ART WAR 4 | 2D | War of the Elements | Solomonar | peter_h_paul

Name: Peter Paul Horațiu
Email: horatiup17@gmail.com
ArtStaion: https://www.artstation.com/peter-paul-horatiu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.h.paul/?hl=ro

Hello there! Ready to participate in the WAR! A little late, but I will try to keep up with it even if I'm a student and I have exams. Who needs a diploma when you are called at war?

Final illustration:

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I want to bring a bit of my culture in this piece. The romanian mythology is rich and it fits my theme perfectly here. Here is a quick concept sheet for my "Solomonar".

Some sketches/thumbnails before I start the main piece. I want to get a good idea of the mood and of the action that I want to explore here. Unfortunately due to my lack of time I can't really do tons of sketches as I will normally will, so I will stick with this one. I like how is looking so far and I'm looking forward to start the big guy.

Finally... the sketch for the main piece. I know there are some anatomy mistakes, but I don't really have lots of time to fix them. I will continue by dressing him up and putting the environment together to be more defined, maybe some grayscale to understand the piece better. I really like how this is going tho, maybe I will make a new update today.

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The line art is kicking in. So happy with how it turns out like damn he looks cool still a lot of work to do. A little bit of grayscale and environment definition next.

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Yes! It starts from the Romanian mythology and has a lot of elements from the Norse culture. The Slavic, Norse and Roman mythology are pretty similar in many aspects and they are a lot of fun to explore. I will try to implement more props I'm glad you find them cool

I did a low polish greyscale to say so, just to define the form a little bit better and help me and you understand what is going on. It's looking right like in the thumbnail and I'm happy about that. Also it looks just like some cartoon maybe like Korra? I dig it so far. Now that the flats are in place, it's time to start rendering. I will work on my values more and only after that I will start the actual render

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A little bit of value in there. The next step will be to add color. It's so hard to not destroy this piece really Like I'm so tempted to add particles, effects, cool lights, foreground or textures even tho I know those are the last steps. But firstly you have to work on the bigger picture and that's what I'm trying to do now.

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Still searching for the full color palette. I'm happy with how it looks so far. My complain will be that now with color it really seems empty, like the character is too small compared to the background. I think the lightning effects that I'm going to add alongside with the debris and the particles will make it look more cohesive.

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Seems like all the hell breaks loose. The pattern from his back is taken directly from the romanian borders you usually find on our traditional clothes. I really like to implement stuff like that into my painting.

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Thank you! It means a lot

That's actually a really good idea. Thank you! I will try to work on it, see how it looks.