Youtube Tuesdays: Paladin the House!
| 25 May 2010
Get ready, this is a long one...
Ah hoy hoy, girls and boys! PHN here, yet again around the bend, with another update for your dinner plate! Today, it's the World of Warcraft artwork's official video, located so conveniently up above. I swear, I make it so easy for you folks. In my day, we had to download .rm files off of our 56k modems, buffering all the way! But I don't do it to spoil you, but because I love you.
Love hurts.
Anyway, let's talk about the artwork now. Last time, we got off on a bit of a tangent, but our trolley conductor went zing-zing-zing with my heart strings and brought us back on track. Firstly, this was not an easy piece to plan out. Aside from the difficulty in lighting up a piece where there are energy effects to the left of the paladin, to the right, up above, down below, and all around (JEEZUS!), there was also the question of her red amor, and how to differentiate it from her red cloth, and the blue light coming off the sword, and many other creative problems that would traumatize any man lesser than a true love warrior.
Love scars.
So I decided on the sword being the conduit of her powers and the primary light source. I don't play the game, so I'm not entirely sure that's accurate (maybe, like the power of true love, her strength comes from within?). But, He-Man's sword gave him his power, as it channeled the power of Grey Skull. And there are plenty of grey skulls around our heroine to garner that power. The rest of the energies are rim lighting her, making for a nice contrast with the black ink background. Her sword is made of bone and stone, the fiery energies emit embers as they crackle through dead zombie flesh beneath her, and her rune blade is activing it's incantation through the chained words and exclusive "glow in the dark" gems that she got from 10 proofs of purchase from Froot Loops cereal (plus 6.95 s/h).
Love wounds and mars.
Other cool details to check out are the gold armor weatherings, the weathering on the pages of the tome, and the weather around her (no need to check the news, forecast: hot). The wings were a labor of love. This whole project was just......love. I guess you could call me a Soldier of Love. Whether that's by Sade or Donny Osmond, that's for you to decide. Personally, I love both. Today's post was also filled with references to Joan Jett and Judy Garland (how's that for obscure?). Anyway, hope you enjoyed this, and bring it back next time for another PHN-filled post full of nonsense and non-sequitors!