ART WAR | 2D | Haramon (Warlock) | Mike Dalzell

[mikedalzell]

Name: Mike Dalzell
Email: mikedalzell@hotmail.co.uk
Website: mikedalzell.myportfolio.com
Facebook: @mikedalzellartist
ArtStation: mikedalzell.artstation.com

GO TEAM FANTASY!

Hello!

I'm another first-timer here but this competition seemed like too much fun not to enter!
My guy's gonna be an evil warlock champion sumoning a terrifying monster from the pits of oblivion; but that's all to come later

Hope you guys all like it and obviously any feedback is hugely welcomed and much appreciated. Good luck to all!

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Update 16/02/17:
I have wrapped this up now but here is a shortcut to the final pieces. If you scroll down you'll also be able to see all of the progress I took. Thanks guys!

And here's the most updated concept:

[mikedalzell]

To start up, I got a bit carried away but I've got a concept here of the main character with a vague idea of his accessories and colour palette.

So this is my fella, personally I think the colours ended up a bit too much like a druid than a warlock so any opinions would be fantastic Hopefully next I'll start designing the summon and possible thumbnails!

[albek]

Cool! nice staff, and I love the bandages and skeletal arms. Colour-wise, warlock's often seem more ostentatious than druids; maybe some vibrant purples in place of the black on the robes? Would get a strong contrast with the sickly green

One thing, I'm not sure how the anantomy around the neck and shoulders is working out. Its a bit tricky to tell under the robes, but it looks like something might be slight off.

Great work so far!

[mikedalzell]

Thanks for the great advice! I'll definitely have a play with the purples and see what I can do!

[mikedalzell]

So here I've done a redo of my character with a better colour scheme, back view and a few extra studies of his accessories.

[mikedalzell]

Okay, so I realised I should probably upload these progressions so here goes. I've got a start on the creature design as well so any feedback on them would be fantastic as they're not set in stone yet! Apologies to the roughness of the first few character sketches but they were relatively drunken sketches from Christmas day

And these are the creature progressions

[mikedalzell]

Thumbnails!
Sorry there's not many but it seems I should probably get a move on with this now! These are the two main ideas that have been rattling me for a while now. I know I definitely want the camera angle from below but the question is which position, front or side? I think I'll probably go with the first one; though maybe rotating the camera a bit more to the left.

[mikedalzell]

Just finished doing the values, I don't think it turned out too bad? I'm uploading one without the rough background aswell just incase it doesn't read well enough for y'all
Not too sure what to do with the portal yet either, maybe a bit of colour will help with that one!

[albek]

Awesome! Coming together really well : )

Maybe just take another look at how the light is falling on the arms. His torso and head are lit pretty strong from directly ahead, while his right arm (our left) is lit from above.

Looking really dramatic though, great so far!

[mikedalzell]

@albek Thanks man! I'll be fixing that up asap!

[mikedalzell]

Got a bit of colour down, still have quite a way to go though!

[mikedalzell]

Hmmmmmm, not too sure where to go from here. I think I'll give it a little break and come back to it next week

[mikedalzell]

Okay so judgement day is fast approaching so i'm gonna wrap this up! This is my Champion 'Haramon': The Evil Warlock - summoning the beast. This has been a great deal of fun and good luck to all of you other contestants, there's some seriously great paintings out there. Peace yo!