Having an attack of the guilts about all these commissions waiting in the wings, waiting to be worked on. So I figured I’d tackle them in reverse order. Here’s this mysterious masked warrior guy named Morin.
He’s supposed to be standing in front of a cave.
Here’s my cave ref:
Closeup of Morin:
My tentative ref for his armor, from Dynasty Warriors:
The main problem I have with this pic is the original sketch was supposed to be looking up at Morin, who s looking down. But my ref of the cave is looking down at the cave, so when I put down-cave behind up-guy, he just looks weird and short. I have to repaint the whole background, but oh well, I did the whole thing in about 20 minutes anyway.
Feedback is welcome, especially on the armor! It was described as “dark clothes under light-colored armor”, which left me at sea as to the colors.
K. M. Carroll, Author 
…heh heh, but I know how it feels when there’s projects in the wings, but still, there’s no rush for these commissions, so please don’t feel guilty ’bout them. 😀
That looks awesome! Yeah, I’ve been vague with details…as I said, I’m taking advantage of your creativity to help me visualize things! 😀 As far as colors: I like. This dude’s a member of something kinda like a police force gone genocidally wrong, so armor that has a formal look is actually quite appropriate. 😀
For the cave: great choice of reference photo! That’d be a cave in carbonate terrain, unlike a cave from clastic rocks. And this scene’s set in a carbonate subcrop edge with plenty of karst topography…um…long story short, geologist likes the rocks. XD Heh heh, this setting is based off of a geologic feature in Alberta currently buried ~1.5km below the surface, the Pekisko subcrop edge. Caves, spires, underground rivers, cool stuff.
And one last point: I’m glad you started with this pic: this is where the story left off at the end of NaNoWriMo last year…
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I am no help I know, but I think so far you are doing great. The cave is cool.
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Kelty: It’s a cave in South Africa, and I picked it because the rock looked really interesting, and I figured you’d know all about what it was. I did look at this one:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fingal%27s_Cave
But it just looked so weird. I think it’s an old quarry or something.
Also, I’m glad you liked the colors in his uniform, because I just love the purple and gold. About the weapon, is it all right if he’s holding a katana?
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Fingal’s cave…that one’s really cool!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal%27s_Cave
Hexagonally fractured basalt from the same lava flow as the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland. 😀 Very very neat.
Yeah, katana should do well..in fact, it’s giving me new ideas for the story, so yup, it’ll do great! 😀
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