Heres a start of an image that I'm doing for the theme of 'Duality'. It's meant to show that even battle hardened orcs can sometimes just want to stop and smell the flowers.
I've just finished blocking it- so excuse the colours so far. I like to make it all gross to start with, and then decide on the proper shades later on. The lower halves of the background characters will be covered in dust and slightly blacked out- so that is why they look a little.... plain.
I'm hoping to add a bit more motion to the big dude on the left, as his pose ended up a little more static than I was wanting.
The flower is going to be glowing so that will hopefully make the image a little easier to read as at this stage all the elements are fighting for love.
I also plan to put some corpse bits in the foreground.
I'm going to try and have this all finished by the end of the weekend- so any C&C, my dear AC, will be a great help.
Line variation can go to hell.
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And you know, I actually like it with just the flat colours? Call me crazy, but the line art is so good and detailed, it seems a shame to draw attention away from it with too much shading.
the composition is good, but i hope you're planning on drawing out the foreground flower orc more, make him stand out against the two background brawlers. it's probably because the coloring is so flat right now.
looks like a good start though :^:
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Other than that, it looks absolutly fantastic so far. (y)
It should get a little lighter as I add the proper shading
fightinfilipino: with the glow of the flower- hopefully that'll make the foreground pop a little bit more. I will probably add a little bit of atmospheric haze on the dudes in the back as well.
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Just a couple of things that I noticed:
The spike on the big dude's right pinkie is pointing at kind of an odd angle, assuming they are all meant to be normal to the finger they are on. The spike on the finger next to that one seems a little too far down and to the dude's right. These can be explained away by orcish craftsmanship, though.
Flower dude's left index finger seems like it's being raised up instead of being allowed to hang, which I suppose could make sense with the flower there to touch, but it looks a little awkward.
Big dude's hip is really low. This may be orcish anatomy, but right now it looks like his joint is in line with the bottom of his crotch area, which is just weird.
Flower dude's right hand is in a very awkward position. Try placing your hand so that your fingertips are facing forward like his are. It is not a relaxed position. I think the middle or even bottom segment of his fingers should be facing forward, with the tips curled under them.
The lighting from the flower is a bit too bright on flower guy's stomach and chin, methinks. It looks like his hand should be blocking most of it.
Flower dude's kneepads look like they are sticking into his knees a little bit. I think it would also help if you rotated them so they were pointing in the direction his kneecaps would be, i.e. straight out from the tips of his knees.
And finally, the bolt on our far right of flower dude's left shoe is very flat compared to the shape the shading creates on the others.
Despite all these nitpicks, though, it's looking good, and the idea is pretty great. The only general problem I have with it is, like you said, the big guy seems kind of static. This is compounded by the fact that you can't really tell if he's with them or not (least, I can't), and so I am left wondering if they are merely play-fighting or actually battling.
But seriously, it looks good, I'm just built to list negatives.
P.S. Oh dang updated while I was writing this post! Must not be too late!
I had a go at fixing the knee pads- and the bolt on the shoes. What do you guys think of the motion blur on the dudes in the back.. too much?
EDIT: Looking at it now- I think its too much
The Orc is mean to be slightly reaching out with his finger to touch it- its probably not done in the best way- but im probably too lazy to change it now :P
I really like it overall. The only thing I'd say at this point is that the legs on the dudes in the background feel like they need *something*. I wish I could say what, but right now they're just so flat compared to the nicely rendered rest of the image.
Awesome work.
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And I like the effect, but its difficult, cos the lineart is so good, maybe just a little less blur, and none on the right like heart said. It definately looks like they're actually fighting though, just not sure if it looks better...ah, man, sorry, the whole image is just extremely rad, its hard to level anything at it other than howdhedodats.
The motion blur is definitely out of place on the sword guy. Big guy looks pretty natural with it, but I'm not sure if the effect is worth sacrificing the very "clean" and detailed look you have going on.
It would be a lot of work, but I think to give them a sense of what they're doing, adding a battle in the background might help. Right now, it's tough to tell why they're fighting, but if you give them context, it might help flesh out their actions and movement as well. Just a really nasty paintover to try and illustrate:
Just imagine those blotches to be more orcs. I think making the scene busier might give their actions a bit more life.
Some of those corpse bits you mentioned might also go well in the foreground, to extend the battle into it.
Like I said, though, this may be more work than you want to put into this at this point.
EDIT: Gragh people say things before I can because I move slow.
Prohass-They are just old school analogue lines (pencil and inks), hence the lack of lines variation- i suck at doing that in the real world.
I think I might just dump the blur
A big H5 for all the help
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Looks really sweet now, A+ would look at again.