Lantern Statue

Maxilator

Hi! I started working on this today, just making some basic shapes at the moment. But it's supposed to be a statue of a hooded skeleton holding a lantern.
What I have done so far is more or less to take a basic human I have and posed him like I wanted and then use spheres to roughly shape the cloth.

Wyrdalos

love it, it makes me think of bloodborne !

Maxilator

@Wyrdalos
Thanks, That gothic style is a bit what i'm going for.

Here is a little update: 

Maxilator

Started working slightly on the folds, I'm having a pretty hard time making it look good so any advice would be helpful.

Maxilator

Update:

Maxilator

Update, would still like to have some feedback!

Tectonic

the folds look like they're flowing in roughly the right direction. but I think you have too many. it looks too busy. there should be some areas across the back where the cloth is smooth because the weight is pulling it flat across the back.

pawige

The main issue I'm seeing is that the folds and drapes all run horizontally, as if it were a bed sheet wrapped tightly around the character. Generally for a cloak the drapes run vertically, because the points of tension are mostly up on the head and shoulders.

Maxilator

Tanks, i'll try to adjust it so that those things are fixed, when i chose how the cloth would run I thought pretty much about how the hands tension would pull the folds, but I think I overdid it. And yeah, there is definitely too many folds, I think it's down to me zooming in too far and focusing on small areas and forgetting how the whole sculpt looks. 

Maxilator

Is this more the direction you are thinking?

Maxilator

Man, this is tough to get good looking, anyway, here is an update:

Maxilator

Here is an update, started placing out the skelly and gave it a copper material, just wanted to see how it might come out.

TheKlu

Everything looks amazing, but i dont really like how this part is going 
Well, it can vary on how tight it's, you choose :P  
Anyways, it looks really nice!  

Popol

Did you use references? Because the folds don't make any sense, especially in the back.

I made a paintover to show you how you can fix the back.



- fix the proportions like the knee too low, etc
- change the pose to make it more interesting by like bending the knee and expanding the back of the robe that is on the ground
- find references and try to understand how folds work by studying them. A fold is created by either a compression or a tension. Find the contact point and you will find the direction of the fold.

You can apply this feedback to the front as well.

I hope it helps!