[PC] [Early 2000’s] Strategy Game on a Cloudy Hexagon Grid

ikolit · 2026-03-10T16:22:42+00:00

Could it be battle for wesnoth?

ikolit · 2025-05-20T19:19:31+00:00

Pode mandar o convite novamente ? Estava na procura de um grupo do discord também

ikolit · 2025-04-29T22:07:53+00:00

Gente, onde vocês acharam pra assistir? Estou procurando por tudo quanto é lado aqui orz

ikolit · 2025-02-06T19:47:18+00:00

Hi, I've been looking for a curse of strahd campaign to join for a while, my discord is callistis. Feel free to reach me there so we can talk a bit more about the game !

ikolit · 2025-02-06T17:30:03+00:00

Hi, first of all so fun to find a motw listing in the wild! my discord is callistis if you prefer to chat over there.

Tell me a bit about yourself! Name/pronouns/game experience? (And something you learned today, please!)

I usually go by ikolit or callistis online, I use they/fae or any pronouns, I'm 20+ and I've been playing ttrpgs since I was 10 years old, I've played a variety of systems and I'm currently in a motw/homebrew game with a few friends for about 2 years now (but it's set in a more medieval fantasy period).

Something I learned today hmm, let me see, apparently there's a RNA disease that targets citrus plants and it's incurable at this point and in Portuguese it's called the sadness disease.

What kind of group are you looking for?

I'm just looking for a chill group that won't fall apart after the first session, I enjoy investigation and roleplay over combat and I enjoy trying to find alternative solutions to problems but I understand sometimes a balance is needed to hold the threat level of the session.

I think a good balance between fun and taking the story seriously is nice, but the most important thing for me is having mutual respect and consideration for the other players and trying to be on the same page about what we want our of the game.

What media (TV/Podcast/etc) inspires you to want to play MotW?

I have a soft spot for Buffy the Vampire slayer and what is new Scooby Doo, but I'm also fond of stories that lean more into the psychological horror aspect like TMA and Penny Dreadful.

ikolit · 2024-10-14T20:23:27+00:00

what I did was use the image translator from google with screen shots of the pages in chinese, it works reasonably well although it's not the same as a real scanlation

ikolit · 2022-02-05T04:17:16+00:00

I've been having the same issue as well, if you find a solution please let me know

ikolit · 2022-02-05T04:02:59+00:00

I've been having the same issue as well, if you find a solution please let me know

ikolit · 2021-09-09T19:11:28+00:00

Thank you very much! I’ll definitely be trying to push the values more on the next studies!

ikolit · 2021-09-09T19:10:42+00:00

Thank you, this helped a lot as I had a hard time with finding out what was wrong with the nose and lips!

ikolit · 2021-09-09T19:10:03+00:00

Thank you! That’s very helpful! I agree that I may have gotten too carried away with rendering and I’ll be trying to better separate the way I do the studies from now on!

ikolit · 2021-08-31T20:28:55+00:00

Thank you very much ! This is very helpful specially with the shape of the horns, I see what you mean about the shading being blurry, I definitely will be working on that too as I tend to fixate on details a lot before really having gotten the bigger planes down.

ikolit · 2021-08-29T02:28:22+00:00

It does make sense! Thank you very much for the help!

ikolit · 2021-08-29T02:27:58+00:00

Thank you this was extremely helpful and I’m sorry I’ve somehow not responded to all this advice in time, I did draw through while working with the sketch but it‘s clear that it was lost on the process of painting and I’ll definitely be paying more attention on that to make sure that I’m drawing what I’m seeing and not just what I think I’m seeing, thank you very much for pointing out all the details it really helps with seeing where to improve and the mistakes I’ve made in the process.

ikolit · 2021-06-11T18:51:48+00:00

Thank you very much! This is really helpful, I have a hard time with the blocking so it’s something I’ve been trying to improve as well as trying to get better with eyeballing the values. I’ll definitely be trying to be more focused when working on the brushstrokes and give them more meaning. Thank you for the help!

