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#1 Ilmatar

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 01:20 AM


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#12Challenge:
Saemon Havarian
Deadline: Friday, 13th July ( :unsure: )
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Saaaaemoooon Havaaariaaan! The character you love to hate! Or at least I do. Saemon is one of those important (and entertaining) characters that don't have their own portraits, so now it's time for us to illustrate our least favourite captain! Am I the only one who thinks of Zapp Brannigan when talking about Saemon?

You know how the challenges work - you've got two weeks, any style, techinique and medium you can think of, and have fun. :)

Edited by Ilmatar, 23 August 2007 - 01:44 AM.


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Posted 29 June 2007 - 06:29 AM

Excellent choice for a challenge Ilmatar. I've been waiting to sink my claws into this scoundrel for a long while now :devil:

And for the record, I Love to Hate this guy.

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 07:00 AM

Holy...!! :woot: That's amazing! :D Absolutely gorgeous and exactly like the scoundrel he is!


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Posted 29 June 2007 - 07:10 AM

Thanks :D I was kinda worried of being too early but the idea was too good to pass.
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Posted 29 June 2007 - 08:55 AM

Ooooooh!!!! :D

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 01:21 PM

"It's funny 'cos it's true".

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(actually, BitTorrent didn't even exist back when BG2 came out, music DRM basically didn't exist, and Napster was still working the way it was intended. Some remembering the good old pre-RIAA days).

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#7 Zoraciel Ivtel

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 02:37 PM

Oooooh, this will be fun...

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 02:53 PM

Excellent choice for a challenge Ilmatar. I've been waiting to sink my claws into this scoundrel for a long while now :devil:

And for the record, I Love to Hate this guy.

Well, guess that's it. We have a winner, stop the challenge. Next one plz? :P

I don't really care one way or another about Saemon's character, but his general unkillability (if that wasn't a word before, it is now) ticks me off. (Yes, he can be killed, but he mostly uses cheesy "I moved to another area, so you can't follow me!" tactics to escape, and he tends to hang around area exits...)


"It's funny 'cos it's true".

Yes, because Saemon would totally be leeching dark elf porn off Bittorrent if he had the opportunity. :lol:


...anyone else figure that the RIAA might be more succesful if they called it something else? I mean... come on, "pirate"? Everybody knows pirates are awesome! They should have called it something to do with terrorism instead. Like, "software terrorist". The leeching would drop by like 90%. Srsly.

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 02:55 PM

Excellent choice for a challenge Ilmatar. I've been waiting to sink my claws into this scoundrel for a long while now :devil:

And for the record, I Love to Hate this guy.

Well, guess that's it. We have a winner, stop the challenge. Next one plz? :P


:new_bottom: Not a contest! No winners in challenges! Hay, you really should make us a comic about his unkillability, pwease?


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Posted 29 June 2007 - 03:02 PM

...anyone else figure that the RIAA might be more succesful if they called it something else? I mean... come on, "pirate"? Everybody knows pirates are awesome! They should have called it something to do with terrorism instead. Like, "software terrorist". The leeching would drop by like 90%. Srsly.

Back when the media corporations were shoving the 'pirate' terminology up our asses (I believe that in the mid '70s Bill Gates was already starting the war against so-called copyright infringement), terrorists weren't on everybody's agenda.

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 03:59 PM

:new_bottom:

...speaking of the dark elf porn...? :whistling:


Not a contest! No winners in challenges!

And that pic was awesome enough to win it anyway. :fish:


Hay, you really should make us a comic about his unkillability, pwease?

Mmm, plotbunnies. Ngr. Must... do... really freaking boring work... argh. Well, knowing me, I'll probably give up on the really freaking boring bit and doodle something sooner or later.

Probably sooner. <_<

PS in case my boss reads this, someone hax'd my account to post it.

Uh. Yeah.



Back when the media corporations were shoving the 'pirate' terminology up our asses (I believe that in the mid '70s Bill Gates was already starting the war against so-called copyright infringement), terrorists weren't on everybody's agenda.

I was trying to be funny, not historically accurate. But have it your way - software communist, then. :devil:

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 10:00 PM

This picture rather annoys me, though I don't know why. I guess he doesn't look quite snarky enough :devil: . I may mess with it a little more.

I tried to get the lines smoother than they were in Aerie's pic as well, which worked a bit, though his sword looks wavy.

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I didn't realize it until I came back to this forum to post, but isn't it odd that everyone envisions Saemon with a Rapier?

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 10:34 PM

Not a contest! No winners in challenges!

And that pic was awesome enough to win it anyway. :fish:


Moving on people. There is and is going to be more great in this challenge 8) (though I have to say that I do feel flattered)


I didn't realize it until I came back to this forum to post, but isn't it odd that everyone envisions Saemon with a Rapier?


It probably has something to do with the cool-ness factor. I tried to put something else on him but that damn rapier just didn't want to get of the paper.

Edited by Orthodoxia, 29 June 2007 - 10:51 PM.

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Posted 29 June 2007 - 10:59 PM

I know. He just needs a rapier, a feathery hat, and snappy comebacks.

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Posted 30 June 2007 - 12:56 AM

ruffianish...

#16 vilkacis

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Posted 30 June 2007 - 07:12 AM

ruffianish...

Nice! :D


I don't see him with a rapier, personally. He's a pirate - cutlass FTW!


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Posted 30 June 2007 - 07:55 AM

Orthodoxia, as always, I love your picture!

And it's one of my favourite characters too. The relationship is difficult. A bit love-hate for sure.

I just can't be angry long with Saemon, even if I groan every time I see him. But I still like him, and my characters consider him a friend, albeit a very annoying one they'd like to skewer sometimes (but never really would).


This picture rather annoys me, though I don't know why. I guess he doesn't look quite snarky enough :devil: . I may mess with it a little more.

I tried to get the lines smoother than they were in Aerie's pic as well, which worked a bit, though his sword looks wavy.

Saemon.jpg

I didn't realize it until I came back to this forum to post, but isn't it odd that everyone envisions Saemon with a Rapier?



Very nice! I too love doing OOTS style drawings, though so far I have only done historical things (a Kenyan girl, a a Chief of Benin, a Maya, and a Roman from a certain time. I used to sit in our school's library with history books and eyewitness guides, and look for things to convert to OOTS. Gods, I loved doing that. I would draw them in pencil by hand, indicate which colours would be needed for which part, use my architect's tracing table at home to make a copy and ink that. Then I would scan it, and colour it on the computer according to what colours I had written down. They always ended up incredibly detailed and quite tall [and my heads seemed larger than the actual OOTS ones, but they worked], so that only the simplest of them just worked as an avatar in the forums. You might have seen my avatar in their forums, it's the Roman. My username there is the same as here [if you see "Jazhara7" anywhere, it's most likely me. I've yet to see even one person who uses that too. I've only seen one other "Jazhara" so far, over at deviantart, and she registered after me.).

Have you tried giving him something like stubble, a goatee, or something along those lines?



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#18 Zoraciel Ivtel

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Posted 30 June 2007 - 08:08 AM

Have you tried giving him something like stubble, a goatee, or something along those lines?


That's not a bad idea...to go along with his chest hair. ^_^

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Posted 30 June 2007 - 09:12 AM

so far looking good I am working on one. I actually have two ideas if i can get them both done in time.
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Posted 01 July 2007 - 02:00 PM

Orthodoxia, that's an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G image. Really cool looking.

As for me, I always thought Saemon to be charismatic and elegant all the while having a wile smile and devious eyes.

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