I’ve made it two weeks in a row! It’s time to celebrate!
Once again, my Art Director Dawn Murin, gave me a fantastic project.
I introduce you to Angelic Harold. That was not his name in the brief, but I love it. Harold is part of the Unfinity set.
“Explore Myra the Magnificent’s Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun, a retro-futuristic sci-fi carnival in Magic’s first space-themed set, and experience the most illustrious galactotainment in the Multiverse.”
The brief - “Introduce us to Harold, a BLACK, MALE ANGEL PERFORMER. He wears costuming in shades of WHITE and BLUE. Maybe a thin, glowing ring encircles his head like crown Show Harold HOVERING in midair, WINGS SPREAD WIDE. He holds a glowing staff with a sci-fi looking MICROPHONE on the end. Show him SINGING into the microphone, sustaining a high note and making a grand gesture to punctuate the moment like a seasoned professional.”
I instantly thought of my favorite front man ever. Freddie Mercury of Queen. I could go on and on about Freddie, but his very theatric style on stage was perfect. Always striking the most dramatic poses. Here is some of the inspriation images I put together for ideas.
I couldn’t find any of my sketchbook doodles for Ghoulcaller Gisa, but this is how I usually work. While I’m collecting inspiration/reference, I doodle ideas, poses, random sketches, anything I think of. Hopefully by the time I’m done, I hava a launching point. You can click on each for a larger image.
Sketch time. At this stage, I set up poses in Daz3d so I can move the camera around the pose and see if something comes up that I hadn’t thought of. Takes a bit more time, but usually leads to some different ideas.
The third sketch was the choice. I gather some reference, and make final adjustments to my 3d model. Adding props just as I would if I was making friends pose for ref. My ref collections can get messy sometimes. Usually for elements that I haven’t completely made a decision on.
Speaking of photo ref, notice the elements I took from Freddie to add a little unique touch to the singer. The mic, and how he holds it. Not just a pack of hotdogs wrapped around a cylinder.
At the time I created this painting, I wasn’t doing final sketches in pencil. But I went back and made this one off of the digital sketch. Not a lot of major changes to the character. Mostly just small adustments, but the background went through a few iterations before I was happy with it.
And now the final image with some detail shots.
