Awards
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Daily 2nd Place –
08/19/2009
Author's Comments
it's the hagian supermagus!
lo' its the hagian supermagus! descended from the equally disgusting and amazing hag fishes native to our own planet!
the hagians have always been very amazing science-mages since way back when they thought they were just messing around with "magic" and weren't aware that it was just super-science being effected by their wills and hand gestures.
once they engadged in the "war of the wizards" (an interplanetary battle between magicians) the hagians were outnumbered by the numerous swarms of the swarmians they had to think fast. the hagians decided to double their numbers by equipping all their mages with TWO magic staves! this doubled the size and effect of all their tricks and the swarmians were quickly annihilated with a few boughts of lightning balls and the odd lava-syringe.
centuries past and the hagian supermagus is still represented by their military, teleporting across the galaxy with a science focusing staff in each hand and a mean streak for any foe they run into. their science magic has become refined to a degree that it has not been able to be duplicated by anyone else in the galaxy.
the dual-staff science slinging style has also been managed only by the supermagus. any other race that has attempted this art has been met with agonizingly fatal results. bottom line is that its best to leave the dual staff wielding to the hagian supermagus' (obviously).
The People Have Spoken
Average Score: 9.2 / 10
I'm a sucker for well-thought out backstories...great job! Do you do game design/concept art for a living?
This looks great--keep it up!
Author's Response:
hey man! thanks for dropping by and giving me a review!
well i am in game art right now but i am more of an environmental artists at the moment. making walls and tables and stuff, but when i get home i rock out the space monsters and alien soldiers! one day i'd love to get these guys in a game or something,
thanks for the vote of confidence and that 10!
*highfives*
cool... COOL! COOLER! COOLEST!
Author's Response:
great!
glad you like him! the supermagus is one of my faves. thanks for the high score!
you're just coolthe must awesome thing about it is his face (not the head his face) it is really brute i always love you're art:D especially yhe kind you have tought about of this drwaing is just cool it and the head is is really nice:D because its really detailed ansd the rest of this drawing is just cool is is really nice:D but still is his face the best one other 10 of the dutch;) keep going on
Author's Response:
thanks dutch! yeah i'm a big fan of his head as well. it kind of carries the whole character actually.
a 10!? sweet! i'm glad you like this guy so much. i'm actually working on another alien soldier like this, it should be done soon, i've just been really busy ;D
Great drawing, and an even better description.
Hilarious!
Author's Response:
yes!
love it when the laughs come from the work. thanks for the review dude!
:D
you get five of five. This is ridiculous. I like it alot. Keep it up.
Author's Response:
haha hooray!
thanks for the boost dude. it always makes my day when someone new runs into my stuff. glad you like it and i'll totally keep it up :D
Its awesome, all the details in it and his personality
Author's Response:
yeah man, he's not exactly the friendliest dude out there ;D
Not only did you articulate this concept masterfully, you gave it a really interesting background in your comments. I love it! What if the hagfish had evolved? It's a neat little concept. As for the art itself, you happened to focus a tremendous amount of detail into this concept, making a figment of your imagination look surprisingly realistic. Great job!
Author's Response:
thanks for the review!
i try to cram in a lot of description in case people don't like my stuff. luckily you seemed to like both!
and i really hope hag fish don't evolve, luckily they are apparently un-changed for millions of years or something like that.
It's very nice from a superficial viewpoint (not using the word negatively, it's just the appropriate term to use here). Based on my huge expertise and experience (of looking at the pictures in the Dungeons And Dragons manuals over and over again) I would say that it's about the same caliber as a low-quality professional illustration for a fantasy comic-book or light novel.
There's nothing about the drawing that makes me interested, there's nothing that makes me want to know more about that creature, where it comes from, where it's going, or what that staff does. The key thing here is that when I look at the image, I think "that is a cool picture".
...but not "that is a cool creature". Do you see what I'm saying?
5/10 | 3/5.
Author's Response:
phew!
luckily i'm not involved in fantasy comic-books or light novels or i'd be a goner!
i actually agree that my art is really superficial. i tend to draw things fast and move on, i get really bored with things very quickly so i usually take aesthetic shortcuts on a lot of elements to just get a "that's cool" out of people.
thanks for the review!
hopefully you'll find some of my other stuff more to your liking. :)
No such thing as too much description. I have a deep admiration for people who put thoughts behind their art and characters. :]
This is, admittedly, quite awesome. I love it when people create monsters or alien-type things with creatures already monstrous or alien to begin with.
Author's Response:
thanks a lot for your feedback.
i'll admit i tend to go a little far on some of my explanations but i find it helps me remember them so i can always come back to them later.
too much description, though.
Author's Response:
haha nobody's forcing you to read it pal.
thanks for the review!
