06-30-2012, 11:52 PM
Good lookin work in here for sure Iggy.
That one monster with the scorpion like tail has some nice rendering just suffers a bit from a stiff pose. I've been having a similiar problem with my characters and one solution I found was to first establish what the character can be doing.
One way to do this is to come up with some ambiguous action phrases. For example if your character is a knight, you know they probably have a weapon of some sort, so you can write down something as simple as "swinging a sword" or "sheathing a sword" your mind will generate a ton of poses just from one little action phrase and then you can just sketch them out really quickly in a gesture like format. Anyway, it's a lot easier than just jumping right into painting a character/monster without any idea what you want the pose to be.
Might be a pretty obvious method, but it seems to be helping me a bit. Hope you can get something out of it, anyway keep up the great work.
That one monster with the scorpion like tail has some nice rendering just suffers a bit from a stiff pose. I've been having a similiar problem with my characters and one solution I found was to first establish what the character can be doing.
One way to do this is to come up with some ambiguous action phrases. For example if your character is a knight, you know they probably have a weapon of some sort, so you can write down something as simple as "swinging a sword" or "sheathing a sword" your mind will generate a ton of poses just from one little action phrase and then you can just sketch them out really quickly in a gesture like format. Anyway, it's a lot easier than just jumping right into painting a character/monster without any idea what you want the pose to be.
Might be a pretty obvious method, but it seems to be helping me a bit. Hope you can get something out of it, anyway keep up the great work.