Demon Scribe - Character

AgelosAp

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---Initial Post---
I've started working on this sweet concept by Baldi Konijn.  
Any feedback is appreciated.

Mr.Moose

Great work so far! 
Only things that jump out at me is that his arms are a lot thinner than your current design, & The mouth needs to be smaller

Keep up the great work!

AgelosAp

Thanks mr.Moose, made the changes based on your comment.
Although I didn't go all the way to how thin the arms are in the concept, I will revisit!
Added a bunch more stuff, and started on his drum thingy.

AgelosAp

Alright, one more update, did some details all around still a lot left though.
Also scaled down the hands a bit more.
Any feedback is welcome as always

Tits

Awww, I love it, the style etc.
Looking forward to see how this turns out!

RitualSynergY

Looking sweet man!

Sabotage

this looks awesome! Only thing i noticed is his upper arm and back has some wonky anatomy, ill try to do a paintover later if youd like. Mainly the triceps and his rear deltoid. 

Sabotage

this is what i was talking about.

Optinium

Loving the chunkyness of everything Sabotage is spot on with his critique but apart from that It's looking real neat

AgelosAp

@Tits ,@Ritualsynergy ,@Optinium: Thanks, I'm glad you like!
@Sabotage: I knew there were things wrong there but wasn't very sure what, so thank you for that very helpful paintover!

So here is my latest update,
main addition is the tail and the new back anatomy(hope it works a bit better now), but worked on details all around.

Also some rough concepts for alternative "drum" prop, not sure if any can feel like they belong to him,
if I don't start leaning towards anything specific, I'll leave it as it is now.

AgelosAp

Retopoed at 24k tris and started texturing.
Any input is appreciated  

Sebeuroc

Nice work, he looks really cool!  Do you have any further plans for him?

AgelosAp

Thanks Sebeuroc, no special plans, making this for portfolio purposes.
Also small update:

AgelosAp

One more(probably) before I post this on portfolio.

Optinium

Looks great. One criticism, when I looked at the latest images, at a snap having the 3 lanterns around his head confused my eye a bit, which then had trouble settling anywhere else on the design. Part of me wants me to have his tail holding one lantern (at a glance it's hard to see it's a hand, but with it holding something I think that might help) and maybe another hanging off one of the tail braces whilst ditching the ones from the horns and beard (turning them into solid ornaments instead maybe?)

AgelosAp

Thanks Optinium, you are pretty spot on I think. I'll try to swift some things around and see if it gets better.
Also sketchfab.

AgelosAp

modelSomething happened with the embeder, sorry for double post.

AgelosAp

Final Version! Thanks again for all the comments and help guys and gals.
See ArtStation for 3D and more shots!

Nuclear Angel

It turned out great, I really like the new placements of the lanterns. In my opinion though I think the rock on the ground is a bit too shiny, and the grass is not at the quality as the rest of the character. But that is just minor nitpicking, great job! 

littleclaude

So good! I love everything about this piece. Maybe the tail could hold the lamp and it feels like he needs larger knuckles but whatever, this piece is amazing! great work.

AgelosAp

Thank you Nuclear Angel,
definitely the ground was just a quick put together because I didn't want him floating on air.
Thanks littleclaude,
I see your point Optinium suggested the lamp to be on his tail-hand as well, but the shift of focus didn't sit right with me for some reason. Knuckles went back and forth a bit, I made them bigger than the concept at the start and then scaled them down, in the end I left them smaller to not draw so much attention 'cause there is a lot of stuff going on and it felt a little too busy.

polygonmonster

Awesome work!

manilamerc

that is inspiring. Great work!

-DN-

My nit pick.  

At the moment my eyes are drawn to the lanterns and I feel as if I should be paying attention to his face.  His face however just is not as interesting, so I think either making the eyes brighter or the lanterns darker may compensate.   Adding detail to his facial region such as glowing runes that he could breath/exhale out (he is a scribe) would be thematic and add another focal Que.  He has red eyes but blue glowing lanterns, possibly making them the same color will help stop the focus from being split.

I would say the sculpt is my favorite part of the piece, balanced hard edges and soft, believable anatomy and not to busy with micro details.

Well done.

AgelosAp

Thank you guys @polygonmonster , @manilamerc  !
Great crit @-DN- , that's very helpful, as you can see I cut down on the lanterns compared to the concept as @Optinium suggested I should probably have done some of the stuff you mentioned as well, busy designs like this read well in concept since you can tone in and out the details completely at will, but on 3d every detail is more solid and it may need to be left out.

Ged

love this guy, great work! This kind of style really captivates my imagination, like darksiders or joe mad stuff in general

jose.fuentes

How are you getting the blueish light in your sketchfab model?  I have been playing with the emission maps but I'm not getting the light to work like that

AgelosAp

jose.fuentes said:

How are you getting the blueish light in your sketchfab model?  I have been playing with the emission maps but I'm not getting the light to work like that

I think you mean the bloom, from the post effects.

@GED, thanks man, I love this style as well, probably my favorite model so far.
Baldi has a lot of stuff like this one, some awesome concepts if you like this style!

jose.fuentes

I think you mean the bloom, from the post effects.

Awesome Ill check it out, thanks!