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Digital Stuff from Quarkie (Old)

That's amazing!

Thank you >_<

holy crap I can't even draw backgrounds THIS IS SO GO OD

It's all thanks to the tutorials and references. :'D


And for the part outside the window, that was actually another picture I took from online. ^_^;

How do you background holy shite

Apparently references and messy sketch lines work. 


But I recall seeing a really nice speed paint done by kiku-atama, it looks so good *^* I really wanna draw like that. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1ea0j28Ec
 
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I've been cringing a lot over my old art for my weird OCs. Since I need them for character sheets, over the last few days I decided to redraw everything. 


Part of me worries whether the skin looks a bit too pinkish for the girls....


As always, criticisms are welcome. They're the same characters from the first uploads I made in this thread, though Veneno's eye colour has changed. 






[SIZE= 22px]General context/setting[/SIZE]



In the futuristic city, called 'Cellini', technology has made significant advancements in the field of military weapons and medicine. Even there is such cutting-edge technology, the population for the city is still moderate. There is a good reason why it is "the sanctuary for criminals". Despite how flashy and vibrant the city looks, some of the most dangerous operate there and hide very well from the government and police. 


Even children are not safe from being dragged to the undercurrent mess. About 8 years ago, there was a rather large case of kidnapping of children below the age of 19. The person had claimed to be 'Ghost', though his face photo was never released in public news. The chlidren were kidnapped for a specific slave project. Rather than just bringing them up, to be auctioned for entertainment purposes, these children were specifically chosen for their talents. The aim was to train these children to aid the underground criminal forces against their will. The one that oversaw the entire project was a man named "Ghost". 


However, the project had barely started within the first month, before the children had attempted to escape. Those who were in the city at the time, knew that the project had halted, and there were rumours that Ghost had perished, along with the facility site used. One thing is for certain, is that some of the children who were once the victims had certainly escaped, and they could be very close by...  



Sniper




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[NAME] Veneco


[ALIAS] Sniper, also formerly known as "Veneno"


[AGE] 19


[GENDER] male


[PERSONALITY]


Though he finds it extremely hard, Veneco knows that to survive he cannot wear his emotions on his sleeve. He always hates lying to others, even giving white lies. For those that are exceptionally perceptive, they can tell that he is lying immediately. Though he is rather accustomed to his job for a living, to be an assassin or sniper, he always finds there is this indescribable emptiness within him that seems to grow larger every time he finishes another target. 


He can be a bit too trusting sometimes, and be rather simple-minded. He's in a dilemma, not wanting to feel the hurt from being betrayed, but wanting to stick to his personal moral standard. Aware that he isn't the brightest cookie, he makes his choices on his instinct, while hoping for the best that it doesn't lead to terrible results. His goals are rather short-sighted, only looking towards preserving those he cares about and himself. That said, he believes that one can't protect others if they can't even look after himself, so he takes care in checking his own well-being just as with others. 


Despite his rather rough way of talking and his intimidating appearance, he tries to be kind-hearted through his actions. He cares particularly about younger children. Seeing how they can be innocent and rather naive, he is rather envious of them. All he wants, at the bottom of his heart is to have that one friend whom he can commit to, and someone whom he knows that won't betray him.


[BIO]

It made no sense in Veneno's mind why his parents would name him that. Of all the choices available, his meant "to poison". He didn't like to admit it, but the study of poisons did intrigue him when he was younger. He was a rather passionate and rebellious kid, with a mix of mischief. Living in the outer district, he had lived in a family that was less financially privileged as those living in the central parts of the city. This was also a place where he had made 'friends', with a gang of teenagers. He had picked up a couple of habits, that added on to his rough manner of talking and expressing himself.  


He was one of the unlucky children that had been kidnapped by Ghost. The 11-year-old boy had woken up in a sealed room with other children, who were equally confused as he was. It was here that he had met the elder and gentle girl, Lamina, and a black-haired girl who didn't know her own name. Since they both seemed to both like the same superhero cartoon, he gave her the nickname "Valeria". Being trapped in this closed facility with the other children, Veneno was the few who was given training for an assassin. According to the adults who were 'training' them, he was chosen for his rather good physical abilities. 


