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nice ones John! congrats to both recipients!!

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I agree, very nice. I like the flowiness of the skirt and Scarlett just looks awesome ^.^

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These are great, John! Keep it up.

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Not to double post but I wanted clear seperation of the two, since I'm sure DarkLilac is going to want to know about this as well.

I told you, two surprises. I was in a fancy of a mood.

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Oooh John, that's awesome. I have always liked the idea behind the thread and I like seeing artists take some liberties

Love the skirt idea, lots of motion and Slashdancer (subject of the brief) would surely wear one in game if she could

A menacing pose on Scarlett there, too, very nice.

Thank you so much!

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Ok gonna try an official entry to this....

Thor's Assassin in the great hall perched for battle in the face of a God, his mentor.

TA is a tall stout warrior who was made immortal and give a suit of armor made for him by Valhalla's Smithy. Wears a hood, mask to hide his identity and a visor to help him see quicker and through long distances, and spiked shoulder pads as his brethren did when he was mortal. His large mechanical arms help him focus his electricity at his target.


((How was that?? )

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To everyone that sent me notes, I've been too my computer essentially in two days from other priorities, just wanted to give you all a quick heads up that I'll get the files e-mailed most likely after I get back from work tomorrow. Just so you know they're coming

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Update: Britannia and Gila Girl Coming Soon™

Lesser Update: Seems the next one after them is a male, dunno if I remember how they look :P

Somewhat lesser Update: Some may notice a slightly evolving "style". Will be more evident in the next few.

P.S. Gila Girl may be slightly NSFW. Not My Fault.

Edit: Add Martial to that pending list of post.

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Update: Britannia and Gila Girl Coming Soon™

Lesser Update: Seems the next one after them is a male, dunno if I remember how they look :P

Somewhat lesser Update: Some may notice a slightly evolving "style". Will be more evident in the next few.

P.S. Gila Girl may be slightly NSFW. Not My Fault.

Edit: Add Martial to that pending list of post.

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Britannia
Martial Fury

And...Gila, I can only say (for the safety of young minds everywhere) to check out my deviant page; and see what luck you have in surfacing some Gila Work.

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Very cool. I like Gila's the best.

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There's just something about the line drawings that's really cool. Love 'em!

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Aye, awesome work. Can't wait to see the rest.

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"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi

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Hmm, forgot to send Notes to the original requestors to make sure they caught their pieces...I'll just do this in the mean time.

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Is this still alive?

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"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi

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Is this still alive?

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Several month's later? In a fashion, yes.

Surprise? I know, you're all like "Wha? Dude, didn't you like die or something? Where's our art "



On a serious note, yes I still have them [the list]; however life otherwise has me far too busy, among other things. Ontop of that I had felt a little...dissapointed with some of my work in between and did some things to improve. There is a new batch of Briefs that will be coming out, along with a few other surprises for some other Artz Members. I was going to wait to post about this until I had everything ready, but I think I'd rather leave everyone in pending suspense instead!

The new batch is going to be different and open for some criticism (or looking for anyway) and will be coming with some additional twists to supplement them.

Edit: Just in case I felt it may be important to say that this will be the close of this Project. What's been submitted so far I will do what I can to complete, but the learning curve has gotten me to where I think I want it, and from here on will be focused on improving that.

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I cannot currently upload anything to Deviant Art, bum deal as seeing I have four pieces in line waiting :/

Hoping the staff there figures out what's going on as I seem to be in limited portions of who this is effecting currently.

I'll at least say this: Fraenir, Crestent and White Peregrine are the ones waiting to be docked. There is also one other piece coming with this group as well that is not part of the "Project Briefs".

Free sketch to anyone who figures out who's or what toon it is before it gets posted.

Edit: Add Cerulean Archer to that list, Shrike and Devious's coming soon as well...

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Edit: Add Cerulean Archer to that list, Shrike and Devious's coming soon as well...

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Ooh goody! Can't wait ^_^

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Yay! *flogs DA with a wet noodle* Bad DA, stop being so naughty.

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Busting heads since 1938

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Prepare of the update of the century:

Read the Cascadia Event from my Journal, then start the action in order:

White Peregrine (1)

Fraenir (2)

Surprise Guest (3)

Crestent (4)

Cerulean Archer (5)

Surprise guest is the "Extra Extra" addition of the Briefs Project, but not really part of the project. Will be making a separate, unique post on it.

Also, don't have complete time to put the last two pieces of the story, will update a note when completed for those who'd like to follow along at home.

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Really love Juggertha, excellent pose, great work overall on that.

