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Sarifus — The Lich King
Published: 2007-02-01 23:18:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 48396; Favourites: 513; Downloads: 2802
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Well, I did threaten to paint this earlier.Here he is; the Lich King from Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, once fused with Arthas. I didn't even bother counting how many hours this took, though I believe it took the longest out of all my paintings here. It may have been something around 10 hours, but that's a guess. Dealing with all the different textures and shades of blue/green was quite interesting. I found the glacier/rock didn't look quite right untill I added texture using pencil over the paint. Oh, and the fur on the boots was quite tricky as well.
Overall, I'm happy with the result though ^^
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Sometimes i wonder if all Arthas does most of the time is just sit there or go stand somewhere and look at the snow and mountains...
Or go and kill everything :I
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it makes me cryyyyyyyyyyyyy, how can i ever paint like u
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This. is. amazing.
Possibly my favourite Lich fanart. :]
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i dont really like the game but this certain guy just looks awesome enough that i might want to give it a try (^^)
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I love this pose. It definitely implies that he is THE Lich King. Perfectly done.
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this is great work. I haven't seen a better pic of the lich king. I think he kinda looks like the Overlord.
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Picture is cool, but I need an advice cause I'm new here. Which program is the best for painting fantasy art, for example art from World of Warcraft?
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Looks like he's about to kick some poor guy's ass. Then again, he always looks that way.
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Uh...except I haven't?
This is my painting of a scene from the game - that's fairly self-evident. =S
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got three words for ya...well that makes it 10 now...anyway(11)I LOOOOOOOVE THIS!
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I like the details, and it fits ol' Arthas.
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You can go see him in WoW, but he will attack you.
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*Coughs up blood* L-O-V-E your art work!! I have no idea how long it took you to finish this but DAYUM this is amazing! :3
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0_o Are you all right? ;D
I think it was roughly 10 hours it took. I need to get back to painting sometime...I've just been so busy recently.
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Thank you very much! Glad you like it 
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you need to draw your own picture if you cant draw practice by tracing ok
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This was more an exercise in brushwork and tone than original composition.
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this is exactly the same as this [link] you traced it...
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Actually it wasn't a tracing...which is why it isn't exactly the same. However, it was done to a much finer degree than reference is sometimes used. I have described my methods for some of my pictures elsewhere - I had a window of the original picture open, and I had my picture open as a seperate window in a seperate program. Manually switching between the two windows, by looking carefully I can attempt to see the fine points of what differences there are between my picture and the original; obviously, as with any picture or scene I can then decide how close I really want to go into making mine like the original. I often choose to make differences, and to make the brushwork visible as I believe that is a part of painting. So, it's not a case of drawing directly onto a set image. Much of my life has been spent drawing and that experience is required - it is not a dissimilar process to drawing what you can see in front of you, as traditional artists, including myself, have often done. With this method, one still needs to understand the object well to replicate it effectively - something that direct tracing does not particularly require, I think.
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thats dumb. theres no point to it becuase its just a differnt kind of tracing
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Hmm...evidently you haven't quite picked up on what I was saying...but never mind. If drawing/painting a version of an existing image or place is pointless, then that rules out a great deal of art, I'm afraid. When drawing, you look up at the subject, then back down to the paper. This was the closest way I found to replicate that while working on computer -shrugs-. I accept you may criticise this method, but if you're going to do that at least be more eloquent and understanding - saying 'that's dumb' is hardly the road to constructive criticism. Only reply if you have something productive to say, please.
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Demn Strait, Nice picture by the way. (I can't spell worth my life...)
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nope nothing productive to say.
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good lord, the game image has NOTHING on this, awesome job
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