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Today, November twenty-one of two-thousand six, ~ReFraign and I did an amazing thing, easily a milestone for both of us.
This. This... this... COLLAB!!!

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~ReFraign did the lineart, while I did the colorjob. I LURVE teh lineart RF did.

Hallelujah, punks.

Yes that is good.

I'm really getting a feel for Adobe Photoshop. Kinda hoping this leads into my awesomeness's apex. More's streaming in my excitement, and because I suppose it would flood over where the artist's block broke.

And *JLDragonfly, the work's getting an overhaul before I post it since I learned things. It'll be out Friday or Saturday, believe meh.

Well, more like requesting requests.

I'm between a rock and a hard place trying to imagine things to draw and I'm at a loss to where to start.

So I decided, hell, tell me what to draw! I honestly have next to no restrictions to requests - anything or anyone somebody wants to draw, drop me a line either by dA message or e-mail. I'll be happy to do trades too for the slim-to-none chance somebody thinks my art's shaped up since I drew the dead guys. :B And I guess it has sorta, but... that's for you to hope if you feel I'm worth a trade. @.@

That is all.




Sorta.
JLD, I'm working on the redo of Red Mage every moment I've got free for what there is of such.

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So the search engine on deviantART works for all users now? That's nice.
Of course we have ourselves a problem here on deviantART, as I've been figuring out so far by way of this lovely search power.

I look up Warcraft, and I was seeing some nice stuff, really. Amazing.
But begin with the problems I wish to bitch and whine about...
...A mass of the work I browsed through was just tracings of artwork throughout the Warcraft manuals, game covers, and tracings of in-game screens. I'm not kidding, I mean I was expecting A LOT more original work. And then this catperson deal in Warcraft as a race. Out of my OCD while in WoW I was disgusted to see it. My opinion, anybody who comes even NEAR saying anything about catpeople in a medium (like cat-like people) in Azeroth (or Outland for you smartasses) needs to be ripped in half by the only valid catpeople in the game, the Priests in Zul'Gurub Arlokk and Thekal.
For what there was of the original work I was pleased. Very pleased.

Then I go in-depth to things such as The Forsaken (Warcraft undead playables, for those less informed), Warcraft Mages, and even deeper to prime characters such as Arthas.
Let's begin with Forsaken.
I'm not even DESCRIBING a lot of the crud I fell upon. I'm alright with lesser quality. I drive myself into it a lot. It's the OMFGYUCK stuff I'm worried about. Macabre I'm fine with and I respect it for the Forsaken. But there's some... welll...
Yeah, they've got some "doing." I don't like talking about that stuff in context with Warcraft. it's just wrong.
WRONG.
And then the tracings. Not many under the Forsaken deal but stuff like the Forsaken symbol were atrociously obviously traced or just pulled directly from the game screens. DeviantART is for talent, not your overwhelming ability to paste on the very same thing you can find any old day in Warcraft. Jeezis.

I move on to Warcraft Mages.
Again, alright with the lesser quality and I found MANY LESS tracings. I was overall pleased with this search, really, but there were some subtleties... like a few you-know-what pics. Again, not saying it beside Warcraft's name. A lot I don't feel like retelling, either, in general.

Scurry on to Arthas.
Woohoo! I saw some great work doing Arthas justice (one a la Meltharos, not only a familiar face from my old realm on Warcraft but rather a buddy here). It wasn't unreasonably OOC, in fact what there was of such was lovely good and/or funny. Like this one where Kel'Thuzad was expressing a little concern to Arthas about some aftershock that could come from his little duel with Illidan back when. Just look up Kel Thuzad and you could prolly find the comic I speak of high-up.
But then, oh were there too many tracings of Arthas' pic on the cover of the WC3 xpansion box. And a lot of them were a little hard to stand--they hardly even made the COVER look good. I could probably count a good thirty face tracings within a few pages of the searches.


And now for another part of my "where are we headed" rant.

I look up innocent search topics such as Sephiroth, while a little pre-concerned for what was in store.
Yeah, I had the right to worry. A lot of it was QUALITY work, really outstanding but it was the same thing over and over--the fan-spawned thesis of the... Seph-Cloud crap. I'm not happy to see the existence of this. But the pic FF7 fans should know "Run Like Your Butt is On Fire" really was lovable. It's in my faves now, in fact. But a lot of the stuff was... sexual. In a bad way, sorta. I mean I can understand some fangirl fantasies about the guy, really, but after dodging a good... FIFTY of these things in a few pages the traume started to snag and drag me. I eventually had to evacuate for breath. Or maybe that was the severe lack of originality in some of the work. Not tracings so much as the same thing over and over: man with silver hair and one wing holds long sword, stands and does NADA.
GRAPHRAGRGGGRAABLALBALUABALAAAAARGH!!!
*breathes deeply* Okay. There.

I think I'm done--said my point, but I could go on for miles worth of text down the page... AND YOU BETTER HAVE UNDERSTOOD WHAT I RANTED OF!!!


You can still of course find Sadistik, a 60 Undead warrior, on Firetree (US). He ain't goin' nowhere.