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Post by squirmydad on Oct 3, 2010 4:56:34 GMT -9
The theme for this months HOARD is:
Fantasy Monsters
This can be any sort of monster from slimes and molds to arch demons, let your imaginations run wild.
If you submit a figure, they must include both front and rear art, have a proper trimming outline, and include instructions for multi-part models. Recolors and figure mods are encouraged, and even uncolored designs are welcome.
No nudity or sexuality, but bloody gory and horrifying is encouraged.
If you have questions about how to design your figures, like formats, resolution, and stuff like that, see the HOARD GUIDELINES in this forum category. I would like to see as many people try their hand at designing, even if it's just a recolor or figure modification, post something. I know I'll keep my own goals modest, and try to get at least one figure done for each HOARD. JIM |
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Post by nikloveland on Oct 3, 2010 15:50:02 GMT -9
It looks like labrat will have a leg up on this one (since he's been working on monsters for the whole summer). JK Aaron. It's gonna be cool to see what y'all can come up with. Sirrob, you better get your dragons in there! |
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 4, 2010 1:38:47 GMT -9
I think Dragons and the Chimera will make an appearance  . |
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Post by arkhamresident on Oct 9, 2010 4:26:34 GMT -9
I thought doing some oozes would be a good way to ease me back into drawing. Nothing special just a few sketches but I'd like any ideas on how to show some action other that wavy pseudopods. Also any advice on coloring and shading would be greatly appreciated.   In case it's not apparent the bottom one is rearing up to wash over some poor adventurer. It's been a LONG time since I've drawn anything so excuse the mess. |
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Post by labrat on Oct 9, 2010 6:32:11 GMT -9
Hey nice sketches. I think it would be cool if they were somewhat transparent and to have some dude inside of one of them, in the throws of death as he is suffocating and slowly beginning to dissolve.  |
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Post by arkhamresident on Oct 9, 2010 6:55:39 GMT -9
Hey nice sketches. I think it would be cool if they were somewhat transparent and to have some dude inside of one of them, in the throws of death as he is suffocating and slowly beginning to dissolve. Thanks. I figured starting with amorphous creatures would be easy since it's kinda hard to screw up a giant blob of acidic snot. I was planning on having random undigested bits that could be placed onto the mini prior to printing to give it more visual appeal and give the illusion of transparency without using acetate. Bones, bits of armor, weapons, coins, gem etc. I was going to put them on a separate sheet and anyone could use GIMP or whatever to cut and paste them. As for having someone in an ooze I'm thinking of having an ooze engulfed skeleton or corpse walking upright sort of using the remains as support but that's last on the list. I need to get more practice sketching before I try anything too complex.  |
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Post by vodswyld on Oct 9, 2010 9:26:53 GMT -9
My friend is looking for a Bear if anyone wants to do that. ;D
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Post by labrat on Oct 16, 2010 4:34:09 GMT -9
Hey I'm liking the updated sketches you posted up there. Very cool! |
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Post by arkhamresident on Oct 17, 2010 15:48:44 GMT -9
Hey I'm liking the updated sketches you posted up there. Very cool! Thanks for the encouragement. I'm pretty happy with the way it's turning out even if they do look a bit silly. I've decided to do the oozes like the pic below. I'm gonna do ochre, black, grey and green. If anyone has any color suggestions let me know. The grey and green will be normal size for a 30mm mini but the ochre will be twice as big and the black pudding 3 times as big (using sizes from the Pathfinder Bestiary). Hopefully I'll have some skeletons for the larger two if I can work up the nerve to attempt to draw them. ;D   Any tips on shading and coloring would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to give the illusion of the oozes being wet if possible. |
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Post by Parduz on Oct 17, 2010 21:05:04 GMT -9
LOL The body parts makes me laugh Seems a funny monster to do, and a really dangerous one to fight! really nice! Any tips on shading and coloring would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to give the illusion of the oozes being wet if possible. mmhh... "fisheyed" reflection of its own base? |
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 17, 2010 21:18:42 GMT -9
It depends were you colour it : Inkscape: try Filters>>textures : Jam spread might be one to try, Also try drawing some bubbles etc on top and fading them a little it can give the impression of a liquid, did that with my water elemental. Gimp: I'd try any tutorial on water/oil and see what works. Basically play around You could also try overlaying a RL plastic/water texture. Pen and Ink no clue |
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Post by labrat on Oct 17, 2010 23:04:18 GMT -9
Some nice crisp white highlights on the tops of all the bulging parts should do the trick. Contrasted by dark at the top and blended to lighter shades at the bottom helps it look transparent/translucent. Here are some examples of what I mean.   I hope that helps somewhat. Obviously your shapes will be more complex than simple water droplets so you will have to decide where to shade and highlight based on the shapes you are doing. |
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Post by Parduz on Oct 17, 2010 23:28:04 GMT -9
More "complex" shapes:    Looking at them seems that (just guessing): - the more jelly you look thru, the darker the color you get - strong lenticular distortion (much more than water 'cause denser material). The more you'll blur the objects in its inside, the less transparent and "pure" it feels. - strong light reflection: if you do "shiny spots" are almost full white: defined spot edges = glass-like surface, blurred edges=matte/dirty surface. That's the best i can do. |
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Post by trundil on Oct 18, 2010 2:48:54 GMT -9
