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Anarchangel
@ams said:
Like The Web. Switch your colors for the torso and the hood and highlight white. That will bring out some depth. For the gloves and boots, try designing something similar to the spider legs in the background. Spiders have 8 legs, try to make them all uniform. The right boot does not go with the legs you have chosen, unless he is battle scarred or something. Go to a more natural. straight forward stance. Maybe spread the legs out a bit, to simulate the spider legs?
I know what you mean about the glove. It’s a unique item.
Cheers!
I actually already tried making the torso a light grey and shading white, per your suggestion for Ricochet, but I’ve learned that one of the areas where I really lack skill is shading black and white. I can never get it looking natural. I’ll have to practice quite a bit more before I’m confident enough that it looks right.
I had originally envisioned him having four spider legs behind him and four wrapped around his torso to better break up the white. I pictured there being some kind of metallic spider thorax etc designed on his back. He does have four on his body but two of them were supposed to be lower down, around his waist almost. I just couldn’t get them to fit there so they ended up higher, near his shoulders. Unfortunately with the way I coloured them, they ended up kind of blending in with the torso.
I do really like your idea of making the gloves and boots resemble the spider legs. I’ll definitely have to try that next time around.
Anyway, I did say this was just a first draft and I do plan on going back and fixing a lot of things so I really do appreciate all the tips guys.