Where can I improve ? Any CC appreciated

[Extremus_Red]

Hi This is my first post EVER !! I started this piece over the weekend

Feel free to comment and point out where I can improve guys. I'd like to use the cc's to focus my studies in those weak areas. Thank you in advance

Red

[cedricgo]

Hi! Welcome to the forums

So, I think that it's a cool character, but I do notice a few things you could change to hopefully improve him.

The first thing that I noticed was how the perspective of your character was a bit strange in a few places, like on his left leg and horn

So after correcting that, I felt like the shoulder pads could use a little bit more room. right now they felt really tight and it seemed to me like it would make ii difficult for him to move his arms

Finally, judging from your character cast shadow (which is fairly well defined, implying a strong light) I think you could push your lighting even more with stronger shadows and maybe some stronger highlights spots.

Also I will say that I'm not sure how I feel about the axe. I feel like the sharp points, the jagged edge and the bright yellow and red doesn't quite fit with the rest of the character's design. I feel like it clash too much with everything else you have, but maybe it was your intention. I don't know, maybe it's just me though

And finally, since he seems like he is a fighter, maybe having some cracks or dents in the armor could be interesting. It could give us an idea that he's been in some tough fights. Oh and maybe having a background that's a bit less ambiguous could be nice, even if it's something simple. Just something to help ground him more in the drawing.

So overall, I think you did good with this guy. Other than what I said about the axe, I think the colors are well balanced and you have a good base to expand on.

I hope this was helpful

[Extremus_Red]

Thank you for your time and effort cedricgo ! You've given great pointers to improve this piece. I'll get to work on those things you've pointed out. I will post back here once I have done so.

[Extremus_Red]

Hi guys,

I've tried to correct everything that was pointed out last time. I fixed the perspective on the horn and leg areas. I struggled with the background scenery as I've never really included it in a piece. I decided to go with something simple. I completely changed the weapon and added some battle damage to the Armour. I increased the strength of my light source on my character to try and match the scenery.

Thanks again for the cc

[LensPitt]

When designing pretty much anything I suggest designing very small at first, which is called thumbnailing. Focus on finding a cool overall shape/silhouette for your character before getting lost in details.

I made you an example based on your design, I find that the character is by design very top heavy, so I accentuated that (a lot, you don't have to accentuate it that much we all have our style and mine is fairly cartoony). Made his soulders and horns the most important parts of the design as they draw the most attention. Focusing on having a cool design without any details will really help you make more compelling characters!

Also one last detail, I see what you tried to do with the light effects on the blue parts, but you made the effect too white and opaque, and we lose the blue. I'd tone it down just a notch

[Extremus_Red]

Hi LensPitt,

Thank you for the advice. I will work on improving the silhouette of my characters. i'm going to be doing a Hero Shape and some thumbnails for my next Character.

This Character didn't really have context and I think that shows in the end result. I've been thinking about various aspects of my next character. Some of these include Job/Function, Alignment (good,evil), Personality.( kinda Like character creation in a RPG game ) I think this will also help with the overall design ( plus it is loads of fun as well)

I should have some thumbnails to look at on my Cubebrush blog later today.

Thanks again for taking the time to help me out .

Red