Chow 147 :: Baba Yaga - IDW Crossover!

[Vorace]

uuuh gonna be a killer round again!! a LOT of superb entries so far!!


worked more during my lunch time :

[Teundeboer]

Okay, first of all. This is probably never going to look anywhere near as perfect as what other people are making. But anyhow I thought I should give this thing a try.

So, this is my initial sketch of what I had in mind, crit away.

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[cubesoflard]

I've been painting on this at school. Let me know what your think. Everyones doing great.

[CCThrom]

Too many great ones to comment on them all… This is shaping up as a killer round!

Matt Dixon – Awesome as usual… my 2 cents, the dark image with luminous figure is more creepy.

Wiggers – The face is awesome and I like the “full illustration” vibe you’ve got here. The only suggestion I’ve got is her hair might want to be a bit more opaque, give it some volume.

Stoat – Another great face, I hope you get to finish that!

Fersteger – Good to see you around… nice start, very “D’aulaire Troll” feel.

Dan! – I like the soft-touch rendering.

Ionic – Great work sequence… You’ve practically got a conceptart tutorial there!

Sony – You’ve got some good ideas there, I like the mortar with feet (reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Luggage) and I juuust noticed the Playstation, nice touch.

Poshspice – LOVE the Rackham vibe!

AsurA – I hope you come back with finals!
Sekino – Another nice Rackham (or Biblin!) vibe…

Boyo – Great work! (and welcome)

Adam Schumpert – Really good action

Tommoy – Me likes very much… the chicken feathers are a nice touch (and well rendered)

Dwinbotp – She is really scary! The hair is incredible. Are you going to put any more detail into the pestle?

Deadred – Thanks for the comment, you’ve got a good start. One thing I’m wondering… there might be something off with her right hip joint (under the skull) is it too far to the side?

Dan liimatta – Nice! Very stylish

[Mark Tarrisse]

Hey everyone there are sooo many good entries !
Dan liimatta : This is reallyy nice, nice compo, and love the colors! can wait to see it finished!
LEEBLEEB : Nice start :)
Deadred : Nice and sexy pose :P
Lennon : I really like her clothes, but would have liked to see her face a little.
Pixelturner : Wuu scarryy :) It's nice but I think her legs are a bit to big.
CCThrom : Love it :) can wait to see it with colors, just one thing you should maybe add more space on the left and right.
dwinbotp: Scary ! really nice but her shoulders looks a bit to large, and her left arm is a bit weird.
Tommoy : Like the concept, and the colors :)
Ionic : Killer stuff !

Sorry haven't got time for the others but so many awesome entries, I'll try to do comments for everyone after the votes.

And here's my progress so far, I need to finish her mortar and work more on the colors, comments and critics are welcomed !

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/markus_the_barbarian/BabayagaWIP06.jpg

[Adam Schumpert]

This is turning out to be quite an awesome chow. I'm loving everyone's work so far :)

At the moment I feel like I am barely pecking away at this one. :frustrated: I like the where whole piece is going at the moment but, I'm not sure that I will have time to complete everything. So even though I think the chicken house joining the chase is one of the more interesting ideas I've had in this one I think I'm going to need to put it aside to finish up the tighter composition of Baba and her prey.

Anyway here's the update. Doesn't look to different at this time which is kind of frustrating but ahh well...
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Take care

[Inkfish]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/inkfish/hag3.jpg

[CCThrom]

Marcusthebarbarian the spacing issue isn't applicable right now... those pencil lines are going on top of an already-painted background, but I will probably still take your advice and scale her down just a touch relative to that background.

Adam Schumpert that is a VERY ambitious composition! Props to you, and I hope you have enough time to work it out.

Inkfish nice creepy face there... and good color rendering.

[shannanigan]

so I decided to go back a little bit and actually churn out the witch design first before I move onto my final sketch..its just more helpful to know the form and the clothing before I do the actual pose...


I love your Baba Yaga... I want to hug her, she is so cute. Which is probably not your goal, but I'm a little twisted on my view of cuteness... so don't worry about it. LOL!

The creepy eyes in the hair are a nice touch... :D

[dwinbotp]

Thanks for all who gave constructive advice, I appreciate them a lot:D Speaking of advice, I have to call this done, unless of course there's room more for improvement, before I added more detail work on this piece, I asked my girlfriend to take a look and I wanted to know if it was better with the deep dark eyes or should I add the whites to them? She stood still for a few seconds with a disgusted look on her face, rushed out of my workplace and told me she would not stay in the same room with me as long as I'm working on Baba, SHEEESH! and SHE's the horror flick fan...enough banter, here's my Baba.

[buffichar]

thanks again benu. I'll be watching the thread to see how everyones doing though. :)

[D@niel]

Another round of awesome entries guys!:)
Thought I would give it a go.

[Inkfish]

Whoa, nice one D@niel!

[masque]

dwinbotp, she is magnificently gruesome, a horrific tour de force! I see more of a kettle and staff than mortar and pestle but so what? :D

[cubesoflard]

Dwinbotp: Really nice render. The face is excellent.