hey guys, i am new to this forum. apologize my english please, i am from germany, though i am studyin english my problem is: i need more miniatures. for a couple of months or so, i am addicted to making paper minis (thanks to your page), and now i have almost 100 of them, i guess. soon i can post here an url with some pictiures of them, i hope. so thanks all designers for your wonderful work. but, i am sorry, i need more! and till now i don´t know how to make, that means how to design em on my own. seems that i should check the tutorials. ok, please keep up the good work. i am eager to see (and make) more miniatures. bye, Trundil |
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Post by enpeze on Oct 18, 2010 3:23:55 GMT -9
hey guys, i am new to this forum. apologize my english please, i am from germany, though i am studyin english my problem is: i need more miniatures. for a couple of months or so, i am addicted to making paper minis (thanks to your page), and now i have almost 100 of them, i guess. soon i can post here an url with some pictiures of them, i hope. so thanks all designers for your wonderful work. but, i am sorry, i need more! and till now i don´t know how to make, that means how to design em on my own. seems that i should check the tutorials. ok, please keep up the good work. i am eager to see (and make) more miniatures. bye, Trundil Well, did you try Dryw the Harpers sets? I think he has over 600 different minis. |
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Post by arkhamresident on Oct 18, 2010 14:20:16 GMT -9
Wow, thanks for all the feedback! I'll see what I can whip up and if everything goes horribly wrong I'll be back with more questions. |
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Post by wintermage on Oct 22, 2010 0:53:48 GMT -9
Here some work in progress. Enjoy.  |
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Post by Parduz on Oct 22, 2010 1:35:16 GMT -9
Here some work in progress. Enjoy.  Really nice style, Wintermage. As it is a wip i'll keep only to things that seems "finished": 1) i think you'll have alignment problems (not the rpg alignment, but the folding one  ): the back side "lacks" the feet and so is some mm lower than the front side (just eyeballing, but the tab seems equally higher while the tail on the back side is closer than the front). 2) I'd try also to draw the feet flat: as Jim teach, it "broke" the perspective but turns out to be a better view. |
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Post by Reivaj on Oct 22, 2010 4:37:36 GMT -9
Hey Wintermage excelente work!! Are you new here?. I´m agree with parduz in the alignment, but it´s easy to fix. I´ll be waiting for this dragonborn!! ;D
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Post by wintermage on Oct 22, 2010 15:48:12 GMT -9
Here the originals:   |
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Post by wintermage on Oct 22, 2010 15:57:07 GMT -9
Hey Wintermage excelente work!! Are you new here?. I´m agree with parduz in the alignment, but it´s easy to fix. I´ll be waiting for this dragonborn!! ;D Thanks. I'm pleased to know people are enjoing what I'm doing. Yes, I began 2 weeks ago but since january always heard about Onemoonk's miniatures website. I loved the fact that are other gamers who wants to make they'r homemade miniatures to play RPG whitout buying WotC minis. Already fixed it and posted the originals drawnings for everyone to see it. Soon, gona post more players characters races, because Dragonborn it's only the tip of the iceberg. |
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Post by nikloveland on Oct 23, 2010 4:57:38 GMT -9
Welcome to the forum winterMage and keep it up!
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Post by enpeze on Oct 23, 2010 14:50:32 GMT -9
cool dragonborn! How about a large shield of bahamut in his other arm? Or a doublehanded axe? |
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Post by Parduz on Oct 25, 2010 0:31:09 GMT -9
Ok, my first Hoard entry will be an "OT" entry: status markers. This is a preview of the WIP:  The idea is to have non-flat markers for the various games status which are - easy to see - easy to pick up - a bit funnier than a cardboard disk with a word on it. So these should be a sort of "poles", with a 1cm base or (if you play on that type of terrain) a needle glued in the pole tip to be sink in the terrain. Now, what i ask is: what status do you like to see? Can you please suggest status (and correct wording  ) for them? These are what i thought: Burning Frozen Stunned (Dazed? Paralyzed? are they the same?) Poisoned Petrified Pinned Flying (temporarily) Berserk .... tell me what you could find useful! P.S. Should'nt this guy ( ) have a name? I think so: Iron Maiden have Eddie, Megadeth have Vic Rattlehead.... (no, i'm not a metal fan... it just happen that i remember that two) PP.SS. I may be super dumb, but where should i post my progress and designs? I have not a personal "space" in the forum (and i don't think i'd need it, due to the rarity of my contributions) and i've not understood if there's a place for "generic submissions". |
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Post by josedominguez on Oct 25, 2010 0:49:56 GMT -9
frenzied prone hiding routing I love them |
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Post by whiteknight06604 on Oct 25, 2010 3:12:09 GMT -9
great idea Parduz,these will be very useful to me.I might add that a "blessed" and "cursed" or "concentrating/casting spell" marker might be useful.
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Post by cobra on Oct 25, 2010 3:18:50 GMT -9
Missile troop markers:
- Reloading
- Out of Ammo
/Cobra
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Post by Dominic on Oct 25, 2010 4:09:55 GMT -9
They look great! I wonder, though, which conditions would be required, seeing how there are so many systems around... I think blinded deafened would be good additions, too. You could take things further and make one for surprised bloodied but I don't know whether these would be usefull in many systems. And I would call Little Jim, or Cabby (short for cardbord). |
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Post by tonsha on Oct 25, 2010 10:13:54 GMT -9
Parduz!!
These are really lovely markers!! ;D
Since you're taking requests I'd like the various status markers for SBH:
Fallen, Transfixed, Poisoned, Wounded (maybe with the no. of wounds: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Out of Ammo, (...and i can't thiink of any more right now).
Great job anyway! What graphics package are you using (since I am interested uin that kind of stuff...)
DaveA
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Post by Dagger on Oct 25, 2010 13:12:20 GMT -9
Great markers... Fantastic idea!
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