Decorating my room with a DB theme.

(Dagasawr) #1

So I love the founders card but I didn’t know about the game when the founders card were available :frowning: . but i want to decorate my room so I decide to make some plaques of the founders mercs.
Example of the founder card( just incase you havent seen them):
http://i.imgur.com/RUcwHHY.png

so my plan is to:

  • Draw the mercs on paper then copy them on to my pc to ink and colour them.
  • Then get them printed in A3
  • Then attach them to come wooden plaques above my screens like this:

http://i.imgur.com/MvNKKfm.jpg
These are the drawings I got so far (also sorry for the bad quaility on the pencil drawing they were really faint so i upped the contrast.)
http://i.imgur.com/IO2awMV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OW1KjkW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7EAOdiS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/J6wuTxH.jpg

P.S @RazielWarmonic is it against the rules for me to keep posting my progress on this thread for anyone who cares ?

(RazielWarmonic) #2

[quote=“Daga;24384”]
P.S @RazielWarmonic is it against the rules for me to keep posting my progress on this thread for anyone who cares ?[/quote]
Nope! Would prefer if you did that! :slight_smile:

(Dagasawr) #3

[quote=“RazielWarmonic;152196”][quote=“Daga;24384”]
P.S @RazielWarmonic is it against the rules for me to keep posting my progress on this thread for anyone who cares ?[/quote]
Nope! Would prefer if you did that! :slight_smile:
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Great :slight_smile:

(Dagasawr) #4


this is my last sketch now Im going to ink and colour them on GIMP (I’m to poor for photoshop)

(The_N00Ba) #5

Very cool Daga. :slight_smile:

(Dagasawr) #6

Thanks :slight_smile: im hoping it turns out well

(Dagasawr) #7

just a update of the first image so far:


I need to finish the body and shading.

(BananaSlug) #8

use more colors! soo the drawing wont be flat and make the shape more detailed, but overall
i think this painting can be cool!

(Dagasawr) #9

@BananaSlug Thanks this was way before shading so it now looks like this(its missing some body detail)

but I do agree I need a larger pallet of colours in it.
(also the proportions were a bit off no matter how many times I tried to fix it :frowning: )

(BananaSlug) #10

if you have problems with shapes you can just set that skyhammer (real one) on background
make all the shapes on him and then take them off. i dont know if that is possible in gimp.
i would recomend you using program cold flash (i am not sure) because you can use normal tablet ro draw(iam not 100% sure i heard ppl were doing that) but if you like painting you always can buy normal tablet for painting

(The_N00Ba) #11

[left]I know for me I find it easier to focus on a pictures shapes and forms, if I copy the original image and divide the copy up into blocks using horizontal and vertical lines. I then focus on one square of the image at a time, using the borders of each square as guidelines for proportions. For additional focus on the shapes of the picture, I flip the picture I am using upside down, so I no longer look at the picture as a whole. I instead focus on the curves and form of the picture. The paper you are copying to must also have the same block layout as well of course. Light lines though on your drawing sheet.
Now, this method works best if you are trying to copy an image as close as possible. I am not quite sure if that is what you want to do Daga. I figured it might help though.
I think your images are coming along quite well. I can see you in this art. Don’t give up. Don’t rush either. You will figure it out. [/left] :slight_smile:

(BananaSlug) #12

ooooh i forgot about that basic method, sadly you would need to start over

(Dagasawr) #13

@BananaSlug Thanks for the advice :slight_smile: . I can do that and if it comes to it I will but ill keep trying to alter it and I tend to just draw straight on to my pc most of the time but I figured why not try something different this time .

@RandomCitizen thanks for the advice man I appreciate it :slight_smile: .

Thanks for the support guys, Ill keep you guys posted on what I get done :smiley:

(Dagasawr) #14

so I got the sky hammer done but Im not sure what to do for the background because I cant make the same texture as the founders card backgrounds.

(BananaSlug) #15

i think left shoulder could be little higher same with left side of balaclava eye
but it looks really cool anyway,!

(Dagasawr) #16

I also started proxy

(blonk) #17

[quote=“Daga;155206”]so I got the sky hammer done but Im not sure what to do for the background because I cant make the same texture as the founders card backgrounds.

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What about a masked image of a level from the game, kinda like the forum has at the top right? SD use that sort of effect sometimes on their annoucements/graphs

(Dagasawr) #18

that sounds like a good idea ill see what it looks like @blonk

(BananaSlug) #19

that actually good idea but you would need to make him darken as fletcher on forum banner
so he wont be too shiny on dark background and wont look like bad fotoshop

(Dagasawr) #20

@BananaSlug i might just take a screenshot of chapel or something then edit it a bit like this:

(its not db related I know but that but with no text and chapel not a tf2 map.)