Triss & Mainyu

Mercy

Member since: 2007
Location
Wellington

A request from Mev186 for a new picture featuring those previous characters I've drawn, Darth Mainyu and his apprentice, Trisskar. Here they are in an action pose, fighting alongside each other in an as yet unwritten scene;

"Although currently there isn't a scene that best fits the pair fighting together, as we are still in the process of writing it >_< However Triss would be looking & dressed similar to how she is in the previous images, as would Mainyu. Mainyu would be enjoying the battle, Like a kid in a candy store. After all, he's reliving his old glory days from the war. Triss would be almost...feral, primal.... a wild cat or tiger inside a human body, ready to leap out at her enemies. The fight that will be taking place would be in the thread Insurrection (link below) fighting in the streets of Iziz on Onderon, against Jedi and rebel fighters."

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=29283
And here's a link to another Master and apprentice picture that this really reminded me of;
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/2/23/Aayla_and_…

Comments

Mercy

Great!!

I gotta admit, I'm kinda pleased with this one!
I'll post again once I have a bit more done...

Lord Crumb

It looks great, I really like the pose their in and tension in this pic. I can't wait to see a colored version of it.

-LC :-)

Rozali

I love the character of Trisskar. Very well done! I can never draw faces like you, another one of my weaknesses!
Rozali

Trisskar

Hehe Thank you Roz :-p Glad you are enjoying Triss. Mercy does and excellent job catching Triss in Image.

Rozali

I have trouble figuring out what mercys weaknesses are...

I bet it's a very short list!

mev186

I hear ya Roz, I really like Mercy's style. It has a "dreamlike" quality to it. It looks realistic while being whimsical at the same time.

Keep up the Great work Mercy!

Mercy

Cheers guys!

Been working on the background last night and will post again before the night is out!!
Stay tuned...

EvilWalks

Very cool. I love the battle scene especially...is that Iziz City on Onderon by any chance? It looks familiar.

Lord Crumb

If I am not mistaken this looks like the palace on Onderon for KoTOR 2: The Sith Lords and it looks great. The fight scene is also awesome in the background.

The way you have been cranking out this pics don't forget to take a breath every now and then. All of us here would not want you to burn out.

It' winter in NZ isn't? It get confusing when on different sides of the planet and above or below the equator as well. Bundle up.

-LC :-)

Mercy

Thanks guys!

LC - cheers man! Yes, the architecture was taken from a screen-shot of KoTOR 2 - good pick!
As for NZ, it is definitely Winter here! But today is the first nice day in Welly for a while - I can see blue sky and though it is still crisp outside it's not as frozen as it has been the last few days.

Mercy

Heh! I can understand that point of view, Roz!

I got Pneumonia last year - not fun...
As it happens, I have a cold at the mo and have been sent home today lest I infect everyone else.

Mercy

P.S. I see you're working on a Wikia page for Sadik, Setie!
I realise it's still a work in progress, and you're probably just getting to this, but could I remind you for a mention of 'Artwork by Mercy of SWAGOnline'? I'd really appreciate it!

Trisskar

I'll be sure to poke her about it next I see her ^_^ Or I can just go in and do it for her....Mw Ha Ha!! The evil-ness of Wiki's *Evil Grin*

Rozali

Another illness is Swine Flu. Almost everybody has it over here! They cough like crazy! Luckily, I did not get it...

Setie

Sorry Mercy, I thought I had you in there as the artist. Here I was thinking I was finally getting the hang of the Wiki deal... T_T

Loving the background by the way. From the architecture everyone will know exactly where Mainyu and Triss are in this pic. ^_^

Mercy

Cheers guys!! Yeah, I've had a few people ask if the background is Iziz on Onderon, which is very flattering!

Roz, yes we have Swine Flu (N1H1) over here too - it's a Pandemic now. Everyone got real worried about it but it turns out to present as no more than a minor cold for most people. I've been swabbed for it and the test came back negative, which is cool!
NZ have a few hundred confirmed cases, but no deaths as yet. We do have one 30 year-old lady in critical condition in Wellington Hospital but she had pre-existing bronchial complications to start with. So it's turned out to be not as scary as everyone thought it would be!

Mercy

P.S. Setie, Sorry, I couldn't see my name on the main page but there you have it when you click on the picture it enlargen it! Sorry, my bad!

Mercy

Okay, colour about done.

But I can't decide between the one with the force lightning and the one without...
I think with suits the stance better, and it's what I'd intended to put in there from the start, but with seems to obscure his hand a bit - what do you all think?

Rozali

The one with no lightning, it looks more like hes ready,
VEry minor over here not much of a big deal and all,
:)

mev186

Mainyu's Face paint does look a bit on the light side, Although any darker and you couldn't tell where his face begins and his robes end :P. The lightning does make his hand look larger. Either way looks great! ^_^

Setie

I like the lightning one myself. I can see him kinda charging up here and then he shoves his hand forward and zaps people.

