PARADOXIA Artwork....

[SuperStreetz]

For those that have seen some Celixia cards and wondered where the amaturish lineart came from. Streetz, my younger brother, has been scanning and coloring the illustrations mostly from my younger years, originated for a RPG of my design called Paradoxia.

I think its way cool that he uses my stuff in new and cool ways for his fictional Celexia set, usually with lots of his own coloration and background work thrown in.

Well,

Streetz, don't know if you've converted these to Celixia cards or whatever, but I thought I'd provide a look at the step-by-step process of creating the original Paradoxia art.

In two of the cases, I started with a thumbsketch done by the player for her character concept, and then took it from there. In the third care, it was just from scratch (aka, NPC).

Either way, it starts with a pencil sketch, then an ink on tracing paper, than a scan and color in Photoshop.

I'm not sure what program you use, Streetz, but i know you do alot of your own coloring on the basic b/w illustration, usually with backgrounds and stuff, too. (I'm too lazy)

"Peaches the Conqueror" - Vhad Space Pirate
http://www.paradoxia.com/character-progress-peaches.jpg

"USB" - Dax Space Pirate
http://www.paradoxia.com/character-progress-usb.jpg

"Turlok" - Fornaxian Fel Hunter
http://www.paradoxia.com/character-progress-turlok.jpg

There you have it. A taste of 2003-ish original Paradoxia art ;)

I've since largely stopped trying to illustrate my own stuff since I have met a crew of people far more serious and talented than myself who can do it for me , but its still fun to pick up the pencil every now and then, only to find months later a new Celixia card has popped up from it!

Keep it up, Streetz.

[Streetz]

Thanks SuperStreetz. It always cool to see the process of an artist from the pencil drawings of a guy to the final colored, perfected version.

[SuperStreetz]

Well, I know Celixia has taken its spin on certain Paradoxia races, but I thought I'd put forth some of the original material. Hope no offense, brother Streetz !


THE DAX RACE

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-dax.jpg

THE ARIKHAN RACE

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-arikhan.jpg

THE DRYNN RACE

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-drynn.jpg

[Streetz]

Talk about sweet collages. Gotta love SuperStreetz art!

[thegeneralpublic]

dang, the images are broken on my computer! :( from what i hear, they sound very good, though.

[SuperStreetz]

Some more...

THE EMPOD RACE
http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-empod.jpg

[Runeblade]

That is insanely good... I can take notes from that... Taht would help my Arcania illustrations... Hmmm.. ^_^

[SuperStreetz]

Originally posted by Runeblade
That is insanely good... I can take notes from that... Taht would help my Arcania illustrations... Hmmm.. ^_^

Hah. Thanks.

As for Arcania...

Hm, I wonder why "-ia" is such a popular naming pattern for fictional worlds, heh? CelixIA. ParadoxIA. ArcanIA. Heck, even NarnIA.

Whatever gets us to pick up the pencil, paper, keyboard, and/or spark up the finishing-touch software, i guess, haha.

[Runeblade]

Hrm... I unno. Guess it sounds epic or fantasy-ish or something.. >.>

[Streetz]

SuperStreetz ... what about Krilian and Elkhar?

[SuperStreetz]

Well, here you go.

There's not that much for Krilians, because most of the my existing art for them is specific characters or the guys in characteristic full-body armor they wear (as seen in some of your Celixia adaptions, i believe). I'll make a separate post for that stuff, because its where I think the Krilians look their coolest.

For now, here's the pretty basic humanoid-ish race.

KRILIAN RACE

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-krilian.jpg


Eh, same deal for Elkar. I haven't done too much with Elkars in drawings, so apart from some specific PC depictions, its just the basic vanilla body depictions.

Aside from having bodies of pure psion-animate metal, Elkar are farefuly humanoid in common appearance (the ones who decided to interact with other humanoids take this form, anyhow)..

THE ELKAR RACE

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-elkar.jpg

[SuperStreetz]

Eh, some more to flesh this race out a bit...?

ELKAR CHARACTERS

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-elkar2.jpg

[SuperStreetz]

THE VHAD RACE

http://www.paradoxia.com/paradoxia-vhad.jpg

Although a Paradoxia race, I must give credit to Streetz for, when we were younger, he offered me this as a race concept, and I took it in. So, the name and the look of Vhads is actually an idea by my brother Streetz!

Of the many PC races available in Paradoxia, this one has long been a player favorite, so thanks for the contribution, brother Streetz!

[Einsteinmonkey]

Geez John, why are YOU this good? :lol:

[Streetz]

Originally posted by Einsteinmonkey
Geez John, why are YOU this good? :lol:

I'm not. That's why SuperStreet (my older brother) did all of the above artwork. Nice, right?

Jason.. I think you could have done better on Krilian and on Elkar.

[SuperStreetz]

Originally posted by Streetz
Jason.. I think you could have done better on Krilian and on Elkar.

Aw, comon! Like I said, I didn't have much in the way of source material for Krilians or Elkar, in terms of just basic character stances suitable for the "race" prototype shot.

Anyhow, later I'll post some Krilians in their armour. Maybe that will work better for ya.

[Streetz]

We look forward to the Krilians in Armor! :P

[Ghurhgs]

That first picture of that Dax....roxzorz.

[Einsteinmonkey]

Originally posted by Streetz+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Streetz)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Einsteinmonkey
Geez John, why are YOU this good? :lol:

I'm not. That's why SuperStreet (my older brother) did all of the above artwork. Nice, right?

Jason.. I think you could have done better on Krilian and on Elkar.[/b][/quote]
Whoops, what I meant to say was "Why aren't you this good?" :P

[stolin]

I really like the elkar character! 8)

[Streetz]

any more race compilations, SuperStreetz?