarily that actively as I used to, other stuff have simply just taken their part of my time currently XD. I will PM you later, as I now just want to get to bed after writing all of this through out the night, close to 9 a'clock at Morning here XD.....cheers to you as well mon ami ;).

 

[VILARCANE]

That's what i call answerin', HK rocks :)
No i am not dropping the hole pun, being the joke artist i am, unless you write a whole batch of reviews haha.

 

[Herr-Krieg]

MOST WUNDERBAR greetings to all my fellow CAS-artists, Soul Calibur fans and dear friends :D! This is your long absent CAS-artist from Finland writing to you all at last :D!

That's right! After over a half year of being absent from the forums, I'm back in business, rested and ready to once more entertain you folks with my creations as well as sharing my passion for the franchise we all like and love :D. So incredibly lot has occured during this half a year of time that I don't know where to begin with XD. I hope you all had most fantastic Christmas and New Year celebrating :) and also that you folks have been enjoying all the good stuff that the Second Pass has offered so far in Soul Calibur 6. I sure had most wonderful time with both celebrations, spending Christmas with family and New Year with a whole lot of entertainment by watching movies and listening music for all my hearts content :).

All of these event, including an over four days of New Years cleaning of my room XD, and resting after them have effectively occupied this half of a year of time, including other things and stuff. But instead of blabbering too much and filling this creation batch with too much text ( a fact that many of my followers, including Vilarcane and TopGuns, have noted of me as being a negative thing, which I agree XD ), I will get right on to showing you folks the creations I have come up during my absence. If you would however like to know that different stuff I have been up to, fear not of asking me in the comments ;).

Without further due, time to get this long waited creation batch update of mine underway, don't you think ;)?

Starting this batch will be a re-creation which I created as a CAS participating in a weekly creation challenge on the forums Discord site ( check the Discord sites Creation section for more detailed information ). Meet Archer from the Fate/stay night series ( wiki page to the original design: https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Archer_(Fate/stay_night) )

Spoiler: From different angles

I decided to choose Grohs style for him as the blades of the chosed weapon are most close to the short swords he uses in the anime, not to mention the possibility of colouring the blades separately like in his original design and of course, the way how they can act as two swords like in the original design.

Spoiler: Action Screenshots

And here's how he looks like in action:

Spoiler: Gameplay Action

And what a way to show him in real, fierce action than putting him up against one of his most dreadful rivals, none other than Sabre, also from the Fate/stay night franchise:

Spoiler: Archer Vs. Saber

Spoiler: Archer Soul Release and Critical Edge

Spoiler: Saber Soul Release and Critical Edge

As the fight between Archer and Sabre showed, my second CAS for this batch is a re-creation of Sabre, which I also created for the weekly creation challenge in the Discord server, also from Fate/stay night series ( wiki page for the original design: https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Saber_(Fate/stay_night) ) :

Spoiler: From different angles

Spoiler: Action Poses

Let us see how she brings her fierce skills as a knight to the battlefield:

Spoiler: Gameplay Action

"The noble knight, ready to slay the filthy beast."

Now for the third creation of this batch, inspired by some old retro animes and created at the end of the last year. I give you the re-creation of the Devil Lady from Go Nagais anime and manga series, Devil Lady ( wiki page to the original design: https://gonagai.fandom.com/wiki/Devil_Lady ) :

Spoiler: From different angles

As one of the older anime series that I have watched a bit, I found Devil Ladys design interesting enough to try re-creating in the creation mode. Sure I had to improvise at some points, but mostly I think I pulled her off rather well. Of course, you folks will be the judge of that ;).

"Is this new power of hers a blessing or a curse?"

Spoiler: Weapons of her demonic form

"And so she descended from the skies...."

"...to give her helping hand to the humankind."

And thus she puts her powers to use, battling against the demons and such in action:

Spoiler: Gameplay Action

One demon she faces proves to be particulary stubborn, so she has to go all out loud to defeat it :

Spoiler: Devil Lady Vs. Miraku ( Warning some screenshots can be considered mature material, so watch at your own risk )

As this demoness foe of hers proves to be more resilient than she anticipated, much more drastic ( and visual, like above XD ) measures are required :

Spoiler: Soul Release

Spoiler: Critical Edge

While our heroic demoness was able to defeat her evil advesary in such a dramatic way, nothing could prepare her for her next opponent, as she came across this wild, mysterious beast of a hunter deep in the forest:

Spoiler: Devil Lady Vs. Mystery Opponent¨( Warning! Some of the screenshots can be considered mature, so watch at your own risk )

"The wild beast roars."

"Who could be this mighty jaguard masked fighter, capable of tossing Devil Lady around like a piece of meat?"

