JCC [Image heavy]A thread for art: See note on page 776

Repeating subjects, yes, a lot. Repeating images - not quite so much - though there's a few notable repeats.


CyRaptor: Transformers Legacy - Skywarp

https://www.deviantart.com/cyraptor/art/Transformers-Legacy-Skywarp-142676055

 

from https://www.warhammer-community.com...triumph-of-saint-katherinegw-homepage-post-1/

"Painting Showcase: The Triumph of Saint Katherine




When we first saw the incredible Triumph of Saint Katherine, we knew straight away that it would be a hit with miniatures painters. With that in mind, we decided to hand-pick a group of top painters from around the world to see what they could do with the kit. Today, we’re showcasing the results of their hard work and hearing from each of them to learn more about how they went about producing their finished projects.

Pete Harrison
Ever since I first got my hands on Contrast paints, I’ve been experimenting with them to see what I could make them do. When the Triumph of Saint Katherine came along, it gave me the perfect excuse to see how Contrast paints would look when used on a more intricate, centrepiece miniature.



I opted to go for a painting scheme based around the Order of Bloody Rose as I really wanted to take advantage of the colour intensity of Blood Angels Red and Flesh Tearers Red. With the exception of the metallics, everything on the model was painted with Contrast, applied in a single coat taken straight from the pot. Washes were also added to the metallic areas, as well as a few sparing highlights here and there, to help some of the more important details to stand out.



The Contrast paints definitely made the painting process much easier and considerably faster, with little compromise in the overall finish. I think that the multiple models that make up the Triumph of Saint Katherine add to this impressive finish. There’s just something about a full squad of painted miniatures that looks better than a lone miniature, and the way the individual Sisters of this piece are arranged into a mini-diorama really taps into that feeling.



Johan Egerkrans
This is my first model using the Triumph of Saint Katherine kit, representing Sister Olora – a shieldmaiden champion for a minor Order I’ve created, the Priory of Cygnus. The bone-coloured armour represents a swan’s white plumage (cygnus being the Latin word for swan), the animal which is the symbol of the order.



Like all my Sororitas, the model was undercoated with Zandri Dust spray, and then given a zenithal spray of Wraithbone. This provided a nice creamy base colour to work from. The model’s armour, cloak and habit were sponged with dark brown to provide weathering. The armour was drybrushed with White Scar, then given a generous coat of Apothecary White mixed with Skeleton Horde and some Contrast Medium to dilute it. The deepest recesses were painted Basilicanum Grey to provide contrast, after which the edges were highlighted with White Scar.

The habit was painted with several coats of Cygor Brown and shaded with diluted Wyldwood, which provided a warm, earthen, leathery colour.

Scott Walter
The part I enjoyed most about painting the Triumph of Saint Katherine kit was the shield. Freehanding can be really intimidating, but when you break it down into basic shapes and establish the perimeter of your logo, you can then work inside it with all kinds of shading and highlighting!



For the white power armour, I tried to build up subtle blue shadows with glazes. I was mimicking the sort of white accents you’d see ’Eavy Metal painters apply to miniatures such as Raven Guard. White takes colour extremely easily, so I had to dilute my paint a lot. I confess that there were a few times where my attempts resulted in a streaky mess and I had to reapply the basecoat and give it another try!

Rob Hale
When I saw this model teased for the first time, it answered a question I’d been struggling with – how do I base my new Sisters of Battle army? Seeing the Triumph of Saint Katherine, it all clicked together. Marble. I already knew of a method for painting marble with an airbrush that used wet wipes as a masking material. I’d never had a chance to try it out but this was the perfect model for it. It turned out better than I’d imagined and has defined the basing style for my entire army going forwards.



While painting the rest of the model, I looked up reference images of funeral processions from lots of different religions. However, the elaborate Gothic stylings of the Ecclesiarchy meant I was drawn towards a lot of Roman Catholic influences. I contrasted the Saints’ heavy, black, velvet robes with a shinier, red, satin material and lots of gold details. I also painted the casket to resemble the deep, dark wood of church pews so that it didn’t draw focus away from Katherine’s remains.

I’ve still not completely finished the model, with the scripture on the scrolls still left to go. I’ve already clocked up more than 150 hours on this kit over the past two months, and I’m still not tired of it. In fact, I’m even more excited about painting the rest of my army as a result!

Kristian Simonsen


“As the procession moved sedately down the streets of the dystopian city, the crowd gathered and grew more and more dense. The crowd began to boil!”

This encapsulates the idea behind my Saint Katherine piece. As soon as I saw the kit, I knew I had to do something special with it – just looking at it makes you think of a scene, a diorama. A painting, even. It’s a picture in 3D. And that’s exactly how I handled it. Instead of thinking of The Triumph of Saint Katherine as a single miniature or a collection of miniatures, I constructed it as a picture, building and painting it as a whole. It’s kind of an unusual way to make miniatures, but I think it paid off here. I assembled the whole scene, only omitting the cherubs and the outermost layer of people.



