DWIV - Mini Challenge #1 - War General Portraits 2D

#281

some details of it


#282

Great work guys!

Frex; yeah man, I’m still hesitating :), great character by the way bro!Keep m coming!TEQUILLLAAA!!!

Baronimpossible: Great work!!!.He makes me think of General Sherman.Beautiful painting as usual man

Rawwad: Great progress man!

NH: Buddy!yeh looking cool man.Maybe try some more color variations on the clothes and helmet.He could maybe have something like a weapon or sceptre in his right hand to fill up the space left above.

krishna-fu;Beautiful colors wow!!Looking forwad to see your next steps.Good luck

solblomma:nice style.Good luck!

Crix Dorius:Yep nice man.I think the lighter grey part of his suit and the skin could maybe use some more texture or color variations.

DeadInTheAttic: Coming along nicely man.Indeed I think too that if you’ll get close to 300 with a beard.But on the other hand it wasn’t 300 that invented the Sparths hehe.
The red feather/hair on his helmet seems a bit stiff, just as one piece.

#283

i dont like that what i make last time, so that is actually wip, only dont know witch one is more gereral…:confused:

#284

Little update

#285

Here’s my minor update. I’ve spent a bit of time on the pose, looking for something dynamic, yet stationary. I finally ended up with the ‘Uncle-Sam-I-Want-U’ pose… Still not entirely happy with it, but can’tput my thumb on what it is…
C&C are welcome!

#286

Nice work everyone, good to see its gearing up to be an exceptional comp this year.

Going for almost a Rorschach print depiction in terms of composition. Want his horns and regal to be the focus & clear indicator of rank.

Super rough thumb, so updates will hopefully reinforce the focus

#287

well, decided today to give it a try just for practice… have studied alot since steampunk challenge… but color still is a pain…

no real story behind it, by reading the brief this idea popped up :stuck_out_tongue:

#288

hi guys! here is my general of the deads’ army

#289

Update :slight_smile:
I am wondering if it would be interesting to add some canvas texture… I’ll try this after refining my clouds. I hope that the sky works. C&C are precious @ this step, so guys don’t hesitate !

Okmer, buddy you definitely right ! :beer:
Jaminh tnx mate, waiting for your next piece :arteest:

Cheers for all the generals !

#290

OZOZOZ: I really like this one ! Very nice start, I’ll keep an eye on your general :arteest:
EarVant: yeah you are right about the “blue scars” , I already started addin’ the shadow line in the front of the helmet/diving bell… but if you didn’t saw it that means that it doesn’t work good yet :slight_smile:
tnx alot ! :beer:

#291

Hi everyone, here’s another WIP on face/hair area on my general. :wink:

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 took me ages to find out how to directly link the image! D;

>BaronImpossible
Absolutely amazing, I love it! Great work!! : )

 >syrez-one
 Ooooooohhh fantastic work, can't wait to see the finished one! ;)
#292

NH, the blue glowing lines, are they a glow coming from the surface of the skin or more like a glowing scar? Maybe add a shadow line on one side of the blue lines, to indicate depth? For the rest, nothing I could comment on now… I’ll wait for the clouds and cloth to be worked on before I comment on them. They can still go any way from here, and I’m not sure what you have in mind yourself.

#293

Continuing with details, fairly happy so far. I hope to finish up on the BW soon and begin adding colour. Comments welcome.

AcerB: I love the colour & design

Rawwad: that is a terrific creature, probably not too friendly

BaronImpossible: just love the painting, great facial expression

Rupy: loving that tribal theme

I’m really inspired by all these different entries, Great work everybody, can’t wait to see more!

#294

Thanks for the comments, all, appreciated :thumbsup:

NH - It’s looking good, nice environment too, but I’m not sure about the blue lines. Maybe think about getting rid of them and having the glow coming from inside of his collar only.

OKMER - Thanks, and there’s a reason he looks like General Sherman, because I used him as my reference! :slight_smile: I thought his stern expression was pretty cool so I basically amplified it. Looking forward to seeing your alien finished!

#295

Hey people, this is my first sketch

#296

>OZOZOZ
hehe i love his pipe! looking forward to see your next WIP : )

#297

Coming along nicely folks. Great job everyone.

OZOZOZ: that’s a great start!
J4Q: Great idea you’ve got there, I like it.
NH: nice job, but you could maybe make him more militaristic. He looks more like a politician to me. Great idea of adding the coral, maybe play with it more to make him more aggressive looking (spikes, helmet etc). Just some ideas.

Here’s my sketch. Not quite a general yet, maybe tomorrow :slight_smile:

#298

Nice work guys!

#299

Nice to see you here Staticpen.

Here is another update…

#300

It has occurred to me that I really have no clue what I’m doing when I paint, and I just make it up as I go. Anyway - I changed directions with the uniform and it still doesn’t sit well with me. I may end up completely revamping the whole thing on paper and scanning it in instead but with only 2.5 days left to work on it I really can’t afford to. Ah well.

Here’s progress thus far…

Keep up the awesome work!