Yesterday night I made two old school worldwar II like propaganda posters for fun (draw + photohop). I'm a french Designer who enjoooy SC as hell, and when I have time, I do those kind of stuffs for myself. I'm also a member of the Gamer's Guild, the french association which organized the showmatch between HasuObs VS Nerchio yesterday.
I hope you will enjoy them, fell free to share ! I wish I could post more in the future. peace !
Not gonna lie, I definitely had to look up 'sinews' but anyway, great job these are fantastic! I can imagine an IPL or TSL 4 or other tournament using similar art styles and it would be so sick!
Sorry for the bad grammar Willoc, I should sound ridiculous, I slept too much in english class
The Uncle sam parody is a good idea, i will think about it.
I add another one I made a few month ago called "The war of the love" :-)
thanks !!!
Waoow people here are very reactives :-) I don't have time to answer !
The word "Sinews" sound weird for me too, I found it in a citation translator. The french version is very common, it is " L'argent est le nerf de la guerre"
@Omnipresent : thanks, one of your poster gave me an idea :-)
So we have problem sir now i want a high resolution file from the first! it would fit perfect on my wall infront of me! i print it out at A1 format highgloss
you're sure it should be without the article "the" ? damned, I don't get it ... aren't they a scene in "Lord of war" about this?... :-) thank you all, be sure I will do more poster soon !
Here is the new one ! hope you will like it :-) the design is a little bit inspired of a poster of "Mental".
BTW I want to do a propaganda poster in memory of the 9/11 with SC2, but I don't have a good idea for that. If someone got a cool (and respectful) idea please post everything you think you want about this Thanks in advance
On September 09 2011 19:34 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello everybody,
BTW I want to do a propaganda poster in memory of the 9/11 with SC2, but I don't have a good idea for that. If someone got a cool (and respectful) idea please post everything you think you want about this Thanks in advance
Nico
Make a pheonix that run in the tower but with a thor that shoot im in the sky with a phrase saying " No, not this time".
@FaCE_1 : thx for the idea, I'm not convinced by the message. @Seditary : seing it at the MLG should be the coolest thing ever ! (tomorrow ? ;-) ) @DtorR : I don't know this site, It sems great, is it famous?
On September 08 2011 03:11 iNfeRnaL wrote: Nice, the first one is great especially. Don't get what word "Sinews" is meant to be tho. (2nd picture that is.)
Sinew is the tissue that holds muscles to bone. So it holds the strength, the military, the muscle, to the support, the citizens, the bones.
Hi fellows, Just to be clear with everyone, Some people asked me to sell them posters, or give my files for printing t-shirts or something. I haven't got the rights to reproduce/sell something about Starcraft. What I made was fanarts, I used the starcraft for a tribute and that's all. I have no artistic rights to sell or give, legally speaking I should have a license give from Blizzard if I wanted to. I think there's no problem if you want to put them in wallpaper, or if you want to print them for your wall. By the way, which are the 3 most used screen resolutions ? I can make wallpaper if you want :-) Have a nice evening
These would be the kind of posters I would buy for my room or something. They are not totally Starcraft, where its like a high res screen shot, and they are artsy so even non-Starcraft people could appreciate it. It would be cool if Blizzard picked these up and helped support some production for these.
These are fantastic! I actually had to go and create a user just to post this message/request. Me and a friend would really like to have these printed to posters and hang them on our walls, so I'm really looking forward to the HD upload of the Protoss poster! =)
I really like the blink poster. (Stalkers are my favorite unit.) The DT one is pretty awesome as well. Actually, all of them are pretty awesome. Keep up the creativity!
Could you upload the overlord one in high resolution (like A3 300-600 dpi which would be about 4000x3000-8000x6000)? I would like to print it out as a poster :-)
Posters are really nice, I love them. Could you post hi quality of some others than "operation overlord" and "minerals"? I've already printed these and i will start to spread SC propaganda! I especially like the last one "Save queen from VR"
It would be really awesome if we organized some kind of starcraft real world infiltration thing where everybody on tl and reddit goes and posts SC and esports related stuff in the real world. Posters like these that look innocuous at first glace would be perfect!
Also, I think that 2nd god save the queen poster would be really cool if the 'god save the queen" was all in big font(maybe in big letters with the queen overlayed over it?), and "from void rays" was at the bottom. Would make it funnier imo.
On September 08 2011 03:12 nicopower5000 wrote: Thank you for your kind comments :-)
Sorry for the bad grammar Willoc, I should sound ridiculous, I slept too much in english class
The Uncle sam parody is a good idea, i will think about it.
I add another one I made a few month ago called "The war of the love" :-)
thanks !!!
Waoow people here are very reactives :-) I don't have time to answer !
The word "Sinews" sound weird for me too, I found it in a citation translator. The french version is very common, it is " L'argent est le nerf de la guerre"
@Omnipresent : thanks, one of your poster gave me an idea :-)
If i could make a suggestion, I think that the voidray version of the God save the Queen concept is best, but you should remove the (from voidrays) part, that would make it more catchy and stylish.
I had an idea this weekend, of how can be some business cards for SC heroes :-) I made two for fun.
Next week I will do a new poster a complex one I wish, I will keep you updated.
I put the zukerberg business card reference 'cause I don't know how a character like Zeratul can have some kind of humor sense,so I found it funny :-)
Tonight I went to see "Warrior", a great movie about UFC, for me the movie of the year. I recommend it to you, it's awesome ! powerfull and very sensitive :-)
Your artwork looks quite professional. The humor you 'capture' is pretty awesome too. Why not send some off to Blizzard/Activision and try for a job there? Maybe ask Liquid Nazgul or somebody to help you get your foot in the door.
God Save the Queen and Operation Overlord are soooooo good. If you need help with some translations just PM me (English first language, French second language).
Thanks everybody for all your greetings and comments, really, it's warming me like a good hamburger :-)
I will Make HD and wallpaper size files I promise, I just need some time to do it but I will take it.
