Kraken's sketchbook

Kraken

Here i will post my personal projects related to character art.
Your feedback and advice are welcome!

Latest:
Low poly portrait practice, approximately 13k tris, lots of fun with  substance painter and marmoset. Tried to upply some technices I've learned recently. 

BlueDog

great work

TheDarkKnight

Really like the material definition you have going on.

D4V1DC

Nice work and clean results.

You just used planes for the hair and hand painted all of them in?
Or did you bake some of the strands from Zbrush?

danpaz3d

Clean sculpting, sharp texture work. Really well done! Has kind of a Max Payne/Punisher mix.

ScoobyDoofus

I like the body & materials. The whole thing is pretty nice, but I must say I think the head/hair is the weakest part. The scale & position of the eyes gives him a cartoony/childlike appearance. Is there no fake SSS in your skin shader?

I've done a little liquify/paintover to show you what I'd tweak to make it look a little more real.

Just my 2 cents. Keep at it!

Shiv

I just want to say, that is one of the most beautiful paintover/edits i have ever seen

I totally agree, the materials and stuff is nice, and with that edit.. or a similair one to your tastes you have a tasty model

Kraken

Thanks for your comments guys!

@D4V1DC: Firstly I made a few basic peaces of geometry and texture for them. Then I placed them all over the head.

@ScoobyDoofus Thanks for advice. For some reason something went wrong with his eyes:) Let's say he is from Final Fantasy world where it's ok:)
And your idea about hair is also good.

Kraken

Hi! Here is some new stuff. I always wanted to make a cute girl without any guns and swords:) I've used new Marmoset 2 and it's awesome.
Hope you like it!

Torch

Ooo...ah do de-CLAY-re... what a hotty :O

Great work man, I think the face on the guy in the first post could use a little work, but the materials are sweet!

ysalex

Boy these are really kracken-lacken.... Sorry had to.

They are both pretty great, nice materials etc. I think for the woman the skin definition is the only thing I'd work on, right now it reads a bit cartoony to me, with deep hues. Real skin is a bit desaturated and noisy.

Kraken

Thanks, guys! Appreciate your feedback.

looprix

great work

Aga22

amazing work on both of them!i love your textures.

the only thing that bothered me , is i think the guy's neck is too short, his shoulders are too close too his head, giving him a "bunched shoulders" kinda scared stance. i would make his head a little bit bigger and a bit taller neck.

Kraken

Guys, you probably didn't notice but the first character was made more than a year ago. But I'm glad to hear comments on him anyway:)

I updated the first post to avoid misunderstanding.

Kraken

Started new personal project. I was inspired by Leshrac design from Dota 2.

Kraken

Made some test renders using Vray

SaboR1996

Kraken wrote: »

Made some test renders using Vray

them cloth wraps.

Damn, seriously cool work though.

LRoy

Really nice work.

slosh

Nice work man. I think the cute girl would have benefitted from a nice facial expression to really pop her personality. Still, great stuff!

Kraken

Hi guys! Here is my recent work. Low poly portrait practice, approximately 13k tris, lots of fun with  substance painter and marmoset. Tried to upply some technices I've learned recently. 

Isunoj

Nice characters. The old guy looks awesome.

leleleo

awersaome , i love his eyes

QOR_082

Amazing character. Good facial expression, detail and realism. Good job

Loginius

Looks great, love the skin and eyes.

Kraken

Thanks guys! 

avagoyamug

Looks amazing, Kraken, the presentation of your pieces is ace, mate!
Only critique I'd have is that his skin feels a little bit to opaque, I would have given him just a notch more SSS - but then, looking at my current work I might have a bit too much SSS in my skin materials.. something inbetween maybe..

amirabd2130

nice works man

Tits

Don't know how I miss that one.
This is looking great, i really love how the lighting hit his face in such a smooth manner
Stellar work

8-Bit

Holy smokes!! Nice work!

Kraken

Thank you friends!

dlinzp

Nicely done! Like the skin. I want to know how to create it. Can you advice me tutorial?

SwarthChumkid

Very nice character work! I like especially the old man!

Dimfist

Really impressive with the amount of geo you used.  Nice normals. Are you using a height map as well to push the features?

Kraken

@dlinzp Thanks! Nothing fancy, I would recomend using good scans as references, it helps a lot.
@SwarthChumkid Thanks! 
@Dimfist  Thank you! It's just normal map,  no displacement.

killnpc

old man looks great

Kraken

It's been almost a year since I posted something. Here is my latest work. Real-time bust, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Marmoset.
Inspired by amazing concept art of Ilya Golitsyn 
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YV3XK  Please check the artstation link for marmoset viewer!