Exodus Portrait

Oh my gosh, why is it so hot tonight.

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Here’s a portrait of Exodus finished toward the end of summer. I changed his ears to be more goat-like, as I want his species to mainly have goat and ram influences. The horns were originally going to be some kind of armor (I know, armor on horns doesn’t exactly make the most sense – but I thought it could look pretty!), but now I’m considering maybe just making the horns look this way naturally.

I used to draw horns with these kinds of ridges – not as armor-like as the ones here, but sort of similar – then for a while I got it into my head that the horns should be based more on real life animals. I tried that for a while (though I don’t think I’ve posted any of those), but I’m not crazy about how they look. So think I’ll try going back to this more fantasy-based approach and see what happens.

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A week or two ago it started raining in the middle of the afternoon, and the clouds outside looked amazing with the sunlight streaming through and bits of blue sky peaking through the rainclouds. I tried doing a quick painting study of them, but it was very windy and kept changing. Still fun to try.

Yes, and now I will link another Modern Talking song! :D Something about this band, gosh!

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Lots of sketches

I was pretty productive today!

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This is a very quickly done character concept, I don’t think it was more than 3 hours. It still needs to be refined.

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This was the first thing I colored today. I wanted to sketch and try a more relaxed technique of just starting with color, adding line occasionally on top of the same layer if needed, then the lines would naturally eventually be painted over.

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I felt like attempting some city sketches, this was the first one.

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This was the second one. It’s the only one I used a photo reference for (a photo I took in NYC looking down a deserted alley in Chinatown), and oddly enough I think it’s the weakest one.

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The third one. I had fun with these.

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Did this random drawing before bed.

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A little doodle of Elsium to try painting with a soft brush, which is a method I’m not very familiar with.