Vampyr's Gallery

[Vampyr]

Welcome to my art gallery. :) I'll try to keep it updated with my latest works of art, including prose, poetry, and digital art.

I do take signiture or photomanipulation requests, for a small doubloon fee, just depending on how long it takes me to make your request. If you spot something in my gallery that you would like to use, such as a signiture, just let me know and I will alter the username for you, but I will leave my watermark on it. I usually mark my work under the alias "Zalu Ragar". All signitures are 150 doubloons a piece, and if you request a custom one I charge 100 doubloons if it takes less than an hour, and 50 doubloons for each additional hour. I still retain the rights to the original sig designs.

I will not sell the same sig to two different people on the same forum.

ALSO FOR SALE
I will design banners for your website layout, at a flat rate of 500 doubloons per banner.

Advertising in my Signiture Space:
Text Url: 10 doubloons per week
Linked Image smaller than 100 width x 50 height: 30 doubloons per week
Entire signiture (banner size) Linked: 50 doubloons per week

I can only advertise one image at a time, due to the rules of GT, so its a first come first serve basis.

Signitures

Albert Camus:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/ac.jpg

Axl Low:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/axlsig2.jpg

Sweet Child of Mine:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/blueeyes2.jpg

All the Fun of the Fair:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/funfair.jpg

Heroic:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/heroic2.jpg

The Stranger:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/strangergrunge.jpg

Weapon V: (I'll change the letter to match your username if you buy this one)
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/weaponv2.jpg

Warrior Within: (I'll resize it and change the blue area to match GT if you buy it)
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/zaluragar.jpg

The Fallen Angel:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyr7/vampiretrigun.jpg

Vampiress:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/vampiress2.jpg

Halo:
http://www.thefilebin.com/userfiles/vampyr/halo.png

Needle Abstract:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/zaluragar/needleabstract.jpg

Aria of Giovanni
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/aria.jpg

The Predator:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/predator.png

Ambition:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/ambition.jpg

Retro Burst:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/retroburst.png

House of Leaves:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/houseofleaves.jpg

The Mantis:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/themantis.jpg

Photomanipulations

The Alpha Male:
http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgallery/alphamale2.jpg

Blood Bath
Your Halo is Slipping Down to Choke You Now
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/bloodbath.jpg

Ambition:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/ambition.jpg

The Machine:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/themachine.jpg


Writing
Conversations on the Rooftop (http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/871420)

Sleeping with Chaos (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14977612/)

[CamFu]

Those are very impressive. Heroic Looks tough.

Oh... can I make a request? I'm kind of on a TimeSplitters:Future Perfect kick right now. You think you could do something with TS:FP in it?

[Vampyr]

I was actually looking at some Timesplitter screens the other day. I'll see what I can find.

And thanks for the compliment.

[BlueFire]

Heroic and Sweet Child of Mine are my favorites of your gallery. Nice job. :)

[Vampyr]

Thanks for the compliment, BlueFire.

And here is your sig, CamFu. It took an hour and a half, so if your buying, wire 125 doubloons to my Swiss account. :cool:

http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgame/timesplittercamfu.jpg

[CamFu]

Vampyr... that is a sweet job. Thanks... I've paid you your 125 Doubloons.

[Vampyr]

Thanks for your buisiness. Glad your satisfied.

[Typhoid]

May I request to see one for me, with the Megaman Character "Bass" ..umm...maybe it was "Treble" hmm...I cant remember...one of them is a guy, and the other is a dog I think.


Anyways, no big deal if you cant find anything, but it would be neat.

[DarkMaster]

I can't see a single picture in your gallery.

[Vampyr]

I can't see a single picture in your gallery.

That's unusual.

And Typh, I'll try and see what I can find.

[GameMaster]

An excellent idea, Vampyr!

I applaud your work and look foward to becoming one of your clients. Your photoshop skills have risen above everyone else's. If you want to become the new champion, all you have left to do is challenge the current Champion, Null.

A subject will be chosen at random and you and Null will compete to create a work of signature art that contains this subject. Once you have both submitted work, GameTavern will vote to decide the best one. Whoever wins will be crowned the new Photoshop Champion and in addition will receive 100 +reps from me and possibly 500 doubloons.

[ZebraRampage]

Wow, you did a great job on the manipulation of yourself. Awesome stuff man.

[Vampyr]

May I request to see one for me, with the Megaman Character "Bass" ..umm...maybe it was "Treble" hmm...I cant remember...one of them is a guy, and the other is a dog I think.


Anyways, no big deal if you cant find anything, but it would be neat.

Here is your sig, I hope you like it. It's 125 doubloons if you want to purchase it. Just wire them to me.

http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgame/bass.jpg

[Stray_Bullet]

I'm almost considering coming out of my cage and opening up Fireworks...

aaalmost.