"Talk about having a taste of ones own medicine"

After giving the demoness an extremely painful lesson of her immense strenght, the jaguar masked warrior decides it's time for the lesson to end:

Spoiler: Soul Release

Spoiler: Critical Edge

"And thus the mighty demoness lies defeated."

So, who excatly is this mysterious warrior wearing such a jaguar mask and being powerful enough so effortlessly defeat a powerful demoness like Devil Lady? Inspired by playing Tekken 7 and seeing this one cool looking attire for my favorite character of the series, the King and created as an alternative attire for my most favorite CAS creation of all time...

Ladies and gentleman, I give you my OC Aziza, wearing her wrestling champion attire, inspired by Tekken Kings alternative, Kazuchika Okada-inspired attire from Tekken 7 game ( original design: http://www.fightersgeneration.com/n...g-tekken7-okada-costume-by-takuji-kawano2.jpg )

Spoiler: From different angles

While Kings special attire did play a role in coming up with this look for her, not to mention couple of art comission works back, the badass designed coat of Hilde ( hands down the best equipment part of the whole Hilde DLC ) was the main factor that made me realize of using it as a base of this creation. With seeing all the other fancy creations looking so good wearing it, it was a mandatory thing for me to use it in some creation of this batch XD.

Spoiler: Jaguar Queen of the ring roars

Spoiler: Some wrestling moves by the champion

"High knee."

"Stomp."

"Belly jump on some unfortunate fellow XD."

Let us see how she brings her wrestling skills and strength to action:

Spoiler: Gameplay

Which one is more fearsome I wonder?

Giving Cervantes some rough back hammering.

Lifting Cassandra up for a better view of the star sky XD.

And that's the last one of my CASs for this batch. I hope you have enjoyed viewing them all. While not being the most fanciest creations of mine, I made most of them at the end of the last year when I was kinda struggling to find inspiration. I still nevertheless hope you had good time seeing them ;).

To end this creation update of mine, I'd like to show you folks more of my art comission works which I have been comissioning from different artists during my long period of absence. I hope most sincerely that you like them as well :). Considering this first art comission work, while I do appreciate some fanservice art every now and then, sometimes it's good to come back to ground and want some actual Soul Calibur looking art of your OCs.

So here is a portrait comission artwork of none other than my Aziza:

This most fine portrait of her is drawn by an artist in Devianart called HikariNOSora and she is specialized in drawing very cool looking Soul Calibur art. Credits for this artwork goes to her and if you would like to see more of her gorgeous art, here's a link to her DA-site: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora as well as to the site of the original artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora/art/Commission-Aziza-807969158 .

The next artwork shows Aziza on a full out fighting stance, ready to face any threat while also enjoying for getting such action and excersice in a sunny African forest:

The artist responsible for making this most detailed artwork of her is an artist called Baldwinsteiner DanDan in Devianart. Naturally, credits for this artwork goes to him. Here's the link for more of his fine art in DA: https://www.deviantart.com/baldwinsteiner .

As a final art comission work for this creation batch, I want to show you an artwork of another OC of mine OTHER than Aziza. I know, shocking isn't it XD? At the end of the last year and particulary during the time of Halloween, I decided that this OC of mine deserved some love and attention, it being one of my other most favorite creation of mine.

Fellow CAS-artists and friends, here's a portrait work of my vampire warrior Ravianna:

As you might recognize from the style, this artwork is also done by HikariNOSora, so credits for drawing it goes to her. Check the link earlier to her DA-site, as well as the link here for the original work: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora/art/Commission-RAVIANNA-809726412 .

And that bombshell, my friends and viewers, marks the end of this creation batch. I most sincerely hope that you have enjoyed viewing all the stuff in this update, which became much bigger than I originaly planned. Guess I got a bit carried away after being away and absent for so long eh XD?

As usual, comments, constructive critisism, opinions, ideas and conversations are always welcomed and appreciated. And remember, like always,

Let the tale of souls and sword be eternally retold ;).

 

[Kieve]

Been a fair while since I poked my nose in here. Seems Aziza's amassing quite the wardrobe - but she's a killer OC to be sure, nothing wrong with giving your Best Girl some outfits to pick from! Also neat watching your skill level progress with each update. Personally, I'd shy away from recreations like Poison or Demon Lady, just because their design is so simple it can't help but look a bit low-effort, even when you're able to nail the look correctly. But, to each their own, and based on your other creations, it's easy to see the appeal.

As for my own favorite, probably Aziza's snow-leopard gear. Snow leopards are awesome.
But what catches my eye even moreso is the commissioned artworks you post. It really says something about your love of a character that you're willing to go and drop real money just to see another artist create them in a different medium!

Looking forward to whatever you come up with next!
(And y'know, still waiting to see that cat-lady you'd hinted at way back when!)

