I talk about sometimes being overwhelmed by the negativity in the forum and sad about the lack of fan creations, so I thought I'd put my money where my mouth is for a change. Well, I don't have money, but I do have art.

Transparent png file. If I make more like these, maybe we could use these as Year Two news story illustrations?

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Someone give this man a pile of money.

Someone give this man a pile of money.

I wish I had skillz like him. Damn son, how are you not rich?

I don't think anyone has commented here, but these were amazing (especially in person).

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13468

I don't think anyone has commented here, but these were amazing (especially in person).

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13468

The Vex cosplay boggled my mind.

Awesome as always Levi!

I love the whole thing, but the fade to transparency is very cool.

I don't think anyone has commented here, but these were amazing (especially in person).

Yeah, the Eris cosplay was crazy; she really nailed the glowing eyes.

I don't think anyone has commented here, but these were amazing (especially in person).

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13468

The Vex cosplay boggled my mind.

Mine, too! It was perfect.

I don't think anyone has commented here, but these were amazing (especially in person).

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13468

I have a few from dragoncon that were pretty good.

Someone give this man a pile of money.

Wouldn't an iPad Pro and an iPencil be a more useful gift to him? :-p

Confirmed: Destiny needs beards for guardians.

That Vex Cosplay was absolutely stunning.

Truly great work.

I am also working on a few things, but it's been slow progress.

As a side note, what do you use for your art, Leviathan? I have an older Intuos pad, which I like, but after playing around with a friend's Surface Pro 3 and PS, I really love that. Drawing on the actual screen seemed much better than on a separate tablet, so I'm going to get one. I was going to get the SP3, but with the SP4 mostly likely coming next month, I'm trying to wait and see what it's going to be like.

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Someone give this man a pile of money.

Wouldn't an iPad Pro and an iPencil be a more useful gift to him? :-p

It's an Apple Pencil, dude. He can get those with a pile of money (barely).

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I love it. Thanks for sharing!

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Just saw this posted on Twitter, wasn't sure if @LeviWasTaken was you or not. Awesome work as always!

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Truly great work.

I am also working on a few things, but it's been slow progress.

As a side note, what do you use for your art, Leviathan? I have an older Intuos pad, which I like, but after playing around with a friend's Surface Pro 3 and PS, I really love that. Drawing on the actual screen seemed much better than on a separate tablet, so I'm going to get one. I was going to get the SP3, but with the SP4 mostly likely coming next month, I'm trying to wait and see what it's going to be like.

My girlfriend and family pitched in and bought me one a few years ago and it's amazing. You're absolutely right. Drawing on the screen is a LOT more intuitive than the disconnect of a graphics tablet (I had an Intuos 3 before that). The Brothers In Arms piece I did for DBO's Twitter background was the first piece I tried on the Cintiq. It was immediately... just... funner. It's that much closer to the pen and paper that I feel the most at home with.

I've played around with a Cintiq Companion (generation one). If I'm understanding correctly, that's essentially a Surface that's been optimized by Wacom from the ground up. I feel like I can sketch on it, but it's harder to move around a big, detailed image and finish rendering. That might just be me not used to the smaller screen real estate. But it also might be more of a problem with Photoshop being compacted into a smaller screen. You press a few millimeters right or left in the wrong direction and suddenly you've deleted a layer or accidentally minimized the window. Blarg!

I tried the Photoshop CC free-month-trial this summer and it has an "experimental interface" that optimizes the screen for mobile/tablet uses. But I don't know if that's really worth the cost of buying into that model when my PS CS5 does almost everything else the same and I don't have to put any more money into it every month.

I'd love to have something more mobile to work with so I'm not stuck with an aching back in the same room all the time, but I don't know if the devices and software is primed for that yet - at least with the way I draw. Or perhaps I just don't have the money to throw at the problem yet. :)

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I figured that's what it was. Still seems to basically be the best option if you can afford it.

I just don't the room for a dedicated workspace, and from my limited experience, the Surface Pro seems like a pretty good substitute. Maybe even better with with the SP 4, but we'll have to see.

I know the SP 1 and 2 used Wacom technology for the pen, and they no longer do, but it still seemed pretty great when I used the SP 3, despite technically less pressure sensitivity.

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