AuthorTopic: [wip] Evil thing  (Read 3122 times)

Offline Rydin

  • 0011
  • **
  • Posts: 925
  • Karma: +0/-0
  • ...zzzt...
    • @thickDumps
    • View Profile
    • thickDumps

[wip] Evil thing

on: March 12, 2008, 12:21:22 am


wanted to do something with just the ms paint colors. mostly an irish elk i suppose.

right now my major concerns are the volumes--how am i doing on them? 
also, am i banding?

otherwise i'd call this done  :P

no seriously, this is a major work in progress. c+c please?
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Offline Elk

  • 0010
  • *
  • Posts: 294
  • Karma: +0/-2
  • Choice Architect & Nudger
    • elkdarkshire
    • http://pixeljoint.com/p/4683.htm
    • darkshire
    • darkshire.elk
    • View Profile

Re: [wip] Evil thing

Reply #1 on: March 12, 2008, 04:19:43 pm
i like it....lol
i think the forelegs need some work :0
if it is meant to be like that then that elk has a weird figure ^^
« Last Edit: March 12, 2008, 04:22:12 pm by Elk »
Open for business
elkdarkshire@gmail.com
Elk#2299

Offline Doppleganger

  • 0010
  • *
  • Posts: 284
  • Karma: +2/-0
  • Fall!
    • View Profile

Re: [wip] Evil thing

Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 04:22:14 pm
To me it looks like he's slanting away from the viewer. He looks rather flat as well. I think that the main reason he looks like he's so thin is because the back legs are too close to the front legs. The 2-3 pixel gap would suggest that he is in fact 2-3 pixels thick. moving the back legs further up might also address some of the slanting issues.

The head suggests a different angle than the antlers do too. I believe that elk antlers grow outward from the head and not directly behind it.



Uhm...I thought it'd be quicker to just do an edit in the end. I may have butchered the head a little bit, because I didn't reference any elk images, but I have a fond visualization of an elk head that resides in my great uncle's living room.

Anyways, I hope this fragmented C and C helps.

Offline sharprm

  • 0011
  • **
  • Posts: 660
  • Karma: +0/-3
  • INTP/INTJ
    • View Profile

Re: [wip] Evil thing

Reply #3 on: March 14, 2008, 11:52:04 am
I would recommend you find some good references.

http://www.bowhunting.net/NAspecies/elk2.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Irish_Elk_Side.jpg

Looks like his right arm would have to be back more judgin by wiki skeleton. Also bigger neck might be in order.

Hue shifting to a bright blue and green on bottom is unrealistic.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2008, 11:56:12 am by sharprm »
Modern artists are told that they must create something totally original-or risk being called "derivative".They've been indoctrinated with the concept that bad=good.The effect is always the same: Meaningless primitivism
http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/Philosophy/phi