Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Aquablade and his Water Crows




Yep, another entry for the same contest - Evil and Company - by Seventh Sanctum. (Entry rules can be found here.) A brief synopsis of the contest: Generate a name using the Evil Name Gen and a name from either the Dark Minion Gen or Monster Name Gen and use said names to create a piece of artwork depicting each name.


Evil Name Generator result: Aquablade
Monster Name Generator: Water Crow



Now, the fun part was, how do I take something so simplisitc such as "water crow" and make it actually look like some new creature. Well, the answer was: take the crow figure from Content Paradise, turn it blue, and make it have water dribbling from it. That and the fact it's obviously underwater because of the sting ray, sea horses, and jelly fish that accompany Aquablade and do his bidding didn't hurt, either.


As for Aquablade, welllll...I wanted something a bit more amusing than my necromancer. So, I added green flippers, fins to his arms, and give him ears that resemble a cross between gills and fins.


It took some time in Photoshop to pull everything together and actually make it work to the point it was worthy of submission, but I think I did ok. :-)

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Friday, February 22, 2008

Evil and Company - Seventh Sanctum Contest




Another contest, a new entry. (Contest rules can be found here)




Generators Used: Evil Name Generator & Evil Minion Generator


Results:


Evil Name Gen: Waveblade The Necromantic


Evil Minion Gen: Demonic Hounds, Dark Ones




Short Snippet of a Story behind the artwork:




Waveblade the Necromantic, or to those of the Royal Court of Dökkálfar Lady Rozarie Waveblade, is a powerful necromancer from a line of mages, witches, and Summoners. Born the youngest of the large family, she was taught only what all females of the dökkálfar are taught; priestesshood, magecraft, and the subtilities of being a female of noble blood. However, her interest in the undead and demons carried her quickly to the learnings of the necromancers. Rising quickly, she soon aquired the ability to have demonic hounds as familiars and the skill, talent, and knowledge to raise the dead; not just the newly dead, but the dead of long past. Those who are nothing but bones. Those she raises are known as the "Dark Ones" as she raizes villiages, cities, and farmlands in the name of her family, the Waveblades, and her Goddess, Ozarith.

As such, Waveblade raises the dead and hunts those who are enemies of her people with her Demonic Hounds and Dark Ones by her side.


Other Information: Necromantic means "conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events " (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necromantic)
And so, we have here the lovely Waveblade the Necromantic (aka Necromancer) with her familiars, demonic hounds, and her undead legion known as "The Dark Ones".
Monday, January 14, 2008

Seventh Sanctum Contests! - Rock Mage

Well, I stumbled across this contest at Seventh Sanctum while searching for saga themes for The Legends of Mernac. I thought I'd see what came up and if I had anything in my paltry Poser Library that I might use to create something. I used the Character Class/Profession Generator and came up with Rock Mage.

And here is what I came up with that matches that! I used Poser 6 and Photoshop to create this unique piece.



Since mages are allowed to wear leather but aren't really allowed much else in the way of weaponry (other than the occassional sword - eg gandolf - or quarterstaff-like weapons), I thought my rock and roll chick was rather apt for the Rock Mage....



~Jen



Rock Mage is a subclass of the General class of "Mage". They have all powers, strengths, etc. as the class mage with the exception that all their magical powers are stored not in typical spell books but in their choice of guitar. For each level a rock mage progresses, they gain more memorized songs as well as spells. At level five, they become semi-professionals and have a small fan following. At level ten their fan following is medium sized with a manager. At each level after level ten, they progress to professional and at level 20 they become icons.

When a mage falters from their path, they loose their followings and become fodder for the paparrazi in their setting. To return to their path they must go through rehab and do community service for a year.

All base adjustments for each race apply to this subclass.

About Docelfar Designs

Docelfar Designs is a graphic art and design company located in Staunton, Virginia. Currently employed by Fairy Tale Catering and Blind Alley Productions, an independent film company, Docelfar Designs has the sole job of creating all marketing and promotional material for both companies.

Current projects include designing Fairy Tale Catering's website and blog, as well as promotional material.

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