Dawn of War Codex

So sexy

Outstanding.

Thanks a lot guys :3
Glad you like it

Mother of God! I really love that Flashgit portait. Gives me the feeling of A-team with orks

As forthe doom of Malan'ta, it reminds me of Alien xenomorph from the Alien movies series.

Yet I still cant but feel bad that these will replace the old portraits
Hans' work were they?

"Oi luv' it whenz a WAAAGH! comez togetha!"

@Radio the Forest --- Glad you like the new Purifiers mate ^^

@Orkfaeller --- Cheers And Green iz best!!

@sterling --- thanks a lot :3

@Commissar Yarrick --- Thanks ^^ I love how the Flash Gitz turned out :3 And yea the Doom is similar to the Alien Queen on a lot points ^^ Was intentional :3 I always though that Zoas should have a head like that ^^
And true :/ Its Hans' work, but the others voiced the need to have a similar style all around the units. And Hans's old style really looked different ^^;
Altho, now he is back with the Fire Dragon and Dark Reapers in a new style, not sure what Lulgrim + Caeltos wanna do Keep those or should I make them too ? ^^;

You could use these new portraits in a DLC, and keep the old ones there

So who's up next on the list? GK's are done now. BTW the actual codex on the main site still uses the old portraits for most of the units.

Helios wrote:So who's up next on the list? GK's are done now. BTW the actual codex on the main site still uses the old portraits for most of the units.

Well I still have the Teminator Commander, Fire Dragons, Dark Reapers to do
Kvek also mentioned that a new pic for poor kommando boys would be much appreciated since they look quite stupid xD And I quite agree...
After that... I think IG + Death Korps of Krieg ^^

+ some misc stuff I'm doing inbetween, as I'll manage

Side note: my portraits wont be used by the WH40k - Ethernal Crusade site ^^; GW dont want to use it ^^; too bad Either way, it was worth a try ^^

They're missing out. Oh well, what can you expect from a company who overcharges for tiny little plastic and metal models. Your talents are squandered with them.

New Chaos Terminator portrait and they call-in icon would be welcome as well ;]

fankater wrote:New Chaos Terminator portrait and they call-in icon would be welcome as well ;]

Hm, now that you mention it the Chaos termi portraits up-close look bad T_T
Would need the dimensions of the call-in icons
If they are the same as the usual ability icons then I have it under control ^^


@Helios --- well yea, their loss x) But I really would love a job at such a place Too bad I lack contacts :/ So far thats the only reason keeping me in the freelancer state -_-
Which.... have its drawbacks x) (like low + unpredictable income...)

The Dire Avengers portrait I made way back is pretty shit too.

Global icons are just like other ability icons although the border is different.

Apologise for the bit of silence
Got a close deadline commission that needed to be done in 1 week x) Thought might as well post it for you guys Even though its not really WH40k

Its quite relevant topic either way, since its for a book cover, thats a huge compiliation of techniques to make different cospay armor and weapons and whatnot A veteran blacksmith is making it, who retires from active "duty" ^^
You might want to check it out it will be soon available (as far as I know, both E-book and physical format). The book itself be around... 450 pages ? o_O Huge....
The books title is: Crystal Forge ^^

Another stuff: I will finally have a small breathing room so I'll be up and doing the DoW2 portraits again from next week :3 (finally ^^ I really love to do them tbh :3)
Soooo in order of appearance, it will be like this:

Fire Dragon
Dark Reaper (portrait + I give a go with the textures)
Dire Avanger
Terminator Force Commander
Force Commander (a lot people requested a helmeted variant xD) if thats ok?
Chaos Terminator
Kommando + K-Nob (Freebooterz)
Mekboy (Freebooterz) --- if I'm not mistaken that is... mekboy dont got a portrait either ? only Warboss... ?

And enjoy ^^

Crystal Forge

Reminds me of a full page picture from the first printing AD&D 2nd Ed. Player's Handbook.

My first thought was catachans?

