ART WAR 4 | 2D | War of the Elements | Ancient golem of the grave | arhityom

greckijjmarik69 2020-01-26 13:02:15 UTC #23

Looks cool, man))

arhityom 2020-01-26 13:16:25 UTC #24

Thanks, man -)

nesokaiyoh 2020-01-26 17:28:38 UTC #25

Ahh this is amazing, terrifying even

arhityom 2020-01-26 19:30:42 UTC #26

Thanks! Makes me really glad that it gets an emotion across -)

arhityom 2020-01-26 19:34:35 UTC #27

A bit more work on the golem and elaborating the composition. Still not completely happy with the way everything is placed, will likely move things a bit more.

arhityom 2020-01-31 05:20:17 UTC #28

More work on defining the composition, some details and general finish.

Oceane_Roh 2020-01-31 10:43:31 UTC #29

Woaw this is truly amazing progress, I haven't checked you for a while.
I think you've lost a bit of the horrific aspect of your creature in the last steps. The darker values made it closer to us, the thread was more obvious than in your last steps, you could gain a lot by darken the lower part of his body which look much further than its ribs.
Really good render so far.

arhityom 2020-01-31 15:22:18 UTC #30

Thanks! Yeah, I think the golem was more menacing when it was darker - but I'm trying to balcance sense of scale and depth of the scene using atmospheric perspective, so it's a bit of a balancing act. Will have to think about it more -)

nesokaiyoh 2020-01-31 15:32:00 UTC #31

Beautiful values and composition, and yeah I agree with oceane it could probably do with being brought just a little further into the composition so it's closer. If you do want it further away though I'd mess around with clouds or placement in the atmosphere so it does look much further away

arhityom 2020-01-31 19:57:20 UTC #32

Thanks! Will have to mess around with that a bit -)

arhityom 2020-02-02 18:46:49 UTC #33

Made a couple of fairly significant changes to composition. Decided to go more true to the intial sketch with golem not fully in frame, but that forced me to move the emblem to a new place. I think it looks nice in the "chest" - and even makes narrative sense, like a symbolic heart of the animated creature. Or something like that -)
Had to rethink lighting on the golem a bit because of that - but I think it works better this way.

nyamesis 2020-02-02 19:12:58 UTC #34

Really lovin the design process you're goin through :> Always a fan of the tribal stuff!

yorkomo 2020-02-02 20:42:52 UTC #35

i love how you chose a color palette nearly exclusively made up of earthy tones
oh and rendering also looks great so far! that gravity effect on the dudes in the front works really well

arhityom 2020-02-03 07:41:52 UTC #36

@nyamesis Thanks! Yeah, I thought tribal would be fitting to earth themed character.

@yorkomo Thank you! Glad you like it!

nesokaiyoh 2020-02-03 15:34:09 UTC #37

This is looking soo good so far, and the choice of colours works really well

arhityom 2020-02-03 19:11:57 UTC #38

Thanks! Glad to hear that!
I was thinking about finding some cooler tones to oppose the warm majority, but at the same time it does seem to hold as it is, so maybe it's better not to mess with a thing that works -)

nesokaiyoh 2020-02-03 19:13:12 UTC #39

Having something to battle that warmth will help with the colour harmony, give it some depth you are correct. And some cooler blues would be perfect, maybe in the sky?

arhityom 2020-02-04 19:59:35 UTC #40

A bit more work. Mainly tried to make chains look nice. Also added some light from underneath the ground for more magical feeling of the scene.

arhityom 2020-02-06 08:06:08 UTC #41

More progress. Decided to clean up composition a bit - erased some chains, not sure everything worked well compositionally.

arhityom 2020-02-06 17:58:02 UTC #42

Some more progress still. Worked on the man's face and added more stuff to background.