SHAZAM! Finally done, lol. Scanner, as usual, killed most of the shading.
Its been a while since I've drawn any Halo stuffs or did any real pencil drawings so I said "What the hey" and got to work...two months later xD
I used a reference, of course. Some really amazing Halo Wars picture, I loved it to death. Took...8 hours maybe? I dunno. I just hacked away at it little by little for the longest time :S
Holy schnap...! SERIOUSLY awesome shading!!! From the thumb my first impression was that maybe it was just a black and white filtered version of a render of a Halo Wars Spartan II with the contrast pumped up, but heck no. Impressive accuracy, incredible depth in lighting. Albiet directly referenced from a stock image, that image was a CGI render. It's no small task to translate that into a greyscale sketch. And I haven't ever seen somebody do it this well IMO.
Major favourite markage
With all the updates DA keeps doing, I wish they'd put some sort of feature that let you feature one deviation from somebody else for a period of time. Like how you can mark your personal fav out of your gallery and display it. This would certainly occupy that spot for a time.
Sorry if that sounds like a bunch of fluff. I get tired of seeing fanart that's off model/not-so-good in other ways or Halo 3 screen-caps, this just blew my mind when I brought it up.
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that is so friggin amazing -stares at it- Don't let my older brother see that... he'd steal it in a heart beat... like that one master chief that I drew.
but seriously that is really good. I know I couldn't have done that.
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A Special Collection of photographs i found this month that still haunts my mind. Show them some love There are always some i can`t include due to space, i try to make the features under 50 deviations to give them better exposure
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This is really good work!
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Thanks a bunch!
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SERIOUSLY awesome shading!!!
From the thumb my first impression was that maybe it was just a black and white filtered version of a render of a Halo Wars Spartan II with the contrast pumped up, but heck no.
Impressive accuracy, incredible depth in lighting. Albiet directly referenced from a stock image, that image was a CGI render. It's no small task to translate that into a greyscale sketch. And I haven't ever seen somebody do it this well IMO.
Major favourite markage
With all the updates DA keeps doing, I wish they'd put some sort of feature that let you feature one deviation from somebody else for a period of time. Like how you can mark your personal fav out of your gallery and display it. This would certainly occupy that spot for a time.
Sorry if that sounds like a bunch of fluff. I get tired of seeing fanart that's off model/not-so-good in other ways or Halo 3 screen-caps, this just blew my mind when I brought it up.
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"This world is spinning around me, this world is spinning without me.
Every day sends future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last."
-Pull Me Under by Dream Theater-
this is godly
words cannot describe my awe-dness
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That's great!
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Yeah?
Well...your face!
I was literally like o.o; omg.
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but seriously that is really good. I know I couldn't have done that.
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In those five seconds I held your hand, I felt heaven sweep me off my feet.
Thanks
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