02-05-2014, 07:33 PM
Finished the character sheet, those suggestions you gave me, Lyraina, were really handy. So applied a bunch of them. Also brought in more tree sort of designs to the elder as per Bjulvar's suggestion.
Started doing some final thumbs and prepared a bit of a moodboard, but its only got a few pics of trees so I will include that later. I won't circle the ones I like in the thumbs (if you can even make sense of them) so that you can tell me the ones you like best.
Lyraina: : I really like the composition of the first one. Really dynamic pose but I like the frog guy best still. I think you could push the elder a bit more (wrinkles are great for adding personality too) but yeah he doesn't necessarily still have to be fat, could put his head on the body of one of the thin ones like you were saying. Just make sure to emphasize the age. I have the same problem as you of not quite yet knowing whether I want to go for a portrait or landscape orientation on my painting.
Kaffer: I like the idea of bring in a subservient character to the illustration that is roughly the same size as the elder, sort of like a caretaker. As opposed to making them huge which is the approach me and cracked went with, but it is kind of hard to read any of the design of the actual elder itself, but I am sure that will be resolved with time.
Bjulvar: Looking real cool man. 5 and 6 have a real nice Mike Corriero feel to them (I was flicking through Planet to Planet today coincidentally) so look up some of his stuff if you are going to go in that direction. Personally, 8 is my fave. I think you could do some really cool stuff with the design in the upper half of the body (looks like noise at the moment to me, but it probably means something to you) I like 5 adn 6 but I think you will have a hard time making them look elder-ish.
Cracked: You really really need some repeating shapes between the character in the foreground and the elder itself, even if it is just the same tree again and again, because at the moment I am not sure of how big, or how far this hand is coming forward, or the other going back. You also the tree is kind of confusing, since it is behind the base of his foot but infront of the top. The odds of something that big being able to position his arm like that is pretty remote. But I really like the design, I think it has enough of a mix of lizard and alligator to not look like you have directly copied either and just pasted one part from the other on top. So kudo's on that front since it is something I really struggle with (my turtle looks like a turtle with a tree pasted on top >.> ).
Started doing some final thumbs and prepared a bit of a moodboard, but its only got a few pics of trees so I will include that later. I won't circle the ones I like in the thumbs (if you can even make sense of them) so that you can tell me the ones you like best.
Lyraina: : I really like the composition of the first one. Really dynamic pose but I like the frog guy best still. I think you could push the elder a bit more (wrinkles are great for adding personality too) but yeah he doesn't necessarily still have to be fat, could put his head on the body of one of the thin ones like you were saying. Just make sure to emphasize the age. I have the same problem as you of not quite yet knowing whether I want to go for a portrait or landscape orientation on my painting.
Kaffer: I like the idea of bring in a subservient character to the illustration that is roughly the same size as the elder, sort of like a caretaker. As opposed to making them huge which is the approach me and cracked went with, but it is kind of hard to read any of the design of the actual elder itself, but I am sure that will be resolved with time.
Bjulvar: Looking real cool man. 5 and 6 have a real nice Mike Corriero feel to them (I was flicking through Planet to Planet today coincidentally) so look up some of his stuff if you are going to go in that direction. Personally, 8 is my fave. I think you could do some really cool stuff with the design in the upper half of the body (looks like noise at the moment to me, but it probably means something to you) I like 5 adn 6 but I think you will have a hard time making them look elder-ish.
Cracked: You really really need some repeating shapes between the character in the foreground and the elder itself, even if it is just the same tree again and again, because at the moment I am not sure of how big, or how far this hand is coming forward, or the other going back. You also the tree is kind of confusing, since it is behind the base of his foot but infront of the top. The odds of something that big being able to position his arm like that is pretty remote. But I really like the design, I think it has enough of a mix of lizard and alligator to not look like you have directly copied either and just pasted one part from the other on top. So kudo's on that front since it is something I really struggle with (my turtle looks like a turtle with a tree pasted on top >.> ).