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"Sanzalio goes ´manga´" by Zachariah Campbell

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SciFi and Fantasy Art Sanzalio goes ´manga´ by Zachariah Campbell

Following the suggestion to draw some of our RPG characters in a 'manga' style, I decided to pull this one out... Manga Sanzalio!

Truth be known, he's less 'manga' than many of my drawings... mostly it was just an excuse to stylize him, and especially his 'renaissance' outfit, into something... I dunno... more 'manga-like', whatever that means. It's definitely more exotic and fantastical... in this picture, he's carrying what was supposed to be an Elven rapier as well, so I tried to make it look a little unusual and more organic in form.

He actually kind of reminds me a bit of the Monkey King... must be the hair...

This was pencil, then manipulated digitally a bit. Kind of loses something at this size... darn pixel dimension limits. :P

Date	Name	Comment
8 Jan 2003	Patrick M. Tabor	Loading... first comment Cheer! MONKY KING!!! WOOO HOOOO!!! oh.. wait, Im think of my monky king ^_^;;; Oh hell yeah Sanzalio look kind of cooler Personaly, and the Armor looks Awesome. I guess you could write Sanzalio off as a "new" character.. becuase he is Quit diffrent from his first form. But any who, Great work keep it up.. Working on my art trade, just to let you know ^_^ Panda Zachariah Campbell replies: "Thanks dude. Your monkey king is pretty cool too, but the -original- Monkey King beats us both. Love that guy..er,monkey. Yeah, this pretty much a new character, I guess... "
24 Jan 2003	Kelli Doyle	Loading... drools at the amout of detai I'm sure I've said this before; You're a great character designer, but with all that detail, costume departments and animators will rue your existence. That's allright, though; they're maginificent drawings and something to remind me what it is I strive for; reality and detail while still containing stylization and graphic elements. I dig the hair so much, those chops rock. Zachariah Campbell replies: "Hey, I gotta give those lazy animators and wardrobe people something to do! Yeah, I think the hair and chops are my favourite part too... "
30 Jan 2003	Joey Hartline	Loading... >You're a great character designer, but with all that >detail, costume departments and animators will rue your >existence. Not if they're 3D animators... they just have to render the stuff once, and then just apply motion to the finished model. Of course, the rendering department may still hate him... Anyway, dern good work, as usual, Zac! Strangely, his leg-guards remind me of a certain character's arm-guard... Zachariah Campbell replies: "Yeah, well... if you pay attention, you'll notice that I do tend to repeat myself. There may be a lot of detail in my work, but a lot of it is superfluous repetition. Sigh... "
18 Aug 2003	Bruce Smith	Loading... This fine line style is good
4 Oct 2003	Darren	Loading... JEEZ MAN!!! All I ever do is add a t-shirt and maybe a tight fitting pair of breeches to my characters. You add layers and layers of clothes on top of armor on top of clothes with pouches and belts and on and on and on... Now I really want us to get together just so I can see you sketch one of these babies out in person. But for a guy who obsesses over detail like you do, why oh why can't you draw hair? Zachariah Campbell replies: "Um... he has hair. Quite nice spikey black hair, with highlights even. I don't get you man. I've seen you draw hair, and I don't understand what you're looking for here. Photorealism? If I don't have authentic leather textures painted in over his coat and gear, why would I try to create an authentic "hair" texture on a line drawing? It's inconsistent."
18 Dec 2005	Mangagirl	Loading... Nice picture. The only thing that is really bugging me is the detail. You have excellent work up ahead, but you pictures are far too detailed. I can hardly tell the legs from the lower body. Otherwise, the picture is really great. It has to be for my approval.
10 Feb 2007	Anarchy Productions Presents	Loading... Best manga pic in elfood w00t! I hope no n00bs try to copy your work Hey, why do we have to type in a "magic word" when we make comments now? -_- gaaaaaaaayyy
7 Jan 2008	Bristien FW Havenaar	Loading... Its Wicked meets Awesome. It's what the Final Fantasy Tactics characters could have been if they were as cool as this guy.
31 Jan 2008	Jack evans	Loading... this is very good
27 Sep 2008	Aaaaaaaa	Loading... niiiiiiiiiccccceeeeeeeeee