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[Jorian]

Hey guys, and thanks for checking out my request. As you can see by the title, I am at a severe loss for creativity here, and so I need to ask each of you to lend me yours to make me the most amazingly epic signature picture ever. Feel up to the task? Then read on, young artist.

Okay, so lately, I've been very interested *cough* obsessed *cough* with the idea of ficticious swordsmen. I'm talking about the guys from movies (Anakin Skywalker, Aragorn, Conan the Barbarian) and video games (Link, Shulk, Cloud Strife) alike. Basically, what I'm looking for in a signature is all of the greatest ficticious swordsmen in history gathered into one awesome signature. Still feeling good about this? Wait, it gets better.

Unfortunately, I can't provide pictures of all the swordsmen, but I can provide a decent list of all the ones I definitely want on the picture. If you think you'd be willing to do the digging for the pictures yourself, then you're probably good for this job. Sorry guys, but I have a lot to do lately, so I can't find the time to gather a list of pictures. Now, those of you that still want to work on this project, keep reading for my more in-depth description of the picture.

For the fighters themselves, I want a picture of each of the swordsmen, in their most awesome poses and stances possible, to be taken and cropped together into the picture, in something of an overlapping group of warriors, if that at all makes sense.

As far as design goes, I'm not really picky about backgrounds and frames and such, so long as it looks cool. I think the background needs to be somewhere epic, like an inferno or a swirling void or even an ancient chapel, or maybe just in a plain meadow with a sunrise behind them. Whatever you want to do there, I'll probably be okay with. Here's an idea to toy with: Maybe you can crop a semi-transparent picture of each of the swords the warriors used into the background. Not necessary, especially if it ends up taking up too much room, but hey, it's an idea.

Here's a little list of the main characters I want to be put into the image. Feel free to add any more if you want along the way.

Link
Shulk
Cloud Strife
Anakin Skywalker
Luke Skywalker
Sora
Roxas
Riku
Siegfried
Indigo Montoya (you killed my father, prepare to die)
Ezio
Altair
The Black Knight
Aragorn
Frodo
Crono
Frog
Baraka
Duncan Macleod, the Highlander
Conan the Barbarian
Deadpool
Liono
He-Man
Ike
Qui-Gon-Gin
Yoda
Obi-Wan Kenobi
King Arthur (I know he's not fictional, but Excalibur is awesome)
Kratos
Neo
Morpheus
Peter Pan
Pit
Leonardo
Gohan
Jack Sparrow
Zorro
The Three Musketeers

I realize that's a pretty freaking long list of swordsmen, but that's just the unabridged version. I just listed off all the swordsmen heroes I knew of for that, but I don't really want every one of those. Instead, here's a list of all the swordsmen I definitely want on the image.

Link
Shulk
Cloud Strife
Crono
Pit
Altair
Sora
The Black Knight
Aragorn
Neo
Leonardo
Anakin Skywalker
Inigo Montoya
Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander
King Arthur

So, yeah, I know I ask a lot for this, and you'll only be working for experience on top of, but that's the basic principle behind it. Any questions? Comments? Concerns? Please let me know if you'd be willing to try this out.

[julia]

I'd be willing to do this. I can't promise it will look the greatest with all the different styles of art that will be included, but I'll try. Any words or anything that you'd like?

[Jorian]

Hey Julia, nice seeing you again. Thanks for the interest. I actually thought the contrasting art styles would have an interesting effect on the overall picture, but you might be right. Well, only one way to tell. Anyway, I'm not really too picky about details. Just try to find each character in their most awesome poses (I'm really big on that part) and have an interesting background, and I don't think it should come out too bad. I'm leaving a lot of room open for free play here, so be creative with it.

[julia]

I'll see what I can come up with!

[Jorian]

Thank you much!

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Actually, if you wouldn't mind another little detail, I'd like to see if you could add a bit of text onto the image for me.

"It's not the sword that matters, but the man that wields it." -Me, made up on the fly.

Also, what would be awesome, but might just sound like a waste of time, is if you could put in small, semi-transparent text the different quotes from each of the swordsman scattered all around the background. Again, not necessary, but that would be interesting to see.