Alien Portraits!

blankslatejoe

Hey Polycount!
I don't do much outside-of-work art these days, but when I have felt inspired I've been working on these odd alien classical portrait things. Here's a few of them.

Feedback and comments are welcome, but be kind--it's been forever since I've posted art

low odor

Dig it...I really like Count Fitzy McYellowhead

blankslatejoe

Hah! That's an awesome name for him

Rens

hahaha, well done man

bisse123

The last one (yellow) is truly awesome. Like the "subsurface scattering"

Dylan Brady

Awesome stuff! I love the idea.
The classical part gets lost a little on one or two but there still sick designs reguardless,
Your style is so sick.

JGcount

Really like the first one. Im more seeing it as a upperclass medieval orc though...which is just awesome

fightpunch

Love that yellow dude, he looks really creepy, like he'd be on the alien sex offenders list

poopinmymouth

Yep, yellow guy is best. I can't help but feel they all lack skull structure. The surface treatment is great, but the volume is lacking, both in overall head roundness, as well as individual features like cheakbones/etc. I might try to really nail overall volume with large soft brushes first, to make sure you get a front/side/back feeling, and then try to get features matching up into that. Two colored lighting, or one soft, one hard/specular light can help with this as well. Try looking at them in B&W and see what I mean in terms of volume flatness.

Jeff Parrott

Really nice stuff. I'm digging the yellow dude too.

blankslatejoe

thanks guys!

Ben -yup, I know exactly what you mean. Spending the last few years doing exclusively enviro work has left me lacking in the character/creature department, so I'm making attempted to pick up the slack. I can see something 'off/droopy/anatomically awkward' about each of these. However, having only spent a few hours on each, I'm not crying much about any lost investment. When I move on to doing more of these portraits I'll keep your words in mind.:)