very nice horse! 
I agree with the lower left guy, fits very well to the idea and horse!
DWIII - 2D - Matt Ellis - [TBA]
Matellis
#22
Hey thanks guys!
Just doing a bit of detail to the horse concept now. This is what I have so far. I will let this part rest for a couple days now until I get the main character worked out. Also I have started doing some basic thumbnails for the composition of the final illustration but they are extreamly wip and I will wait until i get some more solid ideas for composition.
Right now the story for the final composition is this:
Its getting very close to the end of the final battle with the machine army. My character runs over to a teamate to heal his major injuries. He is covered in sweat and blood and tries his hardest to save a close friend when all of a sudden a few machines spring out of the ground and head for the horse . While healing his friend he tries to use his rock powers to distroy the enemies before they attack and possibly kill his partner.
Heres the concept for the horse so far
Cheers!
vshen
#23
Looking good so far. I like the white underbelly color (nice touch!) combined with your overall browns. Keep up the good work and looking forward to see yours develop.
kary
#24
Lovely sketch Matt, horse is looking good, even the little ‘for scale’ figure feels integrated :).
I’d look at where you’re putting the weight. The heaviest part of that object is going right into the weakest part of the back right now and I don’t think that’d be the right setup long term. If you could get some of that up on the shoulder, or give the ‘saddle’ a strong sense that it spreads the weight it’d be solid.
The brute strength and characterization are dead on for earth so far, good stuff
system
#25
Hey man!
Good stuff so far… Looking forward to the character concept.
Lets bring em down! Good luck!
-Niklas
Matellis
#26
Hey thanks George, Kary and Niklas!
Great point Kary. I think I will go back into this sketch soon and fix that up so the weight is more distributed on the horses back. Thanks for the help 
Cheers
jramauri
#28
The concept is very well made, but his body shape always make me think he is a dog, not a horse. I have to look twice every time to believe it’s really a horse. Maybe if you give a little bit of volume to his back part, to balance the figure a bit more this impression vanishes.
Just my opinion, though. Great work.
Matellis
#29
Hey thanks Rezeroth!
Jramauri yeah I totally agree. It has been looking that way to me as well , from the get go I have been thinking I wanted a huge upper body on this horse but it is very hard to get away from the dog look, so I will change that very soon. Plus I think it just makes more sence to have a ripped lower body too since that is while most if not all the weight will be. I hope to have him updated during the weekend thanks for the crit!
Cheers
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