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Been a fair while since I poked my nose in here. Seems Aziza's amassing quite the wardrobe - but she's a killer OC to be sure, nothing wrong with giving your Best Girl some outfits to pick from! Also neat watching your skill level progress with each update. Personally, I'd shy away from recreations like Poison or Demon Lady, just because their design is so simple it can't help but look a bit low-effort, even when you're able to nail the look correctly. But, to each their own, and based on your other creations, it's easy to see the appeal.

As for my own favorite, probably Aziza's snow-leopard gear. Snow leopards are awesome.
But what catches my eye even moreso is the commissioned artworks you post. It really says something about your love of a character that you're willing to go and drop real money just to see another artist create them in a different medium!

Looking forward to whatever you come up with next!
(And y'know, still waiting to see that cat-lady you'd hinted at way back when!)

Oh thank you so very much for your compliments and critique Kieve, I highly appreciate it :D! Yeah, it had been a way too while since I myself were active here so I decided to do something about it :). Heh, can't really help myself with Aziza, she is my waifu really XD. Thanks also for liking her looks, always feel nice when my most favorite girl receives praise ;). Great to also hear that you think I'm improving, tells me that I'm on the right track.

I see your points regarding recreations with simple looking designs and how low-effort they can look like, despite of the accurate look. Back then when I made Poison I was with a friend circle that appreciated re-creations more than OCs, so I made Poison inspired By those times. With the Demon Lady I was pressed By other worries and subjects, so I didn't have that much of inspiration to come up with something too complicated so I decided to create something as a bit of a lighter to ignite my passion for creating again. I will aim to avoid recreating too simple designed character and focus more on my own designs in the future ;).

And I'm just so obvious with my likings aren't I XD?

Once again, I appreciate you picking Aziza's snow-leopard gear as your favorite :). With her alternative colour themes I try to keep the theme based on african animals, as she is from African continent afterall. And snow leopard being such a rare and cool looking species, I only saw it fit to apply it to Aziza.

I'm delighted that you see my passion for my creation through the comissioned artworks :D. It's just that before I started creating and coming up with my own OCs, I was content only for admiring other peoples OCs, their designs and how they drew and came up with them while I myself couldn't really do it due to my Limited drawing skills. With really going to the next level with SC6s character creation mode and creating my very own designed stuff and OCs, I just couldn't help but want to see them coming alive via comission works :). So thanks again for appreciating this passion of mine ;).

I'm happy to inform you that I'm already making and coming up with material for my next creation batch, so stay tuned my friend ;)!

 

[Kieve]

I see your points regarding recreations with simple looking designs and how low-effort they can look like, despite of the accurate look. Back then when I made Poison I was with a friend circle that appreciated re-creations more than OCs, so I made Poison inspired By those times. With the Demon Lady I was pressed By other worries and subjects, so I didn't have that much of inspiration to come up with something too complicated so I decided to create something as a bit of a lighter to ignite my passion for creating again. I will aim to avoid recreating too simple designed character and focus more on my own designs in the future ;).

Makes sense! But please, take my comments with a grain or two of salt - you don't need to please me, or anyone else. It's your thread, make what you want to make. As long as you're enjoying your creations, that's what really matters. My opinions are entirely my own.

And I'm just so obvious with my likings aren't I XD?

I think we both are. No shame in that, though.

I'm happy to inform you that I'm already making and coming up with material for my next creation batch, so stay tuned my friend ;)!

Oh-ho! Seems I have good timing then! Definitely keeping an eye out. As it happens, I've amassed a few new creations of my own, but I'm trying to put more of a "story" spin on my posts this time around, since I started using Ansel to take screenshots, so writing up the narratives for each makes it somewhat slow going. Feel free to pop in and leave your thoughts if you get time!

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Makes sense! But please, take my comments with a grain or two of salt - you don't need to please me, or anyone else. It's your thread, make what you want to make. As long as you're enjoying your creations, that's what really matters. My opinions are entirely my own.

I appreciate your comments and advice Kieve ;). Sure I will first and foremost aim to enjoy liking the creations I make and have fun while creating them. After all, can't really feel passion for creating something that I myself don't like or what XD?

I think we both are. No shame in that, though.

Hah hah, well good to know we are in the same boat then XD.

Oh-ho! Seems I have good timing then! Definitely keeping an eye out. As it happens, I've amassed a few new creations of my own, but I'm trying to put more of a "story" spin on my posts this time around, since I started using Ansel to take screenshots, so writing up the narratives for each makes it somewhat slow going. Feel free to pop in and leave your thoughts if you get time!

