Indifferent Clown Wip

[Corinthian Baby]

This is for the c64 pallet clown challenge at pixel joint.:
Chicken the clown:




Was kinda not sure how to approach it for I've never used the c64 pallet before and I never drew a clown before.

Wanted to kind of avoid the cliche of a crazy clown type character, so I tried to make him somewhat true to clowns, but also kind of eerie in a black face sort of way and make him look pathetic. Use Joker's thugs as refrence for clown design. Tried to practice face planes/volumes.

What I need help with is the application of the colors, and some suggestions for what he should be doing with his body. The face is mostly done but the rest is a sketch. I was thinking of having him put a gun to his head or something, or maybe just getting shot, which is what I tried to incorporate.

So yeah give some suggestions/critiques.

[Corinthian Baby]

I wouldn't normally bump this but there's not much time left in the challenge:

[lollige]

You do know that this now exceeds the maximum height? (and that it will probably look better on a less high canvas?

[Corinthian Baby]

Ah thanks, here is a big update, incorperated a new chara and part of a bg. The bg is supposed to be a burning circus tent, obviously just a sketch. I think it now starts telling a story instead of a kind of random thing that the first one showed.

[lollige]

Now it looks like if the other guy can never be there, he would have been shot..

[Corinthian Baby]

He's the one doing the shooting, it's a collage, see, his hand is holding the gun on the other side of the clown.

[lollige]

I wonder how he moves his hand so quick

Collage or not, it is not the idea to have the idea behind something good, it is the idea to SHOW the idea behind something good. You must put very much effort in showing that this is supposed to be a collage if you want this to look like one.

Also, I found the idea that he is getting covered by the clown firing on the baddies that are off the canvas on the right side very funny. However, that would make the clown getting shot from the other side