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God damn it Kilgarn, I'm running out of pants here damn it >_<! Stop making so many beautiful works!

Very nice dude!

Finished the banner I've posted recently
Strike Force Ultra, made for the WH40k - Ethernal Crusade ^^
Enjoy

More stuff coming up, like 2x full battle scenes and some other goodies ^^
+ a competition piece
*hyped*

That's very nice, what do you work with to produce your pictures?

Also, can we look forward to more portraits in the future, you sound busy

Swiftsabre wrote:That's very nice, what do you work with to produce your pictures?

Also, can we look forward to more portraits in the future, you sound busy

Yup, will work on the portraits, as soon as I'm done with the contest I'm trying to hand in stuff
(which ends in 25th of nov.) I haven't forgotten ^^

As for your question: I use a Wacom Pen and Touch medium size and a PS5 to do these nothing fancy ^^

Hi guys

I'm trying to wrap up a WH40k contest entry (hopefully by tomorrow). I thought I'll just share the drawing where it is now ^^ The contest is about making a fan art for a short story
You can read it here:
https://www.eternalcrusade.com/game/sto ... iden-World

I've picked a small part that was the most interesting in my opinion, at the end of the story. I mean... who the hell would not want a challenge to draw a divination in water a la eldar?

Anyways, here is the pic itself, hope you guys like it ^^ Needless to say its unfinished
Enjoy!

I'll try to hack out some portraits after I'm done with this one btw ^^
Wish me luck

I always love more Eldar art! Looks very nice Kilgarn! Do upload the finished piece as well if you can

Hi guys

Finished the contest entry ^^ Was too tired to upload it yesterday, but here it is =)
Those that dont know about it, there was a contest held on the WH40k - Eternal Crusade MMO's site.
It is called "Death and the Maiden World", the goal was to make an illustration based on the short story with the same title. You can read it here: https://www.eternalcrusade.com/game/sto ... iden-World

I picked the last part Hope you like it ^^
Enjoy ^^
(if you open the pic in a new tab you can check it in bigger size ^^)

Awesome work! Hope you win man!

Well ok. That is the first picture from you that I didn't like =)

Sub_Zero wrote:Well ok. That is the first picture from you that I didn't like =)

Why? :/ Whats wrong with it... ?

That shit looks amazing. Wallpapered.

The maple leaves are needlessly contrasting here, they are the first thing that attracts my eye but they shouldn't, they definitely bear no meaning here. I would say there are too many planets here (I also don't understand the point of the opposing brightly-coloured planets), they are not as crucial as these two factions that are about to converge in a bloody battle and it leads me to a conclusion that the factions' members are too faded. Well maybe only the space marine bit, the orks aren't that bad actually in terms of that, though it could use a bit of distortions. That is design-wise. Now the drawing itself. The arm could be prettier (fingers could be more straight, nails look unattractive, all in all looks like an arm of an old women and that is maybe because of these blackouts, looks kinda dirty), the colour gamma is a bit depressing but I can't imagine something else here, so I don't really know how to describe my feeling but I don't like it.

I didn't read the story. Maybe I am missing something because of that. The fact is that I open your drawings and I am usually impressed. Now I can't really say I feel that. I am not into art so I can't profesionally critisize, just tried to explain a bit.

Lovely drawing, and it reminds why I didn't draw my idea for the contest, cuz I'm just not good enough . I like the hand, very well drawn and I can see what codex images inspired you for the SM and Ork poses.

I do have one critique though the copy/past on the maple leaves is quite obvious and the perspective on it is wrong as well. Just an advice here : I guess you already submitted your work but if you didn't change the leaves. They really stand out in a bad way.

They are not all planets that is a solar system.

Sub_Zero wrote:The maple leaves are needlessly contrasting here, they are the first thing that attracts my eye but they shouldn't, they definitely bear no meaning here. I would say there are too many planets here (I also don't understand the point of the opposing brightly-coloured planets), they are not as crucial as these two factions that are about to converge in a bloody battle and it leads me to a conclusion that the factions' members are too faded. Well maybe only the space marine bit, the orks aren't that bad actually in terms of that, though it could use a bit of distortions. That is design-wise. Now the drawing itself. The arm could be prettier (fingers could be more straight, nails look unattractive, all in all looks like an arm of an old women and that is maybe because of these blackouts, looks kinda dirty), the colour gamma is a bit depressing but I can't imagine something else here, so I don't really know how to describe my feeling but I don't like it.

I didn't read the story. Maybe I am missing something because of that. The fact is that I open your drawings and I am usually impressed. Now I can't really say I feel that. I am not into art so I can't profesionally critisize, just tried to explain a bit.

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maybe you should read the short story, it might make a lot more sense that way.

otherwise awesome work Kilgarn

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What is this unpleasant face doing here? My feeling is my feeling, nobody has a right to oppose it, especially in this manner. There are things that can be debatable. But if I see one woman as an ugly one and some chump rushes in and tells me that I am wrong and know nothing then what arguments can I use to defend my FEELING? Tastes differ.

Well, some would actually argue that beauty is objective albeit epistemologically impossible to verify.

