I orgasm at the thought of thinking of such artwork.

I like Madmax's art too.

♥♥♥♥ this imma go to law school instead.

There is no need for more art now that shook's reached full potential.

Shook I'm speechless.

Good God, you could even be more famous than you are now.

He has some popularity on an internet forum, he isn't famous.
HE SHOULD BE THOUGH
JESUS CHRIST HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE
CASUALLY POSTING GODWORK AND CALLING IT CRUDE??
shook you are the best

Just finished making this for a Playable Race Suggestion by a guy named Valen over on the Starbound forums. (if you are unaware of what Starbound is look it up)


the right foot is probably going to drive me insane, but I'll live.

This was a test of my mental stamina: 17th c Mercenary Halberdier

There was supposed to be a column of pikemen marching behind him but I just couldn't sell it.
12+ hours invested in Mypaint and Gimp. Some reference used for the cuirass armor and sword.
.Gif of process if interested:
http://i.cubeupload.com/S9DP4t.gif

I love you madmax, please never stop making awesome stuff like that.

Also, I'd be interested in seeing the reference you used for the sword, if you still have it.

Lol, thx Adriaan.
The ref used for the sword was just a mixture of a few images of English Civil war swords, most were pretty intricate rapiers so I settled with something more plain.
http://images.denhams.com/391/391lot404.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/ ... sic_02.jpg

Cool, like the style on that first one!

After some more staring at it, it seems the left hand might be a bit out of proportion with the right. The left thumb f.e. looks to me shorter than the right.

Yea, I noticed that as well. Thanks for the sharp eye thoough.

Oh, yeah. The hands are definitely different sizes, and opposite of what foreshortening would do.

Wow, Madmax that looks like you put a huge amount of work into it.

Worked waay too long on this one...


refs: 1, 2

Still not quite happy with parts of it, but I am satisfied enough with the overall shading and texture.
My main gripes are the shades (crooked ), mouth pull, and the right part of the jacket collar where I couldn't seem to get the contrast between the two parts right. The shades are a hard fix, since they're on the same layer (stupid ). Head is a bit long overall too. Oh well, onto new stuff.

Excellent work, Adriaan, that's a difficult expression to capture. I like the texture you applied. I think that some of the shadows are a little too soft on the sides of his face, where the strong light turns sharply to shadow in the reference, yours seem to blur. His teeth look a tad flat as well (remember sets of teeth are cylindrical). Good job overall.