Cashoo's CoX artwork + art requests!
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Posted on: 2009-08-13 01:27 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Figured I'd share this.
I commissioned this from Cashoo for my boyfriend. Its a realistic drawing of his mastermind with his minions. The mastermind is necro/dark, Sir Francis Drake. Each of his pets are a historical figured related to Sir Francis Drake in some way.
She did an amazing job on this, especially with so many characters, and he was absolutely floored at the historical accuracy on the people who had available pictures. It made for an amazing birthday present for him that he wasn't expecting at all.
From left to right:
Grave Knights: Mary Tudor, Phillip II ; Sir Francis Drake; Lich: Elizabeth; Zombies: Robert Devereux, Thomas Doughty, Sir John Hawkins
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Holy cow thats awesome. love the effect of the fire rising with the look of the face. sexy yet sadistical|
Originally Posted by Suichiro
I normally keep my Mel art in my own thread, though I thought it fitting to post Cashoo's stuff in her own thread. So here's her take on 'Massacre' Melanie.
 Thanks so much Cashoo! |
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Originally Posted by ransim
Figured I'd share this.
I commissioned this from Cashoo for my boyfriend. Its a realistic drawing of his mastermind with his minions. The mastermind is necro/dark, Sir Francis Drake. Each of his pets are a historical figured related to Sir Francis Drake in some way. She did an amazing job on this, especially with so many characters, and he was absolutely floored at the historical accuracy on the people who had available pictures. It made for an amazing birthday present for him that he wasn't expecting at all. From left to right: Grave Knights: Mary Tudor, Phillip II ; Sir Francis Drake; Lich: Elizabeth; Zombies: Robert Devereux, Thomas Doughty, Sir John Hawkins |
its a very well made piece of art.
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This is stunningly beautiful, clever, amazing choice of color. this works on so many levels.
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Originally Posted by Suichiro
I normally keep my Mel art in my own thread, though I thought it fitting to post Cashoo's stuff in her own thread. So here's her take on 'Massacre' Melanie.
Thanks so much Cashoo! |
The Mel pic is freakishly awesome!! The eyes just totally grab you and everywhere you look the detail and coolness is oozing out at ya...
All it needs is a smiley face buton on the lapel! 
The zombie pic is equally as awesome in it's way... And know I cannot but help but think of a new meaning for "Dead Presidents" 
All the dead Commanders in Chief rising up from the grave to protect unlife, liberty and the pursuit of Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains!!!! 
Gawd, cashoo truely is awesome. Mel looks so insane and crazy in that pic, seems fitting
Your lighting and color choices always make your characters look so rich and vivid - GREAT work!
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Stunning as always. It's really amazing how you capture the characters and give them life, or unlife as the case may be. Just stunning.
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Interesting work, Cashoo. I dig it.
Not bad at all Cashoo.
I can certainly appreciate the technical skill even if the subject matter is not to my liking (the undead don't really do anything for me 
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I'm curious if you were you trying a different technique with Mel? It doesn't have the normal vibrance and sharpness of your other colored works?
The muted effect can still pack a punch it just stands out as different from your usual fare.
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Obviously Cashoo can answer for herself but I can see what you mean in regards to maybe most of her pics but I think these pics are right in line with Cash's Headless Horseman and Candlejack pics...
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
The muted effect can still pack a punch it just stands out as different from your usual fare.
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That's cause the Mel pic that you're seeing here is a lower quality JPeG of the original PNG file. I don't like to spam up the boards with 500+ KB files, so I lower the quality appropriately. I kept the PNG file for myself.|
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
I'm curious if you were you trying a different technique with Mel? It doesn't have the normal vibrance and sharpness of your other colored works? |
Also, there's a difference in contrast here that's unusual for most Cashoo pics. Generally, she likes to use dark colors and blacks to contrast with the bright colors, making them pop out of the pic vividly. In this case, the whole thing is washed in oranges, so there's less contrast and thusly each individual color pops less. Though, interestingly enough, the abundance of warm colors makes Mel's green eyes glow, which is a detail that I love.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
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aswell as that the area that would be percieved as black is actually a dark tone of green. I actually copied this bad boy into photoshop and blacked the darkest area's and the green eyes looked too out of place amongst all the warmth and black, aswell as that the attention was more drawn towards the black on mels arm, so by going with the green instead the attention is now drawn to the green of the eyes which looks less out of place due to the other green in the picture that if you werent paying too close attention could easily be glazed over, so it is very clever work in my book. Cashoo gets gold stars and swanzy snacks.
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Originally Posted by Suichiro
That's cause the Mel pic that you're seeing here is a lower quality JPeG of the original PNG file. I don't like to spam up the boards with 500+ KB files, so I lower the quality appropriately. I kept the PNG file for myself.
