After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!
Yea, MGS is my favourite game series of all time, and it's story has never ceased to amaze me...
sooo..naturally, with MGS4's release nearing I felt like drawing something MGS4 related...
anyways I sketched the black and white drawing at work on my break using my tablet pc and Painter X total time taken was about 1 hour with the tweaking and so on. No ref used for Raiden and Snake because I've seen them in the trailer so many freakin' times...but Otacon required a ref...because nobody cares about the guy that pisses his own pants...
moved to Photoshop did a colour overlay, then opened Illustrator and traced the logo and found a suitable font for "Guns of the Patriot" and "Tactical Espionage Action" also played with the tracking to get the spacing between letters right...
and I think that about covers it for the process...
hopefully this kept faithful to Yoji Shinkawa's style
Thanks to Phoenix for the help in selecting the version you see before you
Now...to play some Mass Effect, which should hold me off till MGS4 comes out...360 exclusive my ass...
With mgs4 preordered since beggining of month, i give you my support. i have the exact same feeling xD
about the wall, if you really done what you say on your descript, you done a awesome job. snake mainly looks ... well like snake, raiden looks less manly on the original tough
the coloring, you sure done a good job on it, painter ftw, even tough some people might not like how it looks,however this is how painter works looks
...but Otacon required a ref...because nobody cares about the guy that pisses his own pants...
who said he pissed? looking at the posters inside the lockers i bet he was doing another thing
well, fav
edit: you forgot the red light on snake optical something i dont remember the name xD
This is badass, man. I can't wait till it comes out. The sketchy look almost looks like the artwork in the games. My only gripe would be the text on the bottom. I can't point my finger as to how to fix it, but it's ok. Nice wall! :D
Finally ..a MGS wall . We seriously need more of these...>.<
Overall ..i like the wall. You're drawing skills are tight. Shadign and all looks good too. Don't really like the look on snakes fac tho, he looks al lil 2 high ;p.
I still need to play mgs3..so 4 is gonna wait for me ;p
Keep it up.
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No reference for those two char. D: Really nice, I love the style of painting in this. Just the text behind the characters that irks me a bit, imo it would look better without it. xD
Nevertheless, +fav. Hope to see more works from you :D
Omggg a hihi painting 33
yes i love your painting style...
and you always surprice with something different ^^
awasome job... i love the amount of black and white ,
all the traces perfectly placed... the stains..
great composition xD
Advertising much? It's kinda hard to miss the bright red metal gear solid font and title, even on the thumbnail. You should get paid by Konami for this =P
That's some very unique and nicely styled painting you did there. I also like the stylized paint brush splashes, and you did a really nice job painting the characters from scratch. I don't really like the anatomy of Otacon's face, but everything else looks awesome, especially Raiden.
I'm not a fan of the smaller text, but it does fit, and it is your style. Nice work man. +fav
Whoa they look pretty badass (I lost my sight from the series by MGS 2, so dunno about the story.) But your wallpaper is very good done. Black white walls with a single "very noticable" colors are always so cool. Great painting skills of yours.
+Fav
Wow, never played around with a tablet before myself but I will after seeing this. It isn't sharp like a vector but I actually like this style, it give the characters more personality and depth. Maybe make the color overlay tones a little more vibrant, make parts of the characters stick out. I'm not a fan of text on walls but you title in red is amazing nice text choice. I would have left out the text blended in with the characters, it doesn't add anything and where is "courage is solid" anyway? Just kidding, nice sketch work.
