Character Art

Research Artists.

This artist is called Shawn Alan Peters, i chose this artist because I like the heavy influence of fantasy merged with modern day clothing and styles. The artwork i chose to show is one of my favourites because of the brilliant shading and the posture of the creature i can see from the way the clothing was forming is that it was going to be a modern day t shirt or vest and with a large upper body. The proportion of the face is altered to show difference of that of a human and the complexion is very smooth with with many wrinkles to express the clenching of the mouth. This is another concept character he did and I thought about what this would look like as a child figure.

These are my six thumbnail sketches for my character concept, i did six completely different ideas which each took 1 minute or less to draw i labeled them so people who looked at them could understand what features the character has. Once i finished them i had two peers look at them and tell which one they though was the best and why and they chose the "thug" which is bottom middle. This was because they said "it looked like there is more going on than the rest and think it's a good concept".

This is my initial sketch i wanted to give the character an orc like look. I wanted the clothing to look damaged and old. I gave the character an animalistic nose which i like because it took me a while to draw a good nose of an animal i tried lions,bunnies,birds and then in the end i took an idea from a game dota 2 and took the idea from there. I changed the weapon to a sword because the crowbar seemed to much like a human a sword on the other hand reminds me of swords the orcs used in "lord of the rings".

This is my greyscale version i did this first so i could see the shades of my character easier and so i could understand where i would add certain colours.

This is my final sketch i did in Photoshop this character i though was very successful i enjoyed painting the anatomy of the character but had some trouble with clothing. looking at the inspired artist i tried to get a good blend of colours of the characters skin and it worked out pretty well i could of maybe blended and refined a bit more at the face and neck.The clothing i found difficult because i found it to be hard to make creases  in the clothing so for next time i would look at some tutorials and improve on my skills for a better outcome. Overall i’m happy with my character even though i know i can improve it by painting better clothing.