Portfolio Class- Character Development!

[Thomas Mahon]

I'm a little busy over the weekend with some personal stuff but I think this is good enough to submit for sundays critique, and then based on that critique, i'll push it as far as I can and render. Things that are like scribbles will be fleshed out and refined as actual patterns, I just didn't see the point in doing that at this point.

Through doing a little research on the history of Japanese swords, the first Katana were adopted from china, called Zhanmado, I think if I worked on the rendering of the sword to look old and ancient as Dan said, I could make this pass for one of them.



Throughout the week I plan to do some studies to back up the rendering of the character, particularly with the face because I feel this is a weak area for me.

Also I was toying with the idea of having an alternate version of the face, with a mask, however when I attempted this, it didn't fit with the design at all and looked pretty awkward, so I scrapped the idea.

If there are any major critiques to this current version from anyone, I'll try my best to apply them before sunday!