I was quite inspired by paintings of artists including Rembrandt and the like, so I focused a strong golden light source on the Saint herself and let everything else fade into indistinct, grey darkness the further I got from the centre. It was a great and challenging piece to work on, but I’m pleased with the result.



Thanks, everyone! That was a pretty stunning showcase, we’re sure you’ll agree!"

 

FonteArt: Sister of Battle

https://www.deviantart.com/fonteart/art/Sister-of-Battle-510618878

 

Tianyuan Man Portrait by TyrannoNinja

"This is a facial portrait of Tianyuan Man, an early modern human (Homo sapiens) who would have lived in northeastern China between 42,000 and 39,000 years ago, making him among the first modern humans to occupy the region of East Asia. Identified from 34 bone fragments found in the Tianyuan Cave near modern Beijing, he and his people would have been related to the ancestors of modern Asian and Native American people. Isotope analysis of these remains suggests that Tianyuan Man's hunter-gatherer community would have eaten a lot of freshwater fish back in their time."


Jebel Irhoud Woman by TyrannoNinja

"The woman portrayed here represents a population of early Homo sapiens whose remains have been uncovered at the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. Dated to around 300,000 years ago, their fossils may be the oldest assigned to the modern human species thus far. However, the braincases of the Jebel Irhoud people's skulls have a longer, lower shape than those of humans today, a characteristic considered more "archaic" in paleoanthropology."


The First Pet by TyrannoNinja

"This early Homo sapiens woman has found a doting friend in the form of an African wildcat (Felis lybica) she has adopted.

The historical consensus is that our modern house cats descend from African wildcats that were domesticated in the Middle East during the Neolithic Revolution, about 10,000 years ago. But since these cats are native to Africa, where modern humans first emerged, I wouldn't be surprised if the friendship between people and cats went even further back. Maybe it was the cat, rather than the dog, that became humanity's first best friend?"

Gazing Up by TyrannoNinja

 

FonteArt: Overwatch: Reaper Skin - Skeletor

https://www.deviantart.com/fonteart/art/Overwatch-Reaper-Skin-Idea-Skeletor-617273381

 

FonteArt: Tyrannosaurus

https://www.deviantart.com/fonteart/art/Tyrannosaurus-546573212

 

Awake by tohdraws



Surrounded by tohdraws



Benevolent Gestures by tohdraws



Stay Quiet by tohdraws



Cryptic Warning by tohdraws

 

Ominous Door by tohdraws



Fleeing Geists by tohdraws



Cautious Approach by tohdraws



The Heart Of Darkness by tohdraws



Horrific Revelations by tohdraws



Possessed by tohdraws

 

FonteArt: Clone Trooper

https://www.deviantart.com/fonteart/art/Clone-Trooper-424832591

 

FMM - Onsen by tohdraws

 

FonteArt: The Chrome Trooper (Phasma)

https://www.deviantart.com/fonteart/art/The-Chrome-Trooper-533638374

 

FonteArt: Future Samurai (Asuka Langley)

https://www.deviantart.com/fonteart/art/Future-Samurai-02-Asuka-Langley-668327043

 

MCU X-Men Pitch by Green-Mamba

Spoiler: text

This is something I've been kind of tinkering with for a while. I don't normally like to pitch ideas that are part of an established continuity, but I figured MCU X-Men is still pretty far off so I thought this could be fun. Just to add--no, I don't really have any other ideas for MCU fanfiction, this is just a one off for fun.

So! My pitch is--

X-Men: Second Genesis

Mutants are people who are either descendants of the Eternals or people who have X-genes due to Celestial experimentation (depending on how the Eternals film goes, really). Mutants with activated powers have always existed but were so rare that the chances anyone would encounter one would be statistically zero. But after the two snaps from the Infinity Stones on Earth, once by Thanos and the second by Hulk, the outpouring of cosmic radiation that blipped people out of existence and then brought them back has caused a lot of people who were snapped away to have their mutant genetics activated, and the amount of mutants around the world is just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Normal people are afraid, and their fear has turned to violence. Governments are being pressured to handle "the mutant problem."

Enter Charles Xavier, a rare pre-blip mutant, who starts a school for mutants as a safe haven. Because of the rising anti-mutant rhetoric he has started a special mutant team to protect the school and mutant interests around the world. This is where the film would begin, with an already established X-Men team.

When the film begins, the team is:

-Cyclops (field leader)
-Storm (second in command)
-Rogue
-Iceman
-Nightcrawler
-Beast

The members all have token jobs at the school, save Beast who is also a teacher. Emma Frost is another teacher at the school and is a major character, and Jean Grey is Xavier's aide who assists him in both school functions and in supporting the X-Men. The film begins with the X-Men infiltrating a government facility that is manufacturing Sentinels, a new anti-mutant task force of autonomous robots, as well as where they are keeping records of all known mutants in the US. Unfortunately the X-Men are found out and are forced to flee. Beast is captured, and put on trial. At the bail hearing we are introduced to Sebastian Gilberti, a prominent anti-mutant employee of Trask Industries and the primary lobbyist for the Sentinel program.

