ART WAR 3 | 2D | Villains | Blood Drive | pencilequipped

pencilequipped 2018-12-20 23:21:41 UTC #8

Hello! Took a while to get a new update going on here. I've been working on it in my spare time. Now that vacation has arrived, I'll get to dive into this more. Hoping to get some feedback from people who have bothered to read this far.

First up. Just a semi-clean version of the design I like. I want to make some more changes, and also use this to create some color comps. For now, I tried to encorporate design elements into the armor, specifically things related to hearts, life support, blood, tubes, some kanji, vials, etc. I want to drive home the theme of heart and blood.

Next up are some head comps. I did.. hm, I think 24 of these. I did some quick sculpts in zbrush, and then painted over. I believe I did quick 8 sculpts, and then 3 variations of each. I then arranged them onto some sheets, choosing my favorite of eacha s the focus, as well as a quick front view. I am ultimately probably going to focus on asymmetry, but for now I just went with what was quickest. Design themes I want to include is flesh, blood, veins, tendrils, and some scaring. Also tubes and whatnot. Most of his entire head was replaced along with his arm, so there's not much left of what used to be there.

Thanks for looking! Feedback and opinions are desired!

pencilequipped 2018-12-27 02:11:55 UTC #9

Hello! Sorry about the delay of posting. I wasn't able to work on this guy until today. I did some sketches to refine the designs a bit further and to prep it for some simple sculpting. I made some notes on the actual image as well.

I am struggling a bit with how I want to approach the color of the armor. I know for certain that I want the fleshy part to be a crimson or maybe a slight purple, with a bit of blue and yellow here and there, but the armor is more challenging. I think about hospital equipment as a good source of inspiration, and they tend to be whites, grays, etc. I am thinking of going that route. I also wanted to add a few different colors to the various vials on his body to bring more color in. I am wondering if perhaps that is too much? Feedback very much desired!

pencilequipped 2018-12-27 03:09:40 UTC #10

I am adding this note here so I remember later. Some feedback from someone on a discord server mentioned the legs being something they're not a fan of. "Something other than the twisting plates would be welcome. Something that fits the torso plating." So I plan to do a few more sketches of those too.

dt_nova 2018-12-27 16:44:07 UTC #11

Wow, this is great! You've got some good stuff here, look forward to the final!

pencilequipped 2018-12-28 01:39:43 UTC #12

Managed to get some more work done today.

For this one, I took some advice and redesigned the armor to make it read a bit better, and to have some better flow. I also knocked back a few areas too, as it was getting busy.

I did a front, side, and back view of the creature anatomy (I didn't flesh out the back view, so there wasn't much point in posting it.

pencilequipped 2018-12-28 01:39:50 UTC #13

Thanks a ton!

pencilequipped 2018-12-29 01:09:55 UTC #14

Another small update. Just working out the armor design. I want to do a few break aparts for the smaller pieces, and a sketch of the back view.

grawis 2018-12-29 01:58:45 UTC #15

keep your good work bro ! Really amezaed by number of designs you've developed I'm not a color specialist but maybe try making armor in shades of black and add some sort of light from all those blood conteiners ? Yoou know making all this flesh glow by the hyper energized blood while transforming his arm into wapon could look cool for me anyway

pencilequipped 2018-12-29 02:30:30 UTC #16

That's a good idea! I have been, in the back of my mind, considering some other color ideas. I chose the white for the hospital equipment feeling BUT it doesn't suggest villain as much as darker colors.

Based on your suggestion I went ahead and mocked up a dark version too. Now to decide.

grawis 2018-12-29 08:49:17 UTC #17

Black works for me better I think

pencilequipped 2019-01-02 19:31:56 UTC #18

Hey guys!

Another update! I've been building this guy a bit in Zbrush for some posing/lighting reference. I'll post that later if anyone wants to see. But aside from that I did a bunch of thumbnails for the composition and really hope to get some peoples opinions. Either of what they like, or potential in something they see, etc. I think I like 14 the most, but it changes when I look again. I am too close to it!

The main story I want to tell with the piece is him using his ability. So he JUST ate a heart or blood and his limb is changing/just changed. A few of these have him with dead or defeated sentai rangers, but I don't have a lot of time so I may not add too much of them (although I suspect they will be background elements).

mr_dessin 2019-01-02 22:17:16 UTC #19

1st or 14th or maybe 8th ?
Although others could be nice as well !

Good luck choosing.

pencilequipped 2019-01-05 01:37:26 UTC #20

New update! I went with thumbnail 14. I used Zbrush and made a quick sculpt to get the perfect angle and textures. I took it into photoshop and started adding some initial color. I just did this as an idea for how I want the colors of the final piece to go.

pencilequipped 2019-01-07 01:05:23 UTC #21

Heyo, another update! I keep making some changes to the environment. I don't want it to compete with the character when I'm done, so I think I will be simplying it altogether. I'll put some more detail into the sky, foreground and rubble. Then I need to tweak and refine the character further (it's not finished by any means). Any feedback is always welcome!

nevs38 2019-01-07 01:50:27 UTC #22

I love this!
Can't wait to see all the nice specular fleshy details 🤘
I agree with @grawis
Have you tried experimenting with the black suit?
I think that will bring out the blood n all quite well. Not to mention his head too.

pencilequipped 2019-01-07 02:04:14 UTC #23

Thanks a ton, Nevs! I really gotta push more elements as I go. I did consider the black armor but after getting a bunch of opinions, people favored white. I did too, making me think of hospital colors. But I may do an alternate one later!

nevs38 2019-01-07 02:55:15 UTC #24

That's Awesome!!
This will look insane for sure! 🤘😎🤘
Bring on the artistic gore. This piece deserves it.

pencilequipped 2019-01-08 02:29:38 UTC #25

Thanks nevs! It's great to hear from people! Here's an update with some fairly big changes.

I want to add more ground textures and integrate it a bit better, bounce some more light, and clean that arm up.

echoriel 2019-01-08 02:58:20 UTC #26

this is lit!
keep it up

nevs38 2019-01-08 05:02:18 UTC #27

RED my top fav color!
This is intense!