Name: Kirill Shkarbaneko
Email: shkarbanenko.k@gmail.com
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/helluvallyric/
Fb: https://www.facebook.com/kirill.shkarbanenko
Nov 19, '18
Jan 19, '19
Hi everyone!
Excited to participate in such an amazing event. Honestly, it is going to be my first one, before that I haven't actually considered myself to be skilled enough for any of this sort. First time for everything, I guess :3
Brief character description:
He was a street musician in the Middle Ages, who played the guitar amazingly. The movements, the flow of his fingers along the strings seemed to be an art by itself, so smooth and delicate they were.
He gathered massive crowds around him every day and was always leaving with generous amounts of money. But one should not compare the man's art to the man himself. Strings, which were bringing joy during the day, brought pain and suffering under the dark sky. The man was extremely cruel, finding victims in dark alleys and choking them to death with the strings of his guitar. It excited him, inspired new melodies, rhythms and songs. He enjoyed listening to notes of screaming voices, cracking and shuttering bones, pleas for mercy.
When the Grip Reaper finally came to him, he was banished to hell. There his accomplishments were found admirable, demons cheered for him and decided to use him. They bestowed immortality on him and sent him back to the world of the living for the single purpose: to collect souls for the devil's army, which he's planning to unleash upon all the worlds.
And these souls are fed into the guitar, with the strings of which he continues to entertain the crowd during the day and destroy life at night, walking among living for centuries.
Sup :3
Right now I'm creating the base mesh for the character and since I'm a bit fuzzy on anatomy, I've decided to use the contest as a chance to strengthen my knowledge in this area.
So for now I'm just establishing main muscle groups and forms to have a strong basis for the future work. I'm literally overflowing myself with a lot of anatomy refs to come up with smth semi-decent (which still isn't enough ~_~).
By design the character should be older (thus all the muscles should reflect that), but I want to establish regular forms first and age them after that.
-Cheers.
14 days later
Hi everyone, I hope your work is flourishing and your entries are half-way done :3
Mine definitely isn't :d
Since my character is supposed to be kinda creepy old dude, I've been trying to "age' the body, that I created. I couldn't create the already aged version, since I'm quite iffy on the anatomy, so I wanted to make a regular muscular guy before doing an old one.
Below you can see the result so far. Even though it's coming along slowly, I have a chance to learn a lot of stuff and learn it quickly (that's what deadlines do to ya :D).
I think soon enough I'll be satisfied enough to begin working with the clothes.
-Cheers
I personally prefer number 4
Based on the "day and night" story; maybe you can make the guitar convertible! like more innocent looking for the daytime and evil looking (design 4) during the night.
That is actually a very neat idea, thanks! I will give it a thought
I got sick and had to skip a few days of working. Have no idea whether I'll be able to finish the character in time, but doing my best.
Meanwhile, since the character is almost done, I've been messing with the guitar (weapon) design. Came up with something like this (Still drafty).
I like this face shapes, it compliments the idea that this thing actually absorbs souls, which get trapped inside it. Feels right. But I'm not quite sure whether I like the direction of design or not :c Will try to speed things up.
Welp, I've obviously missed the deadline. Tbh it was a refreshing experience, I realised that I overestimated my ability to retopo fast, that was the main lag so to speak :c
But! I'd still like to finish the character in a more slow-paced rhythm. I'll post the progress here, I hope it's ok and nobody minds ^^' I'll surely to participate in the next ArtWar >:C
Here the first pass of texturing, no eye balls and some features are missing (like eyeballs lol), plus a few bugs (like torso sticking through).
Second pass on texturing. Haven't even touched the face, focused on clothing for now
