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Nik, would you ever consider overpainting a render of mine?
There is one I really adore the pose and expressions of, but failed to edit it in any way that can be considered appealing.
Combined with your painting skills, this could be so, so good.
RaSen's avatar
Possibly? I mean it would depend on how time consuming it would be because that's sadly in short supply these days. :/
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That would be fantastic. I'd really, really love that.
The image I'm talking about is this one:

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Just a little while longer... by DorianPavus
 
RaSen's avatar
That wouldn't be difficult. Most of that is broad surface shading. It's just a matter of finding the time. I saved the pic so I may fiddle around with it if I have any free time. Right now I'm finishing a piece for the Dorian artbook project and like three comms at the same time so I've barely even been on the net. X_X
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Thank god there's a chance. Thank you so much. Take all the time you need. What's the Dorian artbook project?
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^_^ No problem. I like doing Cullrian stuff in my free time. 

Ah the artbook project is  going to be a printed book of I think it's 30 fan-artists depictions of "Dorian in Tevinter" and all sales will go to an LGBT charity.  David Gaider from Bioware may even be doing the forward for it, but we're not 100% sure yet. He's talking to our project leader about it. Me and KingCholera are doing it, I know Nipuni and Kauriart are as well and a lot of others from tumblr. My deadline is end of this month and I think it goes to print in October. They won't make a formal announcement of it until it's ready. I'll be posting stuff about it on my tumblr as soon as we're all given the go ahead. 
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I'm looking forward to it so much!

That sounds mindblowing. I didn't expect anybody to be in touch with Dorian's writer, either.
You guys are amazing. And you and KingCholera are definitely extremely good choices for a project like this. I wonder if elmroko is in, too.
They're really, really good, too, after all. I didn't know Nipuni was lgbt positive, but that's good to know.
Are there any guidelines for you guys? How did you get in in the first place? The leader picking people or did some approach them, too?
Is it suposed to Dorian only or are LIs allowed?
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I'm not sure. I don't remember the full list of artists but there are a lot of good ones. I don't remember if elmroko is on the list or not but I love their stuff.

Uhh, not really. Just "dorian in tevinter". The only trouble we've run into so far is color issues. I had a shitty laptop (had to buy a new one) that had bad color and I found out that all my pics were coming out WAY lighter than they should be. I was confused when I was contacted and asked to darken Dorian's skin because on my screen it looked super super dark but then now that I have a better screen I realized that all my stuff was like waaaaaaaaaaaaaay lighter than it was supposed to be. My old laptop had terrible contrast. Otherwise we weren't really restricted too much. As far as how I got in I was contacted by one of the people in charge and asked if I would consider doing it. I was super busy but I wanted to do it anyway since it was for a good cause. It's Dorian only (though other people can be in the pic). I imagine they wanted to stay away from LIs because every artist tends to ship him with different people and it would get confusing and adult super fast if we were just left to do whatever we wanted. Especially since those shipping with Inquisitors still wouldn't match because your Inquisitor can look completely different from someone else's and I think they wanted continuity. It's supposed to be celebrating Dorian on his own as a person.