[ART] Pathfinder & Conan (4/29/07)

[Tensen01]

A WIP inspired by the movie Pathfinder, which I really dug once I started think of it like Conan...

[JesterJ.]

Damn I really like it so far. It doesnt look like it's too much "in progress" right now, except for the background

Sexeh!

[emma]

That movie looks really bad. And I will totally end up seeing it.

But that picture looks really cool.

[Tensen01]

That movie looks really bad. And I will totally end up seeing it.

But that picture looks really cool.

It's not, actually... just forget that it's supposed to be set in America, and imagine it's set in Hyboria

Let me just say I hope the next Conan movie is like Pathfinder. It did Conan better than Conan did...

[emma]

Oh, it's out already? I hadn't realized. I will see it because it has Karl Urban.

You should totally make that dude look more like Karl Urban. That man is dreamy. That's the reason I'm going to see it, of course...

[Tensen01]

Oh, it's out already? I hadn't realized. I will see it because it has Karl Urban.

You should totally make that dude look more like Karl Urban. That man is dreamy. That's the reason I'm going to see it, of course...

yeah, it's out... I actually saw it opening night.

Only complaint was that it deserves a "Most In Need Of A Tripod" award

[Alja-Markir]

Any chance of changing it from an imbed to a link? It won't load for some reason on my end.

~Alja-Markir~

[Tensen01]

Any chance of changing it from an imbed to a link? It won't load for some reason on my end.

~Alja-Markir~

Link to the finished piece
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54038527/

[Tensen01]

Finished Imbedded

[blackdragontaz]

Wow Tensen, so very cool. I really like the tattoo on his arm and the symbol in the background of the second picture. He looks so realistic it's almost scary, like I'm about to experience him jumping off the screen like Indian in the Cupboard crossed with Friday the 13th.

[Mouse]

Wow Tensen, so very cool. I really like the tattoo on his arm and the symbol in the background of the second picture. He looks so realistic it's almost scary, like I'm about to experience him jumping off the screen like Indian in the Cupboard crossed with Friday the 13th.

*giggles*

Indian in the Cupboard...lol...

*wanders off to find something more intelligent to say*

[Tensen01]

new Piece, a Conan Concept.



Just lineart, unfinished

[Discomonkey]

Since when did Conan wear pants? I'm calling foul.

[Tensen01]

Since when did Conan wear pants? I'm calling foul.

Since I decided that a Loincloth is not a smart idea for a warrior. I never understood how artists could draw him in Scale mail, with horned helmets and bracers, carrying a shield... but he still wore no pants!!

This is my Conpect of Conan. How I'd have him look if I were drawing him or designing a new movie.

[JesterJ.]

I like the finished..but my only complaint is that the tattoo looks pretty unrealistic. It looks like it's hovering above his skin, not on it.

[emma]

I like the finished..but my only complaint is that the tattoo looks pretty unrealistic. It looks like it's hovering above his skin, not on it.

It doesn't follow the contours of his body, I think is why.

[AmazingPjotrMan]

I'm still having trouble understanding where the horned helmets came into play with vikings.

[Lord Chrusher]

Some of the targets of the Vikings were churches and monastery which had more silver candle sticks, bejeweled books, gold crosses and such than the peasants hovels. Perhaps adding the horns made the vikings that much more demonic.

[Tensen01]

Actually, Vikings only had horns on Ceremonial helmets.

They never wore horns into battle. They also never had Double-bladed axes. That didn't come along until much later and was onlky used for wood chopping

[AmazingPjotrMan]

Guh... stupid historic christian psychology.

[Tensen01]

Almost finished, just trying to decide on the background

[browncoat]

These shadows look kinda hard, yet without being dark enough for resulting from strong light.
But apart from that, I like it : )
(Though I never was into any of the Conan-stuff ^^)

[Alja-Markir]

I'm still having trouble understanding where the horned helmets came into play with vikings.

There is no physical evidence, at all, whatsoever, for Vikings or any other Norsemen to have ever worn horned helmets.

The entire concept was spawned from the discovery of a very famous ship burial, the Sutton Hoo mound. The helmet you see on that page is perhaps the most famous norse helmet ever found.

That helmet originally had a series of decorational images across the dome, above the eyes and face. One of these images featured human figures wearing helmets with horn-like protrusions. However, those same protusions have also been likened to wings, as well as several other possible symbols.

There are no helms existing that have, or had horns on them. There are no written records of horned helmets. There are no indications that any helmets ever had horns. There is simply one image, on one helm, crudely showing something that might be horns on a helmet worn by a human figure that we have no clue as to the basis or origin of.

And don't even get me started on mice and cheese! They simply do not eat cheese! It's a misconception, and it is so horribly stupid!

Also, lemmings do not leap off cliffs, at least not naturally. That is all.

~Alja-Markir~

[Tensen01]

I'm still having trouble understanding where the horned helmets came into play with vikings.

There is no physical evidence, at all, whatsoever, for Vikings or any other Norsemen to have ever worn horned helmets.

The entire concept was spawned from the discovery of a very famous ship burial, the Sutton Hoo mound. The helmet you see on that page is perhaps the most famous norse helmet ever found.

That helmet originally had a series of decorational images across the dome, above the eyes and face. One of these images featured human figures wearing helmets with horn-like protrusions. However, those same protusions have also been likened to wings, as well as several other possible symbols.

There are no helms existing that have, or had horns on them. There are no written records of horned helmets. There are no indications that any helmets ever had horns. There is simply one image, on one helm, crudely showing something that might be horns on a helmet worn by a human figure that we have no clue as to the basis or origin of.

~Alja-Markir~

yeah... I sort of already said that... though I chose not to cite sources

[Simmemann]

...but vikings look pretty bad-ass with horns on the helmets, so why not?

And if not the vikings in enough norse in Pathfinder, the movie is based on an old sami/norwegian film, which again is based on an old sami legend. Bet you didnt think that when you saw the indians, eh?