On September 19 2011 08:18 Fwiffo wrote: Your artwork looks quite professional. The humor you 'capture' is pretty awesome too. Why not send some off to Blizzard/Activision and try for a job there? Maybe ask Liquid Nazgul or somebody to help you get your foot in the door.
It would be a dream but I don't think they need anyone else for their arts. But It cost nothing to try. Who is Liquid Nazgul ? I guess he have contact with Blizzard but I don't know him.
On September 19 2011 08:18 Fwiffo wrote: Your artwork looks quite professional. The humor you 'capture' is pretty awesome too. Why not send some off to Blizzard/Activision and try for a job there? Maybe ask Liquid Nazgul or somebody to help you get your foot in the door.
Who is Liquid Nazgul ? I guess he have contact with Blizzard but I don't know him.
Absolutely incredible! I really wish there was a high quality version of the colossus love poster. I also want to print these out to put on my walls at home.
The phrasing of "Mineral is the sinews of the war" is a bit weird. People don't use the word sinew figuratively like that in English. (Heck, I'd bet that if you asked a random person what sinew does give you a blank stare.) I'm assuming the expression in French makes the point that minerals hold the war effort together, just like sinew holds flesh to the bone, right?
I can't even think of any very inspiring translations, heh.
edit: really nice job with the posters, though. you've got some talent with graphic design.
I love these. I think the "God save the Queen from Voidrays" one would be improved by leaving out the "from Voidrays." It feels a bit overexplained as it is - if you leave the explanation out, it feels more like an in-joke, which is kind of the point.
Edit: As you don't want to, or can't legally, sell these as posters, could you upload HD versions of the rest of them so one can get them printed somewhere? I would be especially interested in the first "God save the queen" and the "Buy war bonds" one. I already found the first two you uploaded, thanks for these.
On September 22 2011 10:34 nicopower5000 wrote: good evening everybody,
Thanks for your comments and your posters ! that's amazing, I love the 4 gates one ! thanks to share ideas with me, I will keep them in mind :-)
Tonight I made a new draw, it took me more time than I expected I hope you will enjoy it !
Thanks again and continue to give me ideas like that.
Good night wherever and whenever you are :-)
Evolution is really perfect, I love it!! Great work man!
But why the text on it is "wired"? I can read it as "Evolingtion". I think, that "Evolution" would be better.
And yes, If you can create high-res one, I will definitely print it out and stick it somewhere. And you should also add some small (barely visible) "signature" to the corner
On September 08 2011 03:12 nicopower5000 wrote: Thank you for your kind comments :-)
Sorry for the bad grammar Willoc, I should sound ridiculous, I slept too much in english class
The Uncle sam parody is a good idea, i will think about it.
I add another one I made a few month ago called "The war of the love" :-)
thanks !!!
Waoow people here are very reactives :-) I don't have time to answer !
The word "Sinews" sound weird for me too, I found it in a citation translator. The french version is very common, it is " L'argent est le nerf de la guerre"
@Omnipresent : thanks, one of your poster gave me an idea :-)
thanks again...
Nothing odd about "sinews." It's a great word that I like to use when I want to describe the structural integrity of something.
The posters look great and I agree that the odd phrasing on some of them actually adds to the charm.
On September 22 2011 10:34 nicopower5000 wrote: good evening everybody,
Thanks for your comments and your posters ! that's amazing, I love the 4 gates one ! thanks to share ideas with me, I will keep them in mind :-)
Tonight I made a new draw, it took me more time than I expected I hope you will enjoy it !
Thanks again and continue to give me ideas like that.
Good night wherever and whenever you are :-)
Evolution is really perfect, I love it!! Great work man!
But why the text on it is "wired"? I can read it as "Evolingtion". I think, that "Evolution" would be better.
And yes, If you can create high-res one, I will definitely print it out and stick it somewhere. And you should also add some small (barely visible) "signature" to the corner
But they're lings--evolving lings. I got the reference. I see no need to change it to "evolution."
hello everybody, thanks for your comments, I made some Wallpapers but it's hard to convert a poster to landscape format, cause they're are dozens of layers that I should move and resize, I cannot do it for all of them.
I forgot to put the others draws I made for "a zergling for Jaedong"
FIrst : the chibi mutha Jaedong :
Then : The zergling with a tuna box :-) My friends and I have a theory : If you throw a Tuna box to an attacking zergling, genestealer or an alien, you can't distract it for running away :-)
I hope Jaedong will join Sc2 as it will seems to be
EDIT :
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I was thinking : Why not making a contest of ideas for making my new poster?
Perhaps can everybody submit ideas to me for a propaganda/joke/art for SC2 like I did before, and I will make a poster with the winner's idea. Of course it would be for fun and in the fanart purpose. I say it again, we cannot do something involving money with a licence like Starcraft.
On September 24 2011 18:44 nicopower5000 wrote: I was thinking : Why not making a contest of ideas for making my new poster?
Perhaps can everybody submit ideas to me for a propaganda/joke/art for SC2 like I did before, and I will make a poster with the winner's idea. Of course it would be for fun and in the fanart purpose. I say it again, we cannot do something involving money with a licence like Starcraft.
I'm curious to see what you think about it !
Great idea! A poster with a Zerg respectful of nature, loving flowers and birds <3
thank you nicopower5000 for the poster version :-) Do you have a flattr account? If yes you should include it in your topic, I would be flattr you a little bit for your great work, maybe others also
haha, now I seen the DT poster the first time on my laptop. My desktop TFT seems to be wrong calibrated, never seen the font and wondered what this strange picture is :-)
Thanks girls and guys ! making this is refreshing for me, and it trains me for something else paid
I'm finishing a new one now, a more "serious" draw (took me like 15 hours) See you in one hour !
On September 26 2011 02:53 Furaha wrote: Awesome work like always <3 Dont forget to send me hr one day so that I can cover the House with them :33333~~
No prob Janine send me your mail adress in MP and I will
On September 26 2011 04:05 tuho12345 wrote: Some love for the sad Zealot please !!!
Why do you mean by "sad zealot" ? is it a reference to something?
On September 26 2011 04:07 Wihl wrote: Would it be possible to get a high-res version of the operation overlord poster?
