My little brother turned 21 yesterday. I think he celebrated by going to the gym and having some Chinese food in the evening. I'm pretty certain that that's not all he did, but I haven't asked him much more.
A borrowed figure (plus a couple of arms) for the purpose of thinking through another character design for one of my projects. I was pretty happy with the quick, line drawing back next to it. It was a template for the drawing below - a different location for the hourglass marks.
And here's the idea for the other location.
A quick gas mask study. Because it's the first obvious choice for quick drawn studies.
A LARPer. Or my experience of one. Minus the hair, yes, but everything else is included. I believe that's lightning in his right hand.
One of my friend from the course has created a blog - 2hourchallenge.blogspot.com - so go and have a look-see! This groups of doodles was from the challenge to draw a video game character in a way that the character hasn't been drawn before.
The challenge rules are simple - 1/2 hour prep time - gathering sources and ideas and inspiration, etc and then 2 hours drawing time. It doesn't have to be one two hour stint, but the total time taken to draw out your final idea shouldn't be more than 2 hours. Than you email it to him and he posts it on the blog.
It's a fantastic idea and it's something that I will be trying to contribute to as much as I can.
For this challenge, I took Pyro - the greatest character in TF/TF2 - and tried to see what I could do. These are my thumbnails to see where I would take it; and I included them in my 1/2 hour thought-gathering process.
Then I thought it'd be cool to see what Link would look like in one of the thumbs I'd drawn, so there's why he's in the bottom one here. After that, I went off on one and figured the Pyro may never have been drawn as a Native American before - so that ended up with the top thumbnail here. Instead of a flamethrower, I gave him a torch and instead of a Firemans' axe, I gave him a tomahawk.
So that led to another pose of the Native American Pyro (with the opposite view of Link fromt he thumbs above)...
And another...
And that's when I thought "This is going well; I think I'll draw Link again a few more times."
And here's the final image. Of sorts. I figured I'd taken the challenge off course, so I decided to see it through to at least a good drawing of Link. Bow and arrow option here, with little Navi up to the right, there. Once Photoshop gets a-goin' I'll throw some colours on this.
Speaking of colours (seamless), my wifey and I stopped off at the side of a pub to watch this guy do his thang for a while. It was really nice to watch. He said he tried to so a new one every week - weather permitting.
I'm going to wrap it up here. I've got a bit to say about the footy - as most Englishmen will - but it's not too important to lose sleep over. There was another thing, too, but it's slipped my mind. Maybe it'll make it's way back in there by tomorrow.
Peace.
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