OotS Style Art/Fanart Showcase

[BelkarsDagger]

Revised edition.

The decent had destroyed me... and yet, I lived.



Raziel... you are worthy.

[Chris the Pontifex]

Beware! here be Roland and Susan Pirates:

[Ego Slayer]

I can't get the last to avatars I've done not to pixelate when I put them through GIMP! Why would it suddenly not work anymore! :(

[drake]

[drake]

how i post avatars? :-/

[drake]

or use my own :-[

[Oblivion]

First, for your information, from the rules of posting:

Double Posting
Posting twice in a row is generally frowned upon. There is a modify link in the upper right hand corner of each post, please use that to add any extra information that you wanted to add but forgot to. You can also remove any accidental double posts with the remove button that is right next to the modify button.

Just so you know! ;)

Then, to have your own avatar:

1) You must host your picture on a website (like photobucket, imageshack, or anything like it). By the way the default avatar size is 117 X 117 pixels.

2) You go to you profile, and you check "I have my own pic", and put the link (from the previously said website) for your picture in the box.

3) Then you hit "Change profile" and voilà!... a custom avatar.

Hope this helps. :)

Edit: To post avatars, you also must first host the picture on a website. Then you use the code [ img]http://www.website.com/mypicture.jpg[ /img] (without spaces and in lowercase) to have your image show up in a thread.

Know that very big pictures are not really appreciated by the people who have dial-up, so if the picture is big, you should put the lik instead (like this [ url]http://www.website.com/mypicture.jpg[ /url]- again without spaces and in lowercase)

[LoopyZebra]

Know that very big pictures are not really appreciated by the people who have dial-up, so if the picture is big, you should put the lik instead (like this [ url]http://www.website.com/mypicture.jpg[ /url]- again without spaces and in lowercase)

Just a note, you can write something along the lines of

My Picture

to have it turn out like

Kelthala: Tyranny and Magic

as opposed to

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb...8796;start=720

[Ego Slayer]

Alrighty, got it to work. ::)

[LoopyZebra]

I'm trying to convert to Inkscape, and I have a question for you Inkscape users.

How do I turn the linear gradient? It's currently going vertically, but I'd like to make it go horizontally without resizing and turning the item involved.

[AmberVael]

If you select the node tool and look at a shape with a gradiant you will see a new line going across your shape with a node on either end. Move those to change the gradiant. Fiddle around with it and check it out! Its pretty nifty.

[LoopyZebra]

Ah! That's considerably easier than Sodipodi. Thanks.

[Ego Slayer]

Meh, 'nother one.

[NEO|Phyte]

I hold the secrets of the Machine.

Techpriest Enginseer as seen in Dawn of War

[Abardam]

So anyway. Just because:

[Healos]

YES,YES, YES!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!
It fillaly worked!! YES!!

like it?

[Dragon_Rider]

Alright, here is my first attempt at doing anything on Adobe Illustrator...



Its simple... but I have to take baby steps here.

Doesn't looke to bad... the body is too long, which cuts off the legs and makes his head look big... Back to the drawing board!

[ElfLad]

Arms are also a bit too far down.

And by "a bit," I mean "much."

[Dragon_Rider]

You're right, now that I look at it.

Well, here's another try... this time a gnome, smiling.



His body's too much of a cube, I think.

[ElfLad]

Yeah, the head usually is wider than the shoulders in OotS-style.

[Healos]

Fingolfin for "The Silmarillion"(copyright 1977) ;D

[img]
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/4185/fingolfinlargeryh8.gif[/img]

Comments?

Gnome, you want a small body and big head that what I use, but there are all kinds of styles

[Daedrous Avari]

That's awesome.

However this

[img=http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8391/zomgxr4.png]

is ugly.

[Flabbicus]

That's awesome.

However this



is ugly.

This is what you meant, no?

[Serpentine]

Wow Ego Slayer, you're on a roll!
Seeing as noone's commenting on it in the Request thread, I'll stick it here as well to be torn to bits. So, here's what I believe to be my first-ever proper avatar attempt (the combusting porcupine doesn't count because 1. it wasn't picked and 2. it was an echidna).


edit: Daedrous Avari, I keep forgetting to tell you, I like what you've done with that dire fiendish shark.

[Mephibosheth]

Fingolfin for "The Silmarillion"(copyright 1977) ;D

[img]
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/4185/fingolfinlargeryh8.gif[/img]

Comments?

Gnome, you want a small body and big head that what I use, but there are all kinds of styles

Ooh, ooh! Now you totally have to do one of Maedhros! That'd be awesome! Incidentally, where did you get that detailed a description of Fingolfin? Does the 1977 edition have illustrations or something?

*grumbles about schoolwork, which prevents him from doing it himself*

[TinSoldier]

Wow Ego Slayer, you're on a roll!
Seeing as noone's commenting on it in the Request thread, I'll stick it here as well to be torn to bits. So, here's what I believe to be my first-ever proper avatar attempt (the combusting porcupine doesn't count because 1. it wasn't picked and 2. it was an echidna).


edit: Daedrous Avari, I keep forgetting to tell you, I like what you've done with that dire fiendish shark.

Save as GIF, not JPG. Delete the white background. Try to get better anti-aliasing.

I can't draw, but I can edit. This is better, but it could still probably use better antialiasing:


Hmm, I should have adjusted my GIF settings better. Anyway, it was just an example.

I think your proportions are pretty good. Some artists match Rich's style exactly. Others add their own "signature" to the style which is okay.

[Serpentine]

Thanks for fixing it, and for RESPONDING >evil eye to everyone else o_O< Just kidding, 'sallgood everyone.
However: I save it as bmp, photobucket converts it to jpg for some reason. I'll try to remember to try gif next time. I've tried repeatedly to get rid of the background, so far as I know it's impossible with Appleworks (my own avitar displays one of my failed attempts at transparency). Aaaand so far as I know the program doesn't have anti-aliasing. I am trying to stick with the Oots style. Still working on not making them look like they don't have a neck even though they actually don't, if you know what I mean.
Thanks again for the input, 'tis muchly appreciated.

[Healos]

Ooh, ooh! Now you totally have to do one of Maedhros! That'd be awesome! Incidentally, where did you get that detailed a description of Fingolfin? Does the 1977 edition have illustrations or something?

*grumbles about schoolwork, which prevents him from doing it himself*

I googled Fingolfin in the image place for Ideas and looked in "The Lord of The Rings Art work" book on elvish armor, try looking in two towers or ROTK i'm not so sure about the Fellowship though. But i'm pritty sure it came from "Tolkien art & ilistration", but I don't own it(yet) so I don't know forsure.

[Jibar]

Well, if you guys are posting your Raziel picks...
Thanks to Prince of Cats for this one.
And this one is just a sketch I did.

[Healos]

Go ahead say it, yes I know I post way too many avatars

Melkor, my own design except the hammer/mace Kind of took some ideas from the Witch-King