On September 26 2011 12:08 Zer atai wrote: The sad zealot is a response to the lack of protoss in GSL's code S.
AHaha that's good !
it seems to be better now for toss with the new patch
Perhaps SHould I do a sad marine now cause of the 5 more seconds to build a barack :-)
On September 26 2011 12:10 mechavoc wrote: amazing images, though your normandie comment is a bit confusing...
That was a joke I love german people, I work for them for 3 years
On September 26 2011 12:46 Blade Fox wrote: Everyone finds the zeratul one funny; I think I missed the punchline, something to do with the zuckerburg card?
Edit: Nevermind google saves.
I took zuckerberg's card reference just cause it's fun and off the box, nothing to do with the serious DT Zeratul should be
What do you think of this idea ? :
On September 24 2011 18:44 nicopower5000 wrote: I was thinking : Why not making a contest of ideas for making my new poster?
Perhaps can everybody submit ideas to me for a propaganda/joke/art for SC2 like I did before, and I will make a poster with the winner's idea. Of course it would be for fun and in the fanart purpose. I say it again, we cannot do something involving money with a licence like Starcraft.
I'm curious to see what you think about it !
It seems it doesn't interest you but if you are, send me MP or post ideas here !
Thanks for all of your comments ! I'm little busy this moment, but I wish to make another pictures, perhaps a new WW2 poster but with terrans this time ! I did nothing about them since the beginning. my starcraft 2 game doesn't work since the patch 1,4, I play with a mac (it load until 69% of the patch and crash) I think this is why it doesn't work, so I win a lot of time because of this
On September 28 2011 05:47 nicopower5000 wrote: Thanks for all of your comments ! I'm little busy this moment, but I wish to make another pictures, perhaps a new WW2 poster but with terrans this time ! I did nothing about them since the beginning. my starcraft 2 game doesn't work since the patch 1,4, I play with a mac (it load until 69% of the patch and crash) I think this is why it doesn't work, so I win a lot of time because of this
I've think about it and I don't think this is a good idea to associate terrans and Nazis I prefere to borrow just the look and the spirit of the WW2 posters, not the political implications.
I wasn't satisfied about the final look of my DT, I work a litte bit on it :
Awe I just noticed, but the new DT is sooooo awesome.
At first I thought i was just some kind of vapor coming out of him, like some kind of shadow shield, and then looking closer I can see it's just a kind of mirror image of the dt. Omg, this must have needed so much work actually I'm deeply impressed.
Wow. Good job for that one !!
(and I can say usually as a Zerg user I hate DT lol)
I think one day I will submit some stuff to Blizz but now what I've done is not enough or not too good I think. I wish someday it will, I count on you to support me on this way ! Thank you for your comments and your encouragements !
Hello fellows, hard to hide my boner after seeing heart of the swarm trailer :-)
I was absent for a little while but I planned to make a new draw this weekend. I chose to make a draw for the funday Monday show of day(9). I'm a huuuuuge fan of this guy, each dailys inspire me a lot, not only for Starcraft. Do you know if it's possible to send to him ? I can put it there, in his facebook but do you know a better way to be sure he can receive it ? thank you in advance guys !!!
seriously this should be spotlighted, ive already seen spotlights for worse art....and this is absolutly AMAZING :D every single poster is pure gold :D
Oh these are great, and it seems that I missed a few of the last posters the last time I seen the thread. "God Save the Queen. From Void Rays." is soooo good.
I don't know if I'm allowed to do that here, I appology in advance if I can't.
I had the idea to propose my services for Designing your E-SPORT team jerseys and shirts. If you are or work for an amateur or a professional team, I can design what you want, the logo, the shirt design or both.
Of course I can't put licensed SC (or another games) stuffs on the designs (like SC logo, SC units or SC icons...) but I can design and draw about everything.
I'm a big fan of SC and I would enjoy doing it but of course not for free, that take a lot of time but I think it will be not expensive.
If you are interested, MP me and be free to give me feedbacks and advise on these tread :-)
For an example I Make some designs for my amateur team, The Gamer's Guild.
On April 19 2012 07:35 Otolia wrote: Would be better moved to blog at this point.
Good idea, I didn't think about that, but I will do it I think.
I will go the Iron Squid Final in Paris the 5th May, hope I could show the design to teams or to TL and see what will happen. Can't wait until these day to see such good players
If people want to speak about drawing or anything with me there, It would be great, I'm totally opened for that :-) See u people
Hello TL, Back from the Iron squid finals in Paris and happier than ever !
The show was awesome, the ambiance was like in a soccer stadium, 11 hours when 2800 people screamed and cheered like hell, like it was the final of a world tournament championship. I' m proud of my country :-)
Thanks to Zerg Lair who invited me to her new barcraft in Paris, where the finalist were here for the after party ! That was amazing, they're so nice, humble and *spoiler alert* apparently good friends in real life :-) MMA is so nice (I gave to him one of my SC drawing :-))))))))))))) Nestea looks better in real :-)
unfortunately they don't speak english, but the french/Korean translator was here, so I could talk to them a little. That was amazing
On May 06 2012 22:39 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello TL, Back from the Iron squid finals in Paris and happier than ever !
The show was awesome, the ambiance was like in a soccer stadium, 11 hours when 2800 people screamed and cheered like hell, like it was the final of a world tournament championship. I' m proud of my country :-)
Thanks to Zerg Lair who invited me to her new barcraft in Paris, where the finalist were here for the after party ! That was amazing, they're so nice, humble and *spoiler alert* apparently good friends in real life :-) MMA is so nice (I gave to him one of my SC drawing :-))))))))))))) Nestea looks better in real :-)
unfortunately they don't speak english, but the french/Korean translator was here, so I could talk to them a little. That was amazing
You lucky man :OOOOO
Your latest works are amazing. I like the Used Future style on your drawings, with the scrappy and tired feel of both the machines and soldiers. love the GSL patch on the T-shirts too :D
How could I get your posters ? Operation Overlord <3
On May 08 2012 23:55 NEEDZMOAR wrote: Soviet fought over 90% of the war, america did bloody nothing
When you say that , you make this political :-p .
my first PS was referring to the Operation Overlord which was alone at this time, now there is a lot of drawings, so I guess you're right, I will delete it.
