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Project Kefka - Sabien Exploration

So my friends and I started working on a 2D fighting game in unity last month. We are trying to come up with and finalize ideas on characters. Currently we have four characters in the works to of which are more are less done esthetically

This was an expansion on the thumbnail below. This fighter is a magic user with a "great sword". For this round I am straight interpreting a great sword as a literal sword. So I was toying around with what the sword might look like. I'm not really digging any of the swords at the moment.

 This was the first thumb of one of the fighters I did. I liked the large ornamental headpiece.

These are some exploration sketches to look for a new body. Of the sketches below I liked number one, eight, and thirteen the most. The more I feel out the fighter the more I lean towards a top heavy character with some kind of shroud wrapping around the shoulders like eight.

If you would like to see the other fighters for this project you can find them at my friends portfolio blog. >> here <<

Chibi Guardian Angel

  I started a project the day before last to create Chibi conversions of females I consider to be heroes from games and movies, with some relatively small design alterations. The character below is based on a character that isn't really a hero but she has saved my life more than once. She is the Guardian of the Gateless!
  It's been a while since I modeled. So while I was thumbnailing I thought why not model these as well? I'm not totally happy with with the model yet. The hands, legs, and feet in particular. I think I might change those bits to be more like bubbly not sure.
  I've been toying with a few different color schemes but I still do not know what I'm going to do. I would like an analogous purple, or perhaps gold black and white?

Triumph of Ferocity Redesign August 11

At the Wizards of the Coast grand prix in Portland the other day and was having a chat with a lady about the portrayal of Liliana and Garruk. She thought the design of the storytelling was lazy. So I got to thinking, how else could that cards name be interpreted? Here are my first couple of ideas on the phrase.

Working sketches for a redesign of the magic the gathering card "Triumph of Ferocity"

Painted bust

Finished my homework for the week, mostly haha. Anyway getting back to painting after a little over a week. So here it is. Worked the sketch first getting composition and proportions as close as my skills allow. Then did a single layer paint after merging everything down to the background and the painting layer. I might finish this up by fixing the face. It is really bothering me. But other than that I'm happy with the results for the moment. I'll probably hate it tomorrow.

reference taken by EmilySoto

Digital Figure Paintings

I'm getting slightly more comfortable with my wacom but it still feels strange

Tried doing a straight up one layer only painting with this first one.

This one actually started life out as a panel ideation for a comic I'm working on but, ended up being figure studies hah!

Trying to do more studies of industrial designy stuff. So I did a light/plane study of this building.

Of the three this time around I only used one reference image.

April 19

Form Study Sculpts

I felt like my skill wasn't growing anymore, so I decided to change it up and build some more confidence with form studies via sculpting. This first few are going to be off the top of my head without reference.

My primary focus was the major forms of the chest and hips. I started with a light-box sphere. This was my first sculpt it was about 20 minutes to get the base form and 30 minutes with details.

 major forms for this one took about 5 minutes, and spent about 2 hours on details.

Sketches April 04 -10

Credits:
r1: Google image (top left)
i1: Imagination (middle)
r1: Ada Wong (right)
r2: Google image (bottom left)

 April 10

Sketches April 01

Sketches Feb 29 - March 08

Bus Sketches Feb 20-28

Been really busy, grading and catching up on homework due to several school snow  days pushing up all homework due dates and throwing schedules off.

Feb  28

Bus Sketches Feb 17-19

been continuing to work on capturing images from my imagination and accurately portraying them on paper (more or less) Also picked up more computer science grading work so that is keeping me really busy. That and procrastination and largish projects until the last second. But I always seem to get them done on time with a nice amount of polish so that's good right?

Since I was on a bouncing bus, none of these were from reference.

Feb 17

Feb 18-19

Poses from Imagination Feb 16

Was trying to draw poses from my head. Half way through I realized I couldn't draw a circle on my tablet... like at all. I kept getting slanted ovals! moved the tablet farther to my drawing hands side, didn't work. Switched ghosting directions, didn't work. Moved the tablet to my lap, didn't work! Was trying to hit a circle, erasing then trying again, and again. kinda lost sight of my goal. Wasted my drawing time for the day on that.

I think If I have time today I will actually get up and act out poses to see if I can capture the feeling of it on digital paper.

Bus Sketches Feb 12-15

So I've been pretty busy with midterms and all. Not a lot of time to draw, but try to fit it in when I can.

The more I practice the more I feel I need to start drawing from imagination a Lot more. My drawings from reference are getting stronger and faster, but my ones from imagination still feel like I haven't internalized any of the structures I look at on the day to day to a sufficient degree to draw without a guiding image. I feel lost when I draw from my head.

Here are some sketches from the bus. Trying to exercise my brain and come up with poses that feel like they could work if I put meat on them.

 i1 was just me trying to remember what the human body looks like. It was early, i just woke up.

Feb 12

Feb 13

Feb 14-15
r2 was from Kiss good-bye by wlop Glimpsed it and got the urge to see if I could capture the body quickly. So drawn it was.

Studies Feb 11

Todays studies and some really quick figure sketches.

Feet studies Feb 10

Saw a foot and was like that's a nice foot, I want to draw me some feet! So here are some feet haha.

Character Mood poses Feb 09

Some mood sketches to explore the attitude of a character of mine.

Also here is an eye painting I did while helping a friend code haha.

Now I need to study for my midterm in 9 hours ^^"

Eye Study Feb 08

SO in my effort to stop avoiding drawing the face I'm working on eyes. I plan to work piece by piece and start putting them one by one together as I get comfortable drawing them.

Figure Sketches Feb 07-08

Trying to get more sketches done a day. With a mix of photo and imagination. I need to start doing heads / faces. I avoid doing them all the time. So If I have some time to sketch more today I'll post up some faces.

A little tough to find the time during midterms though.

Symbols + face doodles Feb 04-05

Feb 05

Feb 04