[Riot Art Contest] - Default Garen

programmer23

I decided for this contest to do Garen as he is one of my favorite characters to play. These are my reference images that i'm using.







I look forward too seeing all the other entries and wish you all good luck.

programmer23

I did a sketch of Garen in an orthographic view so I could get a good refs for the forms in the armor and the proportions. Let me know if there are issues that you suys see with proportions or shapes.

Thanks and good luck to everyone!

programmer23

Some beginning work sculpting the shoulder armor.

Blender's sculpting could really use an update.

programmer23

I don't have a ton of tome to work on this, but i have more of the major forms blocked in.

programmer23

Finally had some time to work on this and I finished up the block-out of garen and his sword.

Let me know what you guys think

programmer23

Finally finished the HP for this guy

programmer23

Did just a few more small tweaks before moving to the low poly.

I would really appreciate any comments or critique you guys can think of.

programmer23

got the low poly and bakes done

programmer23

Getting this done, starting on texturing.

I could really use some advice and comments/critique.

This is my first time doing handpainted textures like this.

programmer23

I actually got all of the texturing done in time, final shots and pose coming tomorrow.

slosh

Congrats getting him mostly done. i would maybe try to paint in some more color and lighting information. Add some more intense specular on metals to make them pop. Add in some extra colors in the gold like reds and possibly some desaturated greens in the shadows. Add in some gradients here and there to create separation and also add in a bottom to top gradient to ground him. I would paint in more color on his face too.

programmer23

Thank you slosh, I am a huge fan of your work, I did some of the things you said, and I put in my final entry.

I know I wont win because of the vast number of far superior artists to me but it was a fun project and I think it turned out decently for being my first hand pained character in this style.











Good luck to everyone participating!!!