New stuffs coming soon !
And don't forget to submit your ideas if you have some !
Some ideas that came through my mind : - Terran poster: "Watch where your feet go!" introducing the burrowed banelings! - Zerg poster: "One life, one purpose...HARASS!" introducing the mutalisks!
On May 09 2012 23:40 MalditoKyo wrote: Hello there!
As always, you make amazing stuff! Good job!
Some ideas that came through my mind : - Terran poster: "Watch where your feet go!" introducing the burrowed banelings! - Zerg poster: "One life, one purpose...HARASS!" introducing the mutalisks!
What do you think?
Thanks !
your terran posters is a good idea, I think I will do it ! Beside I didn't make a lot of terran stuffs so...
I think you should print these in poster form. If they end up looking good, who knows how many people will buy. I for one admire Operation Overlord and would probably order one. I have a fascination with old-school USSR propaganda posters.
Hello, I made a new stuff When I watch games in tournaments, sometimes the casters say some obvious comments, so I imagined a fictional character : "The captain Obvious Caster". He's not based on any real caster, most of them are really great.
I don't know if it's funny, it's hard to say
Here is a blank one, you can make your own and post it here !
On May 31 2012 01:15 Thrombozyt wrote: If you place a big fat 'gg' on the screen behind him and "But the game is far from over.." in the bubble, then you have wolf today :D
ahah, good one :-) you can replace the picture on the back, no prob
I didn't get the last one but that's cool you made some
Here is the new drawing I made for the first Barcraft opened in France last month : THE MELTDOWN http://www.facebook.com/MeltdownParis the adress is : 32 rue Albert Thomas, 75010 Paris, France This Bar is really great, you can order Starcraft drinks and watch showmatchs.
I will maybe do more stuffs for them including new posters that will maybe sell there !
Some of those zerg posters made me smile. The queen one(s), the "evolution" poster, and my favorite of all of them is "operation overlord". Very cool man.
After 3 days of MlG marathon (I watched every games I decided to draw the deserving winners of great competitions of SC2.
Those days were wonderful, MLG is my favourite tournament and this weekend didn't change my mind. I think that MKP learnt what he hasn't got until now : a VERY good macro and a great unit choice decision . Now I think he is the best terran in the world. I was sad that stephano lost, I love his new way of attacking with 3 converging armies. Who can do that like 4 or 5 times in 2 games ? nobody, you're right.
Now let's talk about DongRaeGu. I knew he was one of the best zerg in the world, certainly the best, but I didn't realize how perfect was his macro. He always take a lot of bases no matter what, even if he loose. I think now he is not only the best zerg in the world, but one of the two best players in the world too with MKP.
Anyway, here is my first draw of a SC tournament winner : MVP DongRaeGu
First I wanted to draw him posing like a boss, but he is always smilling and happy (he can :-) so I draw him smilling
Can someone please make an wallpaper out of this? For example scale and center the overlord picture and move the text to the bottom right. If no one else does I would try myself, but I'm not so experienced with photo editing. Can you please upload your .psd or .xcf file? Thanks.
Edit: Found the high resolution upload of the Opetion Overlord pic. But unfortunately that was hostet on megaupload which is now down. It would be nice if some could rehost that.
Tomorrow I will draw the new Dreamhack champion, I'll do it for every major tournament winner, I think they deserve it. I hope Stephano will win, anyway I planned to draw him...
On June 18 2012 07:53 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello, Waiting for the Dreamhack winner I made this drawing, involving the most popular SC2 unit : the space hoover automaton 2000 :-)
I enjoyed doing it, it's very interesting to work on a totally not mainstream unit I hope you'll enjoy
First off, I would like to say those are very nice posters. For your automaton one, may I suggest some changes to the text? Since English probably isn't your native language, here's what would make more grammatical sense:
"Getting the job done...brutal battle."
and for the small part on the right
"Keeping your battlefield clean for [many] centuries."
You're right, I wasn't sure. It makes more sense when you say it like this :-) I want to thank all of you for your comments, it makes me keep working for the Esport, and now I begin to have very good opportunities :-)
On June 19 2012 21:31 Ragnarork wrote: How it comes nobody has hired this guy to do the promotion of a tournament or any other SC2 event ? (Well, it may be the case...)
I want to work for Esport as a full-time job. So companies, please contact me :-)
For the moment I just start to have good contacts and begin to have freelance missions. I worked for the Barcraft in Paris "Meltdown", Team Fnatic contacted me to make T-shirts...
I'm available and very motivated for working for the Esport community, don't hesitate for contacting me.
Have a nice day people ! Nico
PS: Mana drawing will come tomorrow :-) I have a brand new technique and I will test it on the Dreamhack champion
On June 19 2012 21:31 Ragnarork wrote: How it comes nobody has hired this guy to do the promotion of a tournament or any other SC2 event ? (Well, it may be the case...)
I want to work for Esport as a full-time job. So companies, please contact me :-)
For the moment I just start to have good contacts and begin to have freelance missions. I worked for the Barcraft in Paris "Meltdown", Team Fnatic contacted me to make T-shirts...
I'm available and very motivated for working for the Esport community, don't hesitate for contacting me.
Have a nice day people ! Nico
PS: Mana drawing will come tomorrow :-) I have a brand new technique and I will test it on the Dreamhack champion
Indeed, i remember the Meltdown Artwork being their Wallpapers. Fits very well with the bar !
so I don't think I will. however I will definitely do a new love story like the war of the love I made.
For now I finish my job for my comic book project and after I'll do a ton of SC stuffs, I'm in negotiation for working for Team Fnatic as freelance and other stuffs. And I will do a new bunch of propaganda posters too, a huge project in my mind for now, maybe like 20 posters :-)
This morning I launched my web browser as always and I found this. Is it normal ? is it only for google France ? it's amazing, Does Starcraft 2 has a partnership with Google ? Is it only for the French Google ?
