Artist Army {old thread}

[KenmilltoSky]

@NotMe It was a lot of fun to watch! Thank you for posting the finished piece. :3

@laelia; I'd agree with the Pink option. The brown/blue look too dull on her and doesn't make her stand out. ^^

EDIT: Sorted. Just went for the plunge. ><

[Samurai!]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Okay so I've recently started Inuyasha, and since I'm loving it so much, made myself a fan character.

I wanted some help on her, just nitpicking and junk.
Note; She's an ongoing WIP, I'll probably change a lot about her.

so here. CC:
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Kasuyi
female
full demon
" The Mist Eagle Demon "
"Misty ears" Her ears are flowing mist that rise up. They sit on top of her head, like Inuyasha's.(only for location reference , they don't look like his.)
green eyes
white hair
hair is pulled back in a long ponytail tied back with a bandage. She has spiky bangs of differing lengths and two large, falling strands tied with bandage as well. These falling strands are located on each side of her head, falling beside where human ears would be.

Has a spiky, impatient personality. She's rather loud mouthed but knows when to shut up. Not as arrogant as Inuyasha. Doesn't like to depend on other people, and is therefore pretty solitary. She isn't antisocial though, and has no problem talking to people. She has no friends, she travels far too often to make friends with anyone. She's smart and cannot be fooled easily.
One downfall of hers; she takes advice from no one, even if she needs it.
Two, hitting her arms in human form will injure her wings in demon form. Her wings grow back, though, so if her arm is cut off in human form it makes no difference in demon form. Once she switches back, her demon abilities will regrow her arms. For this reason, injuring is much more effective than cutting off and can be a downfall.
Three, her eyesight is poor. Her hearing has to make up for her eyes, sometimes she'll even fight with her eyes closed. Her ears are very sensitive to movement, direction, and sound.
And four, she's vulnerable internally. If one happened to know her past, which is rare, they could seriously put her in pain by reminding her of how things were. Luckily for her, most people don't know anything about her, but if they did they could hurt her quite a lot

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Her true form is a giant, misty eagle. Red, stretched eyes, long talons, powerful, huge wings. It's white with black points.

In her demon form, hitting anywhere but her heart won't affect her. If anything is cut off, it will simply grow right back. Because her heart is her largest weakness, she guards it heavily with thick, metal feathers that are extremely hard to pierce.

In human form, these are her abilities;

CHOKING MIST HOLD- Sends a thick mist that comes from her hands around an opponent's body. Once it has them, it strangles them. She has full control, deciding whether she'll kill them or not.

MIST ILLUSION- Creates a (usually happy) illusion with her mist. The victim is in a daze, then allowing her to do whatever she wants with them.

POISON MIST- Sends out a thick wall of toxic mist from her hands. She is immune to it. Its power can melt even metal.

BIRDS OF THE MIST- Sends out 20 or so falcons that are made of an enchanted mist/fog. These birds have abnormally large beaks and talons, and each have spikes lining their backs. They basically maul someone to death, eating all of them including bone. They have the ability to blind someone with a mist emanated from their mouths.

SUDAIKA- Her sword. Very sharp and powerful, but not close to Tetsusaiga.

Also, she can vaporise into mist which allows her to disappear and reappear.

Has long, curled fingernails. Feet have longer, talon-like nails. For this reason, she goes without shoes.




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I'm not done yet, I still need to type up her backstory.

But any help so far?

Yaaaaay, someone who calls their fan characters fan characters instead of original characters. ;u;

I think that the whole blind thing is eh, birds are pretty well renowned for their eyesight--especially birds of prey--so I think that perhaps making her poor of hearing instead would be a bit better.

I don't understand the metal feathers. She's made of mist, right? Wouldn't the metal fall right off? Where'd she get them, anyway?

Perhaps if she heavily cloaked herself in mist in demon form to make it harder to aim at her chest? : /


CHOKING MIST HOLD- Sends a thick mist that comes from her hands around an opponent's body. Once it has them, it strangles them. She has full control, deciding whether she'll kill them or not.
^ Needs an opening. I suggest that striking her will drop the spell.

MIST ILLUSION- Creates a (usually happy) illusion with her mist. The victim is in a daze, then allowing her to do whatever she wants with them.
^ I don't like it. There's no openings here at all. You can have the mist make a mirage, but no matter what, "allowing her to do whatever she wants with them" needs to go.

POISON MIST- Sends out a thick wall of toxic mist from her hands. She is immune to it. Its power can melt even metal.
^ I think you're thinking of acid. Posion doesn't melt stuff. ^^; Posion gas is cool, but non-melty, unfortunately. :c

BIRDS OF THE MIST- Sends out 20 or so falcons that are made of an enchanted mist/fog. These birds have abnormally large beaks and talons, and each have spikes lining their backs. They basically maul someone to death, eating all of them including bone. They have the ability to blind someone with a mist emanated from their mouths.
^ More op. I revised (below)

BIRDS OF THE MIST- Sends out 20 or so falcons that are made of an enchanted mist/fog. These birds have abnormally large beaks and talons. They maul victims to death, leaving nothing but bone. They can be killed easily, but Kasuyi can just as easily replace them. She needs to be attacked directly to stop the spell.

Make changes as you wish, this was just how I envisioned it. xD Birds of prey don't digest bone, and I don't recall that falcons ingest them. Besides, seeing a bunch of picked-clean bones on the ground is a scary warning of her being near. I also edited in an opening--before it was all just, "Oh, no escape" and that's never good writing. Even in stories where supposedly they're in a trap with no escape, they are rescued and/or break free.

