Thanks for the tips! I think I’m getting better… albeit at a snail’s pace. I haven’t done anything lately that was worth posting.
Just for fun, I decided to enter the current contest and redesign Legatus’s character Fusionella.
Here’s the link to his thread (to give full credit where credit is due): http://www.heromachine.com/forums/topic/the-legatus-universe/page/26/
And a direct link his image: http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Legatus-Fusionella.png
So I took a stab at it. Originally I had a much more dramatic pose but then I kept having issues making it look right… so I ended up doing a “static” pose. I tried to make it a little more fun with the skirt, but it’s still pretty lame.
At least I was a tiny bit more daring with the shading. (Emphasis on the word “tiny”). I still have this aversion to doing it really dramatically, an aversion which I am completely aware of.
I think I may have rushed this character a bit because I’m heading to California in a few hours and I wanted to get it done before the trip. If anyone has some tips on doing boots on non-standard legs, they would be much appreciated. I wanted to keep the blue tone on them that Legatus had in the original, and masking the boots over the legs doesn’t look quite right. I did it anyway, but I’m wondering if any of you wiser folk have a better idea. 🙂