Awesome stuff you have there! First time I actually took note of this thread. That's some amazing talent you have making them posters and keep doing it! (I like!)
Thanks ! I haven't got the copyrights to sell something with Blizz stuffs on it, but working on. I hope one day Blizz will be interessed in my work and contact me :-) Blizz, are you here ?
On June 29 2012 20:13 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello everybody,
This morning I launched my web browser as always and I found this. Is it normal ? is it only for google France ? it's amazing, Does Starcraft 2 has a partnership with Google ? Is it only for the French Google ?
On June 29 2012 20:13 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello everybody,
This morning I launched my web browser as always and I found this. Is it normal ? is it only for google France ? it's amazing, Does Starcraft 2 has a partnership with Google ? Is it only for the French Google ?
Nice, i love all your work ! Especially the Evolingtion one. It would be awesome to have a version without the background to be able to make a T-shirt with it. I'd buy one or two of those !
I made 3 posters today, tired of working for my comics. The two others are not finished yet, but soon. I put the first, the theme is "my favourites quotations of SC2" Hope you will like it and comment to let this thread live thanks again !
Here is my favourite one "Spawn more overlords". Unfortunately My cpu crashed yesterday, I lost the file and had to remade it. it was way better before :-(((((((
Hello, here is a WOrk in progress of a roach for a bigger drawing. It's made for the new loading screen of the new monobattle loading screen (my favorite SC mod).
I'm working now on a lot of stuffs, next I will post several posters :-)
on the EG vs prime stream, the casters came up with a good propaganda poster: A medivac for every marauder! That'd be a good political propaganda poster IMHO.
You dude are the single more creative person I've seen work off, here on TL.
Can you make a wallpaper with 2-3 ravens firing all their abilities against endless zerg swarms? And with a cool perspective, up close on the ravens, like on the vikings in your nasl barcraft poster. It would be so awesome!
I don't get what a probe's parts have in common with the words you wrote, your design is a bit wtf :-)
I post the new monobattle loading screen WORK IN PROGRESS :
I do it with Klishu's collaboration, who did the map in the first place. I wish I could give the design when it will be finished to the european dude who will adapt the map for the new patch :-) this season it's Nelzor, but I don't know how to contact him.
I discovered the game "WORLD OF TANKS" last week, so I did a fanart about it.
I had to make the terran siege tank in 3D on sketchup to do this, so it took me a lot more time to do the fanart than playing the game.. But I enjoyed doing it :-)
On August 07 2012 03:37 AlphaWhale wrote: Like the work, but what do you have against colour?
I don't understand what you mean by that.
On August 07 2012 06:14 Serthius wrote: These are awesome. Where can I buy them?
I try to get license with Blizz but it's not conclusive for the moment, I absolutely don't want to sell illegal stuffs, so for the moment I have no right to sell my Fanart. But I work with companies like Fnatic and Mindfreak, I ll keep you informed when something legally Purchasable will be avalaible :-)
These are amazing, I also reiterate the request for some wallpaper sized ones, would be proud to have one of those awesome designs staring back at me from my PC's screen
On August 07 2012 03:37 AlphaWhale wrote: Like the work, but what do you have against colour?
I don't understand what you mean by that.
Nico
All your works are well illustrated and the colours are great but then you desaturate them/damage/grunge them so there's this massive dimming shade of black over the top. It starts to blend all the objects together and not make anything interesting (not subjectively, as in there is nothing that is vibrant and draws your eye)
Header text being the same colour (or lack of) as the tanks/background etc. They're great works, but some you have to look at for awhile before you can read/understand what it is. A perfect example is the "GG BM IMBA ZVZ BUFF etc." one. The immortal one would be great if you used blue for the immortal in the text (because blue and orange accentuate each other and it's an often used trick in real posters)
I'm loving the work I'm just wondering how much you've looked into colour theory. I get the whole "WW2 propaganda poster" vibe but look at a lot of them, it's not all about make the work look weathered and adding brown, they use vibrant colours and bright distinct/contrasting imagery to catch the eye. The Chinese government pretty much forced the greatest artists in the country to make propaganda posters for them and they are really beautiful paintings (albeit created under practically slave labour).
The work is sick and I don't mean to come off as negative, I just get a big kick out of discussing/analysing and breaking down work.
thanks for your time AlphaWhale. your comments are quite interesting, it's a chance for me to explain what I do by commenting your advices.
First, I'm a freelance graphic designer. I do that for living. I do logos, drawing, leaflets, websites... most of the time for local companies. I did most of my SC art at my free time, so I can't work as long as a paid job. When I do something like this, it's barely never finished as I want it was. I don't really know if it's the same for the others graphic designer but I have to re-work on my stuffs a few times to be as "perfect" as I can do. So, some of my SC art are not finished as they should be.
My dream is to work for Esport. I'm 32 and I wasn't really a geek until a good friend of mine showed me STARCRAFT 2 (well, I was kind of but not really). Since then, I find a new reason in my life to live for, a new goal to achieve, being an Esport designer. I start to have some contracts with Esport companies which is great and sincerely I feel better because of this since a long time.
About your comments :
On August 07 2012 13:52 AlphaWhale wrote:
All your works are well illustrated and the colours are great but then you desaturate them/damage/grunge them so there's this massive dimming shade of black over the top. It starts to blend all the objects together and not make anything interesting (not subjectively, as in there is nothing that is vibrant and draws your eye)
Contrasts are really tricky for designer, cause it depends of the screen you have. I saw my drawings in different screens, and it doesn't look the same. And basically you have to low the contrasts, because printing those kind of pictures usually get the contrasts higher. that's why I desaturate my colors a bit more, and low the blacks.
Then, for sure I use desaturate colours but that's a choice, I don't really know if it's because I like it or because I want to do an school style. probably both I guess. I think contrasts are good in some of my drawings (buy war bounds, meltdown, we march to victory, automaton...) and not for some of them (GG MC IMBA one, god save the queen...) but I don't want to spend more time on them cause I prefer do new stuffs than rework again and again on those ones.