Not bad on Cerulean Archer, I love the look of the bow and you really seemed to capture the arrow firing pose greatly. My only complaint about the piece is the legs, they look like they are at awkward angles, and though I like the idea of the one ripped pant, it's hard to tell if that's what's going on with her legs. Aside from that, I really enjoyed seeing what you came up with from the bio and not the picture. If you want to see my in-game version of here, just click here. She's the first character of mine to get drawn, so yay!

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This is an interesting idea--I look forward to seeing where you go with Cascadia. It's a great way to tie in art and story. And that's some cool art too. Especially dig Juggertha.

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Busting heads since 1938

Character references * My DeviantArt gallery * I am an altoholic

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Really love Juggertha, excellent pose, great work overall on that.

Not bad on Cerulean Archer, I love the look of the bow and you really seemed to capture the arrow firing pose greatly. My only complaint about the piece is the legs, they look like they are at awkward angles, and though I like the idea of the one ripped pant, it's hard to tell if that's what's going on with her legs. Aside from that, I really enjoyed seeing what you came up with from the bio and not the picture. If you want to see my in-game version of here, just click here. She's the first character of mine to get drawn, so yay!

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You would be somewhat right about the legs. Yes they are at an abnormal twist. I wanted there to be some aspect to her pose that showed a bit of bashfulness. I know some people (and is abused in anime to a sense) tend to point their toes together when under pressure or embarrassment. While not saying Cerulean is embarrassed, it was one of the few things I could do to convey her still being somewhat timid (as is how I saw her from the Brief). So yes, the positioning is a bit awkward, but I still liked how it diminished the otherwise powerful pose.

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Update: Deviantart once again displays its unwillingness to cooperate with me. I cannot submit once again, nor edit preexisting submissions from a script failure on their servers. I am however able to update my journal.

So: For those that were interested in following the next two pieces to the story, check out my Journal, halfway through I edited in Crestent and Cerulean's sections.

Additionally, something else I'll include for Cerulean once I can edit her piece again but haven't posted DA side yet:

Some aspects of the Cerulean Rebirth I was looking into I found some what fun to configure. The bow she uses is crafted entirely of ice. By manipluating just the "string" portion of the bow, the remainder isn't required to shift like in a normal bow. In the case of the string: it is tiny particles--or flakes--of ice (snow) delicately held together by her abilities. Once she releases a tension field at the cusp of her fingers, the snow instantly compacts and becomes dense into a shaft. The force of this action somewhat faster than standard hunting bows, propelling her unique arrows through the air.

The arrows themselves (which this may all be caught out of the story piece as I tried to include as much of it as possible without dragging it down in details) are actually just the trick-canisters that she creates an ice shaft and tail for.

As for the canisters: She is wearing men's sweat pants with one leg torn off and the waist rolled over a time or two. In the rolled waist she has a pseudo utility belt where multiple cartridges are lined up and held. Also around her eposed leg is a band of additional canisters/catridges for easy access. These are ones she'd most likely need quick emergency access to in combat. In that situation she can form a shaft down to the strap, attach the ice to the back piece and pull it free from the holster and fire. Beneath her covered leg are additional catridges wrapped around her leg. Usually extras/excess that she'd replace around her waist or exposed leg in between fights.

Able to carry up to 18 readily available (waist and exposed leg) canisters, with an additional 24 under her pant leg. Depending on availability of materials, may carry an additional few specialty tricks like an EMP cartridge.

She otherwise has full reign of her powers for a various assault of ice based abilities from a frigid air that follows her to full ice arrows manipulated in size for different degrees of damage.

As for her Helmet, with use of her scientific background to protect her cranium as well as provide additional input on things like temperature, wind direction (just to name some odd ones) and other random and expected things. There's also extensions in the helmet back/side where her hair buns sit.

Also, did anyone notice the butterfly dangly?

Edit: I forgot to mention that Cerulean's Rebirth design is the first and currently only character that has inspired me to go out and actually create one like it as close as possible. So look out for a TA/Ice Defender floating around like a nut case on Virtue.

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Memphis, I'm gonna need your e-mail too now :P

And this is why...

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I'm glad you updated the thread. I completely and totally missed this getting posted originally! >.<

I like it.

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Also, did anyone notice the butterfly dangly?

Edit: I forgot to mention that Cerulean's Rebirth design is the first and currently only character that has inspired me to go out and actually create one like it as close as possible. So look out for a TA/Ice Defender floating around like a nut case on Virtue.

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Yes, I noticed it and thought it was great, just didn't comment on it. And have fun with TA/Ice, just try to go tech or magic origin so you can eventually light your own Oil Slick Arrow. (I forgot myself as I went with Natural, which is why I still haven't picked up that power yet at level 33)

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Dunno how I've missed this thread so long, loving the drawings!

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