With Beast out of the picture, there are try-outs for a sixth member of the X-Men team as his replacement. This is where we are introduced to Kitty Pryde, who is essentially the main perspective character of the story. She tries out for the team but is beaten out by a mutant called Morph, who is a student of Emma Frost's. Much of the film is about Kitty's attempt at forcing herself into the X-Men whether they want her or not.

By the end it is revealed that Sebastian Gilberti is actually a shape-shifting Nimrod-class Sentinel from the future named Bastion. His future is essentially a beaten Days of Future Past--the Sentinels had taken over, but the mutants eventually defeat them. With no hope of stopping the mutants in his own timeline, Bastion flees to a different timeline in the past using the time gate tech from Endgame where he can fulfill his prime directive and destroy the mutants before they become too powerful. Bastion attacks the school with a host of Sentinels, severely injures Xavier, and steals Cerebro, and takes it to the island called Krakoa.

Krakoa is the setting of the final act. Apparently Krakoa was the site of an enormously powerful psychic mind that Xavier had detected on Cerebro a long while ago and had succeeded in keeping it off government maps. The X-Men take the Blackbird to Krakoa to stop Bastion, but are very quickly defeated by the Sentinels and Bastion. Apparently Krakoa is actually a giant ancient beast of some sort that was awakened by the same events that awakened the mutant genes and is somehow connected to them (unsure how). Bastion plans to wire Krakoa into Cerebro to amplify its psychic powers to connect it to every person on the planet with the X-gene and then force it to march to the mainland, where the militaries of the world will attack and kill it, unleashing the psychic energy in its mind, killing all of the mutants and potential mutants on the planet all at once.

There's a spanner in the works, though, as Kitty Pryde had actually stowed away on the Blackbird when the X-Men went to Krakoa and it's up to her to save the X-Men so they can stop Bastion once and for all. Which of course they do!

But Morph dies. (oh no)

Bastion destroyed and the Sentinel program being exposed as a sham the US government releases Beast. Kitty Pryde joins the X-Men proper, but Xavier is in a coma, leaving the others to pick up where he left off. Emma Frost, frustrated with coddling humanity and Morph's death, leaves the school to start her own more hard edged school to teach mutants to defend themselves.

---

So that's the basic pitch.

Some other notes:

-Yes, that's right, no Wolverine or Magneto. I deliberately went out of my way to not use either of them as I want to see an X-Men film that isn't either Wolverine centric nor any focus on Xavier and Magneto's relationship. They can be sequel material. Xavier himself is also supposed to be a side character here. This is supposed to really be about the X-Men as a team. Perhaps there could be a credits scene about Wolverine though.
-Rogue and Storm are two characters I could see be introduced in prior movies, perhaps in Captain Marvel 2 and Black Panther II, but maybe not. I imagine Rogue here has her flight and super strength as that's not something that's really been done in the films at all, but that would only be the case if they can do that without putting Carol Danvers in a coma, she deserves better than that in her own series.
-I had considered including Colossus instead of Nightcrawler, but he seemed more superfluous with Rogue there. The makeup of the team was something I wanted to be both familiar and quite different, a mix of classic X-Men and X-Men '92 with Morph.
-Morph could be substituted with some other characters--like, for instance, and early idea I had was for Mimic instead--but Morph dying in their first real adventure is just a reference to X-Men '92. I wanted someone to bite it and that's Morph's job you could say.
-The story is basically a mish mash of a bunch of X-Men stories, with the first two episodes of X-Men '92 as the basis for the beginning, with the end partially kind of sort of based on Giant-Size X-Men #1, which is where the title comes from. And just a little bit of Days of Future Past.
-Came up with the title on a whim, I just thought that it fit an MCU X-Men reboot, I'm not married to it or anything.
-I didn't put a huge amount of thought into the designs, I just wanted them to be fun and colorful as well as different from how most people might see the characters, more diverse in general. Morph in particular is somewhat based on his Exiles' look though in practice he kind of ended up looking like Darwin? Oh well. The Sentinels are straight up traced from a comic panel, and my representation of Krakoa is actually drawn over a picture of a small Central American island that I can't remember the name of.
-Went with Bastion as the villain because I figured the Sentinels make for a good first round villain and Bastion hasn't been done in an X-Men film yet. I figured he'd make for a good 'human' face for the Sentinels.
-No, I don't have any casting in mind for any of these characters at all. I really don't do fan-casting.

It's honestly kind of stuffed with too many concepts but oh well. Basically it's just something I wanted to get out there to push conversation and get people to look at the potential an MCU X-Men reboot offers from more than just one angle.

 

shinrah: Cinderelly

https://www.deviantart.com/shinrah/art/Cinderelly-395975175

 

from https://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?104207-Iceman-and-Gbagok-s-Return-to-Anwat-Gar

 

shinrah: Disney Christmas (Ariel & Belle)

https://www.deviantart.com/shinrah/art/Disney-Christmas-344723093

 

xong: Teela

https://www.deviantart.com/xong/art/Teela-573820693

 

xong: Sorceress

https://www.deviantart.com/xong/art/sorceress-Fan-art-587694559