Trisskar

OOooOoo I like! I think I also like the lightening one the most ^_^

Only problem I see (Though i see why it is the way it is) Is that Triss has black hair...not brown ^_^ But...if you make it any blacker one wouldn't be able to tell her hair from his robe.

Also (I hate to ask coz youve done so well...) I was wondering. Think you can also put their portraits on a plain, red, glowy background to? I LOVE The battle scene one, and will use it on my wiki! But I put these images up on my desktop alot, and Id like to have one blend better for desktop show. If it's to much that's cool! Just thought id ask :)

Lord Crumb

The newest pics are wicked awesome and kicka$$. The rich colors of the characters and the way the female is sculpted well in the stomach area. Mixed with the background it just blows me away. Great job.

-LC :-)

Casca1967

I like the one with. It explains the hand more. Some of our best work getsa obscured by the way it all takes shape. But it adds to the overall...very good work regardless

Mercy

Hey wow! Great response from everyone on this one!!!
Thanks to everyone for their kind words!

Anyway, at count I think that's 3 for the lightning, one against, and one undecided.
So that's a pretty strong vote for the lightning, I think!

As for the corrections;

Trisskar - I think I've always done Triss with brown hair! Sorry darl! You're very right in pointing out that making the hair darker may well blend it into the cloak behind, but I'm willing to give it a shot...
I'm not sure I know what you mean about the portraits, though? Do you mean cropping the head-shots from this picture and making an icon? Or are you meaning the white bar at the top and bottom? Let me know, cause either will be easy to do.

Mev - I think the face-paint seems light for a few reasons; I've removed the pencil lines outlining this area and I've also had to lighten his skin tone for the picture; in previous pictures I've got away with making it darker due to the low light. However, I will have a bit of a play with this and post again!

Casca, I totally agree! That's so true!
So many times have I painted up a background without consideration of what will be covered by the figure! *sigh* I guess I have to learn not to be so precious!

Mercy

Here's a quick edit - Mainyu with the face-paint lightened and defined a bit more, Triss with hair toned a bit closer to a brown-black.

Look a bit better?
~ Mercy

Trisskar

Triss's hair - yea I noticed that :-p I never said anything due to the same reasons, black is very hard to work with, specially when using black-ish scenery. The new pic looks real well though.

Portraits - I just meant taking the images of Mainyu and Triss (As a side picture) off the battle background, and putting it on a general black and red-glowy-lightening-y Background...thing >_< lol if that makes any sense? I mainly asked this simply coz I love to put your images up on my desktop and thought it would be nice to stick with the whole black background look ((Since that is the main color of my desktop background)) Just all around fun Options ^_^ not important.

Other then that. I LOVE the Picture and will be working on my wiki some tonight... ((As I've sort of fallen behind >_< ))

Mercy

Sweet!

I thought that was what you were asking for, though I had sort of assumed it would be for use in the writing forums or something - I don't know if you can even use your own pics there though...

Anyway, I'll have a go and post up something for each of them, k?

Mercy

Icons up!

If you want to resize or crop them further that's cool. I haven't bothered to put the sig on them cause it seems a little silly...

mev186

:P I think what Triss meant was to have a version of the Pic of Triss and Mainyu fighting without the Battle Behind them, Just with a solid Background, of the two of them.

Rozali

THis is a question, you all have some kind of wikis you work on... What are they? and how do you make one?
just asking I might be interested-
oncce again in my awesome life I-I've l-lost an-n-nother v-vot-te
*big tears*
*really loud cries that sounds like elephant sneezes*
*one screechy scream that broke 3 wine glasses*

*big gentleman cough*
cgh, cghmm! so sorry about that... I uhh, errr ehhhh well I just umm oh yeh I lost a level in err Revenge of the Telletubies The Video Game... very depresing ya know, kinda

Rozali

Rozali

I know what they look like and all, I go on wookiepedia all the time... Maybe should ask Trisskar or Setie or Whoever out here makes them... Trisskar, Setie what do you about them?
Mercy it did help in a way, now I know all about them! hehe,

Mercy

I'm just doing the background for the Sadik and Triss pic now, and will post it up soon!

Unfortunately, I'm still working from home today (with the sickliness and all!). But the artwork does call to me...

Mercy

BTW, here's the pic with the alternate background.

I'll post the other one to gallery now, yes?

Trisskar

Yes Yes thank you!! Can't wait to see the sadik/triss one!! I do hope you feel better soon!

Mercy

Heh! Thanks Triss!
I'm on the mend, just have to wait it out now. But this gives me time to work on these pictures instead of doing real work!! Way more fun.

Lord Crumb

*CHEERS ALL AROUND* I like it with the battle background but just a shot of them together is kewl also. The emotion on the characters faces and their pose lets you know that they are dangerous. Keep up the great work.

Yes, please keep yourself well as your talents are much loved here on SWAG. Your pics always tend to impress me. Stay warm and take care. The family and I are burning up here in Mississippi with temps in the upper 90's and the heat index over 100 degrees.

-LC :-)