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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2011, 06:32:54 pm »
A bit of constructive criticism though is perhaps you could age his face a bit, give him some wrinkles. So far that's what I've seen in the only 2 other fan arts of father

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2011, 10:29:58 pm »
I really never saw him as being old though... kind of like Queen Zeal...

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2011, 10:52:00 pm »
Forever young, its the zeal way!

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #33 on: January 22, 2011, 01:37:10 am »
Rather than outright wrinkles, perhaps you could show signs of powerful expression and slightly weathered skin, such as crow's feet when he smiles or grimaces, and bags under his eyes. He has, after all, been through much more than pretty much anybody out there. I dunno if I compare him to Crono, though; Crono has been hit upside the head with a bazillion different projectiles, sucked dry by freakish mutants, zapped with lasers and magic, whacked in the face by lizard men, munched on by a giant dinosaur, disintegrated into nothing and then resurrected, had to fight Queen Zeal after she turned into something like Bekkler on crack, steroids, meth and a little acid, and then killed an immensely powerful alien tick by cutting through its body and killing its insides. And apparently, he seems to have died again, and has nothing to bring him back this time.

No wonder he's addicted to Ether.

But, I digress. If you don't want to make him look outright wrinkly, just put in features that show signs of stress and such.

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2011, 01:47:10 am »
If you do that, it will have a similar effect that the beard has. It will take away from the focus of the drawing: his expression.

The beard makes him look tired, less driven. Like he can't even shave he's so crazy. Wrinkles would multiply this effect.

But a clean, relatively young man, who happens to be extremely powerful and so brilliant that he's crazy? THAT's the King Zeal I know.

Marle, I think the nail has already been hit on the head.

EDIT: After re-reading I realize this might sound rather pushy, I'm really just trying to emphasize I like it as-is! :-)
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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #35 on: January 22, 2011, 06:56:45 am »
Marle, this could not have been done any better.  You have a lot of talent.  I wonder if you would be interested in drawing some pics from my fan-fic when I have a few more chapters done?

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2011, 03:51:23 am »
Marle, this could not have been done any better.  You have a lot of talent.  I wonder if you would be interested in drawing some pics from my fan-fic when I have a few more chapters done?

If I am inspired, I will do so. Unfortunately, I am in a pinch for finances and, while greatly honored by everyone's interest in my work, I may ask small exchanges in return for art, as any bit would help. However, I will read and see if something gets my creative juices pumping ^.^

If you do that, it will have a similar effect that the beard has. It will take away from the focus of the drawing: his expression.

The beard makes him look tired, less driven. Like he can't even shave he's so crazy. Wrinkles would multiply this effect.

But a clean, relatively young man, who happens to be extremely powerful and so brilliant that he's crazy? THAT's the King Zeal I know.

Marle, I think the nail has already been hit on the head.

EDIT: After re-reading I realize this might sound rather pushy, I'm really just trying to emphasize I like it as-is! :-)

I appreciate you jumping to my aide and my vision. I too see him as the clean, young man, with brilliance and insanity. While I appreciate the suggestions, I think I shall keep our King as is at least for my vision.  :kz :)

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2011, 07:14:01 pm »
Haha, I guess in my canon, King Zeal's pretty clean-shaven, so it was cool to have a beardless version of him.

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #38 on: February 02, 2011, 06:57:50 am »
Haha, I guess in my canon, King Zeal's pretty clean-shaven, so it was cool to have a beardless version of him.

I liked the beardless version better, myself. XD Glad you liked it!!

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Re: King Zeal - WIP
« Reply #39 on: March 11, 2011, 05:37:24 pm »
I've been ill and currently on leave from work so I've had time to catch up on and do a few new things for myself. I wanted to share a fan art I've begun of King Zeal as per Chrono99's rendition of him with my own touches on his appearance after studying the sprite.

Anyway, I'd love feedback. Currently this is the sketch I have done

Love it, hate it? Thoughts, suggestions? I'd love constructive criticism or if I'm going in a good direction... that's nice to know too :)

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its actually very good. just the frozen flame kinda looks weird.