ART WAR 4 | 2D | War of the Elements | Valder the Living Flame | rafael.f.carvalho199

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Name: Rafael Carvalho
Email: rafael.f.carvalho1991@gmail.com

My entry is going to be a suit of armor posessed by a flame soul. I'm an amateur artist looking to have some fun with it.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

I had the idea to make a flame knight, sort of his soul fused with a flame, posessing a suit of armor. Gotta say that I almost didn't enter this since I was having trouble coming up with a design but on a sleepy stuborn state I made some doodles and got inspired again.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

I made a sketch with 3 color palettes. I'm not very fond of the second one but it seemed good at the time I was painting. The third one is more on the theme of "soul fire" at least on my point of view. The first one was the idea that I had to beggin with.

[griasnoggal]

Wow looks good!
Personally I like the last one best. You mentioned that the soul fused with the flame to posess the armor and I agree that the greenish one is looking more soullike so it might be better fit for the story you are telling.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

The last one is also my favourite but I'm a bit relunctant to proceed with it because I fear the colour goes a bit off-topic. But thank you.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

A cleaner color version of the character. Not in any pose or anything. Just trying to paint it a bit nicer and will update once all the color has been polished.
Work has been hard and the will to draw anything is very low but I will try to submit a finished work for the contest.
Edit: I decided to shorten the clothpiece. The first version felt too much on the character.

[nesokaiyoh]

The clothing looks very fiery too, have you thought of incorporating more of the fire as the actual clothing or just going with the head and shoulders? I hope you learn a lot from this experience and really enjoy it!

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

My idea is to paint the tips in the cloth in a more yellowish tone, in a transition from cloth into actual flame or flame like clothing. I'm still undecided though, but by the time I finish this piece I hope to have made up my mind. And thank you, I am enjoying the experience although I'm producing at a very slow pace.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Here is the finished choloured sketch. Next I might start on the final project. I'm quite pleased on how it's turning out. The thing I like the least is the flames as I can't seem to draw them properly.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Before the final work I decided to make a weapon for my champion. The idea was to make a blade composed of different sections with the impression that fire was running through it. Only made 3 sketches before settling on the one that caught my liking the most.

[Oceane_Roh]

Hey hey ! Cool project !
I personally have a big preference for your greenish colour set but the red work as well !

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Oh thank you. I also have a preference for the green one but i was afraid to use it. I think it might be a bit off the flame theme by being green rather than red.

[moirae]

I liked the green one too. Fire is fire, if you paint it well enough I doubt people would confuse it for anything else. Red and green go well together too, so you can add warm colours to the clothing anyway.

[Oceane_Roh]

Yep I'm 100% with moirae !
And do things in an unexpected way is always cool !
Fire is fire

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Red and green only remind me of those tacky christmas decorations. I couldn't mix those two in my project because I'm 100% sure I would end up hating hit. I'm now considering a lot changing it to the green one. The feedback I got here, plus feedback at home, plus my own taste, make me think it's a mistake to go against what I like best in favour of red fire. Dunno if I can paint it well enough though. But without trying I'll never know.

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

I'm seriously thinking swaping the palette to the green one based on feedback plus my own tastes. It's the one I like best after all. Hope I can do it right though. Thanks for your feedback

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Just some character practice I'm working at the moment. I don't feel like starting the final project right now since I'm still missing the idea of how to do it. Will update it once it's done or colored.

[nesokaiyoh]

As long as it looks like fire it doesn't have to be orange lmao either way great work, it's coming along nicely! The pose is dynamic too, keep it up

[rafael.f.carvalho199]

Here are the final versions of that sketch I made. The coloured one was to test the green palette. Now that I made it with that one, I'm not sure I want to use it anymore. It may be that I grew accustomed to the red one. Time to move on to the final project since the deadline is coming in fast and I'm slow as hell.

[Motocrab]

The castle top pauldrons look neat. If you're using photoshop, you can slap some gradient maps on top of your layers to mess around with color. Sometimes I do this after I get some values in but it's an anytime, non destructive thing.