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Doubly impressive then.

Grey Templar wrote:I think the Gk is the right size.


that is Terminator armor afterall and it tends to add a good foot to their height.

How? Do they wear heels?

Another commission dakka-bros


http://galefire.com/2012/07/40k-commission-vindicare-sniper-lady/

Next one has an inquisitor, some SPEHHSS MARINES and a Librarian about to get eaten by Tyranids.

Now if only I could get the AD at Fantasy Flight games to notice me...

Here is another one I did to warm-up one day
Couple DH characters

Kaldor wrote:
How? Do they wear heels?

Mine do

Those are looking good dude, although the sniper (female vindicare?) just looks a bit weird, the gun seems too big is all. Gives a very bulky feel, rather than the svelte, athletic being poised to strike from the shadows I envisage a vindicare to be. The pose also looks a bit weird.

Hopefully my two cents is helpful.

The bottom one looks pretty sweet too.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Those are looking good dude, although the sniper (female vindicare?) just looks a bit weird, the gun seems too big is all. Gives a very bulky feel, rather than the svelte, athletic being poised to strike from the shadows I envisage a vindicare to be. The pose also looks a bit weird.

Hopefully my two cents is helpful.

The bottom one looks pretty sweet too.

I was looking at a vindicare model when I was drawing the gun, maybe the heroic scale of the models doesn't translate as well to a picture; it is very large. Although it is supposed to be the most amazing sniper rifle evar, so I guess it needs to be. I mean, look how big this m95 is compared to her!

Twisting around in a tree may not have been the best pose, but I had to show the front of her for the client but also wanted her looking into the piece to draw your eyes to the advancing eldar. Those were my design decisions

Also here is a preview of the next commission I am working on:

http://galefire.com/2012/07/40k-commission-ultramarines-vs-tyranids/

Bout to get started on the painting/rendering part of this as the client really liked how it looks so far.

daedalus-templarius wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Those are looking good dude, although the sniper (female vindicare?) just looks a bit weird, the gun seems too big is all. Gives a very bulky feel, rather than the svelte, athletic being poised to strike from the shadows I envisage a vindicare to be. The pose also looks a bit weird.

Hopefully my two cents is helpful.

The bottom one looks pretty sweet too.

I was looking at a vindicare model when I was drawing the gun, maybe the heroic scale of the models doesn't translate as well to a picture; it is very large. Although it is supposed to be the most amazing sniper rifle evar, so I guess it needs to be. I mean, look how big this m95 is compared to her!

Twisting around in a tree may not have been the best pose, but I had to show the front of her for the client but also wanted her looking into the piece to draw your eyes to the advancing eldar. Those were my design decisions

True enough on the vindicare's rifle and indeed the most powerful real life sniper's.

As for the vindicare's pose, I was and still am drawn the the wraithlord and the bright sky in the background before the vindicare. Probably because I read left to right.

Second one's looking really good though, look forward to seeing it complete.

Sup guys


http://galefire.com/2012/07/40k-commission-ultramarines-vs-tyranids/

This one is done

Was toying with the idea of a 'Trials of Draigo' piece next.

Nice, although the Librarians robe looks a little odd accross the chest. It looks painted onto his armor.

Grey Templar wrote:Nice, although the Librarians robe looks a little odd accross the chest. It looks painted onto his armor.

Hmm, you're the first person who has mentioned that.

Maybe it is painted on, you never know with those ultramarines

Stupid DAs. Taking all the robes. We UMs have to paint them on

Oh man, you gotta do a trials of Draigo piece.

That SM/Tyranid piece looks really good, except the Inquisitor looks so small..

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Oh man, you gotta do a trials of Draigo piece.

That SM/Tyranid piece looks really good, except the Inquisitor looks so small..

Humans are small in comparison to Carnifexen and Space Marines? No wai!

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Oh man, you gotta do a trials of Draigo piece.

That SM/Tyranid piece looks really good, except the Inquisitor looks so small..

Humans are small in comparison to Carnifexen and Space Marines? No wai!

I know that, but in 40k most humans are at least 6ft with the marines at 7ft or so, and the inquisitor looks miniscule.

Eh, looking at it again it seems more proportional than the first glance I took.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Oh man, you gotta do a trials of Draigo piece.

That SM/Tyranid piece looks really good, except the Inquisitor looks so small..

Humans are small in comparison to Carnifexen and Space Marines? No wai!

I know that, but in 40k most humans are at least 6ft with the marines at 7ft or so, and the inquisitor looks miniscule.

Eh, looking at it again it seems more proportional than the first glance I took.

The Inquisitor obviously needs to work out more

Will probably mess with the Draigo piece after I get everything ready for Gencon.

Also, here's a gif of the piece:

Its an... Inquisitor!

Yea, that's the ticket. It's my story and I'm stickin' to it.


http://galefire.com/2012/08/business-card-illustration/

Blood for the Blood God! Draigo's skull for the Skull Throne!

“Atop the Blood Falls, where the acrid ichor of Khorn’e fallen champions tumbles endlessly into the void, Draigo slew the great Bloodthirster Kar’Voth. With cleansing fire he drove the demonic taint from the beast’s great axe, and used the molten remains to reforge his sword, sundered in battle with M’Kar the Reborn so long ago.”



http://galefire.com/2012/08/trials-of-draigo-reforging-the-titansword/

I think a space marine falling valiantly in battle would be an awesome pic, its one I have never seen anywhere.

