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This is an update to the oldest original character I still have in circulation, and one of my first in general dating back to 2002 in 7th grade. He even predates the Arvalis project, he was exactly what a 12 year old liked in 2002; dragon man with spiky blonde hair. Im very fond of this design, with each of these central protagonists, I try to play off a motif in their clothing, his being a bull. Arvalis has phoenix, Corrina has flowers, Scarlet has hippocampus, etc. You can refer to the Ryu-bæroc Species Design Sheet as to how his anatomy works.2010:
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PhotoshopCS3: a couple days
SpektreΒ©RJ Palmer
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Omg, to see this evolution during the years make me dream about the future emprovement of my characters *_*
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Yeah I really gotta get back to these characters sometime this year.
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I think this may be my favorite of your designs. There's a heavy Celtic Gladiator feel to him and the fact that he's a human/dragon hybrid is just icing on the cake.
Looking through the weapon choices I could see him wielding one of the straight blades over a curved one, especially with the Northern European influence.
My question is: when is a video game company going to pick you up??
Best,
Kun
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Awesome work man!Β
How you, concept artists, come up with so many variations and elements to compose your designs? When I try to create a character it usually looks very simple. like this: timvithor.deviantart.com/art/Sβ¦
You could do some "Advanced character design" class in Skillshare. I would definetly try it.
Anyway, keep the good job.
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Dig up a lot of reference material, it will keep giving you ideas even after you think you have run out.
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Thanks for the feedback man! I'll do it.
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a fantasy character . .. . that isnt an elf or a dwarf
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT HERESY IS THIS D:
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Do you do some research before making the designs? Or do you just work by scratch?
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Wow, I really like how you have drawn his "wings" The clothing reference is also really nice and interesting to look at. Say, how much time do you need for designing one type of cloth on these sheets of you? Would be interesting to know.
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Doing one of these design pages will average two days I think?
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Oh no I meant just for one of these outlines to the left, not the whole sheet
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Between 20 and 40 minutes probably?
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Is the bottom-right sword design concept art based off of the manga Ragnarok?
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Was just curious. The kind of "jaw" thing is awesome. xD
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Beautiful weapons work! Those sword designs are very rare.
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my immediate first thought was Trogdor the dragon man (burninating the village side)
great composition and flow to him.
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Can he actually fly? He looks too heavy with small wings..
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This is my favourite of his designs so far! Awesome!
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nise, enjoying the design, im not a big fan of how the tail is over the weapon's and they fade off, it's kinda of distracting, but it could just as well be me
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Super cool! You should be producing video games.
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The details are just amazing.
So his wings can swivel on a joint in his back or something?
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jeez there's such a huge improvement gap from 09-10-this one O_O
what's your secret lol
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A year of painting will go a long ways towards stepping your skill level up
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HAve you considered doing a step by step of one of these? I really love the way you have the progression, but I'm curious on how you did the whole thing. Do you start with the first image, and just copy it 12 times and just make changes until you get to the one you have as the larger pic? They're just amazing.
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Yeah that's basically it. I start with a nude base that I like, then duplicate it and draw outfits over it. It's all about experimenting with design ideas to get to the one that really clicks.
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Whats shudra armor? Google didn't seem to have any answers.
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shudra are the lowest caste in the indian caste system, they're peasants, i was just thinking the armor had an indian style, but the metal parts looked like they might be some sort of standard issue gear, hence shudra armor
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You can tell he's been working out over the years
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nice designs! It's also good to see your other, older versions of the character and how it's progressed since then
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WOW AWESOME!
Do you use a tablet to draw this?
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