Very nice to see humanoid images from you, and with such an interesting angle too! It might have been a lot of headaches, but it came out good I think.

The armour of the red knight came out very well, I also like the shadowy structure around him, Barbannis armour is well drawn, but I must admit I agree with you, for an experiment in metal-texture it's not very convincing. I think the main reason for this is the even lighting.

As usual I'm picking on shadows ... the red knight is well handled in this regard, but Barbannis has no self-shadowing at all. He is lit from the inside, and that means there will be some mean self-shadows on his armour from the places where he emits light. His crotch and thighs would not show, for example, or at least they would be heavily structured because of light hitting the surface from the side. That's a rather tricky thing to get right though, you sure picked a difficult pose for this one!

Bar the light-issue, I think you could have made things easy for you when making the metal armour -- by making similar structures in Barbie's armour as the ones you did in the Red Knight's armour -- the reason Barbie looks a bit plain is because his panzer has no structure, only gradients. It's a small addition I think would improve the image a lot.

I think it's a great picture though and I foresee Barbie literally loving it!
It's great to see you experimenting with more and more difficult things, so that there remain things to comment on.
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Well, that's my secret goal, to keep you entertained by having to come up with new comments for me Improving my skills is just a bonus

I agree on the pose ("interesting" angle my ass. Angle from hell!), it was like a chant in my head the whole time I worked on it..."Why did I do that??!"

I knew you were going to bring up the light, I'd have to be blind not to have seen it with the brightness that lurks inside that armor, lol ^_^ I just...couldn't make myself light up his armor in all the right places. When you start to consider punching the screen, it sort of becomes time to let it go I meant to excuse it as "it takes place in his head, different laws of physics apply there". Yup >.> If I get over my "dislike" for looking at this thing, then I mean to see if I can continue working on it and get the lighting right *shudder*.

the reason Barbie looks a bit plain is because his panzer has no structure, only gradients

You lost me there, I'm afraid. Structure and gradients? What? Where? O.o (What did I do?? )

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HOLY MOLEY! This is amazing!!! AWESOME work!!!

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shell, that's awsome! That must've taken forever.@_@

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zomg! Gaeva!

This is AWESOME!! It's Barbannis and the red knight! XD i love it xD hehe the poses are so so cool xD and theRed knights hand moving in behind Barbannis looks sweet xD xD thankyou so so much Gaevaness! XD lol This is just great! XD lol lol nothing like a bit of Barbannis drama hum? XD lol ^_~ come on you have to admit its fun tormenting the poor knight again xD another possible turn to the dark side lol

^_^ Great work Geavahorn!
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Thankyou!

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this is really awesome looking g! even if youneglected the metal parts! wow! be proud of yourself!

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Thank you!

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It sorta did, yes Thanks for the compliment

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Glad you like it, Barbie, that makes all the torture worth it! I actually meant to put some more in the comment below it, but kinda got lost in my little rant there >.> Anyway, I tried to follow Barbannis' design from the last pic you made as closely as possible, but had to change some things because they just didn't really work in this pose/angle. I also meant to add his sword, but when I looked at the handle, I decided to have mercy on myself and left it out after all

And yes, I did have fun putting this drama together actually, lol! Mostly in putting the Red Knight all looming behind him with that hand showing up out of the...whatever that stuff is And I was dreading those symbols, but it turned out that that was the funnest part about coloring the Red Knight

Anyway, glad you like it, Barbie!

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