I redrew some focal points and I will als update my characters and post underneath it.

it took forever but I am so satisfied with how these turned out and I feel like I really found these monsters

Here is some more ideation on my Harvest-men. I tried to further my thematic focal points by exploring alternative variations I could give to my characters. Again, the word harvest evoked a lot of familiar imagery for me because growing up in CenCal I was surrounded by a lot of harvesting/manufacturing equipment. Hope you enjoy viewing these and any feedback would be very appreciated.

I've fused my favorite ideas together in a new sketch for the pumkin-bull. After that I just wanted to clean him up in Procreate but I lost track of time... Sorry...

Need to get on posting my HW more often. I decided to go digital this time so I can get better with a tablet. For the most part I like what I explored with my focal points but I'm not totally satisfied with all silhouettes in my lineup. I also feel I need to get more practice with structure, proportion, and prospective as my "hived canine" and "rat kinged beast" feel a bit too exaggerated. I do however feel my thematic focal points are starting to shine and am proud of my "Rat Man" (though I wish I made a more detailed silhouette of him) and my "symbiotic tree". I notice that even the designs I don't feel have reached their potential are feeling stronger in their focal points so I feel I'm grasping what I needed to understand with this assignment.

didn't want to get overwhelmed so grabbed onto a few techniques and simplified it to one character. sorry

Sorry I’m posting a bit late, but I finished these off a while ago and only just got around to the posting part. Hope you like them Scott. P.S. Really liked your sculpts this year, especially your “wild hunt” one. Always inspiring.

Here are the rest of the  thematic focal points and updated character designs.

Here are the thematic focal points and updated character designs.

@Scott Flanders I have a question for the assignment. I realized just now, that the assignment includes the updated characters as well. I somehow missed this part during the first view of the assignment video. Are the updated versions to be done on a new A3 sheet in pencil as well? Would this be another iteration to the chosen characters from the development assignment? Or should this be a digital mix and mash to test the explored focal points? I am unsure about how much time I am supposed to spent on piecing everything together... Are we not going to redraw the final characters digitally later from scratch, or is the goal to develop the pencils to an "almost done stage" where we transform the scans into a digital shapes? Maybe you can help me here and elaborate a bit on this question. Wishing everybody the best, Andre

@Scott Flanders I guess this could be one of my favorite assignments :) Is there a deadline for the critique video? I started with my focal point sheets but had to pause due to other work issues. I would like to take my time with these but also want to get a chance on being critiqued.