The Portrait Beast
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My concept for the beast is that he was once a man who only found beauty in art. He was a respected man of fine rank and nobility to be sure, but he was only truly himself when he was creating art, or in the presence of an awe inspiring piece. And though he found an abundance of beauty in art, he only saw hideous rot, emptiness, and sorrow in his life and the world around him. Despite the man's own ability to make beautiful things come to fruition, the hatred and sorrow in his heart slowly transformed him into a horrible monster. In a fit of grief stricken rage, he destroyed many of his paintings and sculptures, and ran his head through the only portrait of himself he had ever made. He now wheres it as a mask, to hide his hideous visage. His only hope to turn back to normal is if he finds beauty in the world and in himself.
I'll have some concepts and ideas up soon
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an initial really really rough doodle I did. I'll have a more refined concept up soon.
if he were to ever recover from this accursed affliction I'd imagine that the version of him from before the curse would just burst out of him like a cicada. Done with drawing, next up will be block out and sculpts.
You might want to ditch the dropbox for this and try uploading somewhere else?
if it doesn't work here is a link to photobucket. Like I said before the concept is nothing crazy, but it's a jumping off point.
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k508/gillmeister74/beast_zpstr41mtvs.jpg
so I've tried posting an image with dropbox, flickr, and photobucket, and so far I haven't had much luck. If this doesn't go up, I'll figure it out later. Thanks for putting up with me guys!
Otherwise, use imgur or imgbox.
Cheers
and hopefully my garbage concept uploaded this time. I have made accounts for all the image sharing sites I'm aware of. I don't have this much trouble with my sketchbook.
hoping to strike some combination of a monster from Bloodborne, Castlevania LOS, and Lisa Trevor from RE1
This is looking interesting! Curious as to where you'll take the sculpt.
next update should have the base body pretty much knocked out. Then I will start the painting, frame, and his outfit.
update on Portrait beast! blocked out some more of his outfit and continued sprucing up his anatomy. Also added two new elements; giant ticks and marble shards. The marble shards are remnants of sculptures and busts that were once a part of his art collection before he utterly destroyed them. As a result fragments are embedded in his arms and feet. The giant ticks are but one of the insect creatures that are slowly eating away at the portrait beast. They also act as a means to break up the silhouette a bit, and add asymmetry.
I've also been working a lot on the portrait frame and the right coat. Mostly detailing for the frame, but for the coat I changed the pattern to coincide with some reference images I've put together.
Still feeling good about where I'm at, though I know there is still lots to do. Once I've knocked out the base body and his wardrobe, I can really get into some of the bugs and stuff.
loving the sculpt from concept upto now and looking forward to seeing more!
Ian S.