Loki and Other Portraits

Autequi

Saw a poster for the new Thor movie and thought this guy had a great expression--not the usual vapid stare or revenge glower. So I did a paintover. There was plenty of shameless tracing, but the textures are all from scratch.

Drugar

You were...up all night to create Loki?

/boogies

Autequi

Drugar said:

You were...up all night to create Loki?

/boogies

....

?

that awkward feeling when you miss a reference

alnair

@Autequi
Just turn on a radio or a music channel and wait long enough... you'll eventually get it.

Autequi

alnair said:

@Autequi
Just turn on a radio or a music channel and wait long enough... you'll eventually get it.

I'm Loki you came along to explain it to me.

Drugar

I do very much like the picture, I have to add.

sunset00

excellent!) That one (icon), out of the movies context, could very well be interesting to use in a party..indeed. Nice one.. thx)

Autequi

Thanks! I'm looking for a new project but haven't found any inspiring. Seen any good candidates for Rasaad?

LadyRhian

@Autequi Arnold Vosloo from "The Mummy" movies?




For Dorn, May I suggest Chris Hemsworth?

Autequi

@LadyRhian
So I'm looking at your pics thinking, 'Well, these men are certainly yum' and Googling for more images and pondering their suitability when... wait a minute... did you just suggest evil Imhotep for the good NPC and good Thor for the evil one?

Thanks for the suggestions, though; I'm definitely considering them.

LadyRhian

@Autequi I was going for facial resemblance more than anything. And lack of hair in the case of Rasaad.

Autequi

Haven't finished Rasaad, but here is an armored Daenerys Targaryen. Inspired by a request from @Shandyr in the Alternate NPC portraits thread.

Paintover, armor from Leelee Sobiesky's Joan of Arc movie. The portrait doesn't resize well to small, so I recommend using the included file.

Autequi

Hm, apparently you can't delete and re-attach files from a previous post.

Autequi

Here's Michael Ealy in Anomen armor.

randName

Hey, nice portraits - esp. the first and last.

With the last though the light feels off - or most of the areas makes sense on their own, but together they feel a bit random.

Hard light from the front-right on the throat while the nose area have a hard front light etc.

Did a quick paintover, hope you don't mind.
Note that the style is now worse as I just slapped on some paint - but some of these shadows and lights make more sense to me overall than before.


& I killed way too much contrast style wise - so yeah just light direction and shadow placement is of interest here (I also always paint with too muted colors personally)

Autequi

randName said:

Did a quick paintover, hope you don't mind.

Not at all; have at it! I like what you've done with it.

Yeah, that lighting's a hot mess. At some point you get sick of working on the same thing though. I might revisit it one day.