Gladiator Challenge - Vrav

Vrav

Hesitant to make a post this early because I'm not the most experienced character artist, and the anatomy is obviously really whack/rough on the limbs and back (and elsewhere...) but... if I can stop beating myself up for a moment I might just fix it, then do some paintover work to make it an actual character rather than a boring, unrealistic anatomy study with a mountain for a head.

homoeroticism gooo



The eventual idea is something like a human/golem hybrid, using Shadow of the Colossus as inspiration. Hnrrrg.

ralusek

what's the company? also i like to see you using sculptris

Krypteia

Whoo Sculptris! Second on company name?

Vrav

Indeed! Hmm, maybe this'll help?



Mostly random scribblings... all subject to revision. Need to do some thumbs or play in 3D or something. "Straps" = stone walls! Main references being Scottish ruins and castles that exist in the Black Isle region (which is actually a peninsula).

ae.

what company is that?

Emil Mujanovic

Black Isle? (I cheated, I checked the filename of the images)
You're off to a great start, Vrav. Keep exploring ideas and you'll wind up with something solid I bet.
Keep it up, mate.

Vrav

Thank you sirs, and yes indeed. Black Isle made some damn good RPGs in their day. Messed about in Silo today, not entirely certain how usable this geometry will be for sculpting architecture and rubble, but that's why I'm doing it! (for the experience)

So if anything this is at least a conceptual direction. Things are pretty out of scale and the helmet makes no sense, but I'm not sure I care. The walls are intended to sink into the body as they do, crumbled over the obsidianflesh.



Notes to self:

• vertical halo surrounding the head?
• make the kilt more architecturally sensible
• add rings to the calf-towers for silhouette effect
• broken bottoms on cathedrals for katar-like grips, gorilla hands

cw

nice progress, more!

marlfox8

maybe the helmet could be an executioners hood with mteal plating. the kilt kinda looks too sci-fi