I was experimenting with the ears. I referenced real cats. The outer side of the ear, near the head has a strange structure that I tried to replicate. Thing is, Katia is generally cartoonic/simplistic in design, so if you put something detailed on her, it drives the attention in a way that makes the viewer think it is an important detail. It so happens that on bats they actually are. Add to it that I made the ears too big (again), and now you have a bat-cat (again. Not the first time I turned Katia into a bat. Seems like a habit of mine at this point). Blood is also a pretty strong connection to vampires, plus you can see her fangs... Yeah it all kind-of subconsciously suggests vampirism. besides, it's not like she wasn't bitten by a vampire
as for questionableness:
I'm glorifying violence and brutality here, not lewdness and lust! The proper way two mortals should connect, not fondling. With Daedra mods nothing stands in the way of the marvelous mayhem, divine destruction and gorgeous gore as long as we keep our degenerate desires to ourselves. Let the rage and fire guide our way
Zargothrax: You're braver than I thought.
By the way, what sticks out to me the most is the hip orientation. Legs can't bend backwards, even in scorpion pose, the arc is made by the lumbar section of the spine.
Zargothrax: A second glance at this drawing revealed 2 things for me. One, I made her kinda resemble an otter, probably by the round shapes and drawing the nose large... Which is fine I guess, otters are cute too. Two: I bloody forgot to draw her eyebrows, what the hell... I had them in the sketch, but by the time I was past all those accursed flowers... Oh what am I saying, nice flowers indeed, noone would give cursed flowers to a kitten. (JK, hurting kittens is not OK)
For the record, here is what it was supposed to look like:
Zargothrax: @KuroNeko: Don't you worry, I was merely testing the spectrum of emotions at my disposal; a quick detour if you will... Before any guard could find me, I'm already back with creating art of glorified violence and memes. You'll see soon enough.
Zargothrax: My previous comment broke, and it may have even broken the page a little, so mods, please remove it...
But basically what I wanted to say is that stabbing a little kitten is hearthless, even for a daedra. There is a special place in Oblivion for them.
Zargothrax: @KuroNeko: Perhaps. But on a second thought, probably not.
Eye of fear is basically once-per-day fear spell. We can't be sure how that would affect it's victim, but I think there are only 2 options: It induces a primal, but seemingly sourceless fear, or it makes the caster appear much scarier. Since "fear" is in the illusion school, not some psychic school of magic, it should be the latter. Since an illusion can be as vivid and unreal as you want, I think the effect (of fear, or eye of fear) would make you appear bloody monstrous.
Now that I think about it, I should one day draw Katia as a Bloodborne boss. That would be pretty close to what one would see after being hit by eye of fear.
Zargothrax: Okay, so damrok4321's daily drawing challenge sequence just so happened to have picked my favourite emotion (to draw), and it really inspired me to draw an angry Katia as well. Then I pushed her so far, she became barely recognisable as herself, and became so overkill, it started leaning into the "funny" category at that point so I decided to upload it.
It's sketchy because I didn't have time to "ink" it (really wanted to upload today).
Zargothrax: When I first looked at the thumbnail (where I looked at it from left to right, assuming there is a progression between the pictures, instead of having 2 different artists) it reminded me of William Utermohlen, artist who got diagnosed with Alzheimer's, then made self portraits of himself in the following 5 years until his demise, each painting becoming more and more distorted. For the record, yours look pretty good for being drawn with a mouse.
I've got an idea! Next April's 1st, every artist here, upload your best attempt at drawing Katia, or any other Prequel character with a mouse. Will probably be funny seeing each other struggling like hell.
Ehh, what am I saying noone will remember this comment by then.
Zargothrax: Quick gesture drawing I turned into Katia. Later, I wanted to wrap her in a blanket, to give the painting the sort of "cosy" look (and make it less lewd) but I still suck at drawing fabric and clothing folds, thus the results were terrible, so just gave her an actual bra and called it a day. Could've improved the lineart to make it cleaner, but I was lazy to redraw it all.
Zargothrax: Nice painting Tabby!
I especially liked the interaction with the point-light source, instead of having a one-directional source, like the sun (that would make all shadows appear on one side of the character).
Also, clean linework is hard as hell. When I draw, first I make a sketch layer, then over it, an "inking" layer, where I try to go really precise, but I no longer have to guess where each line goes. I think this video sums it up very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc2i0ctlYqQ.
I think the reason why this sticked out to me is because of the brush. Sketchy lines are okay in my opinion, if you use a "sketchy" brush, like a pencil-like brush, but you chose a brush that is intended for inking and clean lineart.
Still, nice art, that magic spell looks badass, it looks as if you used the picture of a fractal. Something I wanted to do as well one day!
