Hello, so I have started making a fan art for Hellboy to learn how to capture the "look" of a character since its important if I want to join the industry. But now I'm stuck, I'm not sure how to progress or figure out what is wrong or missing and I would like to ask for some feedback to help me finally complete the project since I've been doing it for about 2 months now.
My theme is a medieval Hellboy, I haven't detailed the body much yet.
I have no idea what to put below his right foot since the angle is weird.
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Here I also have no Idea how to merge the fingers to the rest of the body without it looking mutated.
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Update:
I took a few days of working on this to maybe refresh my eyes and here are a few updates on this.
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At the moment I still have no idea how to fix my fingers issue, trying to figure out how to hide it somehow atm.
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I added a few accessories and tried a bunch of things to make the work look interesting, in the end I decided to make it so he slayed something, not sure what yet but a snake thing maybe. Thinking about these things is really difficult and frustrating, I dont know how you guys do it.
You can look at raf's artstation for inspiration https://www.artstation.com/grassetti
I opened up the pose and added a small wyvern for the background.
It does look better with the pose not so closed in, thanks!
Here is what it looks like put together.
I wanted to make dragon because I believe hellboy is related to king Arthur and I think there was a dragon in that story, but I didnt want to sculpt scales so I decided to make it like a leathery wyvern mainly because I get really bad hand cramps recently and a lot more frequent than before.
So what do you think? any feedback is appreciated.
I see, thanks for this.
and here is the render and the comp but just the front view.
I know now that I should have put more focus on his face and should have made him a better pose.
Thank you for the time you gave to give feedback and critiques, I learned a lot and I hope for your help in the future as well.
Much success for the next one!