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Lady of the Horde

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Hi, Saberlin,

    thank you so much for your post and comments, I can´t tell you how happy I am to hear/read those words.


    About doing comics, I always say this but it´s the truth: there´s nothing special or metaphysical about doing comics, the trick is to not think (or even talk) about it, just sit down and do it.
    LOL
    I´m glad you liked my cloths, sometimes I have WAY too much drawing them. ^_^

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    Ever wonder why the one echo Nadra picked from our good Lady Radamant was a colossal image of her mother?
    Now you know why. ^_^

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    cradle, not craddle

    and smile ON their faces, not in

    my skin is crawling, is that good?

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Hey, Quoth, thanks, glad you spotted those!

    LOL
    Did I just give away that english is not my first language?

    Skin crawling... nah, that happens to me all the time. ^_^

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    Aaahh, brotherly love.... isn´t it just lovely? ^_^

  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    ...Felt for the oldest palace trick in the book?

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Yeah, was the wording wrong?

    Courtyard backstabbings and power games between noblemen...

    In portuguese, it would be "intrigas palacianas".... no idea of how to translate that into english.. "palace intrigue", maybe?

  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    Yeah, was the wording wrong?

    Courtyard backstabbings and power games between noblemen...

    In portuguese, it would be "intrigas palacianas".... no idea of how to translate that into english.. "palace intrigue", maybe?

    No, no... the wording is fine, but I think you meant Fell not Felt. Awesome comic, either way.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Oh, cool!
    Thanks for spotting that one, I´ve corrected and re-uploaded the page.

    Thanks, Dispatch! Glad you´re liking my little webcomic experiment.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    There goes Nadra´s main hitter. ^_^

    Who´s left... Puppy Poppy?

  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    *burn to the ground. :P

    I can't really see what kind of weapon the guy in the last shot is firing, but isn't it a really short weapon to propel big grenades?

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Dude, I have NO idea.
    I just "stole" one of these. :mrgreen:


    rl]

  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    Hmm, I dunno enough about perspective to tell exactly what is wrong with it. Maybe someone else can? Or not. Whatever, really.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Thank you, Aldo, that was most helpful.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    "- What are you doing to my city?" ^_^

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    Have I mentioned yet how much I enjoy putting Aeron through hell? ^_^

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    I really need to start making lists of these things, is there anyone in this story who hasn´t beaten Aeron yet? ^_^

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    Lady Radamant´s remark in the last panel ties to a tradition in ancient times of burying the dead with a coin over their eyes to pay for the ferry ride across the river Styx.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    So long, Dude in Distress#1.
    After all the trouble Nadra went through to save his sorry derrière...
    Oh, well...

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    - At last we meet again,. Ms. Bond! ^_^

    Buster Kegan is taking forever to rise from the dead, though... get up already, you lazy git!

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    No, she didn´t get Simon´s name wrong. ;)

  • ThePacerThePacer Registered User
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    Have I mentioned yet how much I enjoy putting Aeron through hell? ^_^

    I'm having a little trouble figuring out whats right under the guys right hand

    while he's being kicked. Is that a tree trunk?

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Yeah, it´s an old tree trunk that´s been there for generations.

    Maybe positioning it there wasn´t a very fortunate idea...

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    Now would be a good time for some last words. ^_^

  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    *innocent. :P

    I have no idea what the story is even about any more, but it sure looks pretty.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Thanks, Aldo.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Whew!
    What a week. First my site was down, then it´s up...

    Oh, well, time to wrap up this chapter:

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    One more page to go and I´m taking suggestions on what bad@$$ Narkissa will look like.

    No, really... at this stage, I have NO idea. ^_^

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    Next: Don´t bother picking dance partners, there´s gonna be enough whup@§§ in that can for everyone. ^_^

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    So.. anyone up for a chapter#4?

    The opening 2-3 pages were going to have Aeron cursing left and right. I wanted to make him exhaust his four-letter words vocabulary. "- Die, you %$&!" would be the only inteligible thing coming out of his mouth.
    But I figured it wouldn´t be half as fun using "$%&" instead of the actual foul language, :D

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    Nope, there´s absolutely nothing wrong with her speech pattern, it´s just your imagination. ^_^

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck Registered User regular
    The inking in this is amazing. You are doing this with a computer, presumably?

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Thank you, surrealitycheck. :)

    I´m drawing Lady of the Horde by hand the old fashioned way, pencils and ink, but the grayscales are added later with Photoshop.

  • Lone_SuicidalLone_Suicidal Registered User
    I don't know what it is but I haven't been able to view the last 3 pages you posted, all I get are x's. You got another site where they are up?

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Hi, Lone Suicidal,

    that is really weird, let me know if this works:

    LADY OF THE HORDE 323

    LADY OF TEH HORDE 324


    Chapter 4

    LADY OF THE HORDE 401

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    The one thing I particularly like about Aeron is his uncanny propensity to pick up fights above his weight class.

    It´s a gift. :D

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  • spellchromespellchrome Registered User
    Man, this guy is good. Talented and polished.

    A person could learn a lot just by looking at how he is creating and crafting his images.

    I love how a multitude of colours (like skin tone) all translate to white. It works very well over the grey dotted patterns in the background.

    He's also got a real gift for rendering fluid lines.


    Hey Eliseu, how long does it take you to complete a single page, start to finish.? And what kind of reference (like an wooden figurine) do you use to figure out human poses and perspective?

    I really like your work.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Heya, Spellchrome, thanks a lot for your post and comments, I can´t tell you how happy I am that you´ve enjoyed checking my doodles.

    It´s extremely dificult to quantify how much time I put into each page.
    I (try to) upload a page a week.
    I work around half an hour to an hour every day on that page, but then I waste about an afternoon (usualy sundays) scanning, compositing, grayscaling in Photoshop and lettering.

    So, it could be anything from 8 to 12+ hours.

    I often use reference images in my daily work but they can steal a bit of the joy and spontaneity I get from the creative process (oooh, big words ^_^).
    So, at least for Lady of the Horde I try to draw straight from my head (same thing happens with the script, I have none).

    EDIT: No, wait... I did use phot reference a couple times. Been a while but I recall that ahe helicopters (the Apache AH-64 and the Chinook) were drawn based on a couple aviation mags I keep around.

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    Not even a "thank you" to the girl who just saved your hide?
    These Pendargrave boys are the worst. ^_^

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
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    Do you think maybe I should advise Simon to duck? ^_^

  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    Lookin' good as always, man.

    I was kind of disappointed not to see you in the CBRunway competition -you could wipe the floor there. Thanks to you and your European hero from last year, I've been somewhat active in their projects.

    Have you looked into print distribution of Lady of the Horde?

  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User
    Hey, ManonvonSuperock,
    LOL
    Wipe the floor, me?
    I dunno, there were lots of VERY talented and imaginative guys in there.
    The latest CBRunaways was sweet, I´m glad you´re participating in their initiatives, those are always lots of fun. :)

    No plans to have Lady of the Horde printed for now... it´s a miracle just to find time to finish one of these pages a week :( -

  • gredavingredavin Registered User regular
    This comic is a gigantic acid trip.

    Love the visuals, even if my mind is exploding trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

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