Halloween brief

The first attempt at finishing the piece, I felt the two halves contrasted too much but I like how the details on the face stand out in comparison to other edits.

Here I added some blood, trying to bring the two areas of focus together by adding a single colour to tie them in. I think I lost some of the details I liked about the face and there is still some question about the eye on the left belonging to a wolf. 

To make the subject matter more obvious I went on to add a snout and a snarl (though I don't like the teeth in the end product) to the picture above as well as add a few more tweaks. I don't know the total hours I spent on all three but I feel like my photoshop skills have definitely benefitted from going back and trying over, adding more detail and thinking of the composition a little more.

Definitely finished with it now though!

Halloween brief part 1

Starting with the Halloween brief which involves two contrasting parts as shown in my mood boards posted earlier in my blog. 

Something about halloween and the full moon makes me GRUMPY... Lol jk, werewolves, yay!

Common go to costume, big time legend with a strong hold in popular culture (Trueblood - yay, Twilight - hiss, Supernatural - yay), no doubt monsterous. It's all hallows eve Wednesday and (by coincidence) it's a full moon tomorrow.

I wanted to use this particular beast with the image of the sanded paint on a car to create a frightening and contrasting scene representing the duality that a werewolf embodies.

15 minute or maybe a bit over torso

Paint over cannon

This is my first attempt at doing a complex gun model. It didn't turn out like I wanted it to but then again I didn't collect any reference pictures to grab details from and that was most likely the down fall of this.

Wrinkle project

Working from my previous dragon head model I worked in sculptris again to make the dragon look old and haggard. I have dubbed this beast the 'Saggon'. I tried to incorporate scars and marks to as well as extreme sags and wrinkles being pulled down my gravity. I included areas like the lip and various spines that have also drooped and lost their vitality. I would like to take one of the screen shots into photoshop and add more tone as well as details like a cataract over a scarred eye, enlarged pores and disheveled scales in faded colours.   

Wrinkle project

A swift sculpt of an old goblin exploring the brief of wrinkles. I tried to incorporate a sense of gravity and sagging. I then took a screen shot and brought it over into photo shop where I tweaked highlights and added bits of colour as well as a few features. This really demonstrated to me how effective sculpting combined with photo shop can really be.