Oh your timing wouldn't be better my friend ;). Great to hear that you also have gathered material and new creations for a batch :). I'm intrigued to see how you add the "story" spin to your posts. I myself have tried to make my batches more fluently going, like having similiar characters fight with one another, show how the look like in action gameplay screenshots and so on. Altough it is a habit which I have been thinking of dropping out in my future batches though, as those fights are just EXHAUSTING to do: taking all the screenshots, picking up the best ones to post and then upload them too in a fashionable order XD. But sure, I will check your creation thread out once I find an appropriate moment for it :).

(And y'know, still waiting to see that cat-lady you'd hinted at way back when!)

Oh yeah, I did mention/promised something like that now didn't I XD? I will try to think about how to create such a CAS for sure in the future once I find enough inspiration for it ;).

 

[HappyColour]

Jaguar Queen is very cool! I like it a lot, good stuff!

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Jaguar Queen is very cool! I like it a lot, good stuff!

Oh thank you for your kind compliments HappyColour, I appreciate it :D! I always feel delighted when my favorite OC gets compliments :). Hope you like my other creations too.

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Most WUNDERSCHÖN greetings my my fellow CAS-artists, Soul Calibur fans and dear friends :D! This is your once again long absent CAS-artist Herr-Krieg writing to you all :)! Most Happy Easter too :D!

First four months of 2020 have passed and once again, incredibly lot has occured during my absence from the server. While I can say that I have been busy online activity WISE during that period, I cannot say the same about actually doing something physical or productive. Needless to say it's all because of these uncertain times with COVID-19 spreading like a wildfire and with the whole world seemingly running around like a headless chicken these days, with my country also taking measures to counter it XD. I myself haven't yet been most unfortunate to get one yet, and I hope I never will. Still, despite of these dreadful appearing times, I wish most well to all of you and that you stay safe and healthy ;).

This quarantine of a situation has allowed me to pay much more attention to my online activities, which have skyrocketed during these four months. It has also allowed me to give much more attention to SC6 and creating new characters too, especially after the annoucement and arrival of the both Haohmaru DLC 9 as well as the new creation equipment DLC 10 hyped me all up. And now, with the design and creation work behind, I'm proud and pleased to introduce you the fruits of my work in this new creation batch of mine :).

And with that introduction out of the way, lets move on to the good part, shall we ;)?

First, I'd like to introduce you some of my older creations, improved with the certain equipment parts we got on the new equipment DLCs. For me, one of the most appealing equipment part was the police visor cap for female characters. You give me such an item for female characters, you know what's coming your way XD :

Nazivy, Aufs. B. ( credit for coming up with a name "Nazivy" goes to Vilarcane XD ).

And with a very own champion belt being also added, there's only one creation in my inventory for it to fit like a glove XD:

With the slightly improved creations out of the way, I'd like to introduce you the first "new" CAS-creation of the batch. The "new" being highlighted, as this is actually an alternative look for one of my older creations which I introduced in the last creation batch. After some of you pointed out about Devil Ladys rather simple design ( and don't blame you ), I decided to create an alternative, more detailed attire for her, inspired By this manga page of her wearing a sort of a combat armor:

Ladies and gentleman, meet my re-creation of Go Nagais Devil Lady, wearing her alternative combat attire from the manga adaptation of the series:

Spoiler: Different angles

While I did try to use stickers to cover her hands like she would be wearing gloves like in her original design, I simply didn't have enough body sticker places to cover her hands completely, so I took the artistic liberty to leave her hands bare.

Spoiler: Her demonic weaponry

And here's how she looks like bringing her new gear on to the gameplay:

Spoiler: Gameplay

"The Devil Vs. The Beast."

As for the first truly new CAS-creation of this batch, I'd like to introduce you a creation which idea I got quite a long time ago, but which I finaly figured out how to create in the game. I drew inspiration for it from my miniature hobby and from my most favorite faction from the Warhammer 40 000 franchise, Necrons.

My fellow CAS-artists and SC-friends, here's a re-creation of Necron Overlord character from the Warhammer 40 000 ( see original design from the following link: https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Necron_Overlord ) :

Spoiler: From different angles

As a bit of an own artistic touch and knowing a bit about the Necron lore in the Warhammer 40k franchise, I coloured him with the red colour theme , which is used By a dynasty called Novokh. The dynasty is well known for favoring melee combat as well as performing blood rituals, so I thought it would be only fitting for him.

"A book containing information for how to perform Novokh dynasty's blood rituals."

Spoiler: Action poses

"The hangover after awakening from a billion years long hibernation as well as being transported to another dimension." XD

Let us see how our high tech zombie robot brings his warscythe and skill to the heat of action:

Spoiler: Gameplay

"Which one's prettier? Place your votes."

"Witness the time halting might of the Necron technology."

This next creation draws it's inspiration from the real life history. Felt a bit nostalgic creating something which draws it's design from the real world history like I used to do several batches back with my german WW2 designs. Not to mention of getting to finally utilize some of the cool armor equipment from the Hilde DLC.

