Dynamc Poses!

Before I draw the character sheet I wanted to put this guy in an action shot. Something that didn't really focus on the clothing as much as it does on the mood or characterization of the... character. What I'll do is also digitally paint this image so I can get an idea of what colors I want to use when I texture map him.

After this will be the character turn around and I'll post that when its finished. Then the next step is modeling!

All of these past drawings have been on newspaper print using graphite, and a Faber Castell soft grease pencil to punch out some areas of interest.

Nailing down the costume

I feel I've pretty much nailed down the costume of the character. I want to integrate a few things from the other design into this one.

I'll do one final image of the character with the costume and then I'll move onto the character turn around to start modeling.

*Update I later drew this back shot so I could get an idea of what the mantel would look like from behind and also wanted to do a shot of what the Shaman is wearing underneath the mantel. Okay, for real though; next drawing will be of the full character.

Orc Crow Shaman and others

Work, work, work...

I'm heading down the path of the idea for the "Crow Shaman". I need him to be more grizzled and old, but able to still kick some butt. So I'll work on a few more designs. I'm narrowing it down, so I'm getting excited.

An Orc is an Orc of course of course

Did some more drawings trying to find this Orc character. Its been rough trying to make something as generic and well known like the Orc and make it unique, while still trying to have that Orc feel. For these drawings I was focused mostly on the body preportions and less on the face. I'm liking the "club" like arms and have an idea of what to do with those that I'm going to play around with a bit more.

Xamot thumbnail sketch

This is a sketch of my character for D&D 4th edition. I'll be taking this sketch and drawing it larger and tightening it up so that I can paint it. Once he's complete I'll work on his brother Tomax.

Beholder Finished?

This is the piece I'll be turning into the contest. I wanted to make it already look like a promotional piece for the Game Day that its for. It may help me, it may hurt me. Who knows. Thoughts?

Orcs hate updates!

First, I'm starting to work on my own concepts for an Orc. It tough to redesign such a cliche as that creature and still have it be recognized on sight as an Orc. I suppose thats the challenge. So far I'm not super happy with the heads, but I think I'm on the right track with the body style (the two on the bottom right). The head with the giant tusks coming straight out of his jaw seems most interesting so far.

The goal for this is to design the character. Model and then texture the character. And finally rig it for animation and animate the character's different in game actions. I want to experience the entire pipeline for a character.

Update on the Beholder. I finally got around to painting him and this is the underpainting that the color will be put on top of. You can go here to see the other entries for the contest.