Last critique I got a lot of compliments on my character design and some good advice on my environment sketch. I don't know if I'll have the latter completed by Friday, but hopefully I will. So far, I've got these two ready to go:
Both are characters from a story of mine where Earth has merged with another dimension that was a fantasy-styled world, resulting in magic (among other things) suddenly being introduced to the modern age. The first, Vivienne, has the embodiment of life energy living in her, and Belvedere has fire (much to his chagrin). It's been really fun to figure out what that world would look like, and to puzzle through how different parts of our society would react to it.
I'd like to have at least three character designs from this world to show on friday. Here's what I have so far of the main character:
He has the embodiment of death living inside of him, and I've been trying to figure out how to convey how his power looks in my head on paper. I know he has the ability to make shadows rise off of surfaces and become solid, but I'm not sure how to show that yet.
During the merging of worlds, if a human from earth happened to be standing in the same location as a creature or object from the other dimension, the two would fuse together into something called a Chimera. More often than not, the Chimera would die instantly or shortly after its merging, but sometimes they survived. Sometimes this merging would result in a harmonious fusion of the two beings, but usually they're left horribly disfigured (extra limbs poking out of chests, two heads, and so on). They're social outcasts from both worlds due to their condition, but a faction has risen up comprised of surviving Chimeras that offers shelter to them. The leader of this faction is Alastor, who I'm trying to sketch down below:
He's been the most frustrating to draw so far, as I can't quite get him to look like how I want him to. Since there's so much backstory to this world, I've thought about writing out a short synopsis and putting it with my drawings during the critique.
In this latest batch of character designs, I've tried to focus more on a variety of body shapes and more fluid poses. For the latter, I've been studying an artist on Deviantart known as Kate-FoX:
I really admire her range of styles, and she has some really helpful pose studies and tutorials. I think I need to practice more, especially with hands and fluid poses. I'll try to make some time for that this week.
You should also check out Molly McVey's work:
I'm not usually a huge fan of black and white photography but some of her photos are really stunning (I particularly like the one of the chandelier). I wonder if she's ever thought about leaving her photos mainly black and white, but then having a small part of it be in color (Or vice versa)? I see in her writings that she admires photographers who can convey story in an image, and I think that color can be an extremely useful tool in that aspect.
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