I mean, we do tend to share an inclination towards disliking the aesthetic experience of viewing a dog being chopped to pieces by a machete, or organs falling out of a cow whose stomach lining has been properly sliced open, or...

Torpid wrote:I mean, we do tend to share an inclination towards disliking the aesthetic experience of viewing a dog being chopped to pieces by a machete, or a organs falling out a cow whose stomach lining has been properly sliced open, or...

But how do you know I don't?

Whoa lots of comments

Lets see ^^
@ Dineil --- Thanks a lot mate, glad you like it ^^
@ Dark Riku --- Sweet
@ Sub Zero --- Hm, well the maple leaves do need a bit fix, bit I was a bit out of time and I thought it wont look that bad =) Actually I dont think that they catch the eye that much, I muted them quite a bit. Besides its a lake, and maple leaves are around lakes pretty much always xD + leaves
Erm, actually, the Arkhona system has 3x suns: a Yellow, a red and a blue sun. The smaller red/blue circle around the yellow one, as they were trapped in its gravity field when the solar system was born. Or something like that...
As for the other planets, I just wanted to show the first few planet (only 4) up to Arkhona, so it has a meaning. The whole scene is a divination inside a lake, so I had to bring some meaning to it, plus it was detailed quite nice in the story as she looks around in the solar system and finally on the planet

The only two faction that were in said divination was the Space Marines (and to some extent the IG) and the orks Sadly no Chaos or eldar warhost ^^;
Since its a bit hazy divination not a clear photo-like vision, I dont wanted to detail them too much, since that wasn't the point. Especially, since as the description goes, the shapes of the visions were formed from the dark shapes of the water, so I already made them too detailed ^^;

Well, the eye is in the beholder as they say ^^ I actually used a photo reference of a female hand to use it one-on-one to do this. Imperfections that makes a human more beautiful. But everybody has its own taste I think ^^
Mmmm blackouts... ? o_O But yea the nails could use a bit work, I agree. Thats the most I could do with this one. Since there is no moon on this planet, I needed to generate artificial light to make it not fall off the pic. Plus its a night scene, so it was even harder. The previous version looked like it belongs to an undead, since it was too blueish :'D

I wanted to create an ominous feeling with the drawing. So thats why I chose the colors I did. Maybe thats why you dont feel OK around it? I mostly used green, torquise, orange, blue, yellow and some red here and there =)
Tried to use complementing colors ^^
Ok, I'm not the best yet with colors tho ^^;
You should read the story tho =) Then a lot of things will gain a meaning ^^
And true, tastes differ =) I still appreciate that despite you are not an artist yourself, you still tried to explain what bothers you with the drawing ^^

@ Dalakh --- Yup, I did used what I could find :'D The ork part was harder then I've originally thought :/
Yup... the maple leaves ^^; I think I'll need to fix it
@ Swiftsabre --- Yup ^^ Its a solar system =)
@ Ven --- Thanks a lot mate, glad you like it! And yes, reading the story is highly recommended ^^ Since then the different pieces will make more sense. Although, I do think it does stand well on its own without an explanation needed, aside of that its a divination in water
@ Torpid --- Thats start to get a bit deep there mate But overall I agree ^^ There are some general things that most humans will find... disturbing or unattractive to say the least =)

looks good man. I was trying to find you on the forums to enter the contest.

Gorilla wrote:looks good man. I was trying to find you on the forums to enter the contest.

http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads ... hread.378/

Here is my thread on the WH40k - EC forums ^^ The only difference is an "n" at the end Somebody already took it :/
Ah well ^^ Anyways, thanks for the heads up when you told me about the contest ^^
Much appreciated!

Making a big battle-scene atm, for the Strike Force Ultra, an Ultramarines chapter marines ^^

Its just a teaser of the whole pic, a small segment, the leader of the strike force:
Oculus Obscuritas, Captain of the 3rd Company from Strikeforce Ultra ^^
He will be in the front on the scene ^^

I'll try to work on some IG portraits inbetween ^^
Enjoy

He looks like angry Apollo Diomedes )

fankater wrote:He looks like angry Apollo Diomedes )

Now that you mention it...
But nah, I haven't used Diomedes for reference xD Although most SM look quite generic Same brick-head shape ^^
Ok, some exeptions like the white scars got a mongolian streak going ^^

fankater wrote:He looks like angry Apollo Diomedes )

Looks like BAD-ASS-MOTHERFUCKER Diomedes !
Awesome work can't wait to see the full picture !

Kilgarn by any chance you have any Tau art? I love Tau

congrats on second place! I thought for sure you would win!

https://www.eternalcrusade.com/contests ... ompetition

Gorilla wrote:congrats on second place! I thought for sure you would win!

https://www.eternalcrusade.com/contests ... ompetition

Hehhe you were faster XD
I'm happy with the 2nd place tbh =) This was my first international contest ^^
And sitting on 2nd place is not that bad actually I still got my name out there :3
Ofc, a first place would be epic, but that just means I need to work more on my stuff ^^ Thats all

@Aguxyz --- no, at the moment I dont have any Tau artwork I'd love to draw some though, I really love the Tau faction ^^

@Dalakh --- Glad you like it mate :3 Will post some update on it, as I advance with it ^^