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©2008-2009 ~pepperw
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My first submission of the year.
This is for *Tasastock's contest.

This piece started out as a full figured piece, but due to the deadline of the contest and me being so bad at backgrounds, I turned it into a portrait. It is supposed to be a representation of a D&D character in my current D&D campaign. I will probably submit a few more of these character pieces in the upcoming year. I couldn't come up with a real background so just did the one you see in about 45 minutes today.

This piece was done with Photoshop CS and a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet.
All digitally painted, using [link] as a reference. (The reference pic is Mature Content, so be forewarned before clicking on that link.) By the lovely :icontasastock:.
Reference for the hilt of the sword comes from a pic by :iconlinzstock:, who has lots of fantastic stock for D&D type characters.
The pattern on the armor reference is from a pic by :iconelisafox-stock:.
My many thanks to these stock artists who provide their talents for our use. They enable me to do what I do.

As always advice, critique, suggestions, etc. are welcomed. Things I need to work on especially include lighting and using contrasting colors to add life to my paintings. Anyway, thanks for taking a look.

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:iconkarlandrews:
Awesome - I could tell it was her right away! I'm still getting round to drawing her dam it...:) Cool drawing.

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:iconcrhino:
Looking good. I like how the armour turned out.
I think the colours and the background work just fine. I think I would crop it slightly tighter though. The space at the top is possibly too big.

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Gotta crush on a pretty pistol,
Should I tell her that I feel this way?
:iconpepperw:
Thanks.
You are right about the cropping. As soon as I uploaded it and viewed it I realized I'd forgotten to crop it before uploading it. I've gone in and cropped it some now. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they will never cease to be amused.
-unknown-
:iconpepperw:
Thank you.

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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they will never cease to be amused.
-unknown-
:iconpepperw:
Thanks.
I have several stock artists that I've been meaning to get around to drawing as well. Sometimes contests motivate me to get a pic finished.

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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they will never cease to be amused.
-unknown-
:iconacaciathorn:
Lovely!

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Edit: Undo
:icontasastock:
wow.... (ok, so far, thats pretty much all i can say, since I have an extremely limited vocabularly at this time of the morning -__-)
so any fancy adjective are out of the picture.
suffice to say, i love it. 0_0 its amazing! :hug:
i should hold contests more often if it'll tug a pic like this out of ya =P=P

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My art: [link]
My stock: [link]
:icongmax:
Very nice! You've really given her an attitude - great work :)
:iconliamythesh:
All of the texture on that armour is amazing. I especially like the subtle definition on the breastplate.

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♆ "When you first saw the seven candles you knew. You knew - but any Sidhe would have known in the magic of the reflections pulsing across the ceiling of the Elder's chamber,"♆

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