His younger and reckless self, desperately wanted to escape. With the help of a few rather clever-minded teenagers, they had actually managed to find a way to open the doors. At the last hopeful hour, it took a sudden turn when the very voice of Ghost had rang through the speakers. Their plans had been exploited. Instead of just being dragged back, Ghost had seemed rather amused. The man through the telescreen looked at the children and said. "How about a game of mafia then? Whichever party wins, will be able leave." 


How the game works, was that there were three types of players in the game: citizen, mafia and detective. The citizens had to lynch out every of the mafia and immobilize them to end the game; the mafia had to kill every citizen to end the game; the detective was one who had an additional hints and was told to aid the citizens. All the children were given their respective roles secretly, and Veneno was the detective, or the investigator. 


Through a series of struggles and events, he and only a portion of the children had managed to escape. Some had been trapped, while others had been murdered in the game. Veneno's mind was rather disturbed. Not just by what he witnessed children his age could be capable of, but also the information that Ghost had given to the detective: certain disturbing secrets about the ruling government. Talking with Lamina didn't help, and he couldn't unsee it as he returned to his life in the city again. Even after the kidnapping was no longer occurring anymore, he can't help but feel uneasy at times, as though someone is watching him. He finds it hard to talk to anyone about it, as he no longer keeps much contact with the other 'children of Ghost', even Lamina and Valeria who seemed to have changed as they grew up. 


At the age of 18, he had voluntarily joined a mafia group, where he believed their goals and vision somewhat aligned with his ideals. With his seemingly laid-back manner, and also his sharp skills in sniping and combat, he has earned the respect from the others and he is hopeful that perhaps he can maintain the good comradeship between everyone. However, he is getting a little agitated with the terrorist, "Xavier", who has been known for targeting specific crime organizations. At the mention of even the name to him, he gets rather upset. 

 




 




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[NAME] Lamina


[ALIAS] Propheta, Pieta


[AGE] 27


[GENDER] female


[PERSONALITY]


Lamina always has a certain grace and elegance in her speech and actions. Despite herself being a courtesan, someone to be scorned at, she carries herself with an air of dignity. Generally, her charismatic and bold mannerisms make her rather likeable, and she is well-respected from higher the higher status as well as those from the less fortunate places. This elegance is generally consistent, regardless of what situations she is in, and regardless of whom she is talking to. Though not very noticeable, she is a bit of a narcissist, and enjoys the superiority when she holds some sort of power over her enemies, particularly in terms of blackmailing. On the other hand, she also does enjoy being praised by her friends. In one way she likes to make them happy, and at the same time they are complimenting her, something this vain woman always enjoys. 


This woman is very ambitious and determined to see her plans be completed. Her current purpose in life: to overthrow the ruling government and change the way the city is run. She hates criminals and speaks of her not liking the way injustice is more preferred in the city. Yet, she herself justifies her own actions by saying that "it is an necessary evil for the next step of my plan." It's very subtle and isn't easily noticed, but Lamina generally has a rather ruthless and sadistic attitude towards her enemies, the complete opposite of someone with a nickname called "pieta" (meaning "pity" and "love"). 


[BIO]

Before she was kidnapped, and abducted to the facility where Ghost's project was, Lamina had claimed herself to live with a rather wealthy family in the middle parts of the city. She seemed to be a rather normal girl, and who had no trouble with getting along with most of her age. It was never clear to what was about her that had caught the attention of Ghost, but she was given the training for espionage/spying. Having been the earliest victims, she had attempted to escape numerous times. As she wasn't very physically capable, she had little luck and soon had given up. That was before she had met a couple of other children, who were the current former victims that had escaped. 