Header text being the same colour (or lack of) as the tanks/background etc. They're great works, but some you have to look at for awhile before you can read/understand what it is. A perfect example is the "GG BM IMBA ZVZ BUFF etc." one. The immortal one would be great if you used blue for the immortal in the text (because blue and orange accentuate each other and it's an often used trick in real posters)
I know what you mean. For the "my favorite quotes in sc2" series, I wanted to melt the texts with the picture, I wanted that the text would be not easy to read, cause I think it would be too obvious to have just a quote and the thing that's belong to on the picture. I wanted people to get time to understand them. Maybe it's not a great choice but that's I tried to do :-) Concerning the GG BM... one, it's another story. I think I messed this one by using the wrong font. My first idea was to fill the workspace with letters, with no blank parts. I don't like the red background I put. The point was to have those pictures, and like a game, forcing people to spend time to find what expressions were quote, like in the "where is Charly" game. If I had reach my goal on this, the letters would be less readable :-)
I'm loving the work I'm just wondering how much you've looked into colour theory. I get the whole "WW2 propaganda poster" vibe but look at a lot of them, it's not all about make the work look weathered and adding brown, they use vibrant colours and bright distinct/contrasting imagery to catch the eye. The Chinese government pretty much forced the greatest artists in the country to make propaganda posters for them and they are really beautiful paintings (albeit created under practically slave labour).
You're right. I keep that in mind.
The work is sick and I don't mean to come off as negative, I just get a big kick out of discussing/analysing and breaking down work.
No problem, thanks again for your comments, that was constructive criticisms. please do more :-) Excuse me if I messed some translations or if I wasn't clear, I am French in the end :-D
Wow you're the guy who did the NASL after party poster? I was there for that (the after party and NASL). I remember that poster being really fucking cool! Props to you dude.
hello, thanks for your compliments I made a drawing of Leenock for celebrating his victory at the MLG.
I made a video of the making of, here it is :-) I don't put the final drawing here in jpeg for now, that you can discover the final work step by step in the video
Hello, I drew a stephano for the millenium website, for an article concerning his departure from Mill. I tried another technique, I hope you will like it :-)
I edit the video of the making of and I ll put it tonight
My god this are amazing. I just noticed you added other drawings in the thread but not in the OP. Could you share a link where we can see all of them ?
I wish Propagandam style would be produced too :-)
I'm working on a video with Pierre Coyote Saugrain, the talented editor of the famous SUPER 15 video. It's a video for the upcoming HOTS, with my drawings animated in 3D by Pierre :-)
here are screenshots of two of the new badass units
I will do a wallpaper for the roach I did for the monobattle picture I did (which I never saw on the ladder btw :/ )
Thanks for doing the roach wallpaper! I just played some monobattles yesterday and I did see your loading screen on some of the maps, but the maps also seemed buggy and sometimes I would just get a black loading screen, so maybe that's why you haven't seen it yet.
On September 26 2012 23:27 GreenFate wrote: Wow sick ! What is this carrier micro initiative ??
It appears that the carrier had better micro possibilities in SC1, so there is an artcle about this in the new Ponytales, to explain to and gather people in the fight for improving it :-)
These are fucking amazing! The Carrier micro Initiative lmao! I'm sure NonY would appreciate that one haha :D Thank you for sharing your fantastic work!
As you can see in the Apex thread started by my northern friend Hofven, recntly hired by Apex. I made an art for them, showing the players. It was not easy, considering the non-existing pictures of the players on the internet (maybe in google.kr I might be found betters :-) Morrow sent to me webcam pictures (he cut his hairs) so it was easier for him.
I tried a new style for this. I could do what I wanted, so I shown the players like gladiators or warriors with a classic/dark/roman style :-)
Obviously I know those players join apex for a while, hard to hide it with my SC2 friends :-) they harrassed me but I didn't tell them
Hello, a friend of mine wrote a very good news for the upcoming GSL semi tomorrow. Too bad that's in French, I wish everybody could read it, cause it's totally worth it.
So much stuff has been added since the last time I came here! Damn, there were only 3 pictures last time. That is definitely some excellent art (well, not all of them are excellent, but a decent number is still impressive!)
Propaganda Style, Full Terran Bracket, The Nuke and the four original ones are excellent!
I definitely choose my pseudo for the Esport world, it is now "NC" because my name Nicolas Chaussois doesn't sounds good, I prefer the pseudo NC. And it's a reference to MC too, because the badass SK MC is the first progamer that I loved, and still one of my favourite player.
Holy balls, just looked through the whole thing and mind has been blown. Only thing better would be to have larger sized wallpapers, but for most of the current ones I can use for my phone.
Every time I see this thread get bumped, I look at all the pictures again and every single time I am in awe of your awesome talent. Seriously, thanks for doing what you're doing.
To day I post the work I did for a FXOpen order, It's a scene with a bull fighting a bear hope you enjoy it
here is the video of the making of, featuring a music I did on FL studio (was my first
here is the picture and wallpapers
detail :
wallpapers :
I also have an announcement to make : Now I'm a part of the FNATIC team, tomorrow I begin a part time job as a graphic designer :-) I will work the morning for fnatic, and the rest of the day for my freelance works as usual. So you can continue to ask for freelance requests.
Hello, this weekend I went to the ESWC in Paris, and that was awesome.
Mana did mange to won the tournament (and was announced SC2 World champion , according to the organisation, lol those French guys... ^^) against ForGG, not at his best for the finals. also, only a Bo3 for a final is not enough in my opinion.
Anyway, we went to the Barcraft Meltdown after and meet the players again, Mana was playing 1v1 ag who wanted to, Stephano was drinking cocktails, it was awesome !
I get a presspass, so I was able to take pictures very close from the players.
Semi finals (Stephano lost, damned !)
"I won against Stephano again, I'm so gosu !"
Coyote from the Artesport Community
"Waow ! your hands look soft, what cream so you use ?"
For some reason, it's the first time I post in this thread to say how awesome your work is so here we go: that's some sick sick art you've been doing man! Both beautiful and funny (that Full Terran Bracket...). Well deserved spotlight!
