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[aliot]

ヾ(☆'∀'☆) Hi!
I decided to participate
let`s see what happens

Name: Ekaterina Orlova
Email: epsilonursamajor@gmail.com
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/aliot

well
let`s start

Team: Fantasy
Champion Name: Ulothrix (?)
Race: Human

Concept:
Myxini - peaceful state located on a small island in the ocean.
The main character is the younger brother of the ruler of that state.
Conflict with itinerant magicians, led to the fact that the people of the State began dying of some unknown magic. Soon the dead bodies of the inhabitants were turned into monsters
After the death of his brother the Ulothrix gets an impressive scar (from dead brother) and decides to go on a journey that would save the lives of the remaining residents of the state and his own.

tell me what do you think about this?
( -_・)

and my sketchs:

Myxini
and Ulothrix
( 1 - in ceremonial clothes, 2 -clothes for travel, 3 - transformation)

P.S.
Sorry if it is written poorly

[tck]

Nice looking characters, I like the details and the proportions look pretty good

The landscape is a bit lacking though, in this its primarily because of the values. You need to make sure that you can understand the whole image, even without the colours.
I've made a little adjustment to show you what I mean

All I've done here is make your painting black and white, very simply separate out the values and then applied it onto the original image with a luminosity layer.

I hope this helps!

[aliot]

(ノ*°▽°*)
wow! thank you very much!!! it really very helped

[aliot]

step forward!

[aliot]

not dead

[aliot]

dream team

[HorizonDweller]

the perspective work is seriously impressive

[aliot]

@HorizonDweller Thank You, I tried

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finally work on the main character

[aliot]

[aliot]

I will stop at this stage

and begin to develop weapons

as my chosen Saber too easy for a major battle
I decided to give our Ulo immediately 2 sabers
a long time to go from real prototypes to a fantastic, but the last 2 kind of came out

[aliot]

[aliot]

much time has passed
and I have something there

I finally decided on the arms

Ulo finalized with weapons

and I start the final work

What do you think, Anon?

[mr_dessin]

Really nice work on scimitar weaponery and character clothing

Even if I really like your composition...maybe (I say maybe ) there is too much stuff going on here.
Try to recrop a little more your canvas.
A small paintover I just did (but you sure could improve even more if you want - and if you have the time) - click on it for a better view.

Would be (maybe) nice to see the giant guy helping the hero making the big jump ?

The wizard on the upper left corner...need a better pose for instance : raising his hands in the air summoning something or bound with lighting above his head ?

Oh and the skeleton head (bottom right corner)...would be better on the back side.

Just some ideas like that, and I always repeat it but just suggestions, take it or not, whatever; I just like to help a little

But overall the composition could be very nice.
Just try to focus (direction, lines, characters, etc) -> directly to the hero to make him (very) important.

If you need more information on my paintover tell me !
Good luck (and sorry for the big story).

[aliot]

@mr_dessin
Thank you so much for your help,
I tried to make the findings and apply some of your tips in practice

[berrysquare]

Cool! There is a whole story going on in this picture! Lot of work ahead I imagine xD

[aliot]

I decided to experiment with color
Here's what I came out in the end

[berrysquare]

Nice color combination! Maybe you can add red a bit more?

[aliot]

for me it was the hardest part!
don't believe that will be done soon

[LensPitt]

Something I noticed with your costume design is that the more I look at it, the less if feels like it has a singular identity. It feels like he took bits and pieces from different ''sets'' of armor and clothing. You should work on having a clearer shape/color/material language. Why make the bracelets cylinders if all of the other golden parts are rhombus shaped? Do you see what I mean? Same thing with your choice of colors. It's kinda odd that the only part that is white other than the fabric on his arms is the fur that is right next to it. Same with the robe, why make it black when there are no other black parts in your design? And why make it end in pointy bits? Making it deep blue and putting fur at the end just like your hood-cloak thing would make the whole design much more coherent.

Look at these armor sets from WoW, they all have very limited color palettes and very distinct shape languages which makes them very distinguishable from one another and makes their purpose and identity very clear.

So in short, i'd recommend you choose a limited color palette and decide on a shape and material language and stick to them through your whole design. You've already got part of that principle down with the fact that there are lots of small golden parts, now just apply it to everything else! Hope it helps! Cheers

[aliot]

Hi @LensPitt
Thanks for such a cool detailed reply!

It seems that the main error is the lack of logic, and ... (I don't think it will happen quickly), but in the end I will gain experience and brain =)

I tried to take into account your advice (I don't think that all is properly taken into account, but now I see another way)

Thanks again