Similar to Valeria, she had considered herself already dead after they had left the facility. Hostility had been growing within her as she learnt more about the government and a few of the crime organizations that she had never heard before. The hostility was pure enough to almost turn into hatred. She had gotten stronger and was resolved to want seek justice herself. While she was building up her reputation as a popular courtesan in the red-light district, her network connection began to grow rapidly. She made a fair share of friends from there, mostly women who were in a similar situation as her, being a victim either of poverty or some sort of criminal injustice. On the other hand, she had also manage to take the interest of people of the upper class. 


Over a few years of doing business in exchanging and blackmailing, she had become known to be a woman who held information and social power within the criminal world. Part of this, was with help from Valeria, who had been one of her information exchange clients. Though the two girls now have very distinctive different values and they have become wary of one another, they are working together in a plan to overthrow the ruling party in the city. Their current first step is to have some members dependent on them. 



With Lamina's good negotiating skills, she has promised that she could aid the ruling party (for now), in giving them the support from the public. It was simple, the two girls were few who knew of 'Xavier', and could directly contact him. Society needed a common enemy to stay united, and thus 'Xavier' would be requested for terrorizing a particular event, with a set number of people he would victimize. Though, this terrorist expects something in return as well, for his own goals. With these lies, Lamina predicts that though society is acting on the knowledge build around the lies, she knows that it won't be long before these lies will topple. And the ones that will be taking the brunt of the consequences would be the same government. 





Valkyrie






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[NAME] Valeria


[ALIAS] Valkyrie, online username 'Tetra'


[AGE] 17


[GENDER] female


[PERSONALITY] 


Valeria is a quiet, pessimist girl. She can easily accept the harsh reality, that life is simply unfair. She's rather tomboyish, and prefers things to be practical and efficient.  With a Machiavellian personality, she is willing to use immoral ways to achieve her goals and plans. This doesn't mean that she can't experience any guilt at all, just that she is less repulsive. As a keen analysist she uses her observations and her logical mind to get her out of dangerous situations. There have been some times when this has failed her, and when her weaknesses are exposed she gets extremely annoyed. 


Overall she is reliable in what she does, but she isn't trustworthy due to her deceptive nature. Part of this is because of her negligible emotional attachment towards anyone. There are a few exceptions, where she would perhaps have a few second thoughts on. Namely, it would be Veneno, who had saved her life previously when they were younger. Despite this, Valeria has steeled herself to act on knowledge, and not emotions. After all, a human's emotions would change over time, but the truth would always remain the same, wouldn't it?


Beneath her cold exterior, Valeria is a coward. She finds herself wondering at times of her purpose being alive. At the same time, she is too scared of the pain of death. 


[BIO]

Valeria's oldest memories was of waking up in a rather strange room. She couldn't remember who she was, who her parents were, not even where she had lived. All the clues she had was the name tag attached to her sleeve, showing her 'project ID', her age and gender. At this time, the girl was merely 9-years-old and wasn't much of a Machiavellian yet. Out of all others, the tomboyish girl had gotten along well with Veneno. 


Though she had no idea what kind of schooling she had, Valeria was fairly sure that she was good at mathematics. In Ghost's project, she was given particular training in programming and understanding big data systems. It appeared that they wanted her to develop the skills of a professional hacker. The girl felt uneasy about it, and didn't like staying in the facility, yet had complied from fear of the devices that would shoot them if she hadn't obeyed. It was from then that Valeria came to know how she desperate she could be to not experience a painful death. 


She was one of the lucky ones who had escaped. Her given role in the mafia game was a 'mafia' member. When they had escaped, she refused to answer whether she had killed anyone, even after Veneno had worked out her role. Once they had left the facility, she didn't search for her parents. Rather, she had continued living within the city's downtown areas, hiding away from the cameras. Through the connections that Lamina had, she had gotten to know a network of people. Knowing well that she could not win against anyone with her low combat abilities, she had continue to develop her hacking skills. 


