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Hello comrades. This is my current line up, I plan on doing 2 more but I'm retrying the ideation phase and this time aiming to stray away from the illustration side and more focus towards shape language and thumbnail drawings, as per the advice given in the critique video. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I'll continue to try and make adjustments through error.
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3yr
Much better comrade Auno. You make the motherland proud :D Seriously though, these are much better. I like huge arm archer. Have you read Murder Falcon? (If you haven't you should. It's really fun.)
@auno
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3yr
Hello. Should we still draw 2-3 inches for this process? The other video mentioned to pick a few characters from the one's we developed, does 3 sound good or is that a stretch?Should we stick to one?
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3yr
Hi. I did the process again but this time I tried to make the drawings 2-3 inches as instructed. I came up with some new ideas but also added to the old ideas in a way. I listed some of my thoughts going into these sheets, but I generally forget to write everything down before drawing, mainly because I keep mental notes of what I'm looking to draw and once I have those ideas I tend to tunnel vision it until it's on paper.
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3yr
Hello everyone here's the last 3 pages to my first post on Crow-man. I took everyone's advice and I'm surprised at some of the ideas I came up with, most notably the 2nd and 3rd pages I was really in the zone that day.
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3yr
I have more in depth feedback for you. I may have to swing back around to it. In general you've done a good job. But I'd like you to try it again, but this time draw smaller. No larger than 1 to 2 inches tall in your case. You will less time filling in your large drawings, and more time iterating on your ideas. Small is faster and forces you to isolate what matters in terms of your theme. Which pieces of this puzzle are most important to establishing its dimensions?
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Here's the first page of my Crow-man ideas, I'm completely stuck after this page I can't seem to think of other possibilities, I know Scott said to aim for 4 pages but not sure what else I can incorporate into this Crow-man? Anyway thanks for reading I'll try and think hard what else I can change or add.
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3yr
Crow people! Yuss. Nice work Auno. I think you should keep pushing. You want to do a 'deep dive' on the symbolic uses/depictions of crows throughout popular culture. Please attempt 3-4 more sheets before you wrap up the exercise.
I think this is the hard part. We have some intially images and to put them away just to explore other options is difficult. You can come back to your first idea any time, if you like it best, but we are supposed to try anything out that pops into mind.
So think about which aspects are in the main concept and change them.
Humaniode crow with weapon:
You can vary the proportion of human and raven, a man with wings or a raven with hands. Bulky, skinny, maybe undead and mostly bones? Maybe the human sits in his empty rib cage?
Maybe the raven is small like a normal raven but sits on a man's head, claws digged into his brain and controls him?
What if the weapon is more fantasy? The raven would be able to shoot razer feathors from his wings when spreads the wings/flaps them.
Maybe he has two heads? A beak with teeth? 4 wings?
What aspects does a raven have? It's black/ dark. Darkness, maybe the top half is a raven fading out into dark mist like a ghost?
And so forth, just allow tha associations run and draw what you like, don't judge an idea.
Maybe just start doodling silhouettes? No details, just silhouettes to get different shapes. And look up crows to try and get the brain going? What's crow man supposed to be about? Just ask a bunch of "what if?" type of questions. "What if his wings were cut off in a fight?" "Why was he in a fight in the first place?" "Who was he fighting?" etc etc. Go down the rabbit
hole.