My friends and folks, meet my Polish Hussar, aka. Winged Hussar female cavalryman, named Kara Zobiesk ( link about the "winged hussars" history and design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hussars ) :

Spoiler: From different angles

As much as I would have loved to use more of Hilde's chest equipment parts, their overall unflexibility, unfittingness with other equipment options as well as not looking enough close to the original historical design, I ended up using the older chest armor design.

Spoiler: Action poses

"What kind of a righteous beaty could there be under that helmet?"

As the enemies of Poland threat her homeland, she charges them without fear or respite:

Spoiler: Gameplay

"Polec, brudny kreatura!" ( Die, filthy creature!)

For the last creation of this batch, I have yet another alternative colour theme for my most favorite OC and waifu, Aziza XD. I got inspired making this after chatting about it with couple of my friends in Discord and experimenting with colours a bit. This will be her fourth alternative colour theme, which is only appropriate as the regular SC characters usually have four colour themes.

My fellow friends and comrades, I'd like to introduce you my OC, an african warrior lady Aziza, wearing her original attire, but with an alternative colour theme, this time inspired By another well know African animal, Giraffe:

Spoiler: From different angles.

While I was at first a bit feared of using this sort of a yellow colour theme for her, considering its certain closeness to her original orange colour theme and note maybe looking enough giraffe like, I did some research and found out how giraffes with such yellow like colouring actually exist and how it helped me to make the colour theme different enough compared to her original design.

Spoiler: Action poses ( Warning! Some of the screenshots can be viewed as revealing and mature, watch at your own risk.)

"Huntress, ready to hunt in the moonlight."

Witness how she appears like with her new, alternative look on gameplay action:

Spoiler: Gameplay

"The african beaty beating up the wild beast."

Being a man of a habbit as I am, it would be rude from me not to include some comissioned artworks in too, now wouldn't it XD? Now some of these comission works are a bit older by date, due to me asking for more comissioned artworks than I have been capable of creating characters to show them with XD. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as viewing my creations ;).

For this first one, I wanted to see my Aziza ( yeah, it's about Aziza, deal with it XD ) in a bit more of a sport/action sort of a scene. After thinking and discussing about potential ideas for such scene, I came up with an idea that would be a bit sport themed, fitting to her theme as well as a bit exotic too XD.

So here's Aziza swinging herself around in an african jungles using lianas in rope acrobatic manner:

Spoiler: Aziza rope acrobating through the jungle ( Warning! The artwork can be considered revealing and mature, watch at your own risk).

This most magnificent and detailed artwork of her is drawn by an artist in Devianart known as the 7th-Heaven, so credits for drawing this artwork for me goes to him. If you want to check more of his artworks, here's the link to his site in DA: https://www.deviantart.com/7th--heaven as well as to the original site of the artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/7th--heaven/art/Commi-1368-Aziza-IV-812906064

Considering this next one, after witnessing how well the artist who drew the portrait of my vampiress warrior Ravianna ( check my previous creation batch ), I got inspired to ask another artwork of her from the same artist. Wanting to give some more attention to her, I comissioned the artist with a whole blown half body comission work of her.

And here she is, sitting comfortably on a gothic chair, enjoying the moonlight and a glass of most fine blood wine:

The artwork is done by an artist known in DA as HikariNOSora ( credits to her ) and she is one of my most favorite artist when it comes to asking for comission works like this. And with this quality, for a good reason :). For seeing more of her gorgeous SC artworks, here are links to both her DA-site: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora as well as to the original site of the artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora/art/Commission-RAVIANNA-2-814599991 .

As for the final comission work to be shown for you folks for this creation batch, is a comission work which I comissioned from an artist that I hadn't tried before. As I want to see how my creations and OCs look like with different artists styles, I asked this sort of a pin up artwork as a sort of a test work.

As such, here's a pin up artwork of my Aziza, posing herself on a sunny african beach XD:

Spoiler: Aziza posing on a beach ( Warning! The artwork can be considered revealing and mature, so watch at your own risk).

The artist responsible for drawing this most neat pin up of her is called mangapym in DA, so naturally credits for the artwork goes to him. For a 25 dollar work, I think it was worth it, but I let you to be the judge of that :). For more of his artwork, like usual, the links for both his DA-site: https://www.deviantart.com/mangapym as well as for the original site of the artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/mangapym/art/Aziza-815617265 .

And that, ladies and gentleman, marks the end of this creation batch. I most sincerely hope that you enjoyed viewing both all the creations and the artworks :). I myself felt really confident and comfortable when I created the CASs of this batch, but I let you folks to be the judge. As usual, comments, constructive criticism, opinions, ideas and conversations are always welcomed and appreciated.

