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Riddler Was Here

Somewhat related to the last post, this one is also related to a warriors. Vikings must pass this ancient trial to prove their worth. I don't know what they're after (I should, I really should, story is the most important etc etc :S) so currently that part is under construction. I am happy with the values in this one.

Valhalla

A final resting place for warrior kings. Forgot how useful flipping the image was and didn't use it until just a moment ago after many revisions and croppings.

Sketch + Anatomy dump

Some recent figure sketches and anatomy studies from Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy.

Horrible Experiments Concluded

I am done!

This is my finished piece for conceptart.org's Character of the Week. I started designing this guy on monday, and it took the whole week to finish this thing!


Here is the CHoW thread for the finals, and here is the progress thread.

Horrible Experiments 4

Getting there. Worked on the belly, the contraption on his chest and the other arm. My idea with the arm was that he cut it off himself with his cleaver (gotta remember to add blood on blade), as he did to his leg shackle, to begin his murderous spree around the testing facility.

Also inked the outline of the drawing. Looks neat, but not sure if it fits. I'm not really a big fan of outline in works that are approachign realistic rendering.

Still gotta work on that background, and when I'm finished with this, I need to make a basic character sheet, which means I get to draw the same character ~3 more times until the deadline (monday :o)

Happy Experiment

To balance recent atrocities, I crapped out some colorful compositions. ^^

Horrible Experiments 3

WIP. Had to chop his hand off for time being, going to do something else with it. The brief said that the character was supposed to want to die, so I'll have to incorporate that in there somehow.

In my head I was thinking that they've pumped something into this guys veins, making him super-agressive, trying to hack and slash everything he sees. And then when the whatever substance runs out, he starts feeling the pain from all the implants and surgeries they've done, and will eventually want to kill himself.

Anyhoooo, I'm a bit off with my design when it comes to the brief. Getting a bit too scifi as well. Gotta pay attention to stuff.

At least this time my lighting setup shows enough of the character (last time was too murky).

Horrible Experiments 2

Here's my WIP for this weeks CHOW. One of the the things my last picture lacked was a clear focus, so I'm trying to get that there. Basically that means putting the characters head against a contrasting background. Seems to work alright.

Another thing with designing is to scatter different elements around, so the whole thing is coherent. I'm trying to do that with having the leather pieces, muscle tissue, bubbles and mechanical parts all appearing all around the design. I think it's the same with color coherence in a painting. They say a color should always appear elsewhere in the painting, to bind it to the whole.

Horrible Experiments

Figured I'd try my hand at this week's Creature of the Week. The theme is to create a horrifically failed experimentation subject from 1965 Soviet Union's secret underground medical labs. Should be something that could be possible, so no fantasy/scifi.

I have in my mind some kind of a poison experiment... gotta see what happens. My character drawing skills are like a rusty meat knife, they're rusty. Har har.