BladeofEvilsBane Concepts

BladeofEvilsBane

Blade

I do conceptual art, promotional images, and texture painting
open to collaborations and requests!

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Zipfinator

The DP hair looks nice. You're probably right about it clipping with her collar items. It could also use an ornament or something so it's not just hair.

As for the sword, the design is cool but the detail on the back should probably be edited a bit. The way it branches out at the top and bottom makes it look like the blade is held on pretty weakly to the handle. Also the detail cutting in and out like that would be hard to fit into the budget unless you use an alpha map. I think you can use alpha on any item now but still you should keep that in mind when designing your items.

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks for the critique! I agree that the DP hair looks a little barren at the moment, I'll think up some ideas of what to add to give it more flair.

As for the sword I edited the feather-y design and integrated it more with the guard to give it a heightened sense of strength. I changed the silhouette of the feathers as well. I really want to keep as many of the individual feathers as possible, if I simplify the forms too much I run the risk of losing all semblance of a stylized wing. Do you think that alpha maps would allow the design to more or less remain the same? Thanks again!

Prosomogy

http://steamcommunity.com/id/prostomogy/
Add me please in steam

Zipfinator

Are those actual black feathers or metal shaped like feathers? If it's actual feathers then the blade is still completely unbalanced. It's about a .5 unit thickness connecting the entire blade to the handle with feathers holding it on. Even if the feathers are metal I think it'd be a good idea to expand the metal on the blade to attach to the handle rather than having the feathers hold it on.

BladeofEvilsBane

They'd be metal shaped stylistically like sharpened feathers. I updated the image in my intro post to reflect the changes.

Prosomogy: I'll send a request right now

deadlyunknown

What program/s did you use for concepting?
I'm pretty new here at polycount.

BladeofEvilsBane

I used photoshop for doing the designs here, a free alternative to just doing conceptual drawings is GIMP. In dire straits you could even use paint, as long as you get across the visual information you need to get across (though photoshop and gimp are much much easier in that regard haha)

BladeofEvilsBane

Added three variations of the same concept for a medusa bow, can't settle on one.

mihalceanu

Hey BladeofEvilsBane ; Is the bow taken? If not , I would wanna do it . Liking the petrified look/theme

my workshop link :http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198026621056/myworkshopfiles/

ziikutv

Love the Medusa Bow.

BladeofEvilsBane

added a set for dragonus.

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks! I had a weapon for it but a similar staff was just added into the game so I'm trying to finish up my new concept on the staff, I'll post that soonish

mihalceanu

Hey man , this is the bow so far .. I tried to follow the feedback within the limitations


gonna put it in tomorow in the workshop .

I like that skywrath set concept.. I would be interested in it ,if you would develop it further

cheers

mihalceanu

Petrified terrors bow by mihalceanu and TheBladeofEvil'sBane



bow done , please accept the contribution .

cheers

BladeofEvilsBane

Wow, it looks fantastic! Great job mihal!

BladeofEvilsBane

added treant concept

Noblebatterfly

Why ppl always try to draw skulls on the radiant heros? But this looks cute

BladeofEvilsBane

Haha thanks. It has skulls because I was inspired by NP's soundfile: http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/b/b6/Furi_kill_11.mp3

hayes87

Hey Blade, is someone working on the treant already?

Goeddy

dude, make moar concepts! we are starving over here

BladeofEvilsBane

Haha Goeddy I'm trying!

Here's the concept for the skywrath staff for the courtier of thorns set:

AndrewHelenek

mihalceanu wrote: »

Hey man , this is the bow so far .. I tried to follow the feedback within the limitations


gonna put it in tomorow in the workshop .

I like that skywrath set concept.. I would be interested in it ,if you would develop it further

cheers

That bow came out really awesome, one of my favorites!


Also, if you need someone to evenutally animate those trent's I'd be very interested! I love that design!

ShadowStarBear

That bow looks awesome!

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks Andrew And Shadow! I really appreciate it. My semester is finally over so I've been getting back into the swing of conception again.

My Treants have finally been completed, I'd love it if you could show your support for them by voting by clicking the link below, cheers!

cagdasx44

Loved your treant.Great work, upvoted.

Artypi

Ah, really neat!! definitely a vote from me

kendmd

Nice! Love how clean the end result is. The shapes and silhouette are also very strong.

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks a lot everyone!

Mihal and I will be collabing on an LC blade for the Spring 2014 event, here's the concept:

BladeofEvilsBane

Working with Hayes on a Courier for the Spring Event, went through tons of color choices as seen here:

BladeofEvilsBane

Ended up deciding on this one as the final version:

heboltz3

Very cool concept! He look like a lot of fun to animate!! Merry Christmas

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks, I'm really excited to see him in motion. Merry Christmas Eve!

Bernoully

As a Chinese dude, I thought this courier would be great for another Chinese event: Mid-Autumn Festival (or Mooncake Festival), because the bunny character reminds me a lot of the story of the Jade Rabbit, who is linked to the moon goddess Chang'e.

The rabbit as a creature of the spring season usually works but probably not in the context of Chinese New Year (unless it's the Year of the Rabbit).

But hey, just my 2 cents. It's a great flying form design, would love to see how it works on ground!

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks Bernoully, your accuracy to the culture is much appreciated. I was looking into the cultural significance of rabbits in china and the information I found was relatively scarce. I did take inspiration from the story of the jade rabbit but didn't know it was linked to autumn. What I did find said that the zodiac sign is linked to spring, so even though it will be the year of the horse I feel like the rabbit as arbiter of spring will still land me in the safe zone. Also since the chinese new year is the "lunar new year" I felt the rabbit would fit even more to the theme. Thanks again for the input!

BladeofEvilsBane

I wanted to explore messing around with Skywrath's weapon. It'd require some tweaking of his animations but nothing drastic (aka he wouldn't become a melee hero). CONTROVERSY WOOO

heboltz3

That's a gorgeous concept. Really exceptional style. Granted you know the tweaking, I'd say go for it. Go. All. The. Way!

Jewish Zebra

Really amazing concept!

BladeofEvilsBane

All the concepts (and the sky sword) are up for grabs, message me if you're interested.

BladeofEvilsBane

thanks heboltz and zebra, I appreciate it.

BladeofEvilsBane

Revised the sky set a little bit, working with Mihal on it

BladeofEvilsBane

Updated Abaddon Sword:

cagdasx44

Sets are awesome, one of the bests for sure. Keep up the good work.

BladeofEvilsBane

Thanks cag, I'm trying to keep up in general haha

BladeofEvilsBane

I was daydreaming what a skywrath blind box plushie would look like and couldn't help from making one.

Valve GIVE SKYWRATH PLUSH つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

cagdasx44

Make it courier!!!!!!!

Jewish Zebra

^^

BladeofEvilsBane

Made a beautiful beautiful bloodstone out of stoneware clay

heboltz3

2artsy4me

BladeofEvilsBane

@heboltz: u 2 artzy 4 me

looool I was taking screenshots for the courier hayes and I are doing, this is a sneak peak.

agito666

BladeofEvilsBane wrote: »

@heboltz: u 2 artzy 4 me

looool I was taking screenshots for the courier hayes and I are doing, this is a sneak peak.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t26/linkfrog23/hayroshan_zpsef99856f.png~original

lol, forget to tell you one extra thing, if you did this in 3 years ago then it will be more nice, year of rabbit, my chinese zodiac year XD

not really sure valve will make event for moon festival or not, if got this will be very nice courier. (folklore of the jade rabbit that live on the moon)

anyway this is a nice courier