Alien Pirate Progress!

in characterdesign •  7 years ago  (edited)

This is progress on a newly developed digital painting that I've been working on! It has been coming along pretty nicely and I can't wait to see where it ends up! Below are some progress images on where the drawing originated!

I started off with a general pencil sketch, which isn't always how I start my images but in this case, I did! I then took a photo of the image and brought it into Procreate where I made the image to have a more mid toned value so that I can begin popping in highlights and darker values to start pushing the forms of the character more!


The next few steps are adding more form defining value as well as finer details to help sell more of a 3D effect as well as start to develop the overall look of the character's skin and costuming! The look of the skin and costume don't always have to be done in this stage but that's how I decided to do this character.



The next three steps are mainly detail refining in all areas of the design as well as more costume pieces to push the pirate look! Sometimes I don't always know what kind of character I am going to be creating because I just start with a general sketch. Sometimes I find it throughout the process. Images start coming to mind that are sometimes influenced by the natural flow of the piece. I love keeping the drawing loose throughout the whole time I am working with each stage. The final stages are yet to come where I will be finishing up costume pieces and possibly adding set pieces and other life forms to accompany the main character as well as, of course, color! I hope this helps anyone out there who possibly struggles with the digital painting transition from traditional media! Please send me feedback and feel free to ask me any questions! Thank you for viewing my post!

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Woah. This is incredible. How in the world long did this take?

Thank you! So far 12 hours!

Oh wow! I love this! So glad to have seen your post resteemed on my feed ☺️

Thank you so much! :)

wow, really looking good there, alien pirate sir! love the step by step, also <3 really great detailing and definition-ing <3333

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Thank you very much!

nice. this guy is serious. beautiful work, and good job for detailing the process, its inpiring! Ive just invited my friend @earthtriber to this platform, he's a uv artist and your work reminds me a bit of some of his digital 3D work....check him out! it would be great to get you guys in contact and share the megaARTshazaam. He's literally just joined today....so stay tuned for some extra awesomeness. Keep up the great work man :) I look forward to seeing more!

Thank you! I really appreciate it! I'll check out his stuff!

THIS IS AWESOME!!! Can't wait to see the final version :)

Thank you very much! I am planning on finishing it this week!

gained a follower, love your work :)
have you looked into getting something like this 3D printed perhaps. it would look great as a little desktop figure

Yeah, that would be pretty cool! It would also be fun to sculpt as a maquette!

Oo yes i can imagine a dark crystal style puppet

Very cool character! A little gypsy looking... but I guess Pirates were kind of nomads and liked jewellery!

Nice work

That’s how I see them too but since it’s an alien, anything pretty much goes !

True, anything goes! I still havebto get into digital painting. Soon I'm sure. Maybe next winter!

Great alien! Though I would not be tempted to give him a kiss.