[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_sketch.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_b.jpg[/img]
I did a sketch of one of my own characters and coloured it in Adobe PhotoShop. This time I decided to make something a bit different to my other coloured drawings. I wanted to push my coloring one step further and take away the line art. I used the original sketch as a guide.
I might go back to it later and work on the background more.
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_c.jpg[/img]
I've tried making some changes...
Have I got the head at the right angle? Is it looking better or worse? Argh, I've been spending too long in front of this image.
Thanks for the feedback! It's always appreciated.
JohnN:
Thanks. It's true I had been looking at it for too long. I needed a break and fresh eyes to look at it. It's great to hear everyones first impressions on it.
The new shape for the head does work better. It also helps to define the profile of his head. I might work a little more on the eyes and see if I can express his emotions, personality etc.
bullet21:
Thanks! I can't model very well... but I like to draw :).
Everyone:
I need a little help with the eyes.
My Alien is a weak and innocent creature. His only physical strength is in his suit. He uses the suit for self defence and only uses it for attack when he really needs to.
What sort of elements in his eyes would best represent his weak and innocent nature? Cold colours? Would reflective eyes work better as well?
I'll try figuring that one out for myself but if anyone has any suggestions then I'd love to hear them :).
Thanks!
It's looking good [:)]
Tooner Fish: the simple "wet puppy dog look" would work wonders if you wanted to go that way - at the moment it looks like a thin membrane of the same sort of skin stretched over the eyeballs.
Oh, and the other thing that I couldn't quite place my finger, but I finally thought what it was, is the glass bubble doesn't seem to have the shine or reflectivity of the opposite interior surface.
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_d.jpg[/img]
bullet21:
Tears huh? Good idea, I didn't think of that one. I tried not to go overboard on the tears. Don't want to make him to emotionally weak. Did I do an alright job?
Yeah, it does sound like EWJ. It was in no way intentional. I made this character back in 1998/99. I was having fun drawing characters with tech suits and decided to make a creature that really needed a suit to survive. I've drawn him here and there and have only developed him a little in the last 6 - 7 years. I'll just have to be careful that I don't get too close to the worm in the suit.
J.I. Styles:
How are the eyes looking now?
The glass bubble (helmet) has been a bit of an issue for me. It has so much potential to colour and I've been stuck as to how it should look. It makes me wish I had an empty glass fish bowl lying around somewhere for me to source from. Is what I've done so far convincing enough? Thanks for the pointing out what it was missing! I've added reflections from the lights above and the floor below.
Everyone:
I've tried adding eye lids to change the emotion of the alien. Here are a few trials:
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_head_a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_head_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_head_c.jpg[/img]
Too true MoonUnit. I've decided to stick with the second one.
Update time:
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_e.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/alien_head_d.jpg[/img]
I'll go and have a break, keep quiet for a good while and get back to you all with a finished pic.
Thanks for everyone's help! I'ts greatly appreciated!
blah, Lost my previous post to the great "page cannot be displayed" void [:)] To paraphrase myself:
I like him! [:D]
I'd say maybe do a little work to define the curvature of his head, and do an extra pass to add in subtle colour bleeding and reflection to the metals