2D/3D Art Homework #14: Toil and Boil

This week I tried very hard to take constructive criticism to heart, heavily revamping each of my models (and adding a fourth—apologies!) before I started work on the variants. To tell the truth, I was having some issues with the variants, as it became difficult to mess with the sculpt as much as I was able to once it was taken off of Dynamesh and layers & subdivision levels were added. Because of this, these are really just foundations for variants which I will build off more of next week when we begin to do mesh inserts.

I also worked much more on making everything look professional, so hopefully that paid off...!

For the humanoid model, I wanted to keep the overall teenager-y shape of the body, instead starting to take it in different thematic directions. The first introduces runes and "fire" coming off of joints, which would be further worked on with a fiery "mane" next week. The second begins to incorporate decorative elements which would be further expounded on.

For the more bestial model, I took one in the direction of being a little more wild, with fur tufts that could perhaps be colored bright red and maybe even animated with a wavering animation. The second is much more decorative, like above, giving him some interesting inorganic-yet-organic pieces to play with in the future.

For the more spirit-like model, I played around with proportions more than adding decoration and detail. The first mimics the humanoid model, though the second a little more portly while the third is more angular and forward-leaning, with some rakes to make him seem more wispy.

Here's the sculpt that I started from scratch on. Admittedly a little simple, but I wanted to go for a much more stylized ghost-type character with a form that focused less on anatomy. I also had more fun with the head variations with different animals.

And here's all of them lined up all pretty in a row!

I look forward to further developing these next week.