Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Sebastian Henke

[doomdragon]

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Silly steampunk Icarus is not as good at tinkering durable wings as he thought.

[M31]

I like your general concept, but I'm don't care for that explosion right by his head. Maybe it's the size or brightness of it, or the way it's streaming outward. Good luck! :)

[doomdragon]

Yeah, it's a bit off, looks more like his neck is exploding rather than the wings on his back. His pose doesn't fit the explosion either I guess. If I go with him I think I better do a composition that shows his back with some mechincal backpack and a smaller explosion or fire.

But I'll do some concepts for other guys first. Rocket-boot Hermes next, I think.

[calisto-lynn]

hi wellcome to the challenge. i really love your idea and your colour pallete is absolutley beautifull, although i must agree with doomdragon, the pose doesent fit very good with the explosion.

perhaps if you showed the character from the back with explosion from his back striking towards the observer it might help the whole scene pop out better.

well thats just my suggestion, keep up the great work, im sure whatever you decide to do with the picture will look awesome in the final result. cheers!

[nash88]

Nice concept, I like the exploding thingy. The wings remind me of an RPG game "MU", more like a Dark Wing. :D

[paperclip]

Hi there. :) I really like the concept, but like someone else said maybe a different composition would work a bit better...the eye doesn't flow around it as easily as it maybe could? Play around with some thumbnails...

[SuperXCM]

Hi

nice concept, i love it!!

I agree with calisto and paperclip, the compo can be a lot improve... but it's still a concept of course, and a great one!

Good luck!!

[doomdragon]

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Mercury, the royal messenger coming through. With his fancy rocket boots, losing half of his mail for dramatic reasons.
Apparently all my steampunk action takes place in moonlight with flying dudes and fancy fire effects.

I'm not sure yet if I like Icarus or Mercury better. I like the steampunk technology to be very experimental, cause that seems more interesting to me and a crashing Icarus shows that better.
But I'd also like my character to have a purpose and messengers were pretty cool when they were still the fastest means to send information.

[doomdragon]

Thanks for the comments guys. I'll try some new compositions with Icarus after this Hermes/Mercury concept I just did.

[Legacy40k]

I like the mercury one better. I love the steam powered postal carrier idea for the messenger of the gods. The rocket boots replace the winged feet quite well. Have you though of adding some sort of a postal service icon from the symbol for mercury?

[doomdragon]

Do you mean his "caduceus" staff? Yeah, actually the yellow lines on his messenger bag are supposed to represent it. I'll think about it some more if I go into more detail with the concept and maybe modify it a bit then to fit a messenger service better.

Thanks for the feedback. :)

[Niall]

Hi there, nice concept, well i like mercury more, its more dramatic i think :D
i think you could try to add some steam engine on the boots or on the back, so it could determined where the power come from, nice dude, i'll see to your next post

[dragonflysh]

haha great concept dude, looks promising

[doomdragon]

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Another concept for Icarus. I tried a new perspective, showed some more steampunk machinery on his back and gave his wings some fiery exhaust so that it makes more sense that he flies with it.

But he still keeps on crashing. ;)

I'll probably go with Mercury though, I like him better and there are so many Icarus entries in this challenge already. :D

[balfs21]

I think you're right to go with the Mercury concept...there are a couple of Icarus's so Mercury would be unique at least! :thumbsup:

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