Snail Shop Merchant...

Owl

Hey guys!

I thought I'd post my latest WIP up. Started this guy over the weekend. He's inspired by a work by Avery Coleman and also from Valves, "Are We Heroes Yet?" comic.

He's my Wandering Snail Shop Merchant.

So I'm posting a couple of shots of how I worked him out. The silhouette shot, he was almost a turtle at one point, but went the snail route....who hasn't right? hehe... I don't even know what that means...

haha...anyways, then did a value painting which I probably took too far, but was having fun on my new Yiynova MSP19u... But it helped me work out some of the forms and stuff...

Now, I'm working on fleshing him out in more detail and thinking about all the line work. The line work is not quite done. I'm hoping I can finish it tonight or tomorrow.

Then I'll paint him up.

Then I need to work on the actual merchant...who is a bit of a mystery to me still... Trying to figure out what I want him to be.

Who knows... maybe I'll get super ambitious and sculpt it all when I'm done... Not sure.

Anyways, now, at the line work stage would be a good time for crits on the overall design, and stuff like that. So... let me know what you think.

Mark Dygert

love it.

reverendK

loving the yiynova a bit, eh? Awesome stuff. I do have to say that I think the silhouette gets a little muddied right around the opening of the shell - and there's a ton of noisy detail making it difficult to read in that area of the line drawing - particularly around the top and botom of the opening there.

That snail looks beat!

FAT_CAP

I love it! Great sense of character and a really fun design...I'm a sucker for these kind of "beast and rider" type designs.

Are you planning on making him in 3D as well?

mbischof

Awesome, he might need a turbo booster tho XD

jsargent

Awwww he reminds me of the racing snail from the never-ending story, love it so far!!

hadidjah

Oh god that silhouette... I can't wait to see more on this. \(^^)/

spectre1130

Really cool design so far!!! Love the style.

Owl

Small update!

Moving on from the line work to painting.

Glad you guys like it!

@ReverandK - I agree its a little hard to read in that area. I think/am hoping it will be better once painted because the lighting will give it form and shape and make it more readable. If not, than I'll do something different.

Clark Coots

this is quite an awesome concept

Owl

Thanks! The only thing I'm thinking now... looking at him this morning, is I may try playing around with the scale of a couple of the weapons in the center by the big bag.... There all kinda samesy, same size, shape....silhouette... and its a little noisy.

I might try and fix that up before moving on. Maybe a couple more weapons sticking up from the top of the sack too, from the other side.... hmmm... He's pretty close. I just want to squeeze a bit more awesome out of him.

Jar3d

You're really starting to snail down that concept. Looks Great!

Owl

@ Jar3d - lol... Shell I post my updated wip??? I think I shell.

Alright, here's my updated WIP. Just reworked some of the noisy areas, moved a couple things around and scaled up a couple weapons.

Okay... I feel pretty good about this guy... Now for the merchant..