As final notes to this update, I'm fully aware that I owe many reviews to several fine CAS-artists, who have been posting most wonderful looking creations recently. So for them, I'm happy to inform you that with this creation batch, I will return to an active duty on this site, writing those long waited reviews and overall, hopefully bringing more life to the site. So look forward to the reviews in the near future ;). As a second thing, with my speed of asking for comission artworks of my creations compared to how fast I can create new CASs, I have some older artworks basically gathering dust and waiting to be published. Not wanting to hold them away too long anymore, I plan on posting them on their own batches in the future. So stay tuned for those ;).

On that note, stay safe and healthy and remember,

Let the tale of souls and sword be eternally retold ;).

 

[Kieve]

Ah, the prodigal Krieg returns! Welcome back! You have been busy, haven't you? Well, let's see what we have here...
-Hat update for Nazivy, eh? Not much to say there, just "yay for new parts!" Glad you don't have to fudge it it with the army cap anymore, though I don't think there was anything wrong with the old look either.
-Devil Lady, I'm actually pretty impressed by the way you did her chest there, very clever. I think if you're going for a character in a "full body" outfit, skin color + face makeup might be the better way to go, but it works just fine as-is too.
-Necron is wicked! Robot skeleton, there's an idea I don't see much of. One of my pals on Steam did a Revenant from Doom, and now I'm picturing these two facing off with each other. I particularly like the gray "metal" color for his skull. Not too familiar with 40K otherwise, but I'm diggin' the look.
-Winged Hussar, kinda "meh" at first glance, but then I started to notice all the fine details in pattern and color you worked into the armor. Well done! Pity they'd be difficult to appreciate in motion, but such is the price of a fighting game. And of course, the "wings" look great - almost reminds me of something from anime.
-And more Aziza, of course. How could we do without? ;) Snow leopard's still my favorite though. Plus new artwork! One of these days, I may have to throw some money at these folks myself, they do good work.

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Ah, the prodigal Krieg returns! Welcome back! You have been busy, haven't you? Well, let's see what we have here...
-Hat update for Nazivy, eh? Not much to say there, just "yay for new parts!" Glad you don't have to fudge it it with the army cap anymore, though I don't think there was anything wrong with the old look either.
-Devil Lady, I'm actually pretty impressed by the way you did her chest there, very clever. I think if you're going for a character in a "full body" outfit, skin color + face makeup might be the better way to go, but it works just fine as-is too.
-Necron is wicked! Robot skeleton, there's an idea I don't see much of. One of my pals on Steam did a Revenant from Doom, and now I'm picturing these two facing off with each other. I particularly like the gray "metal" color for his skull. Not too familiar with 40K otherwise, but I'm diggin' the look.
-Winged Hussar, kinda "meh" at first glance, but then I started to notice all the fine details in pattern and color you worked into the armor. Well done! Pity they'd be difficult to appreciate in motion, but such is the price of a fighting game. And of course, the "wings" look great - almost reminds me of something from anime.
-And more Aziza, of course. How could we do without? ;) Snow leopard's still my favorite though. Plus new artwork! One of these days, I may have to throw some money at these folks myself, they do good work.

First of, thank you so much for such a thorough and constructive feedback on my batch, I highly appreciate it :D! Yes, I have returned, more eager, inspired and active, as I work on returning to my Place as an active reviewer and participant in the sites activities :). So thank you also for the warm welcome ;).

Yeah, the slight improvements on my german WW2 character designs weren't anything too big, but now I feel like they are, well, complete XD. The very moment I saw the police cap equipment for female creations, it was a no brainer really XD. Sure there wasn't anything too wrong with the original army cap, which is why I let it remain on some of the other versions of my german WW2 characters :).

Thanks for the compliment on my Devil Ladys new design :D. Yeah, I had to be pretty creative for coming up with her chest design. Sure I had to take the artistic liberty of giving away her tail in the process, but I think it was worth her chest design :). Back when I was thinking how to execute her design considering the "full body" outfit, I did considering using stickers + face makeup to do it, but I found the armor underwear more fitting. It added the much needed additional armored parts to her design and relieved more sticker places too, which I quickly started to run out of while making her XD.

Especial thanks for adoring my Necron design :D! I too was very happy with his final design and look. I actually created the base of his design with the skeleton base race as well as choosing the equipment parts for him. Kinda dropped him for a while because of the lack of inspiration, but once recovering the said inspiration, I really went all out loud with his details and own added artistic touchess. While I was a bit disappointed on not being able to colour the skeleton base the way I wanted as well as adding stickers to it ( this was my first time working with the skeleton race based CAS ), I'm glad you find his "metal" coloured skull good :).

