This’ll be the first time I compete in one of the game art challenges, lucky me this topic is relatively high-poly character models (my speciality). I chose to create Odin, the norse (viking) god of war and wisdom because to be honest, I’ve just always wanted to make a viking.
A quick overview:
He only has one eye, hence the rag over his face, because he gave the other so that he could drink from the well of wisdom. Though he is said to carry a spear as his weapon of choice, this also means he has mastery in the art of magic. Odin is the father of the gods, and is generally depicted as being an old man, but at the same time I wanted to make him look wise and powerful (in both mind and strength).
As he is one of the ‘old gods’ I wanted to make everything about him look very worn and grizzled, and I’m hoping to incorporate a lot of celtic design in the details of the texture.
So far I’ve just done a quick sketch to try and include all the features I want and establish the overall design. To preserve space on my server I’m planning on replacing this original picture with the subsequent versions.
Critiques and comments are very welcome.