[GameMaster]

Hey Vampyr, you should try using that script Null posted so everytime someone accesses a page where you've posted, they'll always see a different one of your signatures.

[Stray_Bullet]

Random image script? I've used that before. A pain in the ass if you have to change the images, number of images... or if you have to put that script in more places than one.

Not a bad idea, though. I might use that idea sometime.

[Typhoid]

Here is your sig, I hope you like it. It's 125 doubloons if you want to purchase it. Just wire them to me.

http://home.graffiti.net/vampyrgame/bass.jpg


Love it.


Im stacking up the sigs so I can change them at the most randomest times. Because Im awesome like that.

Doubloons have been wired. :)

[Vampyr]

Love it.


Im stacking up the sigs so I can change them at the most randomest times. Because Im awesome like that.

Doubloons have been wired. :)

Glad you like it. If you decide to use it, could you please host it yourself? I have been hitting my bandwith limit A LOT lately. People are having a hard time seeing my stuff, which was Darkmaster's problem, I think.

So anything I have made for anyone, please host it yourself. You can find good free hosting here: www.imagecave.com, www.photobucket.com, www.graffiti.net

Just go there and sign up.

I'm going to start charging a doubloon rent on my hosting. :D

Also, if at any time you realize you can't see any of my images, let me know and I'll try to fix it.

[Vampyr]

New sig For sale, it's titled "Vampiress", and you can find it on the first page.

[Stray_Bullet]

NOODIE!!!



:sneaky:

Nah, It's stylish.

BTW! Where, again, did you get the custom paintbrushes?

[MuGen]

Who again declared that Vampyr rose above even my photoshop skills? I've been hailed for my skills on many a forums... lol

I need to do something now....

[Vampyr]

NOODIE!!!



:sneaky:

Nah, It's stylish.

BTW! Where, again, did you get the custom paintbrushes?

I got some of my brush's from deviantart.com, but others were found by randomly surfing the internet, and I got one set of abstract brush's from a friend on Gamespot.

Oh, and Kyuzo, bring it on. ;)

[MuGen]

I most certainly will (puts on Kirsten Dunst costume)

I don't use brush tips... I do it myself :p

[Vampyr]

I most certainly will (puts on Kirsten Dunst costume)

I don't use brush tips... I do it myself :p

What do you mean you do it yourself? You mean you don't use brush's?

Please don't say you rely completely on filters...

[MuGen]

brush tips my friend..... the ones you download off places that create a preset theme or feel? I use Adobe's default brush tips.

[Vampyr]

That sounds like a pain. :|

There are some effects you just can't get otherwise. Like grunge and abstract themes. If your worried about degrading your art, at least make your own brush's. That way it's still 100% yours.

[MuGen]

I can do all that with regular brush tips though... no need to make my own... I like making the art from scratch and not loading presets.

[GameMaster]

/me senses a rising tension between two critically acclaimed artists. Thinks that perhaps Vampyr and Kyuzo should battle to determine who will challenge the Champion Null.

[Null]

* GameMaster senses a rising tension between two critically acclaimed artists. Thinks that perhaps Vampyr and Kyuzo should battle to determine who will challenge the Champion Null.



:hmm:

[MuGen]

^ is what I said.

[Vampyr]

New signiture for sale, titled "Halo". It is listed on the front page. For some reason, this one seems to me to look a lot like a Null sig.

http://www.thefilebin.com/userfiles/vampyr/halo.png

I also have new "items" for sale, at the top of the list.

[Null]

i dont like his hand sticking out the bottom, and his body doesnt go all the way to the bottom of the sig, lol.

but yea. thats kinda the style i do, been messing around with a different style latly, but gunna go back to my original styles more. not liking the all one color blend things.

[Vampyr]

Yeah, I thought that your older sigs were much better. Which is saying something because the new ones are really good too. I think you were just better at the other style.

I'm glad you aren't afraid to do other styles, though, because you would be boring otherwise.

[Vampyr]

New sig, and my very first real abstract. Good one anyway.

"Needle Abstract"
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/zaluragar/needleabstract.jpg

[MuGen]

Nice one vampyr, although I like your current sig better... hehehe :beerchug:

[Blackmane]

Nice one vampyr, although I like your current sig better... hehehe :beerchug:

We all do. I would have bought that poster when I saw it for sale, but at the time I was still in a relationship and didn't want to make my g/f jealous. :D

[MuGen]

i think even she would've liked it... you never know

[Null]

I like the newer sig better, like his previous better.

i'd like the current if it was original, but quite honestly, as much as it is a nice artistic lesbian picture, i've grown tired of seeing it. i must have seen that picture at least a couple times a day for the past year. in Counter-Strike: S. people use it as thier spray paints and its sprayed all over the map each game. then in sigs in other boards.

its a nice picture, but i like seeing something that i havnt seen so many times before.

