On October 27 2010 06:16 Trinton07 wrote:
I looked at it and I thought "that looks awesome"
Then I realized the pilot is in a cloaked banshee and I was all "OMFG!"

Im pretty sure she's lounging on top of a cloaked banshee, but it's kinda hard to tell.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter. Still hella epic.

jlim

Spain943 Posts

October 26 2010 21:44 GMT

#142

Amazing, mate.

I wonder what those cranky marines would say about his new companion

Teivospylol

Djibouti47 Posts

October 26 2010 21:53 GMT

#143

Jpoon or w/e has a point on the whole "relatedness to SC". While everything else he said was stupid you should take his criticism on that point better in order to make your work significant. Honestly its probably worth more to you than all these other people going "omG its aMaZiNg"

Obviously the picture is supposed to be focusing on the pilot, so I doubt you want the banshee to actually be more apparent (although imo it should be), but I would definately not be able to make the connection between "banshee pilot" and this picture unless someone actually pointed it out. Like the hair, the suit colour, and the generic background doesn't really scream anything "banshee". You could have added something like dominion decals to her suit and it would be clearer (also it would take the plainness out of the suit imo), thats just one example I quickly came up with.

Personally I think it would be pretty awesome if the background was like CHAR and BC's are exploding above.. but then you got this banshee pilot all like "w/e idc". Call it "ghost-riding" with clear emphasis on the pun. Thats prolly not in your artistic vision though

tlDR The picture in itself is pretty good, but like jpoon I wouldn't exactly call it starcraft

Kamille

Monaco1035 Posts

October 26 2010 22:02 GMT

#144

Is there a 1920 x 1080 version without the text?

Perguvious

United States1783 Posts

October 26 2010 22:40 GMT

#145

she must be thinking about the number of drones she just killed

probably in high fifties

ayababa

Australia347 Posts

October 26 2010 22:48 GMT

#146

hey dude.. really great work. can i ask, how do you do the hair? are you suing a graphics tablet or is it rendered?

(i use a intous 4) and i have drawn / colored hair similar.. but yours seams really thin and realistic.

RyuChus

Canada442 Posts

October 26 2010 22:52 GMT

#147

That's the Banshee pilot. Hot!

jackarage

Canada104 Posts

October 26 2010 22:56 GMT

#148

beautiful you should also upload to Deviantart

Granbo

United States8 Posts

October 26 2010 23:11 GMT

#149

Amazing job! I look forward to more of your work in the future. And I never knew TL had so many accomplished art critics

lynx.oblige

Sierra Leone2268 Posts

October 26 2010 23:19 GMT

#150

What about a Queen of Blades one?

EonShiKeno

United States122 Posts

October 26 2010 23:39 GMT

#151

CheekyDuck very very nice work. I totally got what you were going for. Keep it up. I hope to see more units sparking your talents.

jeebuzzx

Canada365 Posts

October 26 2010 23:39 GMT

#152

sexy

Loophole

United States867 Posts

October 26 2010 23:44 GMT

#153

On October 27 2010 06:53 Teivospylol wrote:
Jpoon or w/e has a point on the whole "relatedness to SC". While everything else he said was stupid you should take his criticism on that point better in order to make your work significant. Honestly its probably worth more to you than all these other people going "omG its aMaZiNg"

Obviously the picture is supposed to be focusing on the pilot, so I doubt you want the banshee to actually be more apparent (although imo it should be), but I would definately not be able to make the connection between "banshee pilot" and this picture unless someone actually pointed it out. Like the hair, the suit colour, and the generic background doesn't really scream anything "banshee". You could have added something like dominion decals to her suit and it would be clearer (also it would take the plainness out of the suit imo), thats just one example I quickly came up with.

Personally I think it would be pretty awesome if the background was like CHAR and BC's are exploding above.. but then you got this banshee pilot all like "w/e idc". Call it "ghost-riding" with clear emphasis on the pun. Thats prolly not in your artistic vision though

tlDR The picture in itself is pretty good, but like jpoon I wouldn't exactly call it starcraft

*Facepalm

I've noticed that most of the people complaining that this is not Starcraft fan art are fairly new members. Are you maybe just a casual player of the game? Have you ever actually even looked at the portrait of the Banshee pilot?? This is quite obviously a banshee pilot laying on a cloaked banshee.

If you wouldn't notice it without having it pointed out, then you either aren't very aware, or just haven't played as terran much, or watched vods of terrans, or played through the single player.... actually you're probably just not very aware.

JoonP, you are a complete asshat. If it's not your preference, fine. But don't sit here and attack the artist. The fact that it's fan art is not subjective. The helmet and uniform are obviously Banshee. Blizzard made the Pilot in the game sexy. This is not some new element the artist introduced. If you have some beef with the tight fitting uniform of Banshee pilots, bring it up with Blizzard!

I mean, both of you... for christ sake! look at the portrait!!!

BlueBulb

Singapore13 Posts

October 27 2010 00:04 GMT

#154

very nice work. keep up the good job

-CheekyDuck-

Australia398 Posts

October 27 2010 01:03 GMT

#155

thanxs Loophole, i forgot about that line.
Lol =D in space everyone can hear me scream!

anyway heres the rogue one. because i confuuuse some ppl =(
I did change the markings to match bnet and the numbers to match my player id =D
removed the tubee cus shes not in the plane.
[image loading]

@ayababa
The hair was done with photoshop, with wacom yes.
if you want to have a closer look at the hair file construction heres the link:
http://www.thecheekyduck.com/sc/hair.psd

I do draw in B&W then colour on top using levels, cb etc.
base
then strands,
then strands,
then glows,
multi,
etc.

its a very long, long process. but i think it looks nice at end result, no easy way to do hair sorry =)
but i hope that helps.

@can't see the banshee plane? i just did the windows. =P
[image loading]

silencesc

United States464 Posts

October 27 2010 02:14 GMT

#156

On October 27 2010 10:03 CheekyDuck wrote:
thanxs Loophole, i forgot about that line.
Lol =D in space everyone can hear me scream!

anyway heres the rogue one. because i confuuuse some ppl =(
I did change the markings to match bnet and the numbers to match my player id =D
removed the tubee cus shes not in the plane.
[image loading]

Thanks! It's really pretty with 2 monitors. Twice the banshee = twice the sexy

Yotta

United States270 Posts

October 27 2010 03:29 GMT

#157

I very much enjoy looking at this image

Wouldn't use it as a desktop background though, too bright for me.

VonLego

United States519 Posts

October 27 2010 03:32 GMT

#158

Fantastic art work, but I'm not a fan of overly sexed up video game characters.

nihoh

Australia978 Posts

October 27 2010 03:41 GMT

#159

thats not a banshee it's a banshee pilot....

Rashta

Australia46 Posts

October 27 2010 05:39 GMT

#160

Very nice work op, can you make a 1440x900 so i can wallpaper it without it being distorted :D preferably without text, thx

Edit: TYvm op, looks great as my background