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Published: 2008-01-02 06:57:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 183; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 6
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Description "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. The cube had food and maybe ammo. And immortality."

Alright, I finally made a Portal fanart thing. And it's fitting, as it's my first digital art piece.
Lots of Trial-and-error. Timber was pretty fun, and the first thing I did on here. The anatomy might be a little off, but I wasn't using a ref pic.
The companion cube.. I'm really kinda happy with it. It was a lot more detailed than I originally planned, and after a few 'mistakes' coloring it, I ended up with this. I think it turned out rather cool.
The floor needs help, but I'm kinda done with this piece for now. I might go and fix the floor, but I don't really plan on it. Kinda reminds me of the Head-On © commercial background.

Time Taken: Eh.. 8 hours? Longer, likely.
Tools: Wacom, The GIMP

Companion Cube © VALVE
Timber is me. =^^=

EDIT: I changed the floor. Still not a good floor, but looks a bit better. I think it'll never be right, since now I notice that the cube and Timber are pretty much two different perspectives, thus making a floor is impossible. Ah well.

EDIT2: After talking to a friend, he suggested moving stuff around, since the perspective IS there, it's just.. odd. I thought about it, and ended up getting rid of the floor lines. Now it looks a good bit better.
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Comments: 9

Erzahler [2008-01-04 23:55:05 +0000 UTC]

The back-left paw is nearly all white. What's up with that?

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sibertyger In reply to Erzahler [2008-01-05 00:51:47 +0000 UTC]

That's just due to the angle. The insides of the legs and paws are white, outsides are orange.

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Erzahler In reply to sibertyger [2008-01-05 05:53:31 +0000 UTC]

Huh. But comparing that to the front left paw? That has orange on the top of the phlanges, and on the front of the metatarsals, and it's the same angle as the back-left paw.

Good job on shadows. I love the style of your cube, too.

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sibertyger In reply to Erzahler [2008-01-06 22:26:53 +0000 UTC]

Actually, there's more orange than there should be on all the paws.. the back left paw is the only properly colored one.

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Erzahler In reply to sibertyger [2008-01-07 02:39:34 +0000 UTC]

ah. that makes sense

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Erzahler [2008-01-02 23:04:27 +0000 UTC]

That works, too. =]

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Erzahler [2008-01-02 07:38:49 +0000 UTC]

Hey man, you were right! The cube does look tight. Very cool. And it looks like you nailed the stripes. Rock! But as for the floor... It looks like Timber is lying on his side, with the perspective looking down on him. Try setting up the tiles like this (merging toward a single point on the horizon):
        //|\\        
     / /  |  \ \    
  /  /    |    \  \   
Instead of like this (parallel):
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |

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sibertyger In reply to Erzahler [2008-01-02 16:00:38 +0000 UTC]

They are in perspective, just a far point out there.. I should probably make it a lot closer.

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sibertyger In reply to sibertyger [2008-01-02 22:45:32 +0000 UTC]

Or, I just get rid of the lines. =^^=

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