Steelsworn by Lytayvea

2D • Medieval • posted on Feb 14, 2011

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Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them. Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -Excerpt from War Is Kind by Stephen Crane This is a revision of the image I posted a few weeks ago titled Sword and Shadow. After posting it the first time I realized it still needed work.I felt an axe was better than a sword for the sake of composition, so I got rid of the sword and replaced it with the axe, I also revised everything but the face. I rendered most of the image using a hard round and soft round brush. The axe was created using custom brushes as well as the hard round and hard round airbrush. The software I used was Photoshop CS3 with Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.

Comments (13)

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mistressotdark

7:21AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

wow nice

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maferro

7:27AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

Um trabalho extremamente bem realizado! A job extremely well done!

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A_Sunbeam

11:17AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

Great details in this - nice work!

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jgkane

11:52AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

Usually sequels are not as good as the original, but yes, my friend, this is even better, and the axe does give it a better compositional balance. It is nice that you took the time and extra effort to polish the first offering. That shows dedication. Bravo. Warm regards, from a very wet Glasgow, John.

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Thetis

5:12PM | Mon, 14 February 2011

a top painting! the eyes draw you in. excellent work on every detail!

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alessimarco

5:14PM | Mon, 14 February 2011

~Awesome artwork!~

Lytayvea

7:22AM | Tue, 15 February 2011

Thank you mistressotdark, maferro, A_Sunbeam, jgkane, jgkane, and alessimarco. I appreciate you taking the time to look and comment, especially since this was a revision. I am very glad the axe works better for composition jgkane, I was hoping it would. I really should have seen what it needed before I posed it the first time, but I guess better late than never? Thanks again guys! I get more feedback here at Renderosity than any other forum/gallery site, and I cant express how grateful I am, the community here (all of you) are the best!

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SIGMAWORLD

1:05PM | Tue, 15 February 2011

Excellent!

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zhaanman

2:08AM | Wed, 16 February 2011

Man I love that glimmer of light of the axe and armor!! What style and attitude love it!!

Lytayvea

1:23PM | Wed, 16 February 2011

thank you SIGMAWORLD, thank you zhaanman, I am really glad you like the glimmer zhaanman, I was not sure if that would push it over the top or not, I hoped a faint glow would work though, thank you for affirming that.

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