The finished item =D
Showing posts with label yakkus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yakkus. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Friday, 8 January 2010
Got Axe - Part 1
Yeah, yeah, I know it's been a while. Dissertation, Christmas, blah blah - kinda been dead the past month or so. But have re-applied myself to this blog, and will hopefully update more regularly from now on, as my dissertation is complete! :) Hard-bound and everything:
Okay, so to get myself back in the creative zone, I've decided to work on a T-Shirt design based around Yakkus, Fraser's Minotaur fighter from our D&D group. I want it to be graphically strong, more of a silhouette and tonal piece than anything else. Pretty much trying to channel Mike Mignola's Hellboy style:
Did some practise sketches to warm up my very rusty drawing skills and get a feel for the character:
And after some experimentation I got a real feel of how I wanted the design to look:
I love the facial expression =D Anyone who knows Fraser will recognise the evil grin as the one he wears when causing mayhem and carnage.
Anyway, after getting the expression down I enlisted some help from my brother with regards a reference picture for the pose:
And after pecilling a a sketch and inking it via lightbox I ended up with this:
...Which I am pretty proud of, if I say so myself ^_^
Planning on working out the shading etc. next. Gonna do all that stuff digitally I think - probably in illustrator. With big thick shadows and small white highlights - and bright red blood dripping off that badass executioners axe >=D
The slogan for the T-shirt, just in case you're wondering, is gonna be "Got axe...?"
(Like the "got milk?" slogan, get it? =D)
Anyway, that's all for now, peace out! =D
Okay, so to get myself back in the creative zone, I've decided to work on a T-Shirt design based around Yakkus, Fraser's Minotaur fighter from our D&D group. I want it to be graphically strong, more of a silhouette and tonal piece than anything else. Pretty much trying to channel Mike Mignola's Hellboy style:
Did some practise sketches to warm up my very rusty drawing skills and get a feel for the character:
And after some experimentation I got a real feel of how I wanted the design to look:
I love the facial expression =D Anyone who knows Fraser will recognise the evil grin as the one he wears when causing mayhem and carnage.
Anyway, after getting the expression down I enlisted some help from my brother with regards a reference picture for the pose:
And after pecilling a a sketch and inking it via lightbox I ended up with this:
...Which I am pretty proud of, if I say so myself ^_^
Planning on working out the shading etc. next. Gonna do all that stuff digitally I think - probably in illustrator. With big thick shadows and small white highlights - and bright red blood dripping off that badass executioners axe >=D
The slogan for the T-shirt, just in case you're wondering, is gonna be "Got axe...?"
(Like the "got milk?" slogan, get it? =D)
Anyway, that's all for now, peace out! =D
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Blog # ...can't be bothered numbering them anymore x_x : ... heeeeere's YAKKUS!
Continuing the battle of adventurers vs giant two headed monstah, here is Yakkus, the minotaur fighter/brute force guy on the team. With a seriously vicious axe and more butt-kicking skills than... lots of other people combined, he's in search of a truly awesome battle that will eanr him his rite of passage into adulthood within his clan.
And he is cool! ^_^
PS: I did draw this page yesterday, but was unfortunately unable to upload it - don't hate me just cause my internet does!
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