Mellas' Little Sketchbook

[MellasFenixxes]

Melly walks in carrying her sketchbook under her arm. She waves excitedly.  

Haya everybody!
I'm that blonde nolthrir jumping around here and there xD
I figured I should post here sometime, seeing that Planeshift is a great inspiration to me. <3
Here is my drawing of an ynnwn. It's based on Odinsdi, though I still have to check with him if he agrees on the design.
Also, it's not completely done yet and prone to change. I still have lots to learn



Thank you for looking! <3
Now I'm off to admire the other great artists here

Much huggles,
~ Melly

[Garris Shrike]

Wow, I'm rather impressed with the shading work and effort put into this. Good piece of work for sure.

[MellasFenixxes]

Thank you so much Garris! <3
I spent quite some time on this one

[Illysia]

It is really good. 

[Morla Phlint]

Bravo Mellas! Looking forward to see more from your Little Sketchbook

[Tadano Hitoshi]

Outstanding work Mellas!
Will you draw Melly herself next?

[Orgonwukh]

Nice one, Mellas 

[Lhaa]

Beautiful drawing and composition!
Great work there Mellas. \o/

Now, if you let me drop some constructive criticism...
(I know, if somebody had to turn up with whining it had to be me. XD)
As I said, love the picture and hey, he looks real handsome but I get the impression he's more or less human sized.
Probably, and I understand this is too much to change it now, a smaller head (see heads proportions in both pics) would do for giving that feeling.
Maybe you can add something else (props or something in the BG) to it that can stick out the size instead?
Just a humble suggestion, hope it helps somehow. o/

Keep those drawings coming!

[MellasFenixxes]

Thank you all so much for the kind replies! <3
I'm glad to hear you think so Llyn!
Tadano, I have some ideas for Melly lying around. It involves water buckets for sure xD

* MellasFenixxes nods at Lhaa.

You're completely right, I noticed that myself! I have been brainstorming over things I could add to indicate his ynnwn-size. Haven't really come up with something that could actually work yet, but I can make the background expand anytime to work something out. Any crits are more than welcome, thank you very muchly for taking the time to point that out Lhaa! Very sweet of you! *hugs*

[Zweitholou]

As already mentioned the shading is quite well done. Personally, I also like the expression of the face, sort of inspired determination mingled with self-confidence.  Furthermore, I like the clarity of the picture and the interesting angle of the figure, as well as the foreshortening of the axe. The way you shaded the clouds is interesting.
On the topic of trying to give the impression of height, I think the pickax on his back is too large in proportion to the rest of his body. It just seems to dwarf him a little...
I'm afraid I can't think of anything to add to the background to help with proportions though..

Anyways, very nice! I'll be looking forward to more of your art.
Zweitholou

[Mouli]

Good job indeed Mellas ! 

[LigH]

Impressive! -- He makes his path.

[MellasFenixxes]

It's been a while, but I'm going to pick up my pencils this year again!
I'm very inspired to draw the various races and creatures, so let's hope I can get some things done.
These are a few scribbles from last year; and I'm very happy with the third one.

My try at Nolthrir Plate Armor design. I tried to keep the seaweed-ish jewellery around the neck into it, and a shell kind of feel for the platemail. It was great fun to do!



These are two scribbles of elves and ynnwns, based on Jacula and Mellas.
The first one was a lineart I made at work, it isn't finished, but I still like it enough just to share.
I'd say the sketch shows the two characters better, but I still have a lot to practise before I really caught their feel, for now I'm just experimenting a bit.

[bloodedIrishman]

They look nice.

In the future should there be a wanted poster of Kull, I know two in game artists to do the job. 

[Mogweh]

I'm going to pick up my pencils this year again!

Excellent news Mel and a stellar first draft.

I think we can all look forward to much more of your creativity this year.


Mog