Ahhh, who can resist a girl who worships spiders? Markessa is all suited up and ready for some serious evil! I stole the face from some nameless model. The hands belong to my neice who was kind enough to pose for a photo. Pretty much everything else was hand painted in photoshop (I'm getting bored of surfing the net looking for the perfect armor). UPDATE: Changed cloak clasps from skulls to spiders as per feedback. Fixed hair which was a little flat.
Nice work. It's delightful to see reasonably good-lookind protraits nowdays... especially drow. She does have a peculiar aura of mistery about her... cool "web design"... :)
Posted by NolDrek at 2005-07-24 11:38:54 Voted 10.00 on 07/13/05
This is a great portrait. Can I add it to a portrait pack for my persistent world? _________________________ "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages - and kings - and why the sea is boiling hot - and whether pigs have wings.'"
Posted by NolDrek at 2005-07-13 06:48:29 Voted 10.00 on 07/13/05
This is a great portrait. Can I add it to a portrait pack for my persistent world? _________________________ "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages - and kings - and why the sea is boiling hot - and whether pigs have wings.'"
Posted by Johsar at 2005-05-07 09:02:40 Voted 9.50 on 05/07/05
Nice image
Posted by alicean at 2005-04-30 02:08:03 Voted 9.75 on 04/30/05
Posted by Mystra ( 210.49.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-21 19:04:00
Oooh, really like the update, nice work. The hair definately has improved. I will be watching for further portraits from you.
Yeah, I think the coloring is the biggest problem because obviously if you're absolutely true to the description (ie coal black skin) you end up with a rather dull picture. I like the idea of the spider clasps instead of the skulls. For some reason I was obsessed with getting skulls on her somehow. I think I will incorporate the suggestions both of you have made though. I think this pic is deserving of a little more work, although I knew I was asking for trouble as soon as I started making a drow :)
Posted by Mystra ( 210.49.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-03 05:36:00
Good Drow portraits are hard to come by, and this one is getting there imo. I get the impression the colouring of Drow skin makes it difficult to get a good result. Re the spider thing, maybe change the skull clasp on the cloak to a spider?
Thanks for the comments, Madned. I tried a bunch of ways to give her armor a more spidery feel but everything I did made her look like Spiderwoman :). I settled for a little subtle "web design" on her lower armor.
Posted by madned ( 4.65.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-03 01:01:00
striking image.
nice work blending the face and body and using the recoloration to hide any mismatching.
good details in general. the scales on the armor seem a little flat, but that only shows up in the large image. it should pass under portrait sized view. amazing depth on the skulls.
a motif question.
if she's a spider gal where's the spider motifs? scales=reptilian skulls=necromancy. you've got the webbing which is classic, but i'm not sure it's enough to drive a character portrait like this.
all in all excellent though.
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