Inkfish: Love the colors. Everything compliments each other really nicely.

[WunderDark]

Awersome stuff here. Im starting to get tired of mine...
here's a wip anyway. Crits appreciated
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[MrAnimation]

Adam Schumpert- Ok Your's is my fav so far, i just like the feal. It almost tells the story of to kids stumbeling across this strainge house, getting too close, Baba Yaga smells them and comes screaming out of the house, as it too, starts chaising.

dwinbotp- I cant even say... thats just..... words.... really amaizing!

You all are officially my roll models... really! each one of you have such a keen grasp on concept art... so inspiring!

[dirkvandulmen]

a small baba update...
A lot of interesting wips out there. Inspiring.

Enjoy.

[Senpen]

this is it so far
any crits would be most welcome
the face i revealed a little more so hopefully that helps.
the wooden legs i read somewhere in a story and then i saw the hellboy comic looked like it portayed them as well so i thought wood legs might be interesting.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f322/Sknurbein/babayaga3.jpg

[David-david]

I decided to follow with the heads and props before finishing the illustration, so I coulld get more into the character.

[doomstagg]

David-david nice rendition. does she have dark glasses on?

[Kian]

yeeeeah D@niel, thats class mate. Nice one :D

[David-david]

Hahaha! Doomstagg...

Yes, she is a crossover between Miles Davies and Baba Yaga!

No, honestly I decided not to put her eyes because it seemed more scary to me

[Antne]

WOW! the work here is amazing. I can't wait to see what will be chosen for the finals. It will be a ridiculously hard choice to pick.

Here is what I have so far. Any thoughts? I'm a little burnt on it right now but hope to have time for another pass and make some improvements.

thanks,

[Christoffer]

IanLlanas - Great work on the composition, especially the children. You definitely get a sense of a dreadful moment.

Adam Schympert -That is going to rock when it's done. I love what you did with the kids and how they are chased by not only Baba but her house as well.

masque - I like the look of this. Seems like a tradtional children's book design.

artina - Nice design, especially the carvings on the mortar.

Stoat - Very cool. Haha! I think she'd be better off making soup seing as she doesn't seem to have any teeth.

Ionic - Very nice work. She looks more like she's ready to kick ass than chase after helpless kids though.

Sulk-Sal - Interesting design choice on her head gear. However, I would've used more reference from real animal skulls.

FerrousJack - Good idea with the demonized troll design.

Wiggers - Loving the heads! Nice work.

Tommoy - Very, very nice design!

CCThrom - Coool!

Vorace - Woah! Nice rendering going on but the design reminds me a little too much of something out of the LOTR movies.

Teundeboer - Hm..at first glance, it looks like she is trying to save herself and the fat kid from falling. Don't know I this is what you're going going for. Other than that, you need to work more on design and detail. Banzai!

dwinbotp - Wow! Now that is a badass witch. I can definitely sense a Clive Barker vibe here. Mucho nice!

D@niel - Very nice flow and sense of speed here. The colors are great, but I think the face looks too manly.

WunderDark - Don't give up. You've come this far and it's looking good. I'd work more on the face and the victim's foot. Right now the face looks sad and not very exciting. Try to give her a crazier, menacing look. The outer side of the foot needs to be straightened out. Google feet and focus on that part and you'll see what I mean.

Senpen - Those are some crazy looking legs. Good job!


Alright I'm beat. I wish I had the strength to give everyone a comment but I need to post my own stuff too. :P I'm a bit late into the game but I just couldn't resist this opportunity - what an awesome theme. I hope I can get enough work into this before the deadline. Tell me what you think! :D

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6997/chow147wipoz4.jpg

[Mark Tarrisse]

Well I think I'm done with it. But C&C are welcome, I can still change a lot of things :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/markus_the_barbarian/Babayaga.jpg

BTW D@niel your are sick man ! :)

[MJ_Alcazar]

Wow guys, you're really pumping out some good stuff.

I haven't progressed as far as I'd like this week. I've been Job Hunting. That's got to be one of the most time consuming affairs that produces the least amount of results.

Anyway, I might scrap this and try a more Russian traditional look, and looking at all these scary looking Baba's, I might try something scarier too.

[Sulk-Sal]

Thanks for the crit Christoffer! I usually find a piece of reference I like and work off only that (mostly) when getting more would help. I see also I didn't follow it as closely as I should have. That's something I'll work on for the next piece.

And my..."shading" needs something else too. It's shortcomings were really highlighted here. Perhaps using up a sheet of charcoal, scanning it, and placing it on the lineart instead of just doing the pencil thing on paper would be better? Hmm...

The background will also be much darker.

[masque]

Markusthebarbarian: Exquisite lighting! Hits the one bright eyebrow maybe a little too hard? And the eye beneath it not enough?

[John Bridges]

Managed to put in a bit more time on this one. I'm blown away by all the entries so far. So much competition...

[David-david]

Started a new version

[bevis]

awesome stuffs :)
did this one tonight, dunno if its better or worse than the last one, tried to hit the idea more. have to work on it, but with some decent lighting it should look kewl ... i hope

[Mark Tarrisse]

Masque : your absolutely right, thanks a lot, I've just adjust that, I think I will add just little more details and after I will post it in the finalburning.

