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Published: 2008-02-22 16:48:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 8488; Favourites: 129; Downloads: 335
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Well, here’s the lovely Pepper in a prototype flight suit, and my entry for the Pepper Project: [link] It was designed with power in mind, at the expense of manoeuvrability, because of the framework’s denser fibres. The upside of this naturally gives it a studier, more robust composition that arguments better heat resistance and cooling support for the larger MS06r moonstone energy source, when a MS07r simply lacked sufficient requirements. This in turn, however, made the design extremely expensive construction-wise and physically and mentally strenuous on the pilot, if pushed beyond human limit. In consequence, it did not meet military standards to mass-produce the product, so only this model was supposedly made. Yet still, as a unique feature that survived into later designs, the greater length of the wings can be retracted back into grooves of the main shell, as seen in this illustration.Wanda, although not personally visible, is test piloting the atmospheric ‘Wenpdr’ prototype fighter in the background.
Update: I thought about Phil's comment on how he did an auto-level, and thought about changing the contrast then myself. What you see now is the end result. I'm unsure if it's the 'better' result, but I'll let you all see it here.
In any case, I'm finished with making anymore updates to this, so enjoy! Comments welcome.
Artwork - © Kristopher P. Love // Pepper Concept - © Stanley Lau
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Comments: 62
I really love the way her outfit is shaded. I love how you can see the muscle detail and stuff
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Pepper's anatomical proportions came out very good. You did the movement in her hair really well. I like the armour angelic wings on the back of her.
Keep it up!
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beautiful design, looks very alluring and original
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yeah, I actually like this better. I'm a fan of darker lighting. It feels more realistic actually.
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Fair enough. I've been criticised in the past though for my darker lighting, so I'm a little anxious on that.
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Hmm, I havent had that yet, but you never know. I just like the contrast. I'm trying for more subtle lighting and I always seems to make it come out darker.
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love the brooding sky and the tossing of her hair and love her tummy 
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Glad ya like! Thanks for the fav too.
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oh man this is so great. i feel like this is one of your best
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Well one thing's for sure, it's the biggest one I've worked on. Thanks for the compliment.
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Way better, I think. Makes the picture stand out more. Yes....good. :3
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Hurrah!
I still feel as if I'm missing something for it though. Ah well, I think I'd go insane if I kept trying to better it, so I better not. XD
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Really quite amazingly awesome looking, pal.
I tip my bandoleer to you, sir.
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Thanks, mate! First I've heard of the word 'bandoleer' around here too. Classy.
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Awesome work, Love. I really dig the pose and the outfit.
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I likes it
I likes it more after an auto-levels
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Yeah, but I still like the softer tones in this one.
Anyhoo, I'm finished with it now, in any case, so I'll send ya the larger version soon.
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Wow, pretty awesome! I love the red, it's looks pretty amazing. Kinda reminds me of Asuka's plug suit from Evangelion. The pose is brilliant! Poser might seem easy from a distance, but getting that figure to look right is a bitch. Not to mention render times *ugh*
Nice trick of incorporating your OC into the pepper project 
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Thanks. 
As for using Poser, I only use it to get a basic understanding of human anatomy at angles my mind's eye can't get right, so I don't bother with the program past that. Like what I said to someone else, it's a bit like being at a photoshoot, where you can look at any angle, instead of relying on photos with fixed poses. I still go through the process of sketching everything down, and doing my own skin toning, so please don't get the impression that I use the program for anything more than good pose reference.
As for Asuka? lol, I was thinking the same thing, but I couldn't figure a better colour for Pepper. She's hot, so it's gotta be red.
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Oops 
I have a really hard time with imagining poses, and proportions with the poses. I also like the fact that the pose I create is original, and cant be traced to some other picture. I dont like the idea of using reference, or even inspiration from someone elses picture. A poser model may not be created by you, but the pose is, so it's still your art. I never meant that you use the blending and lighting etc in your pics, sorry that it came out wrong.
I never had art classes past High school, so poser is my only real anatomy lesson. I would love to have a live model sitting in front of me, but it's really not possible
It's ok, it doesnt look like a copy of asuka's suit, just reminded me of it. looks awesome. Good luck, I'll be holding thumbs for you!
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Thanks again.
Well, aside from some very boring art classes in highschool for me, (Picasso... may you forever be loathed. XD) I've never had any real anatomy lessons, apart from what I've just self taught myself over the years. Being on a property, away from civilisation, doesn't help all that much either, but it doesn't bother me. I agree with what you said about creating original poses from Poser. It is your imagination doing the work, after all. Like you, I have a hard time imagining human poses otherwise. (Which is why I prefer drawing backgrounds and space-faring vessels more than actual people at times... ) I can get a general idea in my head with how they should look, but when it comes to executing it with the pen, things just become cloudy without any visual aid. Like before I knew Poser, I bought some really good articulated dolls from Japan. They were either from Volks and Dolfie... I think. Japan always makes the best stuff.
lol, maybe one day, if I manage to get a wife that's as sexy as some of the women I draw, she could pose for me all day long.
