Art Archive Aimo's fan art - OT and KOTOR stuff (Jun 16)

Hi everyone,

This is my first time posting in this forum...so, er, yes, I should introduce myself.

My name is Irma, but I'm known among friends in RL and Online alike by my nickname 'Aimo', which is also my artist pseudonym. I've been a longtime fan of Star Wars since childhood, with watching the original trilogy being one of the fondest experiences I remember from that time. However, I haven't really been moved to do any SW art until in late 2003 after I played Knights of the Old Republic on my PC...after that, I've been cranking fan art on a regular basis.

If you would like to see my art, please hop on over to my art web site at www.aimostudio.com. Most of the SW stuff in there consists of EU material, but I think I'll do original trilogy material soon.

Anyways...below are three of my most recent fan arts:

This is a KOTOR I fan art featuring the main cast of the game. Completely done in Photoshop.

[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/063.jpg]

Another KOTOR fan art featuring three lady jedis; Bastila Shan, Juhani, and my player character avatar.

[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/065.jpg]

My first fan artwork of KOTOR II, featuring The Exile (my player character avatar), Kreia, and Atton Rand.

[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/067.jpg]

Well, I hope you like 'em. Thanks for taking time to read this! Now I'm off to browse the other threads and enjoy the fan art

 

Ah yes. I've stumbled upon your site once or twice before. I've admired your KOTOR art for awhile. I'm glad you found us and decided to post here. You have wonderful art. I look forward to more.

 

Love your work.

-Otis

 

Wow, I really like your work here. Do you have other works you could display? I think these are really great...nice work.

~Vassago

 

Excellent work Aimo!
I was specially impressed by the depth and shades of the characters and the overall composition. I know some artists don?t like to have their work compared to other styles, but is there an anime influence on your work?

 

Hey Aimo great work love your style. you've inspired me 2 have a go at drawing my KOTOR charatcer

 

Very nice stuff! I also checked out your website, and your KOTOR stuff is magnificent! Keep up the good work!

 

SWEET! I love it! Very professional-looking!

 

Very cool!

 

These are great. Digital Art is my medium, and I can really appreciate your talent. Beautiful colouring, and I love the anime/cartoonish style to your characterisations. Simply beautiful.

 

I'm trying to make digital art my medium... Any tips?

 

My only tip is use layers. They're very useful. Normally I pose on a seperate layer and draw the final lines over the top, but this is probably the wrong thread to talk about this is. Try the Tools & Techniques Thread. It ought to be on the Links above.

 

Just upped the Tools & Techniques thread.

-Otis

 

Thank you for the welcome, everyone I'm glad that you like my work.

Bail-Aquino: I know some artists don?t like to have their work compared to other styles, but is there an anime influence on your work?

Yes. Anime has primarily influenced my style, but I draw my inspirations from both sides of the Pacific (In fact, I haven't seen anime in a LONG while...I just read manga now).

darkstar55: you've inspired me 2 have a go at drawing my KOTOR charatcer

That's wonderful! More KOTOR fan art is always good

HanSolo29: And you did all of this using Photoshop - those must have took a long time to create.

Well, for the cel-animation style artwork, they're pretty easy and fast to whip up. But the first painting took me a month to finish, considering that I had to switch to Photoshop because my Painter keeps crashing the PC But I guess there's a silver lining in that, since I found that Photoshop is actually fun to use for painting

Darth-Vassago: Do you have other works you could display?

The whole collection is up on my website, but I suppose I can post some of them here...

Decorative Art: Bastila Shan
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/039.jpg]

Decorative Art: Carth O-nasty--I mean, Onasi
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/041.jpg]

Decorative Art: Mission Vao
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/042.jpg]

My depiction of a cutscene in the earlier parts of KOTOR
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/043.jpg]

The kiss scene that was robbed off us female players near the end of KOTOR. Hehehehe!
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/045.jpg]

An illustration for the cover of Kotorfanfic.com's book of fan appreciations that was given to Bioware during E3 2004.
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/053.jpg]

Big-eyed Bastila
[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/057.jpg]

I'm also a freelance comic artist, and a long-time comics fan, so naturally I've done SW KOTOR-related fancomics (Can't match the hilarity of Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite, but I try...). Below are recent ones of KOTOR II, and I've picked the ones w/o spoilers (or very minor ones, depending how you look at it):

Irresistable
[image=http://aimostudio.com/comics/images/web03-03.jpg]

Irresistable II
[image=http://aimostudio.com/comics/images/web03-04.jpg]

Apprentice
[image=http://aimostudio.com/comics/images/web03-05.jpg]

WHEW! That was a long one @_@ Alright, hope you enjoy the plugs

 

Amazing! LoL! I enjoyed those comics, they're very amusing, and very well done. And all your pictures are so well done. I assume that the woman in the KotOR pics is your chracter? Great job, I'm checking out your site now. All I can say is keep up the great work.

~Vassago

 

Wow...there's more! I'm keeping an eye on you, certainly. You have a wonderful style, and an incredible ability to portray these characters. It doesn't really surprise me that you do it professionally! The colours are exquisite. I love Carth's expression in his portrait. Okay, so I think I'm heading to your website next. A good plan, I think... *darts off*

 

Cool stuff!

 

Yay! I love your artwork! You can never have enough KOTOR fanart! Especially if it's in an anime style!

 

Great work. Your figures have so much characterization. I really enjoy looking at them.

 

Nice pictures. I love it.

 

Aimo, I LOVE THESE!!! Admittedly, I'm no fan of Anime style art, but these have a very strong personality within them. They're crisp, clean.... and no caffeine (ancient 7-up slogan)

Great job!

 

Very nice I can't see anything in particular I'd do better!

 

Wow! This is all great stuff!

I especially like this one:

[image=http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/041.jpg]

I'm a big Carth fan


LOL at the comics!


I looked at the rest of your pictures, and all I have to say is great stuff arround the board!