10-30-2014, 07:37 PM
Beardley, woah, that's some serious design exploration! Great to see!!
atrenr, I like how your design is coming along. Has a good feel to me. Not sure about the framing - looks a bit like juuuust the feet got cut up (like those photographs where people forget to check if the feet are in frame) - maybe extend that to include it, or crop a bit higher so that it is closer to a medium long shot? Sorry for the nitpick :p Really like it though!
Mike, great design, love it. I like the color scheme. Right now, the green and yellow really stands out to me, more than I would think appropriate for just some random bottles on his belt. Unless they are super important for some reason, maybe consider toning them down a bit, or mix some of those colors in other parts of the design too? To make it a bit more unified?
I'm so late to the party again! Ugh. I had this idea of painting a little necromancer kid going through parent's study for the ChoW, but scrapped that idea. So I started with some pose exploration while thinking about how to not make the design too cliché. Nobody must ever find those ref videos I made of myself performing spellcasting motions! I find it hard to find appealing poses with subject matters like this. Either too weird/nondescriptive, or been done a million times. Also trying to push anatomy/pose to support the character/story. Design wise, I keep drifting too much towards goth, or tribal/witchdoctor stuff, which both doesn't feel quite right ... it lacks the creepy, ugly weirdness. But I'd also like to refrain from too many skulls or tentacles... tough one.
(sorry, totally forgot to clean up that sketch sheet from unneccessary poses, lol)
atrenr, I like how your design is coming along. Has a good feel to me. Not sure about the framing - looks a bit like juuuust the feet got cut up (like those photographs where people forget to check if the feet are in frame) - maybe extend that to include it, or crop a bit higher so that it is closer to a medium long shot? Sorry for the nitpick :p Really like it though!
Mike, great design, love it. I like the color scheme. Right now, the green and yellow really stands out to me, more than I would think appropriate for just some random bottles on his belt. Unless they are super important for some reason, maybe consider toning them down a bit, or mix some of those colors in other parts of the design too? To make it a bit more unified?
I'm so late to the party again! Ugh. I had this idea of painting a little necromancer kid going through parent's study for the ChoW, but scrapped that idea. So I started with some pose exploration while thinking about how to not make the design too cliché. Nobody must ever find those ref videos I made of myself performing spellcasting motions! I find it hard to find appealing poses with subject matters like this. Either too weird/nondescriptive, or been done a million times. Also trying to push anatomy/pose to support the character/story. Design wise, I keep drifting too much towards goth, or tribal/witchdoctor stuff, which both doesn't feel quite right ... it lacks the creepy, ugly weirdness. But I'd also like to refrain from too many skulls or tentacles... tough one.
(sorry, totally forgot to clean up that sketch sheet from unneccessary poses, lol)