Hades re-design
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Here's my concept for a comp over at the Sumea forums, which is titled God of War and I'll be posting my updates here in this thread to get some solid C&C.
The character I've chosen is Hades but decided to take a different approach and make it a woman.
After a good week of thumbnailing, speed painting, deleting, re-drawing, I settled on this.
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It's still an early concept and more of an anatomy study really to get the basic forms down. I do plan on messing with it some more and fixing up a few areas that aren't sitting quite right.
I plan to have molten lava flowing through the feet/legs exposed through cracks with ash like skin. Possibly even attempt some kind of fire hair. As for clothes/armour, I'm still messing with a few things, but everything I've tried has made the character look less creepy.
Let me know what you think and what I can improve on. Suggestions, paintovers, tags all welcome.
-caseyjones
The character I've chosen is Hades but decided to take a different approach and make it a woman.
After a good week of thumbnailing, speed painting, deleting, re-drawing, I settled on this.
Hi-Res Version
It's still an early concept and more of an anatomy study really to get the basic forms down. I do plan on messing with it some more and fixing up a few areas that aren't sitting quite right.
I plan to have molten lava flowing through the feet/legs exposed through cracks with ash like skin. Possibly even attempt some kind of fire hair. As for clothes/armour, I'm still messing with a few things, but everything I've tried has made the character look less creepy.
Let me know what you think and what I can improve on. Suggestions, paintovers, tags all welcome.
-caseyjones
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I don't think I have time to enter the Sumea comp this time round, too busy and lacking inspiration. Glad to see PC'ers over there
but i like the whole 'hades-is-a-girl-with-sagging-boobies' direction. so don't take me wrong!
It'd also be worth reading a bunch of Greek mythology to see if theres any aspects of Hades that you could carry over into your design. For instance, he was given a Helm of Invisibility to help win the Titanomachy War (the battle with the Titans that you see in a cutscene during God of War 2). Presumably it'd be a rather ornate piece of armour and might be worth working into your design somehow.
It looks like Wikipedia has a fair bit of info on classical mythology.
indian_boy: Interesting take on the whole god of death. Initially I was going to do a beautiful woman, with lots of dark drapey clothing. But after a few thumbnails it just looked too generic. So I figured... Fuck it! Make it some really haggard looking ugly monstrous woman that looks brutal as hell!
Jackablade: I personally wanted to stay away from reading too much up on the character of Hades. I didn't want it to bottleneck my creativity. But I have read a little from Wikipedia, which does have a fair bit of info as you've stated.
I was possibly going to do something with the helm idea. Will try a few things as I have a few ideas on how I want it to look.
Here's a few quick paintovers for some possible clothing/armour designs.
So far, I only really like the 3rd iteration, mainly the ashen legs with lava cracks, the neck brace and some of the thigh guards (mainly the 2 chains that connect from one guard to the other).
Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a few more paintovers tonight so I can get a start on the base mesh. But still a good while away from the modelling process.
-caseyjones
or not.
i tried to enter my ye olde sumea log in - and nothing!
and just a question, is the lower row of teeth not actually protruding from inside the mouth?
Here's a bit of a new direction I'm exploring, still kept most of the original proportions but I'm still not too happy with it. Need to finalise an armour design, which I hope to have done by the end of the day.
I will keep the upwards teeth from the original concept, I just haven't added it into the new one.
C&C/paintovers/tag encouraged.
-caseyjones
should make her in lingerie... she's a god, she thinks she's hot shit. mmm, all the boys want her.
tremulant: I agree, man. The legs at the moment are shithouse. After posting, the first thing I did was grab the eraser tool and rub out everything below the gut and started again.
Thanks for the comments.
Just got back from my lunch break, looking through some reference art to help inspire me, iPod is blaring, Wacom stylus in hand... LETS DO THIS!
-caseyjones
but i'ts taken a while dude, i spose you've got other shit to do, how long are sumeas comps again? like 3 months...
not so sure bout the multiple boobies, as it has associations with fertility, but on the other hand it kinda works if they are 'dead' and corrupted boobies, as the female hades is the nemisis to all life, renewel and positive stuff like hugs and smiles and kittens...
with that much flesh - maybe consider some masochistic peircings - espically some nipple peiceings and links - kinda like the evil/reverse equivalent of a belly dancers nip tassles......
and give her some fat roooolllls
Also, your point about the boobs. I actually thought about that already and considered just sticking with the 2 and covering them up. But FUCK IT! I want multi-boobs!
As for your question from months ago, the bottom row of teeth are more like horns/spikes that stick out from the chin. Just liked the shape it created.
UPDATE
Well after some more sketching yesterday and a fair bit today, I realised I had to start my sketch again because the one I was doing had whack proportions that I wasn't too pleased with. It had a lot of male proportions like broad shoulders, a gut rather than hips/belly, and when I tried to amend it, it pretty much started looking worse.
I picked up an anatomy book at lunch, which was really helpful and decided to do front and side orthos before attempting a posed 3/4 concept.
Heres where I'm at. Decided to get the proportions right first before I attempt clothing and armour.
-caseyjones
Jackablade: Well I'll give both variations a go and I'll see which looks better. Thanks for the input, dawg.
Nothing new to show today, didn't get much of a chance to work on it. Will hopefully have a whole bunch done by the end of the weekend.
-caseyjones
I got about 30mins of sketch time in towards the end of the day. The waist piece is a tad shit, but figured I'd see what the rest of you think.
Beefy arms, just for you Jackablade.
-caseyjones
I'll have to re-sculpt it all again once I have the final base mesh (needs toes, a head and a little bit of re-topo). But this is the general direction I'll be going with the body.
Will be doing armour/clothing paintovers as soon as I get some time.
-caseyjones
i just got the music in my head: "my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard..." GAAAAA!
achmedthesnake: The boobs do need more sag and will definitely work on that with the next sculpt.
I will include some skin scarification/deformities to break up the cleanliness and smoothness of the skin. As this was just a test of the base mesh and didn't want to get too carried away :P
As for the cellulite, believe it or not, I actually attempted some but it just didn't look right. So I just smoothed it out for now and will try again for the final sculpt.
Thanks for the comments, dude. Strong crits
-caseyjones
This is pretty much what I wanted to get on paper when I first started this bitch. I guess it took a few months of progression and practice before I was able to get the image from my head and onto my sketch pad.
Will build the base mesh soon and start sculpting away.
Will be adding more gore and body mutilation, skin piercings, chains, bone growth, an extra deformed limb, and anything else that's fucked
-caseyjones
that bloody vagina is creepy!
infact all the concept is creepy!1
i like it
ahaha
where da model go?