Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Yeah, after reading the epigraphs from WoR I changed it to that because it's what they called themselves. It also sounds like they dislike the name Dustbringers. Argent's arguments in favor of keeping it as Dustbingers has actually swayed me back to that name but I haven't taken the effort to rename them again. They are both names for the same group so doesn't matter too much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 I think it's really just a minor issue of political correctness in-universe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Here are all the steel alphabet symbols from Alloy of Law. Nothing special, just the simple glyphs for if anyone wants to use them for something: Iron -- Steel Tin -- Pewter Zinc -- Brass Copper -- Bronze Cadmium -- Bendalloy Gold -- Electrum Chromium -- Nicrosil Aluminum -- Duralumin Atium -- Malatium Lerasium 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Oh I see. Where could I find these arguments about the name? I forgot that that's what they were called in the epigraphs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 Oh I see. Where could I find these arguments about the name? I forgot that that's what they were called in the epigraphs. Coppermind > Words of Radiance Epigraphs > Chapter 36 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Thanks, but I was wondering more where the arguments you had at keeping it as Dustbringers were. Was it a thread? Hey, Awesomeness, would you mind doing the individual parts of the bridge four tattoos? As in, the freedom part, the Kholin part, the numbers, and the other part that I know I'm forgetting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Here are all the steel alphabet symbols from Alloy of Law. Nothing special, just the simple glyphs for if anyone wants to use them for something: Iron -- Steel Tin -- Pewter Zinc -- Brass Copper -- Bronze Cadmium -- Bendalloy Gold -- Electrum Chromium -- Nicrosil Aluminum -- Duralumin Atium -- Malatium Lerasium Do you happen to have svgs of these you could upload to the wiki? (nice job by the way) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Thanks, but I was wondering more where the arguments you had at keeping it as Dustbringers were. Was it a thread? Hey, Awesomeness, would you mind doing the individual parts of the bridge four tattoos? As in, the freedom part, the Kholin part, the numbers, and the other part that I know I'm forgetting. Oh, I don't know, I don't even remember making this argument 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Oh. Well then. Never mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) Hey, Awesomeness, would you mind doing the individual parts of the bridge four tattoos? As in, the freedom part, the Kholin part, the numbers, and the other part that I know I'm forgetting. Here you go (Clicking the image is the large png and the hyperlink is the svg vector): Bridge 4 Tattoo Freedom Bridge 4 Kholin Tanat Year 1173 My original work on Kaladin's slave glyphs was pulled from the pictures of the hat from the apparel website which wasn't the best source for them. The artwork from inside the book is much cleaner so I remade those traces. Kaladin's Slave Brand Sas Nahn Shash Edited April 3, 2014 by Awesomeness Summoned 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Thanks so much! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psymon Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 I want to change my avatar to the castle guy chalkling, but I just am having a hard time parting with my current one. These are awesome though. I want to make these into decals for my car and motorcycle. I wish Brandon's site offered a decal of Kaladin's glyphs so I could put them on the forehead of my helmet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Just take the png's I linked to a fedex printers. I'm pretty sure they make decals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookspren Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 These are great! I think I'll take the Stoneward gemstone. Thanks for making these. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) So this work doesn't exactly fit the overall topic for this thread but I'm used to posting all my work in here so am just gonna go with it. I've been improving my photoshop/illustrator tracing techniques since I started copying all the various cosmere artwork for use on the 17s and the coppermind but have never done much with fully shaded and colored vectors. I Decided to start attempting to learn some of those techniques and chose the picture of the whitespine in Shallan's sketchbook, originally drawn by the amazingly talented Ben McSweeney (inkthinker on here). I'm essentially learning how to do this stuff just by trial and error so I am more than open to suggestions from the very talented artists in here who have much more experience in this area than myself. The shading and coloring are also by no means done completely from scratch. I have nowhere near enough talent for that yet. I'm just trying to work out some of the basic principles so I pulled heavily from the original work and just manipulated it a bit. Here is the Line Art I first traced from the sketches: If you'd like an SVG vector file of that to mess with click HERE Here is what it looked like after playing around with the shading and colors: And the vector file for that as well is HERE Edited April 11, 2014 by Awesomeness Summoned 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 That is by far the nicest piece of work you've done yet. Excellent tracing and adjusting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Continuing my foray into line art coloring and shading, here is Gavilar's shardplate holding Firestorm (his shardblade). The original art from which the tracings were done: The Line tracings (for an SVG file, click HERE): Gavilar's plate was described as being painted blue with gold trimming. Adding gold trimming is beyond my talents at the moment (especially the wings that are supposed to be on the helmet), so I did a slight various on that color scheme. It's not true to the actual color but I wanted to play around with the flame design of the blade with some reds and yellows. It didn't match the plate anymore so I colored the plate to match. Yes, I know it turned out looking like iron man after that. Oh well. If you have any better suggestions on how to do the coloring, let me know. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 The red & orange would be pretty terrifying in combat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psymon Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I've already posted these in other threads to get opinions on meaning/names for them but I'll go ahead and put them in here as well since this is kind of my official graphic design thread for cosmere related material. As always, clicking the picture links to the high quality png file and the hyperlink connects to an svg vector file. One of the art pages in WoR had some fighting moves with Alethi glyphs describing the actions. For reference, here is the art page: We have also been long overdue for high quality renditions of the Herald symbols so I traced the images of them that were imprinted on the introductory pages for each Part in tWoK and WoR. Kak Does anyone else think that the bottom glyph from the WoR picture looks like it could be the base glyph for Kak's honorblade glyph? It has been said several times that unless you know what you're looking for it can be difficult to identify the original glyph in the stylized one. Maybe I'm wrong, but this just looks similar enough that it might be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aether Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Does anyone else think that the bottom glyph from the WoR picture looks like it could be the base glyph for Kak's honorblade glyph? It has been said several times that unless you know what you're looking for it can be difficult to identify the original glyph in the stylized one. Maybe I'm wrong, but this just looks similar enough that it might be. You might be right, but in my opinion, it looks closer to Paliah's than Kalak's. Though at first glance, I thought it was rather Nale's, so what do I know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcarusAbides Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Wow there's some truly brilliant work in this thread and I just wanted to thank Awesomeness for uploading the various psd files a while back, that's going to make designing a few tattoo's so much easier for me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreathTaker Posted April 27, 2014 Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 Thank you so much, Love all that you've done here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeness Summoned Posted April 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Okay, so its been a while since I made any new icons. Partly because this is a crazy time of year for my work but also because I'm a little stumped on new designs I can make. I need something creative to work on when I take breaks from the daily grind so anyone have any suggestions or requests? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Wax & Wayne, back to back? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pathfinder Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Thank you for making these! Excellent work! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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