DWIII - 3D - ArtMonkey - Warlord

ArtMonkey

I've been trolling around the Polycount forums for a while now, and with seeing all the talent here, I have decided to join. This is my first DW contest, and I am really excited about it.
I've decided to go with the Warlord class. I want my character to be a big-hulking-brute-type.
Here are my first pencil sketches (yeah, I know, who sketches with a pencil anymore?)...
I kind of know which way I want to go... I'll post more in a bit.

Levus

Hi!

I like 3. With a pair of axes. Big axes. Really big axes..

naruSol

Looooove #3. Gorilla centaur thing FTW.

aesir

Those are freakin great! Put 2's armour and weapon on 3.

PhatChance

Nice stuff! I think I'd like #4, but with the 4 arms, like #3 and yes, definitely two huge axes!

kakikukeko

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Those are freakin great! Put 2's armour and weapon on 3.

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ditto!

great sketches btw!

ArtMonkey

Hey, thanks for the comments.
I do like #3 also, and I think I will develop that one for the DW III 2D contest.
For the 3D contest, I'm going with #1, and I started working on a more detailed sketch...


I scanned in my pencil sketch and worked it up a bit in Photoshop. I decided to go with a mace/sword/torch artifact that has fire/lava magic. Also, I want the War Troll to have an Aztec Sun/Fire God motiff...


Now, I'm going back to paper to tighten up my pencils

ArtMonkey

I changed his Weapon Artifact into more of a torch-like weapon. It has openings in the grates for the lava and fire to spill out of...

ArtMonkey

I tightened up the pencils, and added details. I still need to flesh out the fire totems on his back, the gauntlets, and a few other things... but I think I can do that when I add in the tones and colors in Photoshop...

Mongrelman

Awesome drawings.

Thought about enlarging the hands/feet or having a more noticable transition from forearm/shin to hand/foot? At the moment the limbs look a bit stumpy, as does the bald head on the large neck. Though maybe that's what you're going for , just thought it might help enhance the silhouette and help distinguish parts of him.

Ro-Sham-Bo

I love how you touched it up and tightened all the detail down in your latest picture for your 2D piece. Keep up the good work i will keep my eye on this as it progresses.

LaSalle

is that latest image all in photoshop?

rollin

wow thats some big mof.. like it! and cool weapon

just an idear.. give the weapon a chain with a steal-ball at the top like a morningstar ?!

slosh

color! color! can't wait to see the color!

ArtMonkey

Added some tones and textures in Photoshop. I lost about an hours worth of work tonight because I didnt save... must remember to save more often :P Oh well, I'm friggin tired, and I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow I will start to add some color and work out some of the details on the totems, gauntlet, skin, face, etc...
G'night.

Xaltar

Now that is sexy, make him 3d already :P

Belltann

Thats a realy nice sketch mate. Like the feel of size.

ArtMonkey

Thanks for the comments
I added more shading and details to the concept. Still want to re-work the torch-totems, but I might just do that in 3D. I'm working up the colors as I'm typing this and that will include the flame work too. I also started working on the 3D version (Xaltar! ), and will post some work-in-progress renders once I get a chance.

blackwinged

OMG dude! Are you the one who made the artwork for the war of the ring RPC ?
Its realy great! Ive seen this troll when i bought the game and it was one of my inspirations to start learning 3d!

rollin

realy nice

TheWinterLord

Awesome i love it! what would you call this race and are you really doing a 2d and 3d entry? good luck, im eager to see the colored version!

Eclipse

Man that looks sick, really, nice work all around on him, I am really looking forward to the 3d

Psyk0

This is fantastic.

Levus

Yeah, really cool sketch;)
Some kind of huge shoulders armor maybe?

Xaltar

Holy shit, it just keeps getting better. If you can model as well as you draw this is a top 20 for sure.

Emil Mujanovic

BRUTAL! I love this.
The feet are probably the weakest part of your character IMO. But everything else is looking really sweet.

-caseyjones

ArtMonkey

Hey Blackwinged, yeah I worked on LotR: War of the Ring and designed a lot of the character/creatures on that game. I wanted to do a Troll-like character for DWIII so I guess it does draw some inspiration from the trolls I designed... because.... well, I designed them I'm glad that you found some inspiration there to start learning 3D. I'm diggin your lizard head, and I look forward to seeing how it progresses.

-Winterlord, he is from a race of Trolls. I have an idea for a backstory that I will post in a bit. I was hoping that I could enter the Troll Warlord for both the 2D and 3D DWIII contest, but the rules state that if you want to enter both you need to create a completely different character for each. Unfortunately, I dont think I am going to have the time to do that since I am going on vacation with my family for 2 weeks at the end of March... It's gonna be tight just getting this character done by the deadline.

-Levus, I like the idea of huge shoulder pads. I might do them for one of his shoulders.
The one thing that I want to really get across with him is his thick, tough, armored skin... he is just naturally protected.

-caseyjones, Thanks for you comments. I want the feet to be really thick, tree-trunk stumps with gnarled toe nails sticking out from these fat stumpy toes. Hopefully in the modeling stage I will be able to push that across more.