I fully recognize the potential "meh" factor on my Winged Hussar, not looking the most elegantly or complex design and colouring, I just wanted to stick with the original historical design and work around it. Thus I appreciate that you like the slight pattern details and such which aim to elevate her design. And indeed, the details may not appear so strongly in the actual gameplay, but I'm okay with it :). Thanks for liking her "wings" too, since they are a bit like a crucial part of her look and appearance as a "Flying Hussar", as they were kind of like their trademarks back in that historical time era. Heh, totally get your way of finding them like something out of an anime, just adds a bit more liking to them eh XD?

And yes, I myself at least couldn't do without more material of my favorite OC and creation XD. You are not the first one to say about her "snow leopard" look being your favorite one. I'm kinda trying to understand why so many find that look of hers the most appealing. Like, maybe it has something to do with the always working "white/black contrast"? Maybe it brings her form so well forth? Because it's my first alternative colour theme of her? Well, I still appreciate such liking to her look XD.

Thank you also for liking the artworks :D! I definetily recommend the idea of you too asking for an artwork of your creations someday. I'd be eager to see your creations with these artists styles, they are totally worth the money and quality in which they make their artworks ;).

 

[VILARCANE]

Hi HK, i got an issue i need to report here.
Even with a good connection it litterally took like 5 minutes to load your page, and on xbox it made my console crash on your page more than once so i gave up.
I was waiting for ages for your page to "finnish" loading, it's a pun but it ain't fun and ruins the whole HK experience tbh.
Joke aside, the pictures need to be fewer and scaled down in size, i think you post too much for a single character.
I struggled even posting this reply since it is still loading in the background, so i can't really comment on the CAS except nazi b****es are still spot-on and your wrestler and snowleo are cool but my faves are the Overlord (you know i am playing W Inquisitor on xbox right now which is a cool diablo like set in W40K universe) and Da polsky with that cool use of ExEq for helmet faceguard and legionnaire plumes.
Love the artworks too, very very cool and this is what makes your CAS presentation so refreshing and outstanding my friend.

Still, I would seriously consider removing some stuff from this page, especially for the CAS that do not really are eye catchers. Think of it as a director's cut!

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Hi HK, i got an issue i need to report here.
Even with a good connection it litterally took like 5 minutes to load your page, and on xbox it made my console crash on your page more than once so i gave up.
I was waiting for ages for your page to "finnish" loading, it's a pun but it ain't fun and ruins the whole HK experience tbh.
Joke aside, the pictures need to be fewer and scaled down in size, i think you post too much for a single character.
I struggled even posting this reply since it is still loading in the background, so i can't really comment on the CAS except nazi b****es are still spot-on and your wrestler and snowleo are cool but my faves are the Overlord (you know i am playing W Inquisitor on xbox right now which is a cool diablo like set in W40K universe) and Da polsky with that cool use of ExEq for helmet faceguard and legionnaire plumes.
Love the artworks too, very very cool and this is what makes your CAS presentation so refreshing and outstanding my friend.

Still, I would seriously consider removing some stuff from this page, especially for the CAS that do not really are eye catchers. Think of it as a director's cut!

Bonjour mon ami :D! It feels so good to see you again commenting my thread :).

To address the most troublesome and unfortunate issue that you pointed out, I deeply apologize for causing you such a headache with the downloading problems. My apologies to your XBOX and PS4 as well.

I can fully explain the reason for these unfortunate events. You see, at the beginning of this year, one of my friends in PS4 suggested me to alter my PS4 settings so that the screenshots I took with it would be saved as PNGs instead of the usual JPGs for better quality results. Back then I fully adopted the idea, but had no idea it would backfire and cause prolems like this in the future.

However, just minutes ago I took actions to fix this issue, at least considering my latest creation update. Through rather intense PC working, I managed to convert the screenshots in the update from PNGs to JPGs and replaced the updates 'too-much-time-loading' screenshots with the JPG versions. In addition, I also took your advice and deleted some of the screenshots on the update, hopefully for more pleasant experience. I will do the same procedure to the previous update azwel in this week. Hopefully these actions will make the viewing experience more enjoyfull :).

Thank you so very much for your compliments and constructive feedback on my batches creations, oh how I have missed the feeling :D! Thank you in particular for liking my Overlord, I also find him as kind of like the highlight of the batch. Also my very first skeleton race-based creation, so I'm glad it turned out so well. Quite a coincidence with you playing W Inquisitor too, would imagine you to get familiar vibes from my robot skeleton about it XD.

I also highly appreciate your compliments on my artworks :)! I feel honoured for you to mind my CAS presentation freshing and outstanding thanks to them. While they sure are nice additions to my CAS presentations, I plan on also starting to post them in their own separate bunches. I have quite a pile of them waiting to be displayed as I have been requesting them faster than I have been capable of creating new CASs. So stay tuned for them ;).