Out of the children, she is one that is still a little skeptical about Ghost. She questions whether he is still alive, and she finds that the outcome of the mafia game seemed rather too easy to end... as though perhaps that they had all misunderstood. This is one of the very reasons why she is continuously pushing herself to find some means to protect herself. One way, is her seeking for bargaining with the terrorist, "Xavier". She doesn't really care much about his acts and complex character, as long as she could preserve herself. That said, she is one of the few that can directly contact him, as Xavier only prefers to show himself to those he wishes. She doesn't want to let anyone know, but she is well aware of the true identity of "Xavier". 







(Holy crap, I didn't expect there to be this much text. Oops...)
 
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WIP. Hopefully I won't screw it up with the colouring this second time...  


//halp can't decide on colours


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CHRIST YOU ARE REALLY GOOD AT BACKGROUND S (even assuming you used some references it's still super good holy) and you could always look up Italy and hope for the best (aka a lot of dirty beige for like the railings and some lighter maroons for the buildings don't trust me)


valkyrie is my girl i love my pessimistic tomboys
 
CHRIST YOU ARE REALLY GOOD AT BACKGROUND S (even assuming you used some references it's still super good holy) and you could always look up Italy and hope for the best (aka a lot of dirty beige for like the railings and some lighter maroons for the buildings don't trust me)


valkyrie is my girl i love my pessimistic tomboys

Gasp! You found my secret. 


Yeah, I had used about 3 reference pictures (or for inspiration?)

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They look so pretty *^* that I wanted to draw something similar. (If only hahaha)


Thank you for the advice. I think I'll definitely add in some lighter beige (is that a legit colour?) into it for lighting. Probably maroon or brick red for one of the buildings sounds like a good idea =DD thanks. 


OH yesss, I love RPing tomboys. xDD 


I'm happy there's few people that like Valkyrie. Modeled after my favourite villain and childhood hero :3
 
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Eh... second attempt looks kinda better than the first attempt? 


The part only I'm really proud of are the clouds ;v;


How does one draw water :'D.... and it feels rather empty. Next time I think I'll add people into the picture, this time had just gotten rather lazy (after about 20 or so hours)


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Been really busy lately with work but so many new things I want to try. 


Below is something WIP I guess. There's a lot of lines to clean up and parts to shade haha. 


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I think I drew this for just an exercise to try expressions. It's not really a particular character, rather the hairstyle is a little based of one of my old photos. 


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@Quark


Decided to officially stalk your art thread. >vob

Welcome, Nano-chan!






A rather rushed job done of half of the scraps above. Instead of using multiple layers, I did everything on one layer, including fixing up the lines. 


Probably won't be able to do much until October is over. //Drowning in work T_T


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Finally found some time to do some drawing T_T. While working on Erika (the girl with orange hair above), suddenly had the urge to draw Ne Zha, Protection Deity in Chinese folklore. (Who sometimes gets mistaken to be a female, oh deer LOL)


Just one more report, just one more and all I have to do is study for exams


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I hope I'm not trespassing here but... I love your artwork! ~ 


I personally don't think I'm that great, but seeing your artwork kind of inspires me.


I hope that sounds like a compliment. That's what I was trying for, haha.
 
I hope I'm not trespassing here but... I love your artwork! ~ 


I personally don't think I'm that great, but seeing your artwork kind of inspires me.


I hope that sounds like a compliment. That's what I was trying for, haha.

Sorry for the late reply! Of course you aren't trespassing!


And I agree with @Entarriance, everyone's gotta start at somewhere. I'm still learning a lot. 


And glad that you're happy with what I have. (Though I hope to improve more. I've only started properly doing art since a year ago, so have lots more to learn haha). 


Please link me your art thread if you start one =D
 
I guess when I had an hour spare time, I decided to draw instead of writing a post... ^_^;


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Coloured two versions of the above. 


Version 1: The lighting is from the side-back instead of the front, hence there's a larger portion that's darker. Tried to make everything a little darker ^_^;


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Version 2: Lighting source is from the front instead. The hair colour is now her general. And the wing looks more golden :>. I feel like I like this version more. 


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Had to draw a corresponding matching one for her younger brother xDD (see above picture)


Couldn't decide on a coat design so just added more leather straps :'D


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