[roarti]

update

[A78]

I wont continue this idea, but I think is funny to post this one, looks a bit like Marx

[Grin]

@roarti - I really like the direction you chose to go with. He looks like he is a real badass.
@quaresma - Thanks for the kind words. Can't wait to see what you are up to.
@ProofPudding - Thanks for the comment. The caveman looks brutal. Try toning down all the highlights just a little.
@COnker3 - Interesting concept. Keep working on it, but pay close attention to those values!
@A78 - ! haha! I love it!

Hello all! Here is a little update. This piece has kinda turned into a post-contemporary fantasy (can I say that with out sounding too apocalyptic?) I'm still rolling with the theme of tribal history. The kid fancies his new plaster of Paris shoulder pads, though most kids his age laugh at his smugness. He still never leaves the comfort of home without his twin dragon harakiri collectable blades. He says they give him an edge.

[A78]

Grin thats awesome! lighting ,drawing, composition , gesture, atmosphere... 5 stars

[C0nker3]

thx Grin im doin my best to keep these values consistent as i work. i want dramatic lighting so... hopefully its translating well. was there any part in particular that looks off? or is it just in general? Love your piece by the way. tells so much story.

ha A78 that is sweet.

any whoo progress,

(lol as soon i see the preview i immediately see things i want to change... >.< )

[Jordoz]

This concept is great the ancestors passing on the history to future generations.

[Jordoz]

[roarti]

update

[mauropainter]

These are examples of medieval and renaissance sculptures of the woodwose, the wild man of the woods in myth. I attached some links, can't remember where everything came from. I may do something may not, but maybe this will get some ideas going.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2934392030/

http://newlexicons.blogspot.com/2011...per-rough.html

[mauropainter]

Or how about this for inspiration:

The Tollund Man in Springtime by Seamus Heaney
The Guardian, Friday 15 April 2005

Into your virtual city I'll have passed
Unregistered by scans, screens, hidden eyes,
Lapping time in myself, an absorbed face
Coming and going, neither god nor ghost,
Not at odds or at one, but simply lost
To you and yours, out under seeding grass
And trickles of kesh water, sphagnum moss,
Dead bracken on the spreadfield, red as rust.
I reawoke to revel in the spirit
They strengthened when they chose to put me down
For their own good. And to a sixth-sensed threat:
Panicked snipe offshooting into twilight,
Then going awry, larks quietened in the sun,
Clear alteration in the bog-pooled rain.

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"The soul exceeds its circumstances". Yes.
History not to be granted the last word
Or the first claim ... In the end I gathered
From the display-case peat my staying powers,
Told my webbed wrists to be like silver birches,
My old uncallused hands to be young sward,
The spade-cut skin to heal, and got restored
By telling myself this. Late as it was,
The early bird still sang, the meadow hay
Still buttercupped and daisied, sky was new.
I smelled the air, exhaust fumes, silage reek,
Heard from my heather bed the thickened traffic
Swarm at a roundabout five fields away
And transatlantic flights stacked in the blue.

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Through every check and scan I carried with me
A bunch of Tollund rushes — roots and all —
Bagged in their own bog-damp. In an old stairwell
Broom cupboard where I had hoped they'd stay
Damp until transplanted, they went musty.
Every green-skinned stalk turned friable,
The drowned-mouse fibres dried up and the whole
Limp, soggy cluster lost its bouquet
Of weed leaf and turf mould. Dust in my palm
And in my nostrils dust, should I shake it off
Or mix it in with spit in pollen's name
And my own? As a man would, cutting turf,
I straightened, spat on my hands, felt benefit
And spirited myself into the street.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005...y.seamusheaney

[MadGoatt]

Hey all, I'm super new (just found this site about 2 weeks ago) to these, wanted to see if there were any specifics on how the image should be created (size/resolution etc) - I noticed in a previous jam there was a template to be used, but I didn't see anything like that for this one so wanted to verify that I don't need to build from something else (template...).

Guess I'll start some sketching while I wait for some answers (I didn't see these answered in the FAQ's).

Thanks and look forward to joining the community!

Aright, found the answers so ignore the questions. It pays to read things that say "How to"

[gonzalodeza]

Hi guys!!!
Slow star, I'll try to get there!!!

Cheers!

[crev]

Here is my start:

[Jordoz]

Here is another update I have worked on a bit of the lighting and shadows of the body.

[destroyer]

Sweet! I already enjoy drawing these guys as it is! These simple archetypes are just the best.