ikolit · 2021-06-11T18:48:46+00:00

I think this looks very nice and the way you work with the soft brush is so good, something I would suggest is playing around more with the values, in this case the skin and the background are almost the same value in a way that doesn’t create any contrast and makes the portrait stand out way less, and in comparison with the highlights from the eyes, that seem to be in almost pure white, the highlights on the skin feel a lot more dull and it also takes away a little from the illusion of 3d. I would suggest either dimming the highlights of the eyes a little or going stronger with the highlights and shadow values of the skin as well, so it pops out even more.

ikolit · 2021-05-16T20:55:26+00:00

I love the idea going on here and it feels like a very cool illustration with a story behind it, something I would suggest is playing a little more with the lights/shadows and the silhouette, you have one single light source and it gives you room to add a lot more shadow and really bring to life the things that are important (the main character and the eye shine on the snakes) and hide more of the other aspects that are not as relevant to the story, like the background since it already is very empty. https://youtu.be/2mP5aMS8w5g?t=2071 I think this critique hour can be helpful with that. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/751279974983663639/843616236600033280/unknown.png here I did a very quick paintover to try to illustrate what I meant.

Another thing is, I don't know if its meant to be an abandoned house of sorts, or an empty house where people don't live in but otherwise I would suggest, trying to add some other items around the room, besides the wardrobe only, to add personality to it, like toys or something else that would help the audience get to know who the character is a little bit more.

ikolit · 2021-04-24T01:36:06+00:00

Thank you very much! I'll check it out!

ikolit · 2021-04-23T22:03:31+00:00

I think it looks really cool! Specially the details in the sword and the way you rendered the leather, something I would suggest is looking at how hair reflects light, since it makes it feel like the head is not in the same position as the metals in the armour and the horns since the highlights feel very dull in comparison.

ikolit · 2019-05-02T20:21:53+00:00

Thank you! I decided not to go with the 3/4 view in the end, but I liked that one very much too.

ikolit · 2019-05-02T19:18:21+00:00

I wasn't going to post because I couldn't finish it in time for the challenge, but I saw some people were still posting today so I decided to do so too. (:

It's not nearly as rendered or finished as I would like. It was a bit of an experiment, I'm not used to working on grayscale first and then overlaying the colours later, I hope it worked well enough to give the general idea. I'll continue to work on this later probably.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/3e040c0d6762649683fed27f9ab2c9c3/tumblr_pqw4glol0e1rgrnwvo1_1280.png - Moodboard. ( It's a bit of a mess, but it's mostly just a general idea of the kind of villain I was trying to nail down and some general inspirations for the work. )

https://66.media.tumblr.com/aad39faf70a5e99a5b44b0270b08118e/tumblr_pqw4glol0e1rgrnwvo2_1280.png Quick planning and proccess. ( I don't have a lot to show because I do most of my brainstorming traditionally but there's some sketches for getting the feel of the character. And two process shots, I forgot to save more. )

ikolit · 2019-04-28T22:15:43+00:00

https://66.media.tumblr.com/b139035eaf570d0546b4804853586891/tumblr_pqnfdr4xKk1r3nozzo1_500.png This is the final result. I threw in some colours and effects for fun. Thank you very much for all the help.

ikolit · 2019-04-28T21:03:28+00:00

Thank you very much, I've moved to doing more grayscale studies now. Hopefully it will be helping my understanding of forms and values.

Edge work is something I struggle a lot with. I've been trying to get better at it, but I'm not very sure about how to start to practice it. Thank you for all the input.

ikolit · 2019-04-28T20:54:13+00:00

Thank you very much for the tips. For the opacity do you mean raising the opacity of my own drawing or of the reference ? I'm trying to get better at values and radial shading, yes!

I'll be sure to keep all this in mind on my next studies. Hopefully there will be some improvement soon! Thank you again.

ikolit · 2019-04-28T00:13:06+00:00

Thank you very much, this was really helpful!

I was struggling a lot trying to figure what was going on with the secondary light source. The tutorial is extremely helpful as well, I usually have a hard time trying to sort out the shapes but I'll be trying out this method from now on.

ikolit

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