Western Style...

Version 2

So heres the second version of the badass. Now He actually looks like what hes suppose to; a cowboy of some sort, or at least a man of the old west.

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Supreme Badass v1.0

Thats pretty what much he is. This design will change a lot by the time I am done. Didn't need to g all out with the rendering, but it was good practice like the previous studies, in understanding the shapes of the face and how they can be made to be distinct. His story is that he is a late 1800s cowboy who gets transported into present day and has to fight monster aliens from the future that have come back in time. It sounds wonky, but my quest here is to only make things that look good, and are functional for the subject matter. Not to mention he is a total badass, who'll cut you down with a glare. I came up with a fun story for the scar on his face. When asked, he said it was from a small grizzy bear. Until he fought back, then it was just dead. Badass.

As instructed, his re-design will be more distinct, and focus on giving him more character attributes related to the fact that he is a cowboy.

Also this is what he looks like in a hat, the same hat he had on during the grizzly attack. It still works as a hat so he kept it:

Badass.

Happy

So here is round 3. It was intense, but I made it. Its interesting because each one I do makes me want to do more.

Still using photoshop and creating colors without color picking.

Red Sweater

From random internet photo, no color picking.

Another day, another digital painting. I think I like this one better because of the lighting. Yellow (sun) light just looks better. This started the same as the other, frustrating and all over the place. It is a bit more difficult for me to draft on a tablet then on pencil and paper, but with more practice I should get over that.

I might do some more, once you get past the frustrating phase, this is pretty fun. Not to mention good practice.



Also, I visited Blizzard headquarters today, its pretty amazing and castle-like (well, 3 castles). Theres a bunch of really nice and talented people there; a pretty well functioning company thats for sure.

Gnight.

Digital Self

100% Photoshop. Used photo reference, though NO color picking.


Detail:

This was sort of a "try painting in photoshop" type exercise. I approached it as if i where working on a pastel drawing. Had I picked colors directly from the image i was looking at, I would have limited my color options drastically. Usually while doing a pastel drawing I will try to utilize as many of the colors that I can actually see in the figure or image. Which in reality is a lot, but photos usually can't capture as much as the naked eye. So for this I sort of pushed what little information was there, and just used hues/tones that had appropriate values for their locations.

This was fun, I think I'll Do another.