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ShadesofNight — Off With Their Shirts - Part 1

Published: 2013-02-19 12:00:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 3981; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 16
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Description This monstrosity is finally done.

Doing this seems to have helped me improve the way I draw males a lot, I feel like I'm getting more familiar with how all the muscles work. Refs were most certainly used.

Of course there were some who decided to just be plain difficult right from the start. Haer'Dalis decided that his face would be difficult, then he had to have annoying asymmetrical hair that confused me when i flipped him, then he had a serpent tattoo which I had to figure out how to draw, then his scar was on the wrong side, then he had all those hair baubles to add, and earrings, and his nose still needed to be fixed. See? Difficult blighter.

The scars of Kivan (well, I couldn't find an exact description of those on his body, just knew that it and his hands had a lot of them), Haer'Dalis and Tsujatha relate to their mods (though I added a few marks to Haer'Dalis. Revenge for being a pest to draw). Xan I stuck a few on because he's a squishy mage and uses a sword...

And Solaufein I just let my imagination run wild with. I have no idea what the Sola mod has to say about possible scars on him. This isn't based on the mod version of him, because I (not so secretly) still pine for a Solaufein mod that isn't full of poetry and philosophy and stays closer to his character. And I wrote a little thing to go with it regarding the scarf thing he has:
Sola: "... you got me a pretty trinket?"
PC: "Well you said that such things were only the luxuries of the powerful in the underdark, right? But on the surface many people have items with no practical use. So think of it as a welcome to the surface present. And you could always use it to strangle someone if you really needed to."

One of his scars is meant to be the shape of a spider partially carved into him, the others are just whatever I felt like.

... And there's still another set of these to do.

All these guys are from Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 except Tsujatha, who has a BG2 mod and is from a set of novels.
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Comments: 16

LinweSora [2015-08-07 17:45:38 +0000 UTC]

OMG Solaufein is so HOOOOT !!

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Spydrouge [2014-07-23 12:47:16 +0000 UTC]

Haer'Dalis knows he's damn fine. He's just sending out signals to ascertain if you *also* know it, and what you will permit him to do about it

Xan has no idea he's being watched. That's not his shy face; he's looking in a mirror and feeling insecure and insignificant. 

Kivan is confused/oblivious and wondering why any woman would be staring at him now. If he knew what you were thinking, he'd be grabbing a towel in horror. 

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Baveboi [2013-10-06 22:41:07 +0000 UTC]

Just... wow. I went a little bit queer there.


I was also hoping for a more ~true to the core~ Drow experience with Solaufein than what I got with the mod. Ellaine Cunningham's fault, mostly.

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Neferit [2013-05-24 10:26:16 +0000 UTC]

<<< is too taken with drooling in her keyboard to write something meaningfull

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Peachplums [2013-04-25 06:41:38 +0000 UTC]

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Dat Tsujatha! gaaaaaaaaad it makes me want to play the mod again.

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raynetempura [2013-02-21 19:18:09 +0000 UTC]

Waaah, oo la la. Nicely done! :3

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ShadesofNight In reply to raynetempura [2013-02-22 11:05:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks~! There are never too many topless pretty elves in the world <3

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raynetempura In reply to ShadesofNight [2013-02-22 19:07:52 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, so true!

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AvengingExile [2013-02-20 08:36:01 +0000 UTC]

No no.. it's okay. I needed a new keyboard. I don't think my warranty covers jaw droppings.

Gawd, this is gorgeous! Kivan's come-on look amuses me greatly and I just melt looking at Solaufein. Very nice. Also, I agree about the Sola mod. Too much poetry. It didn't feel like the same character you meet in Ust Natha. Meh, I still enjoyed it. I'm hoping that the mods get updated soon-ish for the Enhanced Edition so I can enjoy them again.

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ShadesofNight In reply to AvengingExile [2013-02-20 11:02:42 +0000 UTC]

It must not have been stuck on properly, sometimes you really need to fix the fastenings on your jaw to make sure it doesn't fall off~

Thank you Ha, I didn't think Kivan was the type to try and strike a broody or pouty pose. Sola was a bit of a pest in that I went through about 6 different skin colours and 2 or 3 hair colours for him, but he cooperated in the end~ Exactly my thoughts, when I read through his non-mod underdark stuff and then read his mod stuff it just feels a bit jarringly like a completely different character. I could understand him changing that much with enough time to relax and get used to things on the surface, but he literally just stepped out of the underdark. I still haven't gone through BGEE (Black Pits, but not BGEE itself) but it would be great to have mods up and running with it. Mods add a lot to those games.

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AvengingExile In reply to ShadesofNight [2013-02-21 05:03:50 +0000 UTC]

Everything's cool now. I found duct tape.

I had forgotten just how much of the character development was mod created for BG. It's kind of impressive that we have such vivid ideas of the npcs when the writers really didn't have a lot of material to go on.

Game on, my shady friend!

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ShadesofNight In reply to AvengingExile [2013-02-22 11:00:47 +0000 UTC]

Hooray for duct tape

Oh yes, BG mods are varied and wonderful. I love how much freedom not being heavily reliant on voicing gives the modders. Things can be descriptive, responses can be numerous and you can have a decent number of talks that actually build up a relationship between the player character and NPC.

I will indeed~

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DaggerXIV [2013-02-19 17:46:31 +0000 UTC]

My jaw dropped somewhere on the floor,methink!
Shade,that's a helluva gorgeus picture! You've really put a great effort on their bodies' anatomy and the results are wonderful.
I quite liked the weimer mod, but I hope there will be a different Solaufein mod as well.

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ShadesofNight In reply to DaggerXIV [2013-02-20 10:54:18 +0000 UTC]

Quick! Pick it up, 5 second rule!

Thank you! I learned a lot doing these, I think it's really helped reinforce how important and useful just plain practicing can be.

There are good things about Weimer's Sola and as one of the first romance mods (I think) he was at the start of something great. But I'd just really like to see something closer to his character that we see in the underdark~

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Magp1e [2013-02-19 14:45:42 +0000 UTC]

SQUEE~~! Lookit them! I'm so glad you finished this, you worked so hard on it and look at it! All your hard work paid off! I really adore them all! Xan looks deliciously doomed.
KIVAN! DID YOU BEHAVE FOR YOUR RANGERBROS? Awwwe! See, was that so hard? You look awesome!
I love your story for Sola. Can you imagine how awe-struck he would be upon receiving such a gift?
Haer'Dalis know's he's fine! Lookit that pose! LOOKIT IT~
Tsujatha. Words cannot express my love or excitement. ~meeeeellllllltttt~

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ShadesofNight In reply to Magp1e [2013-02-20 10:51:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~! <3 And yes! Kivan did behave himself, he deserves a rangerbro treat for behaving (except his scars, they don't get a treat because they tried to be difficult).
I think he would be so awestruck that he would shove watermelons down his pajama pants, hurr hurr ;D
I'm not sure if Haer'Dalis is trying to pull his pants up or down with that pose XD
You could melt down Tsu-Tsu and turn him into coins he's so golden XD

Now if only the next lot would just magically be done in 5 seconds.

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