Character design/ Godess of Air

RytisJuknevicius 2016-12-23 15:41:14 UTC #1

Hey Folks, This is my first post on CubeBrush so far!
Short Brief: I am designing Gods purely from my imagination or using some references to help me with designs. I also use some symbolics from diferent cultures. I am planing on designing quite a few gods for this personal project and I've started with Godess of Air.

My main goal is to Iterate design as much as I possibly can, after I'm happy with design, I will move on to fully rendered character design piece, and after that I will do a illustration/splash art for each of the gods.

I need your opinions to help me choose which one of these I should push forward! Please comment down below with your favourites and any other ideas that could help me. (Ignore the weapon desings, as I will do seperate sheet for weapon iterations).

Thank you in advance!

enalya 2016-12-24 11:56:26 UTC #2

Welcome to the forums!

I like this idea ^^ It's a good thing that you're starting with sketches and many iterations, the best way to design imo. I think you can even simplify the first step more by drawing only silhouettes. After filtering that, you can draw in some details etc.

Number 17 jumps out he most for me

Naret 2016-12-24 14:40:47 UTC #3

I'm liking 2, 4, and 5. Nice work!

RytisJuknevicius 2016-12-24 19:51:58 UTC #4

Thank you for the advice and feedback, much appreciated! Will post my progress later on

RytisJuknevicius 2016-12-24 19:52:13 UTC #5

Thank you so much for the feedback!

Georgie 2016-12-25 17:39:21 UTC #6

Nice stuff! Must have been a ton of work producing so many variations. : O

I think you could really improve your designs by breaking the silhouettes more, from a long glance a lot of these look very similar, the costumes hug the shape of the pose very closely. Trying more big external shapes on the edges of the design would help.

Also, just a thought, have you considered varying the body type of the base? Trying a very tall or very short goddess for instance?

Looking forward to seeing more, keep it up.

RytisJuknevicius 2016-12-25 20:12:48 UTC #7

Hey! Thank you for an amazing feedback! I will definitely look into making big external shapes for my next character! Unfortunately I am running out of time on this one so I can't really redisign it as I have deadline I did some really rough sketches of different characters that could represent my godess, and by asking peers for feedback in university I've decided to go with the one that I've posted
Also these were the first few designs that I came up with, though looking into feedback I've chosen the one that I've iterated after

RytisJuknevicius 2016-12-25 20:15:53 UTC #8

Also this will be the final design of my godess of air! I would love to get some feedback on which weapon/staff I should go for?! Next steps after I choose the weapon will be to clean the lineart and start rendering

enalya 2016-12-26 09:36:53 UTC #9

Awesome work! I feel the most for #3!

RytisJuknevicius 2017-01-01 22:06:21 UTC #10

Hey fellas!!! Just finished some color iterations! Would love some feedback on which works better for my godess of air! Will move on to rendering after it

enalya 2017-01-02 07:57:50 UTC #11

I think VI suits her character the most ^^

RytisJuknevicius 2017-01-08 21:09:24 UTC #12

Final render of my godess! Originally I choose a color palette VI but It wasn't enough contrast in clothing so had to add some reds Hope you guys like it

Iruui 2017-01-09 08:40:32 UTC #13

Its cool ! I like everything about it except face. Gods often resmble humans but here on face we cant even see plains of face. In early stages when u showed ur concepr it looked like she had a triangle mask but on render it looks like its a part of her face which looks strange. I dont know if u intended this but for me it doesnt work, because humans most detailed part of body is face and ur loosing a focal point which in concept should be face in my opinion. If u squint ur eyes u cans see that the focal point is staff. Maybe u wanted to show staff idk xD . Also what i can tell ya gods are pretty powerful enities so would be nice to show off a bit of her power cuz she looks kinda weak here.

RytisJuknevicius 2017-01-19 18:45:56 UTC #14

This is the feedback that I was waiting for! I have listened to your feedback and added a face, its a quick one, as the deisgn is already submited! Will definitely use your feedback in the future designs, thank you so much:)