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Published: 2012-12-16 10:14:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 8268; Favourites: 280; Downloads: 106
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Description El-Sato drew up a fun image of my personal character for the game I work on, Spiral knights. I really enjoyed what he created, so I thought I'd pay the favor forward and draw up some one else's character.

The above results is MamaMisho's design done up in El-Sato's style. (Or at least, as close as I was able to get to his style.) I like to examine people's works and see how close I can get to recreating it, hopefully learning a few things along the way. Hopefully my attempt isn't an insult to his works.

I rather dislike inking, so there was a certain challenge in doing that. I don't feel like I nailed the lighting style at all though.

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Comments: 30

blaner [2013-08-14 02:41:19 +0000 UTC]

coooool lml 

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hydromanic [2013-07-30 08:13:11 +0000 UTC]

Hello! I really like this<3
I'm Digitox, add me

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zack30 [2013-06-09 05:32:51 +0000 UTC]

Wow *_*
Just seeing Cobalt online in Spiral Knights might make me think of this pic. . .

Oh and please draw my knight? Name: Zack-Silvia.
My account was created upon installing the game to Steam.

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RoxyRoxas1313 [2013-05-23 16:03:59 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work! I really love the colors.

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Chameleon-Veil [2013-03-28 01:12:43 +0000 UTC]

I don't know what this is but it's friggin' cool.

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Rion-The-Fox [2013-02-07 18:13:53 +0000 UTC]

You actually rather suit inking, as much as you might dislike it - and the metallic reflection from the glow of the halo is brilliantly striking..!

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poisonDragongirl13 [2013-01-12 10:08:12 +0000 UTC]

do you have Tutorials on how to draw these?
its just... its really hard for me to draw these chibi things!

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Star-Soul [2012-12-28 16:49:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow I love this! Nicely done and yes you really capture the style!

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xXkollyXx [2012-12-19 08:50:55 +0000 UTC]

Awesome job there ^^

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LCom [2012-12-18 04:01:57 +0000 UTC]

Goddamn I still love everything you do. Gonna have to check El-Stao out now too!

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El-Sato [2012-12-17 22:19:39 +0000 UTC]

you got the style perfectly! awesome

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Malakym In reply to El-Sato [2012-12-18 01:59:36 +0000 UTC]

Nifty, glad you approve! Thank you.

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arkiviste [2012-12-17 03:19:27 +0000 UTC]

Wow I was really sure it was Sato's XD

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mysterious-1nsf [2012-12-17 01:38:36 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant!

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willy238 [2012-12-16 22:14:29 +0000 UTC]

The art style of that game is like half of what makes me come back to it over and over again.

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AgAzide [2012-12-16 21:54:04 +0000 UTC]

Hey, Cobalt contributes to this Spiral Knights blog that I run and this is epic~ And as long as I'm fanboying, Mac Hall and 3PS were/are amazing :3
-AgAzide

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Wrriter [2012-12-16 20:55:55 +0000 UTC]

Fabulous ~ <3

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JoshuaStriker [2012-12-16 19:34:47 +0000 UTC]

Ahaha, I know this made MamaMisho's whole day.

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BlazingCobalt [2012-12-16 19:28:51 +0000 UTC]

Holy Crap. This is amazing! I can't say thanks enough.

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kyleireland [2012-12-16 18:32:14 +0000 UTC]

cool

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toroko [2012-12-16 17:38:04 +0000 UTC]

Hrggnnngg that is so sweet of you. It looks amazing

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Bastidores [2012-12-16 16:02:26 +0000 UTC]

Perfect at capturing Cobalt's design and El Sato's art style.

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BNeutral [2012-12-16 15:38:39 +0000 UTC]

Cobby is gonna go crazy. Nicely don Ian.

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knight-mj [2012-12-16 14:36:37 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful! Even with inks Although I don't understand why you hate inking so much, I love it.

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Voxxitronic [2012-12-16 14:20:29 +0000 UTC]

Cob is probably gonna flip when she sees this. Great work, you captured ElSato's style pretty well, too.

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kirbecio [2012-12-16 12:18:56 +0000 UTC]

Wow, you did a great job here, love it

Inking... a little pain for us...

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Cellsai [2012-12-16 12:06:37 +0000 UTC]

It's funny that you say you hate inking since I always had a folder full of MacHall pages to reference off and use as my goal when I was learning to ink back in the day

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Malakym In reply to Cellsai [2012-12-16 21:36:35 +0000 UTC]

My hands are incredibly far from steady, so inking has always been a source of frustration for me. That's why Mac Hall eventually 'evolved' to the point where inking wasn't part of the process. I'll also point out that I didn't own a Wacom or anyother tablet until I started working at Three Rings. So the entirety of Mac Hall is done with a mouse. (Re: Lots and lots of poly-lasso tool)

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sofur In reply to Malakym [2012-12-30 01:52:02 +0000 UTC]

You did
All of Mac Hall
With a mouse.

Holy crap, you are my hero.

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Qsy-and-Acchan In reply to Cellsai [2012-12-16 13:38:01 +0000 UTC]

thought the same thing

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