Jade dragoon Request

[dabadking]

okay ....this is for someone who requested a remade dragoon type armor from me... (name Anonymous for courtesy) Basically I just needed a place to post the pic for him, but as always am looking for feedback.

I have remade this body piece a few times with different parts and... most did not look clean looking, so I scrapped them. I tried with dragon mail, however even when I made each individual scal and outlined them each with the original black coloring.. the colors ran together so... I scrapped it. Then I tried a fw others and they had hidden alpha pieces that ..in the end I managed to take them off....Just didnt look right either...so,

I have decided maybe to stick with the AF2 piece but add a LOT of very tiny details that while 90% will not see....all of those details will make it look better overall.

I have ONLY DONE 90% of the body so far so please dont post saying the green doesnt match, the gold isnt finished, etc.. I am working on it lol. This is taking a lot longer than I thought mainly because I have scrapped about 4 body pieces after having them at 90% and... this so far is one of the few that looks clean, and looks like it COULD be in the game IMO.

Oh, and also... the drg helm looks too plain to me so.... that will be remodeled and redone as well..it just doesnt fit the colors and designs IMO.

Top is mostly done.... side flaps on bottom, Im starting now, as well as the elbowpads. ..the rest I will be touching up as well.

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Almost finished with the body only...starting on the rest soon, Basically only have the elbowpads left do do as far as I can tell.

[Odyne]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

I like the gold trim and everything, though I think the green could just be a tad less saturated/darker for a richer look

[dabadking]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

I thought about that but ....Im trying to match someones SIg so ...it has to be fairly close to that color. Plus from what I can remember ...the actual color jade... is fairly bright no?

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Okay he liked a darker more slightly blue green as well so ...heres the new colored version.

[Teslithia]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

Wow. Those second pictures look great. Maybe add some dark-dark-dark colored veins in the green for added effect.

Jade is a really dark green. Emerald is usually bright. ^^

[dabadking]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

Hmm...... I dunno .... this project is in limbo right now... May just scrap the whole thing since I've recently found that there may be one of these outfits floating around already ... Ill give it a little bit before I toss it, just in case

[Odyne]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

I like the darker version a lot better, looks really nice ^^

[Sinbreakerblade]

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Yep your sec time is alot better^.^

[Teslithia]

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Don't scrap something you already started. Go for the gold! (Or the green in this case..)
Your dat might be better then the one floating aroud out there.
What if it sucks?
What if it's... Neon Green...?

[dabadking]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

Some new pics of my Soon to be finished Jade Dragoon.

First of all I'd like to say ..on the Helm .. the model is NOT MINE.
I got it off of allakazham forums and there was no author named that I know of, however i DID do all the reskinning and coloring of it. it was just solid ....teal i think? It was a wierd sea green looking color... anyways, I made the teeth on the helm white (Yes this helm has teeth which is why I Used it. It also has a LOT of small things that make it look more like a Dragons head (the original author did that also).

The rest of the outfit will be all my work. (well except the fact that its an actual reskin of DRG AF armor lol).

Ive added a lot of small details in the body piece, I have drawn a few things and scanned them into my PC and added those designs to the body as well.

For the gloves I took the look of the I.M gloves, recolored them, and added another design that I drew as well.

As for the rest ....thats still to come.

It would be finished already but... Ive added so many things ive had to physically draw on paper then add in... that it just needs a bit more time lol.
and I know ....90% wont notice them but.... in MY EYES... I will notice the blah spots that needed attention (the tiny details Ive added were mostly shadows on the gold pieces (Yes i shaded each piece of gold -_-), and also added more shades of color than the original DRG helm had. As always feedback welcome.

P.S. As for the helm designs.. the pics SUCK at showing them ...it looks better in action than thwe top view shows ....honest XD

[bikkebakke]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

I like this last set of pics

[Sinbreakerblade]

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Look pretty awesome to me

[bikkebakke]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

i want it... i want it NOW

[dabadking]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

lol well..... i CAN have this done tomorrow but... If i release it tomorrow it may just be a V.1 What I'd LIKE to do with the finished one is make a LOT more detailed parts for it including shading small parts of everything, and adding a bit more gold pieces to it... but that will take about a week so ..a V.1 will be released hopefully tomorrow, but the helm, gloves AND body are finished to what I would like (or at least that I can tell ATM).
its the boots and pants that will be realeased as just a recolor tomorrow, and later be completely redone as Ive done the rest.

[bikkebakke]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

/em goes nuts with impatience.

[dabadking]

Re: Jade dragoon Request

Okay heres an In Game Shot of my jade Dragoon...I took it of me resting because I think its funny that ...if you really look at the top of the helm ..it kinda looks like a dragon face

you can see eyes on the top .. the black pieces that look like this \ /
and the bottom part looks like this v
to me it looks like a dragons face laughing because the bottom is so far from the top. I dunno maybe Im just tired and am seeing things ...anyways I got a laugh out of it since I had no intention whatso ever of doing that.

Also Im thinking of changing the color of the helm very slightly as, in game ..it looks a TINY bit dark ...dunno yet tho.