On top of all that, I don't think she needs a sword, but if you want her to have a little-used regular sword that's just sharp and she's good at handling then that won't be overpowered. Besides, swords are cool.

[Susiron]

Ugly,

Some birds of prey do digest bone.
The Bearded Vulture will soar up high into cliff ranges with bones in its talons, drop it-- and then collect the shattered bits at the bottom. They swallow whole sections of the bones, and are able to digest them with a stomach that is more corrosive than battery acid.
Other vultures can do the same, and I know that bald eagles will eat bones for calcium.
Owls are another example of bird that I know that eat bones. I don't really see why falcons would not.

EDIT: Just did some Googling,
Yes, it would seem that falcons and hawks do eat bones, just not the larger ones that they cannot get down. I imagine that if she just made them huge and magical, with strong beaks to crack bones or some other strange thing, they would be fine.

[Samurai!]

Ugly,

Some birds of prey do digest bone.
The Bearded Vulture will soar up high into cliff ranges with bones in its talons, drop it-- and then collect the shattered bits at the bottom. They swallow whole sections of the bones, and are able to digest them with a stomach that is more corrosive than battery acid.
Other vultures can do the same, and I know that bald eagles will eat bones for calcium.
Owls are another example of bird that I know that eat bones. I don't really see why falcons would not.

I knew the owl and vulture. I didn't think falcons ate bone. =.= *squinting*

Well, whatever. I think the picked bones would be awesome. Not my choice, of course.

[Susiron]

Ugly,

Some birds of prey do digest bone.
The Bearded Vulture will soar up high into cliff ranges with bones in its talons, drop it-- and then collect the shattered bits at the bottom. They swallow whole sections of the bones, and are able to digest them with a stomach that is more corrosive than battery acid.
Other vultures can do the same, and I know that bald eagles will eat bones for calcium.
Owls are another example of bird that I know that eat bones. I don't really see why falcons would not.

I knew the owl and vulture. I didn't think falcons ate bone. =.= *squinting*

Well, whatever. I think the picked bones would be awesome. Not my choice, of course.

I edited my post a second ago-- Google says that they do eat bone, just not the very large bits.

[Zephayer]

after nearly two full days of on-and-off tweaking and editing,
i've finally completed the manipulation i've been working on.

i'll probably continue to tweak it for a while but this is close to finished ...


(click for full size)

Hrmm, I've never really critiqued a photomanupulation, but--

Very nice setting you have going here. I love the overall mood expressed. :3
I'd say that the horses's shadow looks backwards, though. The light appears to be coming from far behind scene, since the birds are IN FRONT of the rays. If the rays are actually coming from the front of the image, to hit the horse straight on, then they should be in front of the birds as well.
I also don't imagine that the birds would be that visible and colourful from such a distance. Maybe desaturate them a bit?
And the skyline in the far back looks very unnatural. The line for the sea is a bit too crisp, and especially if there are clouds rolling in, I think that it would be much more blurred and dark on the horizon.

oh yes, I meant to put the light in front of the birds, thank you c: /OTL

and the stock photo I used for the background had the horizon, so apparently it is possible |3
I'm not sure though, it might have been manipulated beforehand — I'll see what I can do c:

Thank you Susiron~

[Smoogiepie]

I just felt like drawing something on GIMP I'm having trouble deciding what kind of shading to use. What are some different ways to shade?

[Lil S.]

I just felt like drawing something on GIMP I'm having trouble deciding what kind of shading to use. What are some different ways to shade?

hey(:

i think this piece is simply adorable! there is always cell shading, which works well with that kind of art. the type i always use is simple dodging and burning, which you can use easily on gimp.

[Susiron]

after nearly two full days of on-and-off tweaking and editing,
i've finally completed the manipulation i've been working on.

i'll probably continue to tweak it for a while but this is close to finished ...


(click for full size)

Hrmm, I've never really critiqued a photomanupulation, but--

Very nice setting you have going here. I love the overall mood expressed. :3
I'd say that the horses's shadow looks backwards, though. The light appears to be coming from far behind scene, since the birds are IN FRONT of the rays. If the rays are actually coming from the front of the image, to hit the horse straight on, then they should be in front of the birds as well.
I also don't imagine that the birds would be that visible and colourful from such a distance. Maybe desaturate them a bit?
And the skyline in the far back looks very unnatural. The line for the sea is a bit too crisp, and especially if there are clouds rolling in, I think that it would be much more blurred and dark on the horizon.

oh yes, I meant to put the light in front of the birds, thank you c: /OTL

and the stock photo I used for the background had the horizon, so apparently it is possible |3
I'm not sure though, it might have been manipulated beforehand — I'll see what I can do c:

Thank you Susiron~

Ohh, strange. : O
Maybe I need to look at more pictures of the sea. xD

And no problem. C:

[Dawny05~008]

@Susiron: Thank you so much I'll definitely re-do the wings, this will help tons! And I'm glad i'm somewhat decent at wings already XP seeing as when i first started trying to do wings, they looked like this O.e not to mention that my anatomy/skills were a flop. But hopefully i'll start improving
@Smoogie: Well, i just make a new layer, shade with black, then lock the opacity and change it to a color that i think suits the character. then i set it to multiply and play around more with the hue/saturation/brightness/contrast sliders and the opacity levels. Sometimes i blur the edges... but there are a lot of very good tuts out there, especially on dA. Therougecat has a good cell shading one, and this one is good too.

*mentally kicks self for not working on commissions*

livestreaming here: https://join.me/362-903-200 If anyone wants to give me some crits while i'm working...?