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Shanaeri Rynale by ~vinegar:iconvinegar:


©2007-2009 ~vinegar
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Submitted: June 10, 2007
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I thought I can upload it here as well, although I'm still unsure whether I prefer a version with or without her wand..

Anyway, I worked on this piece since.. January or something. Not constantly of course, during my free time I just managed from time to time to work on it. And after all those months I kept repainting it multiple times too, for example her face was completely repainted at one point, when I felt there's no point working anymore on an old one. Also there were like 4 or 5 versions of hair haircut. I've learnt a lot on this piece through all this time.

It's a private commission, it depicts a character from Guild Wars, named Shanaeri Rynale. I didn't check the fanart section, because her whole image has been altered by me. It's based on who she is more than how she actually looks in game, meaning the dress is of my own design, inspired by general mesmer look in there, same as her haircut (no loose, long haircut for mesmers in GW I'm afraid). The only thing really similar to her ingame look is her staff. Added later onn demand (same as eyes made brown, they were first blue than green originally).

no references used (it's painted on a pencil sketch, which you can see below, in a link), which makes me quite proud and sad at the same time (with a proper reference I could make her anatomy flawless, without it there are still some issues, but well), some custom textured brushes used everywhere to give it more depth though.

and yes, drawing the plants nearly killed me and took me more than straight two days.

close up's at 50%: [link]

wip, with comments: [link]
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WOW that's gorgeous...She looks more mysterious than morgana...:love:

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Beautiful!
Love it!
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I like it. But, truthfully,
the eyes seem to be
without souls or any emotion...
<3
[].Megan.[]

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As I cry from heartless despair, bloody tears run down my swollen features.... I hate you, Creator.
No long hair for us poor Mesmers :(
I really like her, she has a lot of character! The details are really nice and I loooove her clothing :aww:

The only crit is that her pose looks a bit stiff ._.

The staff is very nice as well, but maybe a bit too pink? I think it'd be nice if you added some pink-edged plants that can be found in the Maguuma jungle (my character has a pink dress at the moment that goes soooo well with the jungle! XD)
I wouldn't get rid of staff because I like the light it casts on her and makes the picture look more alive.
It came out really good imo. Wand as the additional source of light is a nice touch, so I guess it was good idea to put it there. Colors and composition are great too, so... good job.

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yeah, well, the commissioner wanted it to be exactly this stuff and believe me, i made it less shiny and glowing that it is ingame anyway ;)

i thought of doing it maguma alike, but decide to leave it like that, not percise where it is.

as for her clothing i kinda mixed fow with noble/courtly armor; since i saw both for the first time two years ago i always thought they should introduce a kind of a mix between them. well, the guys at anet didn't, but i did :)

thanks, Donna! :heart:
really? i think i prefered green better (you can see them im wips, one of the last stages), but the commissioner liked these better, so they stayed :)
I think I recall you saying you were worried about doing the background (or something like that?), but I really like how you did it, especially with the mushrooms and the viney swing. The light from the wand looks excellent (:

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I was cured all right.
Hahah, yes, objects are so shiny ingame. Even my poor not-really-shiny staff looks shiny...

I love the mix of armor! I am not all that far in the game so I haven't seen all the armor there is, but I saw some people wearing it. And omg, so awesome! I can't wait to finx max armor areas and dye and shop until I drop XD

You're welcome :hug:
This looks amazing:heart:

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