Also, there's a difference in contrast here that's unusual for most Cashoo pics. Generally, she likes to use dark colors and blacks to contrast with the bright colors, making them pop out of the pic vividly. In this case, the whole thing is washed in oranges, so there's less contrast and thusly each individual color pops less. Though, interestingly enough, the abundance of warm colors makes Mel's green eyes glow, which is a detail that I love. |
Those are wonderful pieces! The Mel one really works well.
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lol, I'm surprised you guys posted these here!
Ransim, I'm soo glad your boyfriend likes the picture!
The main reason why the fire isn't as dark and is all washed out in orange is because I suck at making and painting fire effects. Gotta practice when I have more time...
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Yup, I've been doing that with my pictures a lot nowadays. Including the zombie one. Usually I'll change the darkest color to a very, very dark value of a color that is already in the picture in attempt to "tie" it together more, or I'll use a color that contrasts against the main color of the picture. I do this in the 'Curves' adjustment in Photoshop. I personally like it more than boring old black. However, I do leave it black in some pictures if I find it looks better that way.|
Originally Posted by Eddy_Swan
aswell as that the area that would be percieved as black is actually a dark tone of green. I actually copied this bad boy into photoshop and blacked the darkest area's and the green eyes looked too out of place amongst all the warmth and black, aswell as that the attention was more drawn towards the black on mels arm, so by going with the green instead the attention is now drawn to the green of the eyes which looks less out of place due to the other green in the picture that if you werent paying too close attention could easily be glazed over, so it is very clever work in my book. Cashoo gets gold stars and swanzy snacks.
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In Mel's case, I was so glad her eyes were green against her firey colors theme, since green and red are complimentary colors and it really stands out.
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Well, I think this community really is happy to see anything you have done, so if people have received work from you, why not share it with others who they know will appreciate it. I feel like I have failed as a Cashoo fan though, although I will say that my day was made today as I was scanning through some of your art dumps and came across this (but I'm ashamed to say I didn't notice it earlier).|
Originally Posted by Pirate Cashoo
lol, I'm surprised you guys posted these here!
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(I hope you don't mind and I will be happy to take it down if you'd prefer)
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Cashoo, you dunno how long I've been advising people to do exactly that, for their costumes. I'm delighted that you do it for your artwork.|
Originally Posted by Pirate Cashoo
Yup, I've been doing that with my pictures a lot nowadays. Including the zombie one. Usually I'll change the darkest color to a very, very dark value of a color that is already in the picture in attempt to "tie" it together more, or I'll use a color that contrasts against the main color of the picture. I do this in the 'Curves' adjustment in Photoshop. I personally like it more than boring old black. However, I do leave it black in some pictures if I find it looks better that way.
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In Mel's case, I was so glad her eyes were green against her firey colors theme, since green and red are complimentary colors and it really stands out.
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Also, it's just a fun co-incidence that girls with red hair and green eyes were considered to be supernatural and were persecuted as witches. Typically punished by burning at the stake. I thought that it's a delightfully amusing twist of fate for the witch to burn them instead.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
The Guide to BURN
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uhuh! and you managed to pull off green and red without it looking christmassy |
Originally Posted by Pirate Cashoo
lol, I'm surprised you guys posted these here!
Ransim, I'm soo glad your boyfriend likes the picture! The main reason why the fire isn't as dark and is all washed out in orange is because I suck at making and painting fire effects. Gotta practice when I have more time... Yup, I've been doing that with my pictures a lot nowadays. Including the zombie one. Usually I'll change the darkest color to a very, very dark value of a color that is already in the picture in attempt to "tie" it together more, or I'll use a color that contrasts against the main color of the picture. I do this in the 'Curves' adjustment in Photoshop. I personally like it more than boring old black. However, I do leave it black in some pictures if I find it looks better that way. In Mel's case, I was so glad her eyes were green against her firey colors theme, since green and red are complimentary colors and it really stands out. |
so that is another positive.
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I dunno I thought you did a great job with Lyl's fire.| The main reason why the fire isn't as dark and is all washed out in orange is because I suck at making and painting fire effects. Gotta practice when I have more time... |
Heck I use that image all over the place it's my sometime Deviant ID it Lyl pic on the Titan network I even made a tiny version that resides in my sig.
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Originally Posted by Pirate Cashoo
lol, I'm surprised you guys posted these here!
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Lets face it Cash, any art work you do will end up here at some point..this is your thread and we all love the work ya doing.
*peeks in*
Beautiful work, Cashoo! Nice to see you are still growing strong!! 
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Yeah - Awesome as always! Great seeing new stuff Cashoo!
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I see you've tried a new kind of fire. It fits the piece very nicely, much like the other one. very nice.
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I normally keep my Mel art in my own thread, though I thought it fitting to post Cashoo's stuff in her own thread. So here's her take on 'Massacre' Melanie.
Thanks so much Cashoo!
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
The Guide to BURN