Spectacular 2D Entry: Jens Rasmussen

#18

@Korline - Thanks, I’m thinking that this is the most “spectacular” one as well. It will need a lot of work and character studies as my figure skills will really be put to the test with the firing squad pretty close up. There also needs to be a lot more done to the environment, but hey it’s not called the Challenge for nothing :slight_smile:

@Lync - Thanks - yeah the number of concepts is also a reflection of how I’ve struggled with coming up with something that would fall properly into the spectacular theme.
I think i’m going with concept 5 rather than the deep-sea one. I tried out a couple of sketches with a submarine and the big deep-sea fish, but it didn’t really “click” - and I’ve seen quite a few deep sea themed sketches around now - not that it should deter anyone from amking another - but i struggled to make the deepsea scen more dynamic, but who knows - I may return to it if the other one falls apart :slight_smile:

[left]Thanks for the comments and good luck to you both![/left]

#19

Oh, I find this latest concept hilarious, I think you ought to have a dinosaur behind the bear and a jumbo jet behind the dinosaur and a meteor shower behind the jumbo jet and intergalactic despair behind the meteor shower…now that would be Spectacular!!!

Good luck! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#20

@Rebeccak - Rotfl - yup - there might be a slight scaling issue - but that would indeed be spectacular!

Good luck to you too!

#21

Progressing with Concept 5 here.
Just examining some different stances for the firing squad. Considering that one of the soldiers should be lowering his rifles because he thought he heard something

#22

Well this HAS to be my last idea - have to start moving on. But here is a rough sketch of the idea. A Human cannonball is flying high above the fairground when an eagle mistakes him for a quick snack. I haven’t sketched in the background yet, but it will be high above the ground where you can see a cloud or two and the whole fairground below.

#23

Tried putting a few colours on. Basically everything needs a redraw and the ground needs a lot more detail. This was primarily to see if the ground level scale will work in terms of composition.

#24

I’m contemplating letting the eagle actually have gotten hold of the human cannonball instead. This could possible let the guys sprawl a bit more in mid-air and add some dynamics to the picture? Any comments on that?

#25

ok here comes some c&c… I think that all the ground staff (circus, etc) looks very good, it’s got the correct scale… The clouds are ok, but they are a bit like a line that crosses the pic horizontally…mmm…oh, and I don’t know if I could hold my arm up if I were a human cannonball…not to mention the finger… The eagle looks pretty good too, with all the feathers and all…

anyway, good luck with it! keep it up :thumbsup:

#26

@elmasfeo: Thanks. Yup the cannonball dude definetly needs a complete redraw. I think i’ll try and do a few sketchyes only of the eagle and the guy in various stages of entanglement :smiley:
I asl oplan to add more houses etc on the ground. Effectively, the entire ground section should depict a small villag once it is complete.
The clouds are a very quick ugly version with rendered clouds and some deletion - they need a rework too.
Thanks for comments - good luck with your own work!

#27

Perhaps the face of the human cannonball as the eagle sinks in his claws :slight_smile:

#28

Starting to sketch in the town below

#29

Heya, just thought I would drop by and offer a good luck to ya…

#30

Hey Darksuit - tanks and the same to you! Looking forward to seeing your stuff :thumbsup:

#31

Exploring different postures and rates of entaglement for the human cannonball and the eagle. These are just quick pencil sketches scanned in.

#32

nice sketches, but I like more the deepsea creature…

good luck:thumbsup:

#33

Hey Ducklator - thanks. Well its ain’t over yet - I might try and get them both worked up to a certain standard and then decide which one to complete :smiley:

My main problem with the deepsea idea was that it lacked some dynamics, and as far as I get it, the theme “Spectacular” leans quite a lot towards an action scene or a very dynamic picture.

But hey - I could be totally and utterly wrong here :bounce:

#34

I thnk I will go for option 2 or 3 from the sketches. Option 1 seems too unbalanced somehow.

option 2 is the most balanced/centered one IMO whereas 3 is a bit messy but more dynamic.

If anyone has a suggestion on this - drop a comment :slight_smile:

#35

as you say, 2 or 3… I like nr 2 better, but someone could think that the guy is flying because the eagle picked him up, so… I think I would choose number 3, with the guy facing the eagle…

#36

I like no 2 better as well in terms of balace to the pic. Since everything else is far down below, they don’t contribute much - but then again 3 is more dynamic…hmmmm :shrug:

#37

Option 2 it is! I think it will create better balance, the posture in 3 is a bit unrealistic since the guy would have had to do almost a full turn in mid-air (remeber that he is travelling quite fast having been shot out of a cannon :smiley: )

Next step will be to get this sketched up properly (and then really start thinking about whether I’m doing this one or the deep-sea one :slight_smile: ). I think I need to make the cannon more visible down on the ground.