- I tried with sevral esport company to get copyrights from Blizzard to print posters. They legitimately ask for a license contract, with a minimum production plus bonus, approvals... that small companies can't afford. SO It's not possible for me to diffuse, print my poster including copyrighted materials, like Blizzards units. I want to be 100% straight and legit with Blizz, because I owe them so much, I want to respect laws obviously.
However, I have a contract with the french Barcraft Meltdown to do a serie of 10 posters that don't need approval. So we will be able to sell posters, but those things take time (design,, production) but you will hear from me soon about this.
I have a contract too with another company to design some T-shirts with sc2 players on it :-)
I'm working now on the wcs finals announcement, so you soon guys NC
Is the one with all the tanks (What? You didn't get the premium version?) an Advance Wars reference? The color, shape, and number of tanks looked at lot like the AW games, though those designs are based off of "American", "European", "Russian", and "Japanese" armies, respectively, so it may have been a coincidence.
On November 08 2012 04:51 Kmatt wrote: Is the one with all the tanks (What? You didn't get the premium version?) an Advance Wars reference? The color, shape, and number of tanks looked at lot like the AW games, though those designs are based off of "American", "European", "Russian", and "Japanese" armies, respectively, so it may have been a coincidence.
I'm thinking it may be a stab at World of Tanks.
Also, these are the absolute bizzomb. You have a future (if you're not already in that career field) as a promotional poster designer. Or general graphic designer. Or just artist.
Oh wow! These are so incredibly great! There are so many good ones I cannot even choose my favorite :D. The operation overlord one is so clever and well made. The one with evolution which ends with a splattered baneling is also so funny! Full terran bracket is so good as well (although you might change it to No Terran bracket with the current developments lol)
Hello everybody, I hope you had a great WCS weekend. I was very disappointed when Stephano was eliminated so fast, but in the end I'm happy that PartinG won, cause I love his play.
Here are the drawing of the world champion of Starcraft 2 : Startale PartinG
I absolutley love all kind of propaganda posters! They're always facsinating! Finally someone makes propaganda for a just cause! I really like your work. I'm going to tell all of my Starcraft friends about your work because I'm sure that they will find it just as amazing as I do!
Keep the good work up! Your propaganda is beutiful!
Really good work, I have to say I'm a fan. I just have one comment though, the first page of the thread is starting to get heavy to load, you might want to use spoilers soon =p.
Hello people ! I need your help for a new creative work... If you should be able to create the Perfect ProGamer, which caracteristics will you take from each player ? Answer the survey here and ask your friends to participate too. Thanks a lot !
On January 21 2013 02:25 shizaep wrote: Those MKP and FXO ones are honestly some of the best things I've ever seen. Just brilliant. P.S. It's "Dusting Browder" not "Dusting Broder"
Thanks everybody for all the compliments It's really supporting !!
@ Poita: Yes, this is my real job, I'm a professionnal designer and I work for teams, websites, tournaments... @ Polgas :This is a good idea, I will think about it @ Yotis: I'd be delighted to be hired by the ProLeague and make posters for them too !
Hi everybody ! Great news today, I'm going to reach 600 FB fans. Thanks to Team Liquid Community for supporting my work! Here's a little contest to celebrate:
I am going to offer an exclusive wallpaper to the personn who will be my six-hundredth fan, with his/her favorite ProGamer or SCII Unit, in the colors and resolution he/she will choose !
Come to like here to win your personnal wallpaper !
I thank all of you who recently liked my FB page, it was just amazing ! Here I'm getting ready for the Iron Squid Tournament, and I drew their finalists. Let's start with the obviously future winner, Life !
Hope you'll enjoy it !
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On January 22 2013 20:18 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello !
I thank all of you who recently liked my FB page, it was just amazing ! Here I'm getting ready for the Iron Squid Tournament, and I drew their finalists. Let's start with the obviously future winner, Life !
Hope you'll enjoy it !
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NC.
I suddenly found out this is the most inspiring wall paper I've ever used. No idea why.
And it's done ! As I said, Life is the winner of Iron Squid 2 !! Did you see the games ? I was in the Palais des Congrès and all the audience went completely crazy !
This huge and amazing victory deserves a special portrait. (whitout glasses too @Galaxy )
We are preparing, with the wonderful Coyote , a huge project with my drawings, and his directing style. We are making a video presentation of a fictive SCII tournament, just to demonstrate what we are able to do together. And it appeared to be a good idea to share it with you, and show how we work. So, everyday, I'll post new pictures and screenshots of the project's evolution ! Here's the very beginning, the logotype :
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On January 22 2013 20:18 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello !
I thank all of you who recently liked my FB page, it was just amazing ! Here I'm getting ready for the Iron Squid Tournament, and I drew their finalists. Let's start with the obviously future winner, Life !
Hope you'll enjoy it !
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NC.
a beautiful picture of the best player in the world. <3
On February 07 2013 06:10 ES_JohnClark wrote: Your work is amazing. I am a graphic designer and very impressed with your work.
On average, how long does it take you to finish a poster and what program do you use the most?
A lot of it looks like Adobe Illustrator... hmmm
Great stuff!
Thank you very much ! Yes, I use Adobe Illustrator a lot, sometimes Photoshop. Making a poster is quite long, but I can't tell you precisely. When I start drawing on paper, then scan it and add effects, it could take several days! Everything depends on the complexity of the poster
Our work with Coyote is still in progress: I'm designing the main interface for the firsts shots:
And he's animating our logo:
The main interface on progress, adding the players' portraits and races:
Hello everybody ! Recently with Coyote, we made a few works for Grubby's stream ! New logo, new portrait, and a new bumper ! Hope you'll enjoy ! The logos:
The portraits:
And the video :
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Hello everybody ! Sorry for the long time without updating the thread, but I'm working on side project... I do not forget the TL community, and soon my new poster, dedicated to HotS obvisouly, will be published here !
Enjoy your day !
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Hello everybody, thank you for the support ! Today I decided to try a new style...Something a little old-fashioned, but I found it fun... This is Bomber on a Renaissance painting.