First off, it's spelled Heroes not Heros. Secondly, I'm surprised at the feedback because I think this wallpaper looks bad. Now let me qualify myself first, before I start a fanboy flame war. The wallpaper just has too much text stuffed in all the nooks and cranies, and I think this is something that really degrades from the wallpaper's style, because I put a wallpaper on my desktop to look out and not to read, so the fact that there is so much text all over the place makes it seem a little schizophrenic and cluttered. Third, the characters are shaded with two colors: black and white, and while there is nothing against using these too colors, they need to be used in moderation, for an entire wallpaper like this with it just makes the colors mesh into the point where they become incoherent and indistinguishable for me (i.e. where is snake's left side of his face?) Then I remember that this is a tablet sketch, which I give you full credit for, because for what you did it is amazing, but in bringing it over to photoshop and the other tools at your use, you shouldn't be afraid to add some color, especially if a lot of the shading is going to fight with the character outlines for supremacy like with snake's face, which tends to be the focal point, and when the focal point is confusing and displeasing to look at the wallpaper losses credibility. This is also where the words in the background fight with snake because a sketch with a load of words, which inevitably are covered up or at least cut off by his head essentially defeat the purpose of them. The words just take away from the sketch in that the sketch style and then the very acute lettering fight because of their differences like the French and English in the 15th century. So what am I trying to say in conclusion? Well to sum it all up I think the wallpaper is bad. The random blobs of shading which I presume to be blood, meshed with the shading and outlined characters in the two generic colors of black and white where the only diversity is in the tone of the black used make for something that seems like pencil meshed all across my screen in the end, which does not make something enjoyable for me to look at. I'm sure others will disagree and that's fine, but these are my takes on it. I commend you a lot for a great sketch, but the absence of color really defeats it as a wallpaper, because a color-less sketch is fine for something like Deviant Art, but on my desktop I do not particularly take a liking to it.
Great as an art piece but not so good as a wallpaper. Some blank space would be nice. Not sure about the typeface on all those 'blurbs' there, I'm not an expert but try something without serifs and see if that works. Nice signature.
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sooo..naturally, with MGS4's release nearing I felt like drawing something MGS4 related...
anyways I sketched the black and white drawing at work on my break using my tablet pc and Painter X total time taken was about 1 hour with the tweaking and so on. No ref used for Raiden and Snake because I've seen them in the trailer so many freakin' times...but Otacon required a ref...because nobody cares about the guy that pisses his own pants...
moved to Photoshop did a colour overlay, then opened Illustrator and traced the logo and found a suitable font for "Guns of the Patriot" and "Tactical Espionage Action" also played with the tracking to get the spacing between letters right...
and I think that about covers it for the process...
hopefully this kept faithful to Yoji Shinkawa's style
Thanks to Phoenix for the help in selecting the version you see before you
Now...to play some Mass Effect, which should hold me off till MGS4 comes out...360 exclusive my ass...
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about the wall, if you really done what you say on your descript, you done a awesome job. snake mainly looks ... well like snake, raiden looks less manly on the original tough
the coloring, you sure done a good job on it, painter ftw, even tough some people might not like how it looks,however this is how painter works looks
who said he pissed? looking at the posters inside the lockers i bet he was doing another thing
well, fav
edit: you forgot the red light on snake optical something i dont remember the name xD
Overall ..i like the wall. You're drawing skills are tight. Shadign and all looks good too. Don't really like the look on snakes fac tho, he looks al lil 2 high ;p.
I still need to play mgs3..so 4 is gonna wait for me ;p
Keep it up.
Nevertheless, +fav. Hope to see more works from you :D
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yes i love your painting style...
and you always surprice with something different ^^
awasome job... i love the amount of black and white
all the traces perfectly placed... the stains..
great composition xD
great wallpaper this
black and red just works perfectly in my taste
and your painting is top notch
the strokes are really what makes this wall from good to awesome
the grunge, splat background compliments the MG like it is
badass wall >:]
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It looks very nice. Good job on the quotes too.
That's some very unique and nicely styled painting you did there. I also like the stylized paint brush splashes, and you did a really nice job painting the characters from scratch. I don't really like the anatomy of Otacon's face, but everything else looks awesome, especially Raiden.
I'm not a fan of the smaller text, but it does fit, and it is your style. Nice work man. +fav
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amazing job
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Heroes*.
Good wall though.
Personally think the colors and the text are great.