Reply To: Vampyrist’s Corner

Here are the Reinhardt twins. Johan and Anna are both students at the Institute. The Reinhardt family has been fighting crime for generations.

Their great-grandfather, Erik Reinhardt was originally born Erik Jaeger. The Jaeger family was a long line of assassins and mercenaries whose mystic blood made them adept at these professions. They were naturally athletic and intuitively knew how to fight. They usually did not take sides  and fought for whomever paid the most, but when they were contracted by the Nazis, Erik broke off. He saw the atrocities committed and knew they were evil. He could not work for them and so he joined the resistance, where his fast and powerful strikes earned him the nickname of Der Blitz. His brother Karl fought for the Nazis as a hunter of resistance fighters, pitting the two against each other.

The two met in a final showdown when the resistance attempted to stop the Nazis from obtaining mystical relics. This is where Erik found the mystical sword which could control lightning. Using the sword, Karl was killed and Erik soon became a powered hero using his nickname of Blitz. After the war ended, he changed his name to Reinhardt to get a clean slate. He also attempted and failed to find Karl’s young son to end the Jaeger legacy for good as he and Karl were the last remaining Jaegers. He failed in the latter and the son, Wolfgang, would become a new Jaeger for the Stasi and KGB, with his lineage continuing the Jaeger legacy.

Erik would fight crime in West Germany as Blitz. He married a fellow resistance fighter and had a son, to whom he passed the sword and the mantle of Blitz. The son, the twin’s grandfather, would marry an American and move with her to the US, where he continued to fight crime. His son would also become a Blitz before he passed it on to his daughter, Anna.

Anna fights crime as Blitz and possesses a magical sword which can throw lightning. She is the younger of the two siblings and is the more impulsive of the two. She has a tendency to rush into battle, which annoys her brother to no end. She can hold her own though, as she has mastered her weapon and is quick like her namesake.

Johan fights crime as Donner and can control electromagnetic fields to make superpowerful punches, “thunderclaps” or kinetic force blasts, and forcefields. Johan is the older sibling and is overprotective of his sister. He is usually levelheaded and cautious, unless someone hurts his sister, in which case, he strikes fast and hard. His punches are some of the hardest of those at the school.

Together, the Reinhardt twins fight crime as Donner and Blitz, Thunder and Lightning. With her quick strikes and his strong hits, they are a force to be reckoned with. Both their crimefighting names and last names has caused the pair to be collectively known at the school as the Reindeer Twins.

Reply To: headlessgeneral’s army

No worries, I’m in no rush for Angel. I’m just excited to get started on Ahab. To finally have some inspiration to get back into the machine!

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Might take me a little time on my side. I’m finishing up a pic for Vengeance and then will work on Angel.

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Sounds good. Getting to work on him immediately.

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Google “ fisherman toque” and you will get some good reference pics.

Wow!  Angel looks so good already!  I’ll see what I can do with a 3/4 turn pose.

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Sounds good. Looks fun. One question though, could you point me to some reference to what you want for a toque? I googled it and I’m not sure I’m getting what you are looking for.

If you’d like, I’d love to see what you could come up with for Angel. She wears white, has purple in her hair, and has powers similar to what green lantern has but without the need of a ring.

Reply To: Suleman's creations

This is a DnD character portrait for a friend of mine.

Damokros here is half-man, half-tiger, half-priest, half-warlock. That’s a lot of halves! He’s also all trouble.

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Alright, alright, alright!

Good to see you back!  I’ll throw AHAB at you and see what you bounce back.  Always wanted to give him a more steampunk/fisherman look.  Big spear is a must. And a toque!  Let me know if there is a concept you want traded back.  (either now or raincheck).

I’ll be looking for your pics on instagram.  Cheers!

Reply To: headlessgeneral’s army

Well, It’s been about 6 months so I guess I’m about a month late for my check in, JR 🙂 But, I finally have my own computer again so hopefully I’ll be around more frequently.

I’ve been in a creative rut for a while now and could use some help. Anyone have a character of theirs that they would like to see my take on? Or something to color? Or a character idea to try? CDC’s usually help inspire me but it looks like those are on break.

Herr D, or anyone, if your interested in seeing some of my drawings you can find them on instagram under headlessgeneral

Anyway, it’s good to be back. Be seeing you guys around.

Reply To: Show your work: Progress of a design

CantDraw’s post disappeared? It says he made the latest post in this thread, but I can’t see anything. Weird.

Here’s a little picture series about my Heromachine ogre design was made.

Started with the body. It’s important to get the ogre’s body type right! Only a coward would make an ogre who is not big and fat and strong.

Arranged the ogre into a sitting pose. Like herding cats. Also gave him some fabulous hair.

Gave this guy some body hair (you gotta give ogres some body hair, regardless of gender, else why are you even making an ogre?), some fantastic accessories and even some clothes for taste. Also started color-coding the pieces for later.

Gave this boy an axe and pinkish hue. Ogres are fantasy creatures, make them look fantastical.

Removed the masking lines and made a campfire, some other adjustments. One major thing I did was changing the line colors for all items slightly, away from black and into slightly brighter territory. This gives the whole design a slightly softer feel.

Removed the pointless ankle guards and changed his hand position to emphasize his philosophical side. This dude is just a regular everyday normal ogre who likes talking and looking fabulous, not a warchief or anything. Sure, he’s got an axe, but it’s more of an accessory. If he wanted you dead, he’d just just eat your head.

 

Gave him a chest guard like the other ogre had. It’s neat and practical and you can hang pouches from it. Also, it makes him look a little less naked.

Made a background. It’s just you and him, talking in his cave. Super romantic.


<p style=”margin: 0px; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif;”>Started working on the shading. The outside world needs to look really murky since it’s nighttime and it’s far out of focus.</p>

The fire shines really brightly on his body, so the shading’s got to reflect that, pun intended.

Here’s the final piece again. Added some big gradients to make the rest of the cave darker and the area around the fire a lot brighter.