Monthly Archives: May 2012

RR Night Out, colour

This is a colour version of this lovely sketch by Yllamse; I asked her if I could colour it, and she said yes, so I did finally. : ) The scene is from the Wayrift forum roleplay The Rifted Riders, in which a bunch of us decided to roleplay our characters which we had submitted to the Wayrift Dragonrider contest. Here, the recruits have the evening off. So they go drinking, as one does. Xanda and Kali, of course, get dressed to the nines and get ready to go wild; Jayce is shyly curious; Tiarc’rie the fairy dragon is excited (and technically invisible to all but Jayce); Midnight the minidragon is wondering how to keep her friend Xanda from partying too hard; and Hrulash is grimly bringing up the rear, hoping that no one will embarrass them all.

It was a good roleplay. Too bad I got too lethargic to continue. (as far as I know, Hrulash took an injury in a battle against acidic swamp witches, was laid up in bed, and then prolly someone made him stay in bed until he actually recovered properly. I don’t even know. I haven’t checked the thread since then, except to get colour references for this picture. It doesn’t seem to have gone too far in page length, at least. Maybe we can pick it up again next September?) : D

Tharash

Tharash Kaern, void-mage, philosopher, rifter, lunatic, explorer, chaos mage, and all-round troublemaker, showing some skillz in the void. Background stock from here. A few things of the painting… the shading was very, very lazy – I basically just made a soft-light layer, filled it in with dark grey, and erased bits. And then added more soft-light layers. lowered the saturation on pretty much everything except the magic swirlies and the background. The strange lightening stuff between the two balls of light was created by splashing around some clouds in pale blue and then dark grey, upping the contrast (and sometimes brightening) beyond some sanity and then copy-pasting the bit I liked using the selecting-brush tool (which auto-feathers the edges, yay) and pasting at 74% opacity. Also I only had one mug of tea while painting this. Also in the background is one of these brushes. In the foreground, the yellow flecks are from this brush-pack. There! I think I’ve credited everyone. : )