[Vampyr]

Yeah, it's like the single most common poster for a guys dorm room as well.

And I plan on having it in mine when I get to college. :D

Thanks for the comments guys.

[Vampyr]

New Sig:

Aria of Giovanni:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/aria.jpg

*I just realized how wierd that font looks...damn. I hate it when that happens. Oh well. I'll fix it later. Much. :D

This is from my new "ladies" collection, going along with "Kiss". I'm really wanting to make a carmen electra one, (I think she is the sexiest woman ever), but I CANNOT crop hair for the life of me. ugh.

[MuGen]

use the Anchor Point tool and zoom in..... Time consuming but accurate as hell...

[Blackmane]

I don't know if I like the way that the babe looks on that sig. I mean, shes hot, but she definetely doesn't look like she belongs on that background.

I don't know if that's fixable or not, cause I don't have wicked skillz with the photo editting.

[Null]

I don't know if I like the way that the babe looks on that sig. I mean, shes hot, but she definetely doesn't look like she belongs on that background.

I don't know if that's fixable or not, cause I don't have wicked skillz with the photo editting.


the reason it doesnt look right is becuase the way one views the image is the background is computer generated, and the picture is real. its like you being stuck in a computer generated world. things around you dont fit in with yourself.

its a nice background tho. hehe

[MuGen]

actually... the babe was rendered in Character Studio :)

[Null]

lol. wouldnt matter anyway, plays the same trick on the eye.

[MuGen]

Yet again you have proved to be wise beyond your seconds, Null.... *bows head*

:beerchug:

[Blackmane]

It reminds me of the scene in I, Robot where Will Smith is walking through the wad of disabled robots looking for the radical one and you can so tell that it is all computer generated. It hardly looks real, IMO.

But, I like the background, and I like the babe. Together, they just look odd.

[Vampyr]

New sig!

The Predator:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/predator.png

I just want to say that I have completely fallen in love with .png, and that I adore Firefox for supporting it. I've been designing a website recently, and I realized that .png files are smaller than .gif files.

IE is stupid for not supporting it. It's the file of the future, better than .jpg or .gif.

And don't steal that sig...my name is on it, if you look at the predators head, on the ridge.

And I know that the name of the movie is "predator", not "the predator", I just like putting the "the" in there.

[Null]

yes screw ie users for now. if they want to see the pics correctly they can either download firefox or opera, or wait till IE 7 comes out.

[Blackmane]

I like it Vampyr. This one can have my ever-important seal of approval :D

[Vampyr]

I like it Vampyr. This one can have my ever-important seal of approval :D

Woot!

[Vampyr]

I would like to announce that i have transcended beyond monocolor sigs.

My two latest works:

The Retro Burst:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/retroburst.png


The Mantis:
http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/themantis.jpg

[Vampyr]

I really like this signiture. The image on the left was created by me. I took a photo of myself, and then used photo shop to manipulate it to make it look sort of like a vector image. Then I took that picture and brushed over it, then used some color balance to get the color of the leaves. Then I found a font that I thought suited the look of the theme, and I personally love the text. It says "I was born in a house of leaves"

It isn't taken from anything...it's just something I wanted to build the sig on. I like making poetic sigs.

http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/houseofleaves.jpg

[GameMaster]

Zach, are you saluting or aiming an imaginative gun at your head?

[Vampyr]

Zach, are you saluting or aiming an imaginative gun at your head?

I have my fingers aimed at my head like a gun.

[GameMaster]

Well, it looks great. The way you have the leaves arranged almost makes them look like flames also. And you did a great job 'vectorizing' yourself. I'd love to see a side by side comparison of the photograph and stand alone 'vectored Zach'. I think I have that font on my computer too. I forget its name at the moment but I used it for a GameTavern project here once.

I'm not sure what you're going for but my suggestion would be to adjust the area where you fall 'behind' the leaves. Maybe it's intended for you to be standing behind the leaves like they're a curtain or something but it looks kind of abrupt. I would ease your 'vector self' into the leaves a little more so it looks like you're slowly blending/fading into them.

[Vampyr]

Well, it looks great. The way you have the leaves arranged almost makes them look like flames also. And you did a great job 'vectorizing' yourself. I'd love to see a side by side comparison of the photograph and stand alone 'vectored Zach'. I think I have that font on my computer too. I forget its name at the moment but I used it for a GameTavern project here once.

