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Character Design Challange: AZTEC WARRIOR

10/2/2020

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Hey guys,

it has been a longer absence again and I apologize. So hopefully something to make up for it.

I decided to take part in the monthly Character Design Challange (CDC in short) over at Facebook.

The theme this month was: AZTEC WARRIOR. And since I love animals so much, I decided to do a anthropomorphic lizard dude for this.

I followed a very streamlined process this time and waited until the very with painting freely. I think it paid out.

Most importantly thanks to Christian Retzlaff and Jan Drenovec for their feedback.

See the GIF below for the whole process.
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Color Study

9/16/2020

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Trying to get a better grip on simplification and shapes with this.
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A break-through in portraits

8/8/2020

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So since I am working on a character-illustration, I realized my portrait-skills are lacking in certain areas. So it is back to studying:
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After doing the first 2, I decided to change my approach. So instead of copying as close as possible, what the photo has to offer, I settled on 5 colors first. 2 for the shadow-side, 3 for the light-side.

Since I was asked, how I define the colors, here's a little explenation. The darkest color for the light-side is at the same time the most saturated (the midtone), it then gets lighter, more yellow and less saturation towards the highlights and redder/bluer and less saturated towards the darks. So the most saturation occurs in the area, where light and dark meet. This can go meta-physical here, but lets not ... :D

I then mapped out the shapes as close as I could. Especially the shadow-shape is something, that can be treated with a lot of care here. Even done a lot of edge-refinement pays off later.

After the initial lay-in, I continued with overpainting. In this phase I also add dark and light accents here and there. In the end I was surprised how straight-forward and easy this approach is and I am very happy with the result.

I tested this approach on another portrait and recorded the steps (below). Since it produces the same satisfying result, I can safely say, that this process is solid. I love to work like that and for the first time in a long time, studying is fun again.

Hope it helps you to crack colors and gives you some inspiration on how to approach your next project.

Cheers, Flo
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Asheren Thousanddawn

7/29/2020

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So after a lot of noodling and the result, that you can see below, I decided to do some studies.
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The first is a portrait - sketch, following Chris Legaspi's youtube video, the second and third are something I haven't tried before. Instead of doing a seperate painting of a photo, I simply enlarged the composition and added elements to fill the empty spaces again. I did it to a level, where I was happy with the result, at the moment. I then used what I learned and applied it back into the painting.
So this is where I am at currently. I will work on it more and do some studies for the clothing and anatomy, that I am not understanding.

My take-away is this: doing themed studies to solve certain problems is way more helpful, than just copying some random image, because there is a schedule suggesting it, or someone else said you should do it.

I hope this helps you to solve your visual problems. :)
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Karst mountain study

7/14/2020

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After doing some client work, I wanted to get back to my study-habit.

I worked on this for a couple of hours, felt like it takes way too long. And it didn't happen 'til the end, that I found out it makes sense to paint from dark to light, when adding those patches of forest on the mountain.

I like how the waves turned out and doing the drawing was quite fun as well.

I still need to find a good way, to portray the closer trees. Maybe using a foliage brush might help, but I am not to fond of those. They look very stiff and mechanic to me.
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Fujijama

7/10/2020

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Today's study is to practice color and brushwork. It was a lot of fun, to carve out those shapes :)
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Swatches Art - Challange

6/30/2020

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After doing a ton of work for Ulisses that I can't show, I wanted to do something for myself again.

So I joined the art-challange from the "Swatches" - facebook group. We are to paint a planeswalker - like illustration. The AD is Clint Cearley, who is a Magic The Gathering artist himself.

I couldn't let this opportunity go by unused. To have him look at my work is invaluable.

So here it goes.

Moodboard - Design and Pose Sketches - Value Sketches - Drawing

Next would be color - sketches and then rendering.

Deadline is 10 of July.

Onwards!
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Goat bodyguard

6/5/2020

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I did another spit-paint, which is a painting that is supposed to be done under 30min. It took me longer so I can't post it in the facebook-group or else I will be banned. So I just post it here. The topic was "goat bodyguard". I used 3 differente reference images for this.

I tried to stay lose and just suggest at the realism.

Hope you like it.
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digital figure study

4/9/2020

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A digital figure painting, to get better at workflow and values.

Sorry, but I forgot where I found the ref.
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digital studies from the last weeks

4/7/2020

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These were done to help me on commission, that I hope to be able to share soon.
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