Didn't they say that Hans' Fire Dragons were actually pretty good and they were keeping it? If anything Dire Avengers badly need a new portrait. And I would hope that IG would get priority over DLC content for a faction that already has pretty badass default portraits.

Helios wrote:Didn't they say that Hans' Fire Dragons were actually pretty good and they were keeping it? If anything Dire Avengers badly need a new portrait. And I would hope that IG would get priority over DLC content for a faction that already has pretty badass default portraits.

Hmm, good point
I'd want to do the IG first too ^^ The infantry got some reeeeally crappy portraits T_T Like Catas... ^^; and stormtroopers XD

I want to have all the new portraits in one style. Since Kilgarn has more works already in the game then I would prefer his portraits over Hans's. To be honest I like the style of Kilgarn more. He draws in kinda realistic style and Hans does in cartoonish kinda style. I am far from art so here are my rough definitions =)

I'd second the idea of focusing on IG first, especially the new units like spotters and kasrkins plus reworks of the existing ones up to the standard of the new grey knight portraits.

Of course, I guess its really up to Kilgarn what he does next.

I'm an IG fanboy so I can only express similar feelings.

But focus on whatever you feel needs to be addressed first (: I'm sure there are some ugly portraits for other factions that are in need of your beautifying touch.

I'm surprised no one caught this... If you look at both Assault Marine Squads and Vanguard vets, all of them are beaky marines. Your portrait has him wearing the tactical marine helmet similar to that of the Ancient...

He addressed that when he released the portrait, was just a personal preference of his iirc.

@Sub_Zero --- Well recently, Hans came back with 2x eldar portraits (you can check it in the releases thead I got), which are more realistic
Still, I'd like to draw what I can and it will be up to Caeltos and Lulgrim to decide which they'd like to use ^^

@sterling --- actually a solid point... I sometimes feel that the IG got the short end of the stick in developing when they got such a sorry excuse of a portrait for most of their infantry ^^; Anyways, I'll focus on IG then

@Commissar Vocaloid --- awww ^^ thanks for the compliment Actually, so far I think IG is in the worst shape when it comes to portraits :/ All the other factions are solid so far and need only 1-2 default unit portraits to be done

@Helios --- Actually I've used a GW artwork as a base for the Vanguard Veteran's portrait. The beaked helmets are an older type (I think Mark II ?) and I just based it on that the GW miniatures of the Vanguards also use the standard SM helmets now Ofc, you could use the beaked ones, but this was a personal preference for me, as Indrid mentioned.
We discussed this at the beginning of this thread, when I've first posted the new Vanguard portrait Personally I don't really like the beaked helmets ^^;

But, if this is a problem, and a lot of you would say they'd like the beaked version more, I can fix the Vanguard pic for that one if needed. Otherwise I'd like to focus on the portraits that really need a new one ^^

Go go Kilgarn :] Can wait to see your new portraits :] Your work is just superb

Just sharing so you guys can see I'm still alive and kicking x)

Skyrim/Elder Scrolls online artwork
Nord warrior twins in the mountains at a night patrol ^^

Also I'll be uploading some IG portraits in the weekend
Guardsman, Spotter and hopefully I can finish the Cata's too
The first two is a 100% sure possibility
Just want to upload both at the same time ^^

Anyways!
Enjoy

'mazing, can't wait

Wow great news, can´t wait to see you amazing work on catas

Kilagarn are you going to redone all IG infantry portraits ?
What with portraits that you already working on (Reapers, Dragons,
FC Terminator) ?
Cheers!

Kilgarn wrote:Just sharing so you guys can see I'm still alive and kicking x)

Skyrim/Elder Scrolls online artwork
Nord warrior twins in the mountains at a night patrol ^^

Also I'll be uploading some IG portraits in the weekend
Guardsman, Spotter and hopefully I can finish the Cata's too
The first two is a 100% sure possibility
Just want to upload both at the same time ^^

Anyways!
Enjoy

Great work. Kinda reminds me of Game of Thrones