That draigo work is my favorite piece I have seen in this thread. Great job with it. If you are accepting requests I would love to see how you draw sisters of battle.

I do want to add, you should probably be hired by GW, your artwork is so far better then most of the stuff they put out(I mean leagues better.)

Wardragoon wrote:I do want to add, you should probably be hired by GW, your artwork is so far better then most of the stuff they put out(I mean leagues better.)

Oh I don't know about that

IcedAnimals wrote:That draigo work is my favorite piece I have seen in this thread. Great job with it. If you are accepting requests I would love to see how you draw sisters of battle.

Glad you like it, and I am always accepting commissions; however if its not a paid piece I'll probably just do something I want to do like Draigo in the garden of Nurgle next


So Aaron Dembski-Bowden told me "I like a lot of things. I absolutely love this."

Yea, pretty f'ing rad right there.

daedalus-templarius wrote:

Wardragoon wrote:I do want to add, you should probably be hired by GW, your artwork is so far better then most of the stuff they put out(I mean leagues better.)

Oh I don't know about that

IcedAnimals wrote:That draigo work is my favorite piece I have seen in this thread. Great job with it. If you are accepting requests I would love to see how you draw sisters of battle.

Glad you like it, and I am always accepting commissions; however if its not a paid piece I'll probably just do something I want to do like Draigo in the garden of Nurgle next


So Aaron Dembski-Bowden told me "I like a lot of things. I absolutely love this."

Yea, pretty f'ing rad right there.

ADB liked your picture.....you should be considered a diety amongst dakka.

One of your finest pieces yet, I especially like how you drew something from an established piece of background.. a first for your 40k themed art, I think.

Regardless, very nice piece there.

Holy feth! This whole thread is amazing!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:One of your finest pieces yet, I especially like how you drew something from an established piece of background.. a first for your 40k themed art, I think.

Regardless, very nice piece there.

I think you're right about it coming from established background... as established as the absolutely ridiculous Draigo fluff is anyway

Glad you like it though, it certainly makes for epic art.

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Holy feth! This whole thread is amazing!

Glad you like it, I'll try to keep it up

You know what I suddenly realised you should do for the sheer awesome fun of it?

First war for Armageddon. If anything's more awesome than Draigo's insane Daemon killing fluff then it's that.

Picture it.. The Daemon Primarch Angron flanked by 12 Bloodthirsters, thousands of Bloodletters/crushers, Khorne Berzerkers, renegades, Daemon engines.. meanwhile Logan Grimnar alongside Ulrik the Slayer whilst he was still a Wolf Guard and he avenged his fallen charge, Wolf Lord Kruger in combat with the berzerkers.. whilst valiant Steel Legion Imperial Guard fight in the trenches against the horrors of the warp. To top it all off, Taremar Aurellion and 100 Grey Knight Terminators giving their lives so that their Brother-Captain may banish the Primarch, even though it is at the cost of his own life.

Doesn't get much cooler than that, and I reckon you could do it wonders.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:You know what I suddenly realised you should do for the sheer awesome fun of it?

First war for Armageddon. If anything's more awesome than Draigo's insane Daemon killing fluff then it's that.

Picture it.. The Daemon Primarch Angron flanked by 12 Bloodthirsters, thousands of Bloodletters/crushers, Khorne Berzerkers, renegades, Daemon engines.. meanwhile Logan Grimnar alongside Ulrik the Slayer whilst he was still a Wolf Guard and he avenged his fallen charge, Wolf Lord Kruger in combat with the berzerkers.. whilst valiant Steel Legion Imperial Guard fight in the trenches against the horrors of the warp. To top it all off, Taremar Aurellion and 100 Grey Knight Terminators giving their lives so that their Brother-Captain may banish the Primarch, even though it is at the cost of his own life.

Doesn't get much cooler than that, and I reckon you could do it wonders.

Maybe after the 5 piece Draigo-series and some other commissions I have

But wow, that would take SOOOO long to do. Totally awesome tho; would probably have to break it up, your eye would be totally at a loss as to where to go if there was that much 'stuff' going on.

You could make it a Panorama.. so that viewers could scroll across.. or.. something. Maybe paint it in sections and join them together.. eh, you'll think of something.

Whatever you create, it'll exude badass.

Do you do commissions then? Are you taking them now? Rates?

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Do you do commissions then? Are you taking them now? Rates?

Yes, yes, and depends on complexity

PM me with your piece details and I can give you a quote.

That Draigo piece is awsome.

One suggestion I have is if you made a version of that piece with

“Atop the Blood Falls, where the acrid ichor of Khorn’e fallen champions tumbles endlessly into the void, Draigo slew the great Bloodthirster Kar’Voth. With cleansing fire he drove the demonic taint from the beast’s great axe, and used the molten remains to reforge his sword, sundered in battle with M’Kar the Reborn so long ago.”

as sort of a title. Maybe on a scroll accross the very top of the page in small writing so it doesn't distract.