I'm not sure what you're going for but my suggestion would be to adjust the area where you fall 'behind' the leaves. Maybe it's intended for you to be standing behind the leaves like they're a curtain or something but it looks kind of abrupt. I would ease your 'vector self' into the leaves a little more so it looks like you're slowly blending/fading into them.

O_O

Someone at GT is giving an in depth critique of my work?! Awesome! This rarely happens.

Thanks for the advice and critique, GM.

The font is Papyrus, it's one that null uses a lot. And I might post those pictures you are talking about, because personally I think the "vectored" version of me looks really cool.

A few other people have told me that the transition from me to leaves is abrupt, although I don't see it, but I'm going to try and fix it anyway.

And here is the poetic explanation:

There is a photo of me with a "gun" to my head, and leaves falling around me. The quote says "I was born in a house of leaves", and a leaf house would be very unstable. It would not take much to knock the "house" over. And in the sig, the leaves are falling around me, meaning that the house has collapses. The leaves are a symbol of my life, and the entire sig represents how unstable things are, including me.

[Null]

I like the colorful bubble one :) i'd have to say thats your best. stylish. i also like that it gives the appearence that its not as tall. prolly the bubbles or the slight extra length that gives that appearence, but i dont like the tall looking ones.

[Vampyr]

I updated my gallery with recent photomanips, sigs, and my newest sig.

This one is called ambition, and I used my latest photomanip for it.

http://home.comcast.net/~zalu_ragar/signitures/ambition.jpg

[AzeaL]

Very,Very nice. I liked them all. Now if only I knew how to get one. :(

[Vampyr]

It's been so long since I opened up Photoshop and made a sig and avatar...

New ones that I'm currently using.

Theme: Love
Movie: Moulin Rouge

[Krypton]

very, very nice.

if it were out of ten, you'd get an 11.

[Typhoid]

if it were out of ten, you'd get an 11.


And if that weren't cliche, I'd have not made this post.

[Null]

the actual sig would be pretty good, but you know me, i dont like the grey box around it. hehe.

[Krypton]

I should probably begin working with photoshop again.

[MuGen]

i work with it everyday... nice one Vampyr. I probably should've shown my signature before but have been using it for awhile without any announcement. I was tired of having stock images in my signature (i.e. FF7 AC) so I decided to go balls to the wall on this one.

Lemme guess Null.... IE user?

[Null]

Lemme guess Null.... IE user?


IE!? please boy, thats one of the first things i get rid of off my computer. at the very least, get rid of all the links and references to it.


something like that has nothing to do with the browser. its a jpg, so its filled in with what he 'thinks' the background color is. Which doesnt work on a board with multiple 'skins'.

even then, on many of them i can still see a difference because some computers are darker so people think they have a match when they dont.
altho i tested it on the forum skin that he uses and he did that just fine.

but still, personally i'd use a png and say screw the ie users for now. IE is going to update soon enough with full png support anyway. even if i was assured that everyone uses the same forum skin, it would still bug me to know that the grey box exists even if you couldnt see it during the forums.


that has nothing to do with the artwork in it, as i said, its a good job, im more against the format it was saved in.





PS, if you ever expect me to let you kill me in CS or any other game, i expect a full written apology for calling me a ie user. ;) :D

[MuGen]

nah I was assuming as much... didn't know it was JPEG.... the color he chose as the background had me fooled for a bit cuz I use the same skin.

sowwy i called you an IE user... but I dunno how full and written this apology is considering it taking about a couple of words...

[Null]

well... i supposed as long as its typed out and spelled right... its full and written.



so i guess we're..... WAIT A MINUTE!!! thats not spelled right at all!! curse you!

[Vampyr]

I'm a glutton for praise, so I don't want all the ignorant IE users out there going,

"A white box around the sig? Whuzzup with that?!"

Still glad you guys like it, though. ^_^

edit: It's a png now.

[Krypton]

when he meant grey box, he meant the border I think.

[Vampyr]

when he meant grey box, he meant the border I think.

What he was refering to was the grey box I had placed around the banner section of the sig to create the illusion that the wings on the heart and the text were hanging over the sides. You wouldn't notice it unless you right clicked and viewed the actual image, or you were using a GameTavern skin other than the default.

Now I've changed it to a .png file, which means it's transparent and it will look the same on any surface. The only downside is that for IE users, there will now be a white box around it.

[Null]

its thier punishment for using IE.



:p





btw, did you change anything when you resaved it in that format? colors look brighter, sharper.

[Vampyr]

its thier punishment for using IE.



:p





btw, did you change anything when you resaved it in that format? colors look brighter, sharper.


Nope, I just popped open PS for a few seconds and changed the format and resaved it.

This is like my favorite sig I've ever made...I can't stop looking at it. D: