This is just a random side project I adopted, I felt the original Akroma did not have enough contrast, and always preferred Matt Wilson's version on Pacafism, he was her designer anyway, so I based my color scheme off of that.
I don't know really. I never did like Akroma's design all that much, but for the original, I'd have to assume the yellow tint was meant for a sense of time (afternoon maybe?). Still though, I guess it attempted to follow that old age rule of contrasting colors (purple/yellow, orange/blue, and green/red). Frankly, your rendition gives a much more detailed and clean version, while the original I guess was a little more appeasing to the eye in colors.
Holy crap that looks soooo much better. I have to agree, the Pacifism version of Akroma by Wilson always did look better. I mean, yeah, I do like Ron Spears' version and I love my pretty foil version of her, but damn, that looks sweet. Ever think about possibly making it into a desktop with just the color-adjusted version? If you do, post it here so I can steal the lovely.
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I do like the much whiter one more but I think Akroma is white but the backround is changing her color. Also on the white one which is better I think the backround should remain the same. Can you do that on photoshop?
I no longer have the original PSD file of the pic, it was on my old computer that crapped out last september, I could re photoshop the retouched image with the old one, but im lazy
Here is the wallpaper, and here is a link to the Angels of Magic section on my site, which has 20 other angel wallpapers, as well as tons of other angel stuff.
Hrrmm, I'm not exactly sure I preferred the Akroma in Pacifism to Spears' version, but looking at them side by side, I think your version to the left is very nice. It looks more real to her character I think, I mean, she is a angel of glory, but she's no Karona, the one to the left seems grittier, more detailed, cleaner, and what I'd really think of Akroma as looking like...even the sword looks cooler.
I wish I could have an Akroma with the art to the left... :slant:
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I wish I could have an Akroma with the art to the left... :slant:
How bout all 4 Legendary angels with alternate art?
My original reason for recoloring Akroma was because I wanted to create a set of all 4 legendary angels with alternate art, but ironically enough, Akroma, the most popular of the 4, has no alternate art not used on another card already. Even Reya, who was not in any of the books or anything, had an alternate image. (Ok, she was mentioned by Barrin ONCE.)
The Reya art is actual taken straight from the wallpaper from the old magic apocalypse site, its not enlarged at all, thats just the style it was made in.
The pic of Radiant is from a scene in one of the artifact cycle books, where she:
Had been so influenced and corrupted by Gorig, a phyrexian sleeper agent, that she was fighting with Urza while he was trying to save the Serran's of the Realm, after Radiant had instigated a genocidal war of Angel VS Human. The image is of her during the fight with Urza, the stones she is holding are his eye's, the Mightstone and Weakstone. Trivia: The first two beings to nearly kill Urza where a Demon, and an Angel.
she fought phage, who damaged her lower legs, and they where replaced with a cat thing, so she was 4 legged, then THOSE legs where damaged, and replaced with metal legs. it was bad, those where some of the worst books.
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I don't know really. I never did like Akroma's design all that much, but for the original, I'd have to assume the yellow tint was meant for a sense of time (afternoon maybe?). Still though, I guess it attempted to follow that old age rule of contrasting colors (purple/yellow, orange/blue, and green/red). Frankly, your rendition gives a much more detailed and clean version, while the original I guess was a little more appeasing to the eye in colors.
Bleh. THIS is why I'm not an art major.
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Here is the wallpaper, and here is a link to the Angels of Magic section on my site, which has 20 other angel wallpapers, as well as tons of other angel stuff.
http://www.cabalcity.com/angels
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I wish I could have an Akroma with the art to the left... :slant:
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How bout all 4 Legendary angels with alternate art?
My original reason for recoloring Akroma was because I wanted to create a set of all 4 legendary angels with alternate art, but ironically enough, Akroma, the most popular of the 4, has no alternate art not used on another card already. Even Reya, who was not in any of the books or anything, had an alternate image. (Ok, she was mentioned by Barrin ONCE.)
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The pic of Radiant is from a scene in one of the artifact cycle books, where she:
It has always bothered me that Akroma wasn't a flying centaurish thing...