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In your dreams mate, no real woman is as sexy as the ones you draw, and that's a fact
Dolls are an idea I never had, but yes, many good things DO come from Japan
My friend is heavily into Poser. He spent a great deal of money purchasing poser 7 and vue, which he uses often. He actually got me interested in poser, so I bought it in China. I dont really know how to use it properly, but he's shown me a few things. I suck at proportion, but I can see what I want to draw perfectly in my mind. Using poser helps me make the image I had envisioned. I still paint everything by hand as well, I dont see the point really, unless I do that. I keep figuring out new things by mistake, it's silly but good, and fun.
I'm working on shameless WoW fanart at the moment, a nice blood elf. Pose was done in poser, but I'm working on the painting and everything else by hand and skill alone. Similar style to my Morgana at Dusk pic.
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Heh, I'll probably head down the same road soon too. I only seem to attract a fraction of the attention I was getting ages back lately, so I might liven things up a bit and draw some more drow and night elf concepts. At least I have fun drawing them, so it doesn't hurt my conscience too badly. I've developed a kind of loathing for popular themes, but it seems I have no other choice but to put it down for a while.
I think the main reason I use Poser is that I'm too anatomically correct in mind in need to get everything perfect in that field, as I lack the freedom and courage to go beyond its limits for that artistic taste. That's why I like drawing sci fi stuff more. No one can tell me what's anatomically incorrect. So I have more confidence in what I design for that.
And nah... there are plenty of women that look better than what I draw. One day I hope to draw women as good as them.
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I dont want pageviews for their own sake, I just need to make some money, plain and simple. Debt is a bitch. Doing fan art seems to attract the commissioning crowd, and I like WoW, so I figure it's a win-win situation.
I just suck at translating what I see in my head into something on paper. At some points I can close my eyes and see an awesome image, but I need a little help to get it there.
Generally woman who look as good as the one's you draw go for the guys who look the same. So, you might have more luck just drawing them
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Nah, generally women who look as good as them are shallow creatures that survive off men that are good for lots of money, to subdue their materialistic urges. Good looks are second. Personality a faraway third. That's why the nice guys nearly always finish last. Anything else is Hollywood.
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'girls dont like boys girls like cars and money....'
it works the other way around too, guys like the hot bodies.
Nice + Good Looking = Extreme rarity
I should paint more hot guys...in fact...I'll make a few WoW hot guys, maybe the night elf since all the models of them in the game look extremely not-hot...
What's one way you can tell most of the game designers were men, what's 20?
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20?
lol, it's a well known fact that sex sells, so saying game designers are all men is a little misinformed. Chances are there are a lot of female game designers out there too that know what the general public wants, so why would their gender get in the way of knowing the easiest path to success?
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Yeah, dont mind me.
I shall make it my mission to create some!
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And I shall too... to appease my long list of female watchers, once every so often. Come to think on it, I probably have more female watchers than blokes watching me here. They take more interest my work, at the least.
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lol
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Great work - love the pose, red tint, design of the ship and how you've framed the picture in a way that keeps it together but is still a bit abtract and adventurous. Fave.
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Thanks, mate! Glad ya like for the fav as well.
I have to admit too... I gotta start framing my works more like this. I think that's one of the main things that's been missing from giving more presence to some of my perspectives...
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Ooo awesome hair flow and muscle tone. I like it already.
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Looks fucking awesome mate. I'm really impressed by the revised wing-pack/suit thingy. Great colouring too.
Pose is just right for the feel I reckon: powerful but free feeling.
Nice framing by the way
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lol, well I have you to thank for giving me the idea about the framing. For the amount of times you've left an impression on me with your style on it in your works, it gave me the perfect solution for making this perspective catch on right. I included some thrust emissions behind the fighter too, since the last you saw. Gives it more... err... thrust, or something.
But yeah, glad you like it, mate! And thanks for the fav.
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No worries mate...
...and everyone knows that really fast stuff has flames coming out the back! Didn't you ever do "year one fighter jets 101"?
Seriously though, in all reality it probably helps with identifying which end of the fighter is which too
Heh, the framing is kinda useful when you don't have a lot in the background to show depth of field.
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They teach kids such advanced learning skills in year one?! I was still drawing stick figures in hghschool.
Haha, and too true about which end was which too with the fighter. Before I applied it, I was starting to think that it could have passed off as some kind of souped up futuristic vanship... maybe. XD
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Looks a lot stronger after the levels...
...never used the auto-level function. Normally I just hack both ends off the histogram
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And I don't think I've ever used the histogram. ... never could understand it.
But the question is, is the stronger version better than the lighter colours from before? Guess it doesn't matter anymore, though, now that the deadline is over.
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Me neither. All I know is that the ends are white and black, and as far as I can tell the little arrows in the levels at either end control at which point colours become one of the two. So if you bring the arrows in a bit it makes all your darks darker and brights brighter
Personally, I think I like the stronger version of this.
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Hmm... I'm still at two minds about it myself. One might be bolder, but the other, which I'll send to ya over msn, draws more light from the time of day, so they set different moods.
So a bit like that wonderwhite concentrated formula I see working on those TV ads, ey?
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