Battlewraith Art

[battlewraith]

Wacky wizard race:

[Christopher Robin]

I'm totally rooting for Abe Lincoln's floating head!

[battlewraith]

I am too, but since he's the only honest one I don't think his chances are that great.

[battlewraith]

I've been working on my comic for a while but recently took a break to do some pinups. Here's the most recent wip:

 

[battlewraith]

Finished that version of the pinup:

 

[battlewraith]

This is my spine scrapper, influenced by the work of an absurdist, body horror manga artist named Shintaro Kago:

 

[battlewraith]

My humble farmer:

 

[Greycat]

She doesn't look humble at *all.* :)

[RickmanUK]

Love the Art, Shame I can't draw for anything... (Wrist problems when holding a pencil/Stylus)

[battlewraith]

Hey peeps, 

 

I'm organizing a casual pvp event on Excelsior server. The idea is to get a group of farmers, each of which will have a team of door sitters who start as brand new level one characters. As the teams level, they will face of against the other teams at specific intervals (eg. 1, 20, 38, 50). The only enhancements participants will be allowed to use are SOs. No incarnates, no IOs.

So you can hang out, have crazy lowbie pvp brawls, and get an alt farmed to 50. It's also a great opportunity to play characters that aren't good for the current high end pvp meta: warshades, controllers, scrappers, etc.

 

I'm also offering custom 3d printed character busts for the farmers/team captains. There are more details, as well as a sample of what a bust might be like,  in the "Hitters and Sitters" thread in the Excelsior section of the forums.

[EnnVee]

On 9/11/2021 at 7:20 PM, battlewraith said:

My humble farmer:

 

 

Here is my twisted little farmer girl - Sanitarium !

[battlewraith]

4 hours ago, EnnVee said:

 

Here is my twisted little farmer girl - Sanitarium !

Is she on Excelsior? If not can she or another farmer move there? EVERY captain that participates will get a 3d printed bust of their character. You don't have to win the event or anything to get that prize.

[battlewraith]

Hey guys, 

 

I'm getting ready to launch my webcomic, which includes some of my coh characters. Kind of brainstorming elements for banners and whatnot. Here's an icon of my first OC battlewraith who eventually makes an appearance, so I thought I'd post it here:

 

[Trike]

Intriguing combination of elements: Devil horns, angel halo, and a miner’s hat. Sounds like a fascinating backstory in the works.

[battlewraith]

1 hour ago, Trike said:

Intriguing combination of elements: Devil horns, angel halo, and a miner’s hat. Sounds like a fascinating backstory in the works.

Thanks for looking! She's actually inspired by a Tom Waits song called Such a Scream.

[battlewraith]

I've got an invite to the Midjourney beta a while back. It's one of the AI art programs that creates imagery based on a prompt you give it. I thought I'd see if it could do something inline with my OC. I gave it the prompt "beautiful blond devil girl holding a flaming skull." I shouldn't have said "girl" because it actually took that literally. Also for some reason instead of "holding a flaming skull" it added skull features to her face. Despite the distortions, it kicked out some interesting imagery:

 

[battlewraith]

This is kind of how I picture the ToT witches when they come out the door and see a bunch of supers.

[battlewraith]

Recently I started dabbling in traditional media. I've been experimenting a lot with water soluble graphite. Here is a variation of the with piece done with water soluble graphite pencil, white charcoal pencil, and some brush pen.

[battlewraith]

Here's another experiment with mixed media. Again with water soluble graphite, white charcoal, and ink. I'm wondering if rapid rise in AI will make people more or less interested in hand-crafted art. 

[EnnVee]

2 hours ago, battlewraith said:

Here's another experiment with mixed media. Again with water soluble graphite, white charcoal, and ink. I'm wondering if rapid rise in AI will make people more or less interested in hand-crafted art. 

I will take your Hand-Crafted art over AI stuff ANY DAY OF THE WEEK !!!

❤️

[battlewraith]

1 hour ago, EnnVee said:

I will take your Hand-Crafted art over AI stuff ANY DAY OF THE WEEK !!!

❤️

Thanks! Glad to hear it!

[sbloyd]

I look at it similar to the shift when photography became a thing and artists revolted against it.  Artists shifted and new styles became prominent, and then the landscape settled again with photography being another tool in the artists' kit.

[battlewraith]

23 minutes ago, sbloyd said:

I look at it similar to the shift when photography became a thing and artists revolted against it.  Artists shifted and new styles became prominent, and then the landscape settled again with photography being another tool in the artists' kit.

 

I've been playing with Midjourney for about a year. It's ridiculous how much more advanced it's gotten in a year. They now have a function for consistent characters that works pretty well. I don't know where things will lead with the technology, but it would not be implausible to think that within 5 years ALL digital art production involves AI and that some things like traditional polygonal modeling and rendering become niche if not outright obsolete.

 

I think what's difficult for people to get at this stage is that this technology produces great results very quickly and very cheaply (in terms of skill required). We're still in a stage were it makes noticeable mistakes, but that should go away relatively soon. So you will have a technology that can produce professional quality results at lightning speed. Any user will be able to produce more content in a month than a conventional artist would be able to in a year. There's speculation in AI circles that when things reach this state there will be a general shift away from digital work being perceived as art. "Artists" will be people making things by hand.