Sketchbook: Lean

lean

Hello, I'm starting a small project and felt like posting my progress from start, so I can get some feedback while i'm actually working on it.
Lately I got more and more interested in creature design and sculpting...

feedback welcome

lean

Sorry about the quick follow-up post, but i wanna keep this organized.

Soooo first project:

Butterfly Monk
An alien vaguely moth-inspired intelligent byped creature.
To do:
-Sculpt.
-Retopo, baking and texturing.
-basic scene and final render.


early bust sculpt:

lean

small update. Two sketches, one being about the monk.

lean

I was roughing up the legs and then I remembered that I wasn't going to do a full body model of this dude.

lean

mental block. it looks too... raw, but I think i'll start retopo and I'll just bump paint the detail.

ekarnopp

You should draw more. Not because you are bad at it, I just really want to see more of your drawings.

lean

Thank you, ekarnopp.

retopo, baking and bumping done.
I'll be texture painting now.

lean

I keep on painting and added a quick rig.

lean

texture is pretty much done. I'm gonna setup the scene for final renders!

Lucfonzy

reminds me of the pilot from farscape

lean

wow, Lucfonzy, the similarity is stunning! It's the first time I hear about farscape though.

lean

I'm kind of struggling with the shot. I want it to be this superbright cathedralesque feel... This is my first attempt, but it's definately not done...

I need to fix the background image.

lean

done. Also did a little 15 sec. clip. I'll upload later.

lean

another project, a little boy.
original concept:

base mesh:

sculpt:


now hair and retopo.

lean

sketched hair and cape btw..


my target is desktop videogame, so im not sure if i'm gonna use separate polygon hair or one mesh for the whole head and hair..

lean

most retopo and baking done.

lean

texturing

lean

skin texture almost done.

Defunct

^ looks nice so far just the neck looks a little freaky in my opinion. That area is usually less pronounced and more soft & subtle on kids and stylized characters. Maybe you could take away some of that black above his clavicles and shrink the neck a bit.
Sorta like this

But its your art so you don't have to change it if you really don't want to and it'll be hidden with that cape anyways.

lean

thanks, defunct. i agree with your critique.
first thing i thought was "it doesn't matter, the cape wll hide it". but acually i think it'd be good practice to just fix it anyway.

KurtR

Was thinking about the neck in the first images myself, looks good in the last one there. Keep up the good work.