[Nikola Marinkovic]

Thx! So, if I'd give her grey hair and lower her boobs to her waist it's cool? ;)
I deliberately made her younger and without the mortar and pestle, but maybe it indeed loses it's touch with the brief a little this way

EDIT: Good idea, I gave her some straw-ish white/grey hair, and now she looks like on old insane tart a bit more already :D

Ur welcome. :)
Now she really is an old insane tart. :)

[masque]

First color version. Gonna sit on it for a while, let my eyes freshen up before looking it over again.

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C&C welcome & appreciated.

[fersteger]

Holy crap there's a lot of good drawings here. D@niel, that is so dope.

Here's mine updated, I'll be able to spend another hour or two on it, hopefully finish it to a good degree. Can't wait to see these all in the final burning:mod:

[jpedro]

i'm really liking the different take on the scale on this one fersteger. gonna be another good one!

John Bridges, i like yours a lot as well, one thing you could look at is the way her right foot is resting on the rim of the mortar. it would add quite a bit of character to the pose if the base of her foot and her toes would push against the inside of the mortar rim for example...just a detail though ;)

[NateShaw]

fersteger I agree with jpedro, the scale is cool and made so much better by the way you cropped her on the sides, like she is too big to even fit in the picture.

Mine so far:

[Sekino]

I want to add a few more details, but I'd say I'm almost done.

Amongst all these scary (yet awesome) drawings, mine feels so... G rated! :bashful:

[darkly]

Well I never do this so I thought I'd post a wip. I hope to get her finished tomorrow. I swear I've got ADHD, because usually by the last stage I can't even look at the piece anymore. But Ooh no, gots to keep moving on. :yayca:

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3365/babayagawiprt3.jpg

[wassermelone]

Holy crap there's a lot of good drawings here. D@niel, that is so dope.

Here's mine updated, I'll be able to spend another hour or two on it, hopefully finish it to a good degree. Can't wait to see these all in the final burning:mod:

fersteger
Its looking really nice so far. I know it was probably your intention to do such a tight crop... but I really wish he had some breath room on one of the edges. Something like this:
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/ptoast/fersteger.jpg

[wrdls]

Hello!
Thanks everyone for great inspiration. :bow:
This is first time I'm posting here. I realy appreciate every critique,
because i'm just getting in touch with my wacom tablet.

http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss82/wrdls/baba_yaga_COW147_02.jpghttp://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss82/wrdls/baba_yaga_COW147_03.jpg

thank you! and one more bow :bow:
:^^:

[Venger]

Update
Lines and tones done, now the question is do I give it a flat colour or paint it?
Might put a few fairies in, the odd willo-the-wisp :)

There's some really excellent work going on - really looking forward to the finals thread!

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[Stephan_R]

So many amazing entries... it's a struggle to have favorites. Fersteger has captured my imagination, nice!

[Nutter]

Man I don't think I have ever seen so many saggy tits in one place before.:drool:

[doomstagg]

Fersteger nicely done man. Shes like a Jim Henson X Miyazaki mind explosion. I do like the vertical framing , but I do think you lose some of that immediate read on her scale with the taller comp. Maybe if you kept the same frame but just moved her up in frame? Crop right above her head?

[Ionic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/Jagrello/chow_147_h.jpg

lotta work still too do.. need to straighten up the perspective on the "pole" and the mortar... do some color adjusting... some saturation... and the the riders... great work all around guys

btw the process is on page 3 if your interested.

[Sung-jae Kim]

hm hm :|
I'll try to enter this one, too bad I still have to actually design this thing and still have no idea on how to draw drapery.

T__T
Any constructive critique would be appreciated.

[AsurA]

There's a lot of amazing concepts in the this Thread. wow:sungod:

As for my attempt. It's been a bit slow. Not much time to spend and not too sure what I'm doing when it comes to painting. Just going to try and see how far I get with this first attempt at anything detailed with a tablet. I didn't spend any time on concept but I think this might develop into something hopefully.
Spending a lot of time on this one experimenting with painting techniques.

It's still very rough.

Any cc would be helpful.

[wassermelone]

Fersteger nicely done man. Shes like a Jim Henson X Miyazaki mind explosion. I do like the vertical framing , but I do think you lose some of that immediate read on her scale with the taller comp. Maybe if you kept the same frame but just moved her up in frame? Crop right above her head?

If there are any inadequacies on the taller comp, they are mine, not fersteger's, as I rather quickly edited it for demonstration purposes. I guess I could take it down to a link rather than a displayed image...

[Sulk-Sal]

Starting to come together I think, but still lots to do. A few highlights for starters.

*edit*

and see if I can smooth out some of those pencil lines. Yikes.

[humboldt squid]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/Jagrello/chow_147_h.jpg

lotta work still too do.. need to straighten up the perspective on the "pole" and the mortar... do some color adjusting... some saturation... and the the riders... great work all around guys

btw the process is on page 3 if your interested.