Zargothrax: @Makkon: Totally agreed. I think the reason why moderation on the internet is generally based on nudity is because it's easy to verify for mods, and in the eyes of an uploader, it forms more deterministic rules, therefore foregoing conflicts like "why was my image taken down while <other artist>s art that is more lewd in my opinion wasn't?". But in my opinion, resorting to such rigid (and inaccurate, as you have implied as well) moderation rules just to forego incidents like that is still timidity at best. It might be justified on websites where posts flow in at such a rate that accurately assessing the intent behind each post is infeasible, but not here.
Zargothrax: This is unexpected. Maybe Elisa KATsenja would've been more fitting role for her though, especially considering Katia was trying to cross the border in the comic as well.
Zargothrax: @Dominik: @KuroNeko: Thanks, good people of the internet!
Maybe this is the evil twin of Katia instead, Angular-Kat, who is instead of being unfortunate, causes misfortune on those around herself, is suffering from nightmares involving a homeless guy, causing her to have a phobia of poverty, and is an adept with frost magic (also with front-end web application frameworks huehuehue).
Wow that was really bad, let's just forget about Angular-Kat forever. Will keep the style around though. Already have a few ideas how to improve it.
Zargothrax: @Sashimi: No! I took his design when drawing the snout. Apart from that, we both seem to have a preference for sharp corners / angular designs.
Zargothrax: Don't have too much to add here. Started out as a sketch that I intended as practice for myself on having a style. Then, I overcomplicated most of the drawing and spent much more time on it than I expected.
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I was experimenting with the ears. I referenced real cats. The outer side of the ear, near the head has a strange structure that I tried to replicate. Thing is, Katia is generally cartoonic/simplistic in design, so if you put something detailed on her, it drives the attention in a way that makes the viewer think it is an important detail. It so happens that on bats they actually are. Add to it that I made the ears too big (again), and now you have a bat-cat (again. Not the first time I turned Katia into a bat. Seems like a habit of mine at this point). Blood is also a pretty strong connection to vampires, plus you can see her fangs... Yeah it all kind-of subconsciously suggests vampirism. besides, it's not like she wasn't bitten by a vampire
as for questionableness:
I'm glorifying violence and brutality here, not lewdness and lust! The proper way two mortals should connect, not fondling. With Daedra mods nothing stands in the way of the marvelous mayhem, divine destruction and gorgeous gore as long as we keep our degenerate desires to ourselves. Let the rage and
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Artist probably hates drawing feet though.
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By the way, what sticks out to me the most is the hip orientation. Legs can't bend backwards, even in scorpion pose, the arc is made by the lumbar section of the spine.
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For the record, here is what it was supposed to look like:
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Good shading too, Bluedraggy!
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But basically what I wanted to say is that stabbing a little kitten is hearthless, even for a daedra. There is a special place in Oblivion for them.
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Eye of fear is basically once-per-day fear spell. We can't be sure how that would affect it's victim, but I think there are only 2 options: It induces a primal, but seemingly sourceless fear, or it makes the caster appear much scarier. Since "fear" is in the illusion school, not some psychic school of magic, it should be the latter. Since an illusion can be as vivid and unreal as you want, I think the effect (of fear, or eye of fear) would make you appear bloody monstrous.
Now that I think about it, I should one day draw Katia as a Bloodborne boss. That would be pretty close to what one would see after being hit by eye of fear.
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It's sketchy because I didn't have time to "ink" it (really wanted to upload today).
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I've got an idea! Next April's 1st, every artist here, upload your best attempt at drawing Katia, or any other Prequel character with a mouse. Will probably be funny seeing each other struggling like hell.
Ehh, what am I saying noone will remember this comment by then.
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I especially liked the interaction with the point-light source, instead of having a one-directional source, like the sun (that would make all shadows appear on one side of the character).
Also, clean linework is hard as hell. When I draw, first I make a sketch layer, then over it, an "inking" layer, where I try to go really precise, but I no longer have to guess where each line goes. I think this video sums it up very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc2i0ctlYqQ.
I think the reason why this sticked out to me is because of the brush. Sketchy lines are okay in my opinion, if you use a "sketchy" brush, like a pencil-like brush, but you chose a brush that is intended for inking and clean lineart.
Still, nice art, that magic spell looks badass, it looks as if you used the picture of a fractal. Something I wanted to do as well one day!
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Never expected someone to make a drawing based on one of my own, therefore, I humbly thank thee!
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JK, that would be racist.
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Maybe this is the evil twin of Katia instead, Angular-Kat, who is instead of being unfortunate, causes misfortune on those around herself, is suffering from nightmares involving a homeless guy, causing her to have a phobia of poverty, and is an adept with frost magic (also with front-end web application frameworks huehuehue).
Wow that was really bad, let's just forget about Angular-Kat forever. Will keep the style around though. Already have a few ideas how to improve it.
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