Darkmark's Gallery, First Page
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Darkmark Standing My very first picture... man, I sucked back then. I still do, just not as much. You can tell straight away I just copied a sprite, but that said, it was still the best thing I had ever drawn in my life. |
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Alziana Waving Second picture. Again, I copied a sprite and put my own touches on it, and drew a much better hand, though it still looked like crap. It just looks wrong compared to my more recent drawings. There's a mistake in this picture; can anyone spot it? |
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Darkmark holding some plasma I drew actual legs here, as opposed to disembodied feet, and it turned out quite well. I also made the saddle a little smaller, and changed the style of the boots, but totally screwed up the little plasma fire. It should've been bigger, I suppose. |
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Manny drawing his sword His right arm looks wrong, but it kinda worked. Not much else to say; the sword is pretty mediocre and the colouring's a bit too defined from shade to shade. |
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Marcus guarding Aside from where I screwed up the tail, and his left arm, and the crappy flail chains, I like this one. Notice that the legs are slightly exaggerated compared to other pictures; this is deliberate. |
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Melinda You can see already that the picture quality has improved since the paper is less obvious. I tried a different style for the fins, more like on today's Yoshi, but it just didn't look right, so I went back after this picture. Who is it, you ask? It's a character that won't appear in the Cursed Yoshi series for quite some time yet, called Melinda. Notice the fangs, and the claws, which I think I drew fairly well. |
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Neo Darkmark - Line Art* This is explained in Cursed Yoshi, at some point or another. Neo Darkmark is Darkmark, but in a more powerful, magic-vulnerable form visible here. I saved an inked copy so I could consider CGing at a later date, but also to show you what one of my pictures might look like before I add any colour. |
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Neo Darkmark - First Shade/Preshade After the preliminary shading, this is what one of my pictures might look like. Notice that I added an aura to the picture, though it isn't the full aura, which I will get around to drawing some day. |
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"I could easily destroy you all". After I do the detailed shading, the final version of the picture looks like this. Out of all my pictures, I love this one the most for some unknown reason. I suppose it's the shading that turned out so well, or how black the eyes are, an effect I achieved by using up half a cartridge of pen ink. And damned expensive ink at that. But it was worth it. |
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Darkmark with wings Those look familiar? The sprite version of them came from Final Fantasy Five, and got recoloured and added to the Darkmark construction kit. I decided to draw them the way I wanted, and came up with this. Those wings are cool, particularly the membranes. And those arms... I lost count of how many times I erased them and redrew them. Detail ain't my thing. I'm never going to draw folded arms again if I can possibly avoid it. |
