MarcZaf's Works

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Created a new thread, cause I've finally got an interest in making fan arts and such, and I also needed to get organized.
(so Mr. Moderator/Admin/anyone who has the jurisdiction to delete threads may delete my first art thread.)

First, you might just wanna add me to your Deviant Watch since most(if not all) of my art works are there, plus the links will just lead you to DA anyway.

Next, I do character concepts/fan art requests, but only one at a time(I'm human too), whoever requests first is the top priority so you may wanna wait for your turn, and please do consider checking my works before you request, you might wanna disappoint yourself now than after I've done your request.

Artist Statements

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-9/20/2013-
I've finally got interested in making Fan Arts, although they somehow suck, it's the thought that matters right?
There's a 50-50 chance that I'll COMPLETELY SEPARATE Summoned Arms from TER, and let TER end abruptly. I think it's time
I actually do something that isn't related to Megaman in anyway, BUT I will push through the "TER: Origins" game once I finished Summoned Arms. Lastly, Summoned Arms may also be done in Manga format(hand drawn, right to left).

-9/21/2013-
It has been decided in a heads or tails on whether I'll continue Summoned Arms as TER's sequel, or make it a stand alone comic.
Heads would determine that I'd continue TER, Tails would determine that I wouldn't, and best 2 out of 3 so it wouldn't be so sudden...
and...

<MarcZaf> `coin 3
* Bob flips 3 coins...
<Bob> Heads, Tails, Tails!

Looks like TER will abruptly end there, after Odin's Tower, but I will continue with the TER Origins, since Gate is really badass :3 .

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Fan Arts:
Might No.9 Beck
Megaman X
Finn from Adventure Time!
Connor from Assassin's Creed 3 (still needs a caption)
Ragna The Bloodedge

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Summoned Arms Artworks

Summoned Arms Idea/Concept:
Humanity has encountered a new entity that they cannot fight with modern day weapons, The "Nightmare", they are mystical beings that feed on humans. The Nightmare comes in various shapes and sizes, and where did they come from or how did they get there is yet to be known. The desperation of being under The Nightmare has introduced humans to "Summoned Arms," they are Weapons mostly swords/maces/flails/melee weapons(cause I can't come up with cheap ass tricks for other kinds of weapons, although there are special cases) of celestial beings, may it be God/Giant/Titan, not the SNK titans but the Greek titans/Legend bestowed upon humans who will make a "pact" with them(of course power isn't free). And these arms have their own "Spell blades"(special attacks) to fight The Nightmare.

You've seen the first few characters of Summoned Arms, the main protagonist will be Razex Belfony, entitled "The Blood Knight". The story will revolve around him as he goes through his first year at the "Arms Academy," where he will be thought how to fight The Nightmare along with Konishi and Layla. And 2 TER characters also make their appearance in Summoned Arms, Reito entitled "The Frostbite"(kinda redundant if you speak japanese) will appear as Raz, Kon, and Layla's junior, and Zafer entitled "The Blade Igniter" will appear as a highly paid Nightmare Hunter.

So... yeah, the concept may not be that intriguing yet, but of course I plan on starting on the comic next year(still no exact date, but it won't start beyond mid 2014), and there's still a lot of room for revisions and polishing. But if you are intrigued, thank you for getting interested.

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Characters(Colored):
Zafer, The Blade Igniter
Reito, The Frostbite
Razex Belfony, The Blood Knight
Konishi Yamamoto, The Ray of Light
Layla Caelum, The Holy Knight
Michelle Miladina, The Shadow Knight
Jane Miladina, The Soul Seeker
Odin
Thor
Professor Isaac, The Master of Time
Alice Frost, The Tidehuntress
Jack, The Ripper
Alicia Valkyrie, The Radiant Amethyst
Gate, The Flames of Judgement
Dean Light, The Master of Arms

Weapons:
Durandal and The Paladin's Shield
Tomoshibi no Kaisou("Reflection of Light")
The Blood Sword

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Jack, The Ripper
So here we have another obvious antagonist for Summoned Arms...

Jack, The Ripper, with his summoned arm, The Reaper. And now I won't !@$%ing make characters without undershirts... well... male characters anyway.

edit:-9/22/2013-

colored Michelle's concep-tart.
link

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Concept Art No.7
and here we got Jane Miladina, The Soul Seeker, with her summoned arm, the Spectral Rapier, I kinda enjoyed drawing/coloring this character, other than she looks adorable that green ghostly aura just really made my day.

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Concept Art No.8

I finally decided to move Odin from TER to Summoned Arms too, anyway...

wielding the Magic sword he stole from Freyr(*not based from norse context, I just made it like that for the fun of it.)
Odin, The Norse God of Wisdom/War tactics

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Just what I needed.
Something I drew randomly cause I wasn't able to connect to the internet for almost a week.

Also, I just noticed that I always make romantic(somewhat) drawings every October.

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Concept Art #9
Of course if Odin's gonna shift to Summoned Arms, so will Thor.

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Concept Art #10
Colored Professor Isaac, sadly, Random doesn't like the difference in coloring between the sword's effect and the character.(dunno when I'll fix my coloring again)

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Concept Sketch #9
I AM PROUD OF THAT CHEST!! NO COMPLAINING!!
anyway...

TER's "The Tidebringer" returns as Alice Frost(we can still refer to her as Frost), The Tide Huntress, having a bigger plot and wielding her summoned arm The Tidebringer.

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Concept Sketch #10
I've drawn this character a lot of times already, yet I don't remember introducing her.
So... I guess this'd be the biggest reveal I'll ever do.

Zafer's partner in hunting...

Alicia Valkyrie, The Radiant Amethyst, wielding her summoned arm, The Serene Blade.

