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Re: Metal Forum Mascot My bad. I didn't even see it. I wondered what everyone was referring to. To be honest, I'm impressed with your skills. It looks quite good. I think the orc/orgre/beast is perfect for a stereotypical power metal fantasy concept, but it could probably use some major tweaking for other metal themes. On the whole though, it looks great.

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My bad. I didn't even see it. I wondered what everyone was referring to. To be honest, I'm impressed with your skills. It looks quite good. I think the orc/orgre/beast is perfect for a stereotypical power metal fantasy concept, but it could probably use some major tweaking for other metal themes. On the whole though, it looks great.
I agree it could use tweaking; that was precisely my idea. I was thinking we can mechanize the sucker or make it a cyborg for the industrial metal fans, give it some spikes, fangs, scars and feral attitude for death metal, and perhaps do something along the lines of a Vitruvian man, or have it sort of floating in suspended animation for progressive metal. Admittedly, I don't know what we'll go for gothic metal...maybe go for the beast from 'Beauty and the Beast'. It could work and it would be ironic as well... As for folk metal, give it some chain mail, an axe and a beard and we can finally shut apoc up about his Viking already. Or, put it in fur boots, a tunic, some leaf-mail and vambraces, and put a sword in his hand...and he can be a Saxon. :mrgreen:
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Re: Metal Forum Mascot I suppose I will begin drawing over and coloring your design, Iceni. It's late here (1 AM), and I'm tired, so I should have it done by tomorrow. Perhaps we can form a sort of 'team' as far as the design goes. You can draw the sketches, and I can trace and color. Since you seem to be good at making the designs. o:

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I agree it could use tweaking; that was precisely my idea. I was thinking we can mechanize the sucker or make it a cyborg for the industrial metal fans, give it some spikes, fangs, scars and feral attitude for death metal, and perhaps do something along the lines of a Vitruvian man, or have it sort of floating in suspended animation for progressive metal. Admittedly, I don't know what we'll go for gothic metal...maybe go for the beast from 'Beauty and the Beast'. It could work and it would be ironic as well... As for folk metal, give it some chain mail, an axe and a beard and we can finally shut apoc up about his Viking already. Or, put it in fur boots, a tunic, some leaf-mail and vambraces, and put a sword in his hand...and he can be a Saxon. :mrgreen:
VIKING ! THIS SAXON BLASHPEMY, I SHALL HAVE NONE OF IT! I want a viking.
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That is beautiful, Iceni. Especially that caption. xD Anyways, here's the normal one colored: http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk15 ... Mascot.png The colors can be easily changed if needed.
Thank you very much. If it is possible could you get a sort of glow effect for the eyes? I can see you've colored them so if you made them a sky-blue that would work. Originally I didn't quite care for the thickness of the lines in the drawing, but I think it works. The shading is definitely good, though. I'm not really so awesome with colored pencils so thank you for doing this.
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Here you are. http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk15 ... scot-1.png I'm glad you like my work. Perhaps we should show the finished product to the admins, to see if they approve of it to be our mascot?
That's what I was thinking! That works. :) Yeah, we can show it to the admins if you like. The blue glowing eyes are Shadow's idea so she ought to get credit for that. If you want, maybe you can color the Viking too in order to demonstrate the idea of having different variants of the same creature.
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That's what I was thinking! That works. :) Yeah, we can show it to the admins if you like. The blue glowing eyes are Shadow's idea so she ought to get credit for that. If you want, maybe you can color the Viking too in order to demonstrate the idea of having different variants of the same creature.
Yay! And sure thing, I'll work on it as soon as I get time. I have to start school tomorrow, so It might be a few days before it's done. And Shadow will of course get credit for the eyes and color. :3
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Yay! And sure thing, I'll work on it as soon as I get time. I have to start school tomorrow, so It might be a few days before it's done. And Shadow will of course get credit for the eyes and color. :3
Excellent. Thank you very much!
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