[Skeezer]

hello,

Please tell me if this character has a good concept. Is it an interesting design. Original looking enough. I know the subject has been dealt with before, but, anyhow, how does it, what can I change?

here's the sketch


and here's the painting, not finished, should be soon.


Critiques and comments welcome.

[LethargicBoy]

the line art looks really nice! just refine the paining a bit more and your set....the tree looks a litte weird, but i sp'pose you aren't done yet...

[Wyatt Turner]

I like this image too, just a bit more detail and I'm happy.

Keep going.

y@

[mcr]

I like this image also, maybe just a bit more definiton and less smudge. Keep up the good work!

[Skeezer]

Thanks guys, here's some more definition.

Comments? how does the background look?

First real background attempt.


later

Oh, and I just realized the lack of a foot, he must have lost it in battle, that or he just cut it off with that bloody sword. haha

-Skeez


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[Dryfire]

nice man, i like it a lot. Something about the end of the cape though makes it look too much like a comic. Hmm where did hid left foot go?!!

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[Skeezer]

Anybody else...

Can I do anything else with the lighting?

How's the background?

Anybody else curious where his left foot went?
Oh well, I'm going to bed.

-yawns-

-Skeez

[Jezebel]

I thought he looked more warrior-like in the original sketch. Now he looks more like a soldier or something... just a personal preference but I'd like to see you try and capture the look of the sketch a little more. The first guy looks more like an experienced man who could take someone out with combination of wits and strength, while the colored version looks more like a guy who could only take someone out with brute force. First guy has more emotion.

Love the sketch

Maybe try cleaning up the blurriness a little more? It's sorta fuzzy. Looks nifty though, I'd like to see what you do with it!

-Beth

[jHof]

Umm... Your eye movement on your picture is really good untill you hit that moon. Then my eye kinda gets stuck on it being so bright. Maybe give the blood on his sword some high lights on the top edge or something like that to help balance that out.

And on his left leg. That knee pad is messing with my head. I think maybe it should be more angled like his thigh padding above it. But maybe he knocked his knee into a little tree and it moved it over? I don't know... Hee hee

Yoinks!

Hof

[nova]

i love the costume on the guy.. it has an original look all it's own, kinda samurai-ish/medieval/celtic but it's not.

only thing i could suggest is working more with the moon and moonlight. either move it close to the center of the sky or remove the clouds in front of it to make it more apparent. more moonlight! you could use moonlight to show more texture, maybe give the shoulder armor a metallic shininess. i think i'm getting at using more of the type of lighting the tree stump thing has on the right side of the image.

bah, the rest looks great.. i love the lighting on the rest if the clothing, especially the cape.




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[Ulic Qel-Droma]

hey long haired version reminds me of "exar kun"
hehe

[Blitz]

Nice job..

I think the blood on the sword could be a darker, and some of the pads (sholder, thigh) could be a bit sharper.

Other than that....GOOD

Blitz

[Skeezer]

Ulic-
That's why he doesn't have long hair anymore.
haha. I think I may have had him in mind when I was drawing this.

I hope this one stands on its own though, I'm trying to develope my own style of design. In the past my stuff was heavily influenced by other designs. It was still original enough, but it looked like it belonged in the RIFTS universe or the StarWars, or Babylon 5, or whatever the hell I was looking at at the time.

Does this dude stand on his own okay, does anything about him stick out as coming from something else, I mean really stick out?

thanks

-Skeez

I'll post a refined version on mon. or tues. on this thread.

[Blitz]

I like him alot.

The only thing and this is, and this is just my opinion, his blond hair. He kinda has the Blond hait Big jawed look. Very comen. But as a design, well ya I think it holds its own.

Good job Iss...Skeezer

[Skeezer]

as promised. A modified version, I put the left foot in shadow, made the sword look more like a sharp blade rather than a sheet of aluminum, added more moonlight highlighting. If the lighting isn't enough
Nova I'll try and go a little more radical next time, but for now this one is finished.


thanks you guys for the critiques, it has really helped.

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[jasonN]

The latest version looks great. The sharpness has really boosted the image a lot.

I just wanna know, did you paint over your sketch or just start from scratch?
It looks like airbrush, rather than paintbrush. Am I right?

-Jason