August 3rd Thursday
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These are cool designs! But they are more in line with fan art and less with the actual problem of designing characters for a fresh take on The Wizard of OZ.
Let's see some more designs. Love your line work BTW. Very nice.
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@Lee-White Thank you! Yes, I agree with this being fan art - it´s definitely more interesting and more fun to develop own characters. I love this month´s challenge - character design is my favorite thing...and my constant frustration!
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Here is where I am heading at the moment with this. Needs some more fine-tuning before painting - comments and critique welcome!
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@smceccarelli Really cool designs. The only thing I'm thinking is that the Lion really needs to be a lion or the theme of him being powerful but afraid needs to come across stronger....only because you've already taken the theme to that place with the scarecrow and the tin man.....So I'm asking why would two characters be fantastical characters and the lion is human? The drawings are beautiful and I really love the Dorothy and Toto being a parrot.
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@evilrobot Absolutely good point , thank you - I will re-work that character!
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I love these @smceccarelli - fantastic work already! Really imaginative and fun.
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love it, great characters
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@smceccarelli
wow! just wow. but I wish that the lion was more.. liony? anyway hope to design great characters like that someday -
@smceccarelli good luck!
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And here is Lionel Blackmane...what do you think?
I have made some small changes to the other fantasy characters and I am going to completely re-design Dorothy - she does not really fit with the others and her pose is stiff and unnatural.
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@smceccarelli all of your character work is so great! I just had a closer look around your website and your talents go far beyond what I had even realized! So good!!!
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@smceccarelli This looks good - i have to say though that i really like the little fellow with the grog barrel - have you tried giving the original character a subtle muzzle of a lion and a lion''s tail? I think this might be worth a quick try - really nice line up you have here!
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I love it, laughing...
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@Rich-Green Thank you Rich! I can only return the compliment - your work is great! Love the mixing of illustration and photographs, it is a cool idea!
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Much happier with this Dorothy. I think the four characters now fit well together - maybe not so sure about the relative sizes. I will let it rest for a while and then fix any further flaws and go to paint.
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@smceccarelli It's an amazing line up - love new Dorothy - the older one was beautifully drawn too, but I like the fact that this new one looks like a captain, more authoritative, and on a technical note love the folds in her dress!
The one thing that makes me look twice/wonder how it works, is the huge collar on her outfit - it looks like her hair would have to be tied up for it not to get in the way/fall over the collar, yet the way the hair is falling on her back, it doesn't look like it's tied back. I'm not sure exactly what it is that needs fixing...and this is really super nitpicky because it's absolutely great work! But I mention it in case it's helpful.
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Loving it, but I would change the name of Jack Scarecrow to something else. It is to close to Jack Sparrow even with the hat and all I think of Pirates of the Caribbean. If you had to come up with these concepts and present them to an art director I would assume they would turn it away due to being so close to the Disney character in my opinion.
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Your characters look great. Love your line up.
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@smceccarelli
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Just a color/value sketch. Although I work as a designer, I find I have to force myself to apply design principles to illustration. This time I am going to really make a commitment to stick to a limited palette throughout the characters. I am also thinking of strong midday sunlight for the lighting scheme and a vague background gradient suggesting a beach/marine setting.
