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Hey thanks Low, the nose was a big prob there. Moved the arm a bit and fixed the nose on her. The guys nose doesn't really bother me though. I'm pretty happy with the changes to her.

Ok, worked on here face a bit. Changed skin tone and hair color aswwell, I wanted to get as far away from michael jackson as possible!! ANy other C/C for her? Thanks for the tips btw Terley. You might need to reload the pic...

Yea, are you kiddin me, I find femininity insanely hard to achieve, she still needs a lot of work. Any other suggestions on achieving it?

Here's another update, obviously the woman isn't done. :)

I like your style, I look forward to seeing more of it.

I most certainly do!

I'd go here with no glowing mushroom.

Thanks, I had thrown all those ideas around myself, just haven't decided on anything.. LOL, Holy Sugar High Batman! Thanks. I've never tried 7 so I don't know!!! Why is it better?

AHHH, let me in on that action, I want to be involved in the making of a game :)

Is the a story behind the name?

Actually I didn't forget, just didn't realize, thanks for the info, I'll have to fix that. Hehe, no, not ms paint. I use Photoshop cs and thats it. I didn't intend the symbol to look like batman, just turned out that way, now I need to change it *whine* A little update:

Maybe the guy tripped and cut his own head off on that axe, actually i'm positive that's what happened! Not bad for a first sig, I kind of like the lava.

I love your work mxm, I really do, but it's starting to seem, I don't know, stagnant or something. It all looks relatively the same. Your characters are always similar and alway about from the same perspective/angle. I know your method is tried and true and everyone loves it. I think it's pretty safe to say your the most popular sig artist on these forums. I'm trying to put this in a non-offensive way because I think your work is very impressive, it just all looks the same. It seems like you're not even really trying anymore because you've got it down to a science. CC for the work, the only thing that I see could use some improvement are the folds in your clothes, they don't seem right. The BG behind the trees, or lack there of, stood out for me too. The grass is really impressive, I like seeing the detail in that. All in all a great sig, the quality I have come to expect from you, no more, no less. I really hope this came out right because there's nothing wrong with your work, I just think you should try new things.

I know exactly how you feel, I get that feeling all the time with my music. But I think it comes down to the fact that everyone interprets art in their own way based on their own life experiences. Two people watching the same movie, for example, may get two completely different things out of it than what the director or writer had originally intended. That's the beauty of art I think. There is no one way of interpretation, a lot of people look at it in black in white i.e. whether a piece is visually appealing or not, but some delve further and some delve too far.

Worked a little more on it, added some coins and worked on his right arm and hand. Coins still need some work...

Thanks stevester :wink: Yea, sometimes I have a tendency to make heads too small, always workin on that. I also felt the nose area needed some work so made a few changes to that and added some details specifically to the chainmail, what do you all think?

LOL Thanks everyone for the comments, I'm going to work on his face some and see if I can't get the chainmail to look more like chainmail :) I'll post whatever progress I have when I have it.

Yea, I need to work on getting chainmail to look right...

For a contest, just curious what people think :)

For starters I love profile pics like that i think they are very cool. Some c/c, the sky is too dark, would be better if just a little brighter. The thing next to the guy with the sword in him I assume is a person but he looks like a blob, needs some sort of definition. Looks good though all in all, I like it.

*cough WIP cough* (my c/c seems to mostly say whats wrong, if you feeel im being rude ill try to post more of what i like) Do you not like feet though lol? you cover them up haha... Now that is what I call c/c. Thank you Despaxes. Lets see, feet. To be absolutely honest I don't mind feet, but I really didn't want to do the dragon guys feet because in my previous attempts at some sort of metal knight armor based feet they always ended up looking ridiculous. So yes I avoided his feet, as far as the Greater Demon, well his feet were always going to be covered so I didn't do them. The others are just happenstance. The whole cape thing I don't see what you're talking about there. It's not rounded at the end. Maybe you could explain what you mean a little better? Head to small maybe? I tend to make heads small sometimes. Yea I screwed up on that arm but I didn't want to redo it. It didn't look bad enough in my opinion to go through the trouble. Part of the problem with that I think is that his upper arm angle doesn't really match with the forearm angle. The other arm is actually kind of backwards from what I intended aswell. Trial and error I guess... :)As far as his hair, those aren't long sideburns but just a lock of hair over the ear. Yea, hands are tough, always a work in progress for me. Sometimes I nail em, most of the time they look wierd. Some people are ugly :P Why can't the hair fall like that? Just curious here, have you ever had long, or longish hair? Not sure how you can really tell with that big WIP blocking them, knees that is. I did give him a little bit of a knee, but when I did some earlier proportion fixes on him I forgot to move them back to his leg. If you look real close you'll see a little curved dark green line on the GD. :P And yea, he is kind of a bubblehead. I've never seen a GD fly so I thought they were just kind of there, kind of like ostriches ya know? *lame excuse* You mean they look too thin to support him? As far as where the wings attach you can't see where they attach so they do go behind his back. I would be interested to see what you think would improve the wings though. You have a good eye Despaxes. All of these things, save the cape and neck thing with the main guy, I had noticed at some point or other. I appreciate you pointing them out in the interest of helping though. I wish more gave as good of c/c. Yea I agree that part looks funny, I'm hoping when I add some shading in it might help get the right look, I don't know, we'll see. Thanks everyone for the comments, compliments and pointers so far, they are all helpful.

With the quality of both mine and TJ's work I knew it was going to come down to a matter of preference. Thanks for the confidence booster though :D Bartba did offer me the second place prize of a santa hat but I declined it. The piece is worth a lot more to me than that. I got tired of bumping it, no one wanted to pay my prices :P

Little update, worked on the rocks a bit and changed cape/phat.

Have to be pixels eh? Oh well :P Not my first by any means but one of the oldest I could find on this comp: and my latest unfinished - not pixel:

Pro picture?