All-Dom Team Celebration Picture
By
Blind_Minotaur,
Posted on: 2008-04-01 20:24 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
I like SpellChequer's very much! Also Pside's & Phedre's is very interesting.
Don't worry about mine, but if you decide to do something, don't focus on my armor appearance.
Great work so far Echo!! I cant wait to see the finished versions. So is the plan for one group pic? Or are you doing individual pics as well as a group shot? (oh and CC is missing a few wrinkles 
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(I know I already posted in the Dom thread but what the hey)
HAHA.
Mine made me laugh out loud. (in a good way!)
"Look ma, I'm a comic book character". I think she always had her suspicions though 
Looking forward to seeing more progress 
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I love the emotions of Kappy, suits the cheeky whippit. All the rest are great, love the action pose zwei for Screwloose and even the Old Man's overbite (under-overbite?).
As for Jen, I'm still trying to find a cossie that suits her overall appearance. Have a desire for some kind of Jester-ish attire for herself like the little ensemble I have in cossie slot 1.
The current cossie I'm usually on is The Black Guard's VG Cossie.
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Very sweet, the headshot of day-star shows just the arrogant haughtiness of the kind of egomaniac who thinks he's a sun god .
They are all really good and I can't wait to see how they evolve into the finished article .
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CoH: Moondog (WS); V-Rock (Tnk, semi-retired); Pole-Star (Bla); Demon Dog (Scr).
CoV: Midnight Gunner (Corr); Operative John Doe (Ban); Day-Star (Dom); Commissar Jaeger (MM).
Thanks for the encouragement all. 
Psi, the plan is to create one action-y group shot, made up of individual pics that'll be created seperately and pasted together. That way you guys can take the individual shots and do with them what you wish.
Saxtus, I will get Gerd sorted out too, it's no trouble. I was thining of using her primary costume myself, since her Enforcer armour cossie hides her face entirely.
Drak, I agree Jen's Jester costume is so very, very her. That's exactly the one I had in mind for her picture.
As some of you may have noticed, I'm the custodian of the all-Dominator team that runs regularly on Union. The team has been running since Autumn 2006, and after all their had work and limited game time (just 3 hours a week, and this was back before Dommies were buffed!) all the Dommies are finally hitting the Big Five-Oh. Which is super.
I would imagine Pside having the physique of Superman compared to Crazy's Batman. Besides, mixing up the body types makes for a more interesting picture at the end of it.
Eventually I fell on a costume Day's been sporting one-and-off for almost a year now, his magestic metallic sun-god look, complete with evil metal moustache. While his recent fiery Enforcer outfit is perhaps more impressive (it does look pretty sweet), my decision to go with the classic metallic look was mostly due to the following sketch I made. Look at it.
I've cheated a bit here since Kappy isn't (quite) lvl 50 yet, but I already put the work in so I thought I might as well show it off.
As I've had such a great time leading (bossing about) the team, I thought it would be nice to put together some artwork to celebrate the occasion.
In this thread, I'll try and update periodically as I make that artwork. So this is all very much WIP right now, sorry!
The piece I have planned will be an ensemble of the Dommies, each drawn (and eventually coloured, I hope!) in individual poses. These figure drawings can then be cropped for forum avatars, or all put in a composition together to create a unified-ish action picture of the team together. (Working on the Doms individually also helps with gettings scales and such correct with a minimum of fuss.)
Anyway, that's the general idea. For now I'm going to post a few sketches and show the Doms/anyone who's interested what I've been up to.
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Footloose:
First up is my toon, the Mind/Psy Dom known as Loosey. Thanks to some doodles I've done in the past I had the best idea of how to render him in my art style and as such I've done the most work on him of any of the Doms so far (Ha ha! Favouritism)...
He is most likely going to be leaping forward in the bottom-centre of the composite pic, hence this pic.
Here he is again, with a slightly more extreme ("chicken-wingy") version of the same pose, as befits the OTT nature of the action piece, my style and the game in general.
I prefer the 2nd one myself, thought the legs need some work.
Crazy Cartomancer:
This Ice/Psy Dom is often seen in dark colours and a black Arachnos pattern cape - plus a fetching eyepatch for the ladies. For CC's design, I was inspired by the awesome Batman cartoons (but not the crappy new ones, oh no) and so CC's dark cape will generally obscure a lot of his physique, while at the same time give him a great sense of movement. I'm still working on the pose for CC, but in the meantime here's a headshot I sketched out in biro. Expect to see a lot of these.
To be honest, I'm not sure how I'm going to pose Crazy Carto just yet. Though to be totally honest, I'm not sure how Crazy he's meant to be either, which may have a bearing on the pose.
Phedre:
Our Plant/Ice Dom and the team tanker, Phedre's had a number of nice outfits. As well as an interesting take on the Plant outfit theme, my personal favourite of Phed's is the green-skinned Greek toga goddess, of which I've drawn this headshot. I tried to give her a long face with noble (Roman, even) features, befitting of someone who habitually wears a toga.
Like Crazy Carto, Phedre is one of the numerous team members with the Fly power and so will likely find a spot on the back/top row of the composition picture (with the pedestrians like Footloose and Kappy in front/bottom).
Pside Winder:
A Grav/Psy Dom with a techy/cosmic appearance. Pside reminds me a lot of Mr Miracle, though I'm not 100% sure why. He also makes great use of the Lines pattern, which is a horribly selfish thing to do to an artist friend. Anyway, here's his headshot.
I've probably drawn Pside a bit too burly here, but it really does suit him - so much so that I'm very scared my final piece won't look nearly as good as that sketch at all!
Day-Star:
Our own sun-god (every team should have one!), a Fire/Energy Dommie. Day's had more different outfits than any of us - and they're all awesome-looking - so it was hard to pick which one to draw.
I'm very, very happy with the design of the face. It's just the right mix of realism and abstraction I like to aim for. Looking forward to drawing more of him.
Also Day's look, with the wreath and divine inspiration, quite inadvertantly pairs him up with Phedre. And since they both fly (with wings to boot), the pair could easillty bookend the final composition.
Kaptain SpellChequer(sp?):
The Kaptain, team healer and a Plant/Fire Dom. Also a really fun character to draw.
First his headshots. Kap has a half-mask covering his face, which I've taken and embellished a little. Kap is one of the smallest and skinniest on the team, something I am definitely going to exploit when it comes to drawing him. In fact I've made him look quite impish, as you can see here. That's not a finished sketch, I need to redraw his legs at least and maybe put him in a more dynamic running pose, or soemthing else similarly less sneaky.
The Rest
I'm still finding designs I'm comfortable with for the final two regulars on the Dom team, Gerd Xiphos and Jenseits. So sorry guys, I've not got anything I'm happy to show you just yet.
Once I'm done with the regulars I may move onto some of our most noted irregulars, or former members, too.
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That's all I got for now.
To my Dom-chums: Sorry for the roughness of it all, but with my current PC troubles I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to complete this and I didn't want to have to wait to show you anything. Hope you like it, guys.
To everyone else: I will try and take some screenshots the next time I'm in-game so I can post reference pics in here, so those people who have no idea what these guys are meant to look like can see what these guys are meant to look like.