I wasn't here the last 24h - so I will make it as short as possible.
There are 11 new replies, the only ones which are actually is a bit helpful for me are:
Helm's edit for the face for direct comparison and
Larwick's sentence lets me rethink what to do with the neck.
I don't want any discussions about feminism in this thread, it's not the matter of subject. If you like to discuss about femininism I remember a thread here in the general boards and they also had something going on at Pixeljoint's chatterbox. If I want to add something to the feminism discussion anywhere, I will write an answer.For this artwork here I am actually acting like an artist - I am trying to create something unique and new and experimenting a lot.
It's nice that there is already a lot of art-deco and steampunk stuff around, but it don't matches anywhere with my vision of the world I want to create and I won't apply a lot of the stuff you'd understand as Steampunk or Gothic - I lack currently a word for the style I have so far, so I called it simple steampunk because my idea started with reading literature of this epoque and the description of the time seams fitting. those books I read had descriptions, some images, but no fixed designs or styles - that's all - I am starting at the same point where the first designs of other artists started which style is now "established" for that term.
I am familiar with the stuff
Kriss and
Tim showed off - and I am also working in the industry and would know how they'd handle "steampunk" there in a lot of cases - but I don't want to make the tenth variation of already existing concepts and applying those to my artwork - it won't fit for what I have in mind - no need for showing them aside for detail references.
here let's start where I ended with my last post:Regarding to the pink color:I tried earlier to create horryfying creatures of darkness with bright tones (
http://cyangmou.deviantart.com/art/Merry-Christmas-Mr-Beast-382162691)
Creyas pink color won't hurt the impression of the dark world, or would you all say the zombie don't works just because it's not nighttime in the picture? Nighttime is for sure what you'd usually expect for something like that.
Creya is a girl - pink is appropriate for a girl - pink is also appropriate for a friendly person - in the world the sprite will also have this pink tones and the color on top will do a good job for making her stick out of the environment.
There are enough boring gray and brown games - dark and oppressive isn't meant exclusively for the color scheme.
Additional Charakter Information:I don't really like to give out more information than actually needed, but I think I don't get around to add a few things and a few questions which might make my choices more understandable.
First of all I went with the classical male/female scheme to imply that it's the mentioned timeframe. It's a really conservative 1900 world (woman don't have the right to vote and so on) and I hoped that it's clear that Gregory was kind of a soldier while Creya is a special woman - removing that established male/female view would destroy my whole efforts of the questions which are crucial to the characters relationship.
Gregory is also really stylized in terms of sexual representation - of course he has a lot of obvious handicaps which happened due to a past event. People will stare at him, children also are frightened by his appeareance.
You all can easily understand that it's not easy for him to overcome the staring and overhear the talking of the common people, since he was always admired for being a soldier and now he got destroyed, but survived - heavily crippled. But he is still a human - a human who needs more love, warmth and help than ever.
For his services to the land he achieved knighthood and wealth, but is this a compensation for his destroyed body?
What happened to him and why did it came to his serious injuries?
Does he want to live on?
Could he just proceed with his life?
Would suicide bring him salvation? Could he do it if there is somebody who would rely on him and miss him?
If there are soldiers, war is omnipresent. During war a lot of women is prostitute themselves or working in dancing clubs - maybe both, especially women who are widows and don't have a man who is usually going to work. They also won't find new man since they are all fighting in wars.
Maybe that's a reason for Creya's outfit, or maybe she just wants to lead a big part of attention to her if she is hanging around with Gregory.
She obviously is pretty, she also would be really pretty with more casual clothes - why does she wear the ones she wears?
Is she just playing with Gregory, is she interested in his wealth or is she a real friend? Is she a whore, a noble lady or somebody completely different?