2D design: The Raging Spaniard

[Windex]

Heh, nice

this would make a funny game character...

the artist hero, throwing exacto knives, hitting ppl with T Square...

color, color, color, waiting...

[ILS]

i'd like to begin by saying that i went to an art college for four years and this doesn't look like an art college student. maybe illustration design at best but i'm not really sure if thats what you meant. colour version would help a lot. espesially with the facial features as right now my innitial instinct would not recognize this charcter of Spanish origin. your line quality is very nice but i would save the heavy line weight just for the outline of the objects (check out illustrations by Feng Zhu and Syd Mead) right now its really busy and hard to focus on. your concept is pretty intersting but you need to develop it further. i'm not really sure what you meant by this "doing flips and uneven jumps all over the place" it just doesn't seem to have any reason from your description, is he going to battle with the comic book guys? why would he? like i said before a good concept will safe a mediocre execution.

these are really technical, the gridation on the ruler seem to be on the wrong side, the perspective on the t-square is off as well as on the roll of duct tape and the knife. but i really like the way did the handle for the knife. the shoes are amazing i can totally relate.

[XavierG]

yes color.. my big obstacle. Thank you so much for both comments :)
Actually, now that you mention it ILS the college I attended doesnt really classify as an art college (I attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Arts which is more of a Comics/animation college), so I guess my influences to make the character were fairly misguided (that and its inspired a lot by myself and my own experiences which ultimately could be a bad thing cause it gets in the way of the design i guess) Sorry for the misdirection
I agree with the design issues, were I to color this, the jacket's stripes on the back would be colored following the spanish flag color scheme.. .yes I realize it doesnt do anything for me in the b & w stage, but its my intention :D). Totally right about the perspective problems.. its amazing how one never relaises them until theyre pointed out. Ill work on making him look more spanish like from the basic design as well. The problem i encountered mainly was.. how do I keep him like a modern person without following basic cliches like bullfighting, black hair and like.. roses (like vega, from street fighter)? Im still struggling with the idea.
The whole deal with the jumps, I guess a better way too explain it is that he has poor balance, the only thing that sorta explains it in the drawing is how his supplies are all over the place... ut it really aint a good enough visual clue.
In any case this is getting long, thank you so much for the suggestions, ill keep working on this character and hopefully ill have something more thourough to show next time :) have a good one

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