Like it ? Maybe me next time I'll draw Kerrigan in a crinoline dress...
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On April 02 2013 23:49 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello everybody, thank you for the support ! Today I decided to try a new style...Something a little old-fashioned, but I found it fun... This is Bomber on a Renaissance painting.
Like it ? Maybe me next time I'll draw Kerrigan in a crinoline dress...
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On May 02 2013 21:34 gXxshock wrote: By the way I donated on your Good Geek Gear Shop IndieGoGo Campaign do you have any idea when those Deluxe Tshirts will be send out?
Hello and thanks
I'm gathering the found I need right now (boring meeting with banks...) because I didn't had the amount I needed with the crowd funding. So it's delayed but it give me more time to design some models and to get licence. I 'll keep you updated.
Thanks I've done this to support the operation, TL, feel free to use it I love that unexpected companies do business with esport, it's a very good sign for the industry And who doesn't love pizzas...
Heyo, I put this up on one of the Monthly Desktop Threads, and somehow completely forgot this thread still existed! Here's an old one at the request of everyones favorite Aerisky.
On April 09 2013 04:04 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello it's been a while I didn't put something here I did a series of hots wallpaper here is the first one :
Damn, can't believe there isn't one of these posters yet for Bomber, the guy is a badass and is one of the few people that has managed to win a tournament again, after a pause of exactly 2 years, and he did it against some of the best competition the world has to offer, I think its about time he gets his own tribute.
Apart from that, great work, all of these are awesome and even though I've seen them several times I often pop back in here from time to time to admire your work.
Edit: Ok I see you've done Bomber already in a renaissance portrait, but I think it would be appropriate to draw him as a full champion clutching the S2 final trophy and with some added drama to it, like a nuke explosion in the background, manner mules landing everywhere and vikings soaring overhead to commemorate his victory.
Where is the larger version of the roach that is on the monobattle pic? There are ones for the tank and void, and the roach one looks the best..
On July 24 2012 08:48 nicopower5000 wrote: Hello, here is a WOrk in progress of a roach for a bigger drawing. It's made for the new loading screen of the new monobattle loading screen (my favorite SC mod).
I'm working now on a lot of stuffs, next I will post several posters :-)
On September 08 2013 06:48 Destructicon wrote: Damn, can't believe there isn't one of these posters yet for Bomber, the guy is a badass and is one of the few people that has managed to win a tournament again, after a pause of exactly 2 years, and he did it against some of the best competition the world has to offer, I think its about time he gets his own tribute.
Apart from that, great work, all of these are awesome and even though I've seen them several times I often pop back in here from time to time to admire your work.
Edit: Ok I see you've done Bomber already in a renaissance portrait, but I think it would be appropriate to draw him as a full champion clutching the S2 final trophy and with some added drama to it, like a nuke explosion in the background, manner mules landing everywhere and vikings soaring overhead to commemorate his victory.
I did one poster to commemorate Bomber 's victory, it was a few msg ago, with spoiler tag
Hello. Did you see the Blizzcon finals? of course you did
I noticed this at the end I felt sad for the guy so I made this comics strip
For the story, the bald guy is JediRobb, the event manager of Blizzard. sOs didn't noticed he wanted to high five him, poor Robb ^^
I put this on Reddit and a guy modified it "Vivid gaming" style
For the story (again^^) A guy at Blizzcon over shown a T shirt of his team "vivid gaming" to make some advertising and it created a small drama on Reddit
Hello everybody, here is my entry for the Blizzcon Art contest of this last weekend. This is my biggest Art ever (the drawing is 2 meters wide and has 200 characters on it :p) I hope you'll enjoy it ! I didn't win and I didn't see the drawings who won does anybody knows where to see them?
Nicolas' work can be recognized by almost anyone these days. Truly an artistic inspiration and always putting out great work. Keep it up! PS. that eSports Canada poster is amazing
Your art is amazing! A question concerning the big ZvT piece: i thought you draw digitally rather than workin on paper. Was this piece drawn on paper/canvas, since u mentioned the actual size in meters and not in pixels. Wonderful and detailed work eitherway!
I was SURE there was a "STIM for victory" SC2 propaganda pic somewhere so I was googling it up but could find nothing.
Then I saw this thread bumped and it was like fate. Or destiny. Or Kizzmit. Or the other one.
Does it exist? Can one of you picture makers make a picture that changes the picture in my brain into a picture.
Your Proleague needs you!
Ahah, actually it could be a great idea I will see if I have time (not sure to use the syringe symbol tho, cause it's too terranish for those 2 teams I think)
(I'm pointing at you now. Can you feel it?)
(Well actually I'm not pointing at you, I'm pointing at my screen, but if you look at your screen and imagine I'm in it then it's basically the same.)
In Theory, if you're English and your screen is back to the south, you were pointing at me ^^
On February 25 2014 01:35 Dapper_Cad wrote: It's great. Is there any way we could insert a man with blood coming out of his ears into it?
Why ? I don't get it ^^
On February 25 2014 02:30 Denda Reloaded wrote: Your art is amazing! A question concerning the big ZvT piece: i thought you draw digitally rather than workin on paper. Was this piece drawn on paper/canvas, since u mentioned the actual size in meters and not in pixels. Wonderful and detailed work eitherway!
the base is some 3D characters I created, some pictures, textures and some model from the SC2 editor, then I photoshop painted on it Make something like this on paper would certainly looks better (it's too confused on my version) but it would have take 1 million years (for info, Games Workshop's artist take 1 month to make their epic battle painting and they re really good and used to it)
I did him : http://i.imgur.com/pZnZDHx.jpg But I think he wasn't an active player or was retired at the moment of the general wallpaper (I didn't remember) so I didn't put him with the others
some of these are fantastic, i love the war-like propaganda ones, some of the text is quite difficult to read but i like the idea in almost every one. very unique. keep it up =)
Hello, here is my new poster for Polt and Violet training camp
I don't post much those days cause I'm working a lot for the goods productions with my design I have almost 15 different designs , the production has finally started. I have a meeting with my new partner in business next month to get the SC2 license.