 

[VILARCANE]

Page loaded like a summer breeze

 

[Herr-Krieg]

Most wunderbar greetings, my fellow CaS-artist, Soul Calibur fans, friends and comrades :D! This is Herr-Krieg writing once more :)!

How have you folks been doing? I hope sincerely you have stayed safe and secured, with the COVID-19 still causing havoc and dissorder to our daily lives. For me it has quite effectively wrecked my already quite f**k up sleeping schedule even more and I have been kinda trying to solve that out in the mids of my online and regular live activities XD.

However, on to the topic of this update. You folks might remember my announcement in my previous update( check previous update in case you don't remember ) of deciding to start posting my comission artworks on their own, separate batches in addition of showing them in my creation batches as well. The reason for this being me asking and getting such comission artworks faster that I can create CaSs to show them with and not wanting to have the comission artworks gather dust without showing them.

So this will be my first, comissioned artworks of some of my creations art-update. So most unfortunately, no new CASs to show ya folks at the moment. Worry not however :). I already have quite a long list of CASs to create and show you in the close future, with some of them already well on their way towards their finished look ;).

And so, without further ådjö, here are some of the comission artworks of my creations that I have been requesting from different artists for quite a long time ago and till more recently :)

This first comission work dates quite long back to the previous years August. As I back then, and still, eagerly thrive towards expanding my most favorite creations, Azizas, concept and theme further and further, I wanted to expand her concept with a bit more, "adorable" approach as a change to the usual artworks that I had comissioned so far. Having a most skillfull artist already available at that time, I decided to go for it, as it was most affordable too.

My fellow CaS-artists and SC fans, meet my African warrior lady Aziza, chibi edition XD :

This most adorable and cute version of her is drawn and made By my good friend and an artist known in Devianart as HikariNOSora, so credits for making it for me goes to her. If you wanna check out more of her most skillfull artworks, here's the link to her artsite in DA: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora as well as the link to the original artwork site: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora/art/Commission-Aziza-Chibi-808906627

As this chibi version of Aziza proved to be so successfull and with a very afordable price tag too, I decided to ask for another from the same artist. Of course, for another one of my favorite creations. So here's the chibi version of my female vampire warrior Ravianna, cute and intimidating as ever XD:

Like with the Aziza version, credits for drawing this goes to HikariNOSora and here's the link for the artworks DA-site: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora/art/Commission-RAVIANNA-CHIBI-815415167 .

This third artwork is a bit special considering it's theme. As I keep an eye on some of the artists that I have comissioned before, sometimes some of them have these sorts of temporary offers to draw what they state with a rather affordable, special price. One of such offers that caught my eye was something like this: https://www.deviantart.com/mangapym/art/YCH-Mai-Shiranui-Promo-819475174 as to celebrate the birthday of Mai Shiranui from King of Fighters series on November last year. As I got most intrigued of such an opportunity, I went for it and this is how it turned out.

Ladies and gentleman, I'd like to introduce you Aziza, cosplaying Mai Shiranui from King of Fighters series:

This most neat artwork of her is done By an artist known in DA as mangapym. Credits for making it for me goes to him naturally. If you want to check out more of his most fine artworks, like usually, here's the link to his DA-site: https://www.deviantart.com/mangapym as well as to the site of the original artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/mangapym/art/Not-for-good-boys-Aziza-Shiranui-820378421 .

For the final comissioned artwork to show you folks on this first artcomission batch, is the courtesy of the always most talented artist that drew the chibi versions of Aziza and Ravianna. HikariNOSora (credits of making it therefore goes to her). While such chibis are most affordable to comission from her, I hadn't really asked any proper, half body type of a comission work from her about Aziza before this artwork ( yes, this one's too about Aziza, deal with it XD ). Deciding to fix this most unfortunate fact, this is what she drew for me.

Friends and comrades, bare witness to Aziza showing off her muscles while wearing her alternative bodybuilder attire on an african workout gym ( link to the original artsite in DA: https://www.deviantart.com/hikarinosora/art/COMMISSION-Gym-Aziza-822836890 ):

And with that bombshell of an artwork, I conclude this first, pure art comission work batch of mine. I sincerely hope that you enjoyed viewing these artworks :). As usual, comments, constructive criticism, opinions, ideas and conversations are always welcomed and appreciated. I will post another batch of artworks after some time again and in the meantime, also keep on working on the next batch of CAS-creations. So stay tuned people ;).

On that note, I hope you have a good time, stay safe and healthy.

And remember,

Let the tale of souls and sword be eternally retold ;).

 

[VILARCANE]

Not a big fan of the third one but the chibis are darn cute and the last one both intimidating and fairly well done.