Forgefather
polycounter lvl 8
Hey there, so I've had this idea for quite a while, and concepted it a while back.
The character is supposed to be the grand blacksmith for a race of polar bear warriors - a position that is held with almost as much honour as the king or royal advisor or whatever.
He's rather ancient, and adds ice/magic to his metal to make his arms and armour. Inspiration was taken from dwarves like those from the warhammer universe and the makers from darksiders and of course the kodan from guild wars.
I'm going to be aiming for a similar style to that of the Darksiders games' characters.
Here're the concepts, which are going to be serving more as a guideline now than a set in stone thing. (leaning more towards the rough second one in terms of proportions/shapes)
and then some very early WIP.
anyway, hopefully I can make this a decent success
The character is supposed to be the grand blacksmith for a race of polar bear warriors - a position that is held with almost as much honour as the king or royal advisor or whatever.
He's rather ancient, and adds ice/magic to his metal to make his arms and armour. Inspiration was taken from dwarves like those from the warhammer universe and the makers from darksiders and of course the kodan from guild wars.
I'm going to be aiming for a similar style to that of the Darksiders games' characters.
Here're the concepts, which are going to be serving more as a guideline now than a set in stone thing. (leaning more towards the rough second one in terms of proportions/shapes)
and then some very early WIP.
anyway, hopefully I can make this a decent success
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THe sculpt is looking beefy, good start on that too.
Great start!
This concept is so wicked, seriously
STOP WASTING TIME AND FINISH THIS ALREADY
gogogogo, I can't wait to see this completed
I'm curious as to what kind of scale he is, say in comparison to a human. Looking at him I feel like he's quite large; maybe on a similar size scale as the Makers of Darksiders?
You are correct [SF]Three, I was aiming for the scale of the makers from darksiders - which seem to be 9 heads tall. Mine is currently closer to 10 heads, so I'll fix that soon, thanks to all who spotted that.
And thanks PyrZern, I've looked at quite a bit of Kodan art during the concepting of this guy, I really love their designs.
So I managed to start working on him again tonight, blocked in a bit of his armour - can't wait to get to sculpting this weekend.
Apologies for the lack of progress, and thanks all for the comments and crit!
I can see this guy with an epic hammer, it is coming along, I really like the bigger nose design you have in your concept also I think all around the head should be bigger, or maybe it is just his facial hair is missing and throwing me off, yea its his furriness isn't on his lower jaw.
I did upsize the head a little - more in line with the makers. The fur clumps and beard will come soon.
I wanted to dedicate this weekend to him, but didn't end up getting all that much time. So another small update only
I wasn't liking the direction it was going so I decided to redesign him, hopefully this is better.
In my opinion the new design looks better. Loving those strips.