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Concept Art #11
Trying out a different way of coloring, sadly, the water doesn't look like water but anyway, I'll work on it... eventualy...

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Concept Sketch #11
The Blade Igniter I returns to Summoned Arms as

Gate, The Flames of Judgement, wielding the summoned arm, The Phoenix Saber.

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Concept Sketch #12
The last character reveal for the next 10-20 chapters of Summoned Arms.

Dean Light, The Master of Arms, wielding the summoned arm, X-calibur.

The next few sketches should be designs for "The Nightmare", places in Summoned Arms, weapon sketches(for those that aren't properly shown in sketches), etc...

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All the revealed female characters from Summoned Arms
-my favorite would be the left-most character(!@#$ my tastes right?).

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Concept Art #12
Alicia Valkyrie, The Radiant Amethyst
wielding her summoned arm the "Serene Blade"

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Concept Art #13
I swear.. that's the sharpest abs I've ever seen...

Jack, The Ripper, with his summoned arm, The Reaper. And now I won't !@$%ing make characters without undershirts... well... male characters anyway.

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Concept Art #14
Still the most badass character I've ever made since TER.

Gate, The Flames of Judgement wielding the Phoenix Saber(so if you still haven't noticed the sword's flames look like a bird or something.)

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Also, I changed the topic name since in just a few more sketches or concepts, I'll start working on Summoned Arms.

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Concept Art #15
and the last character for the next few chapters of Summoned Arms, the Dean of the Arms Academy, Dean Light, The Master of Arms.

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Hopefully Summoned Arms will start by January 10, 2014. Although I don't know if I'll do summoned arms, a 20 page chapter like a real manga but if I'll do that it would take me at least a month to finish a chapter, considering I still have a lot of work to do.

or I could at least do 3 pages of a chapter per week, I'll really have to think it through.

up next would be the concept sketch for "The Nightmare" the monsters of Summoned Arms.

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I've actually thought.... maybe I should quit doing this...

After 2 years of being in the arts...I finally realized that I really have a poor taste in design. Everything I've done so far have been so generic, even an 8 year old can imagine and design better characters than me. All my works seem to be flat, and cannot express what I am, who I am. The fact that I'm becoming uninterested with what I do just shows how ineffective my works are. What I've been doing has never brought me anywhere, it's rather just giving me another chore to do. You could say it was my lack of competency that has given me the habit of not becoming good at something and will never help me get any better from here.

And so the thought came that I shouldn't do this because my creativity is impaired, and can never go outside of the box.

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So after thinking about it the whole day...

I came back to "why did I go in the field of arts anyway?"

It was merely because I wanted to make a game/anime of my sprite comic.

And why did I make TER? as stupid as it sounds I wanted to get known for continuing Megaman someday, but then Keiji came and made showed Mighty No. 9... after that I lost the interest to specialize in game development knowing Megaman still lives on. And so decided to do Summoned Arms, something completely different, something that's strayed from what I had depicted in TER, which was me. And having ended it on September 1st has ended the progression of MY story...

So... to remind of who I am and what I'm supposed to do....

Along with Summoned Arms...

The Endless Rebellion R3 (I'll go with TER3 for short) Redone, Retold, Re-conceptualized. TER's 3rd remake , it will be done in the same sprite comic format with a few drawn panels, but without Megaman characters, the idea and concepts will be changed but the flow of the story will stay the same, and will go past what the first TER has ended.

TER3 will also begin on January 10, for TER started on January 10, 2011.


Now for another thing, a page preview of Summoned Arms

... well... it's really quite minimal for a preview but... meh

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A sketch of The Crimson Executioner from TER, cause I figured you guys might want to know what he looks like without the hood. xD

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If you guys aren't updated with my blog or dA, Summoned Arms is postponed, and I'll instead focus on TER R3.
Removing all those megaman characters and changing references so I can somewhat call TER original.

I've sprited a few of the new characters, and since I don't think I'll make it to my January 10 deadline, I'll just post some concept characters or changes to TER R3.

The story will have some changes but will still lead to the same thing "going to a huge dark tower with a sword on top, 2 characters will become rivals, sky pirates gonna kick some robot ass, etc..."

and for today's sketch... X's counterpart...


Xven, The Azure Slasher(You may pronounce it as Seven or Sven, shortened for the slavic name Xeven which means "lively".)

Zero will be replaced by Zev, The Crimson Slasher(which I'm still sketching, because I'm not really good with drawing helmets). Zev is shortened for the greek name Zeva which means "sword."

Ciel, will be replaced by Carmel(I'll post her sprite later... once I finally get a good color scheme for her).

And for now the reploids will be called "E.C.H.O." which stands for "Enhanced Cybernetic Humanoid Operatives" thanks to Rick for giving me an idea, but there's still a chance that it would change... although that chance is quite narrow.

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TER R3 Concept Sketch #2
Xven, The Azure Slasher(in replacement for X, The Maverick Hunter) I might color this one later, cause... somewhat if you imagine him in a certain color he might look like a character from another anime.

for X-calibur I might still work on it cause I'm still not satisfied with it.

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This thread deserves way more comments than the zero it has.

Every time you draw something it looks like you've improved greatly since the last picture. This is some awesome stuff.

I'm happy to see Odin, I've wanted to see a drawing of him since reading TER. And the sketch of the Crimson Executioner is a nice tidbit, I always did kind of wonder what he looked like without his hood. lawl


Awesome as always Zafer, can't wait to see more.

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Thanks alot Nightmare, really, I really appreciate that. I just can't work on TER/SA right now because I still have a lot of work to do, and hopefully by next week I'll be able to focus on it.

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While I don't keep up with it that much, I have to agree with Nightmare. I usually check out your works and I'm never disappointed. You do very well with your work, its just that the users here don't post much anymore. Keep up the good work.