Morgenstern

Alrighty, these are some quick photos rather than scans, so I appoligize in advance for the crappy light. I'll replace these with scans eventually .

Batch 1 from Comic-Con~

David Nakayama (He did some of the the CoH Comics. He was doing free headshots at the con. I was about 16th in the line to get one and very excited )
Ron Lim (Sorry about the lighting - this is actualy a really cool piece)
John Watkins-Chow (This was his first take on the character.)
John Watkins-Chow (This was his second attempt after muttering 'I could've done better...' when he saw some of the other peices I was carrying around. Seemed like a good idea to let him have another go and it turned out to be one of my favorites )
Mathew Clark (THis one is larger than the others and the glamour-girl detail he poured into it should show up better in the scan)
Phillip Tan (I love how matter-of-fact this one is. She's very real in this piece.)

Hope you enjoy !

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Ms. Frost done. She's just in an empty room, studying how to use her magic ice power.

Cold? To her, it must feel like room temperature.

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Nicely done .

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Also, Morgenstern, how am I supposed to make an avatar of your character if I don't know how he looks like?

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Woohoo! Thank you .

She's a Science (not Magic) Rad/Rad Defender. Had a little bit of a traffic accident involving large quantities of Polonium (the stuff in the Science SO enhancement for healing) being shipped across Skyway City by Kord Industries and ended up with powers. Spends a lot of time laughing at foes like Malta as she tags them with 5 flavors of radiation .

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Looking forward to it. They are really cute !

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great art and I'm jealous of your graphics card

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Thanks . Tonight I just got a possible line on my favorite artist currently in comics doing a piece for me, so I'm kinda giddy.

I'm running on a GeForce 7800 GS that a friend told me to buy, so I suspect it's good but don't really have a basis for comparison. Its better than my old and unlamented card . I picked it up on sale for about $300. It seems to like CoX pretty well. My settings are based on a guide here on the forums for taking screen shots - which had me toggle some switches I didn't even know were there and definitely improved the look of the captures. I ussually do contrast correction and run a very slight blur filter on images before posting them to remove some of the jagged edges.

That and I'm always scouting Paragon City for good lighting . The sewers are the only place I've found consistent under lighting .

Thanks TA . For a while I felt like a stalker- I kept finding pieces with your character everywhere I went looking for artists !

Thanks . it was kind of on a lark that I got the first couple done, but now its turning into a real hobby .

The San Diego pictures were all kinda serious and technical (and came out very well for the most part). I'm trying to balance the collection with a few more styles, so I've gotten some anime and Bruce Timm-looking ones recently.

Obey the Ski. It's easier on everyone that way.

I think I just about made Nakuru and Juggy's heads explode getting all the details perfect, but they were both troopers and it shows. Bokuman got the plague for his Christmas present (poor thing), so he hasn't gotten back on the colors, but even now I'm very happy with it. You'll be seeing a few more of the ussual suspects' work up here soon .

Thank you ! I've been having way too much fun wandering around Deviant Art .

*Raises hand*

Me please .

Nike IX is up to level 30 so far and is a Radiation/Radiation Defender. After playing through the game to 50 and beyond as an Empathy/Energy, I have to admit I'm liking this build a bit more. The toggle PBAoE hold is a riot .

This is the fist character I've heavily tricked out with inventions. Some of them (Performance Shifter proc in my stamina) are just silly powerful . I'm mostly going for procs (to make weird custom powers!), regen bonuses, and the occasional recharge rate bonus when I can get it. Soloing a -lot- of missions (my contact bars are almost all filled) has given me a couple weird/rare recipe drops and a couple sessions just cleaning out the junk recipies at Wentworths has given me the money to build some cool stuff .

Here's one by Juggertha~

Nike IX by Juggertha

And one by Bokuman (some tweaks to the colors still pending)~

Nike IX by Bokuman

I have about 20 more sketches from the San Diego Comic Con. These are some quick photos rather than scans, so I appoligize in advance for the crappy light. I'll replace these with proper scans eventually .

Batches 1 and 2 from Comic-Con~

David Nakayama (He did some of the the CoH Comics. He was doing free headshots at the con. I was about 16th in the line to get one and very excited )
Ron Lim
John Watkins-Chow (This was his first take on the character.)
John Watkins-Chow (This was his second attempt after muttering 'I could've done better...' when he saw some of the other peices I was carrying around. Seemed like a good idea to let him have another go and it turned out to be one of my favorites )
Mathew Clark
Phillip Tan (I love how matter-of-fact this one is. She's very real in this piece.)
Kim DeMulder (Funny story - this man was the Kubert School art instructor for several of the other artists who did pieces at the show. Seeing his work and me mentioning I was going to have him grade their pieces seemed to help sharpen their concentration considerably .)
Pat Gleason (I'd been enjoying his work in Green Lantern Corps - something I realized only after he had started the piece and shown me a rough .)
Fredie Williams (Proof that the slighly cheaper "bust only" price can still get you a damn fine piece. Possibly my favorite face of any of them - somebody is about to get handed a beating I think .)

More on the way !

Hey all,

I've been commissioning various pieces for my characters since this summer and a new one just arrived .

Nike IX by Nakuru

Check it out.

Reference gallery is here~

Nike IX Gallery

Note sent. I'm ready to get this party started .

Soon. Soon it will be my turn...

Sayterra sent along a little sneak peek of my piece and it good, good stuff . I was looking through her older pieces to see if there were some I should point at and say, 'like that' and realized I had nothing to worry about. Her style is consistent and charming and I'm very pleased to see my character rendered in that form.

Hey Blackguard (it's Ice Swan ). All great pieces by a dedicated costumer! While Great Briton is impressive, there can be only one choice - Bling Bling! Anything else is "just whack!" to quote the poet .

(actually I do mean it too - many of the others have extremely complicated textures that may not translate well to commissioned versions. Plus I think Bling Bling's suble aura will give the artist a little room to flex creatively to bring the whole composition together.)

I've about 22 commisioned pieces of my characters and there are some really good artists out there for this sort of thing .

Interestng. Seems like a promising add-on market for MMOs in general. With CoX gaining a shared database site for looking at characters (like WoW's armory) most of the same resources are available.

*looks at pics* Is Valkyrie not in the mission?

No problem. The holidays tend to get a little crazy for everyone .

The bear is clearly winning, have fired off it's tier 9 "Soft and cuddly" attack - with a 900 second sleep effect .

Note sent. I had about 18 artists do pieces for me at Comic-Con this year. It's fun filling that wall in with a few more pieces .

A continuing wave of awesome. Great project .

On th efirst costume I'd replace the black of the pants and coat with the darkest grey (row 1, column 2). That will help the costume pick up the local lighting shades and make the belt and chest darker by contrast.

Costume 2 I'd darken all the reds 1 shade each. I've got some nice bloodwidow costumes I've done and in general the arachnos look uses a skightly darker/subdued red.

Try those changes and see if they don't suggest a few more small shifts.

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For yak? Whatchoo got against llamas?

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They are mean. They spit. They also tend to bite women (they seem to know better than to bite guys). I speak from experience on this .

Yak just smell worse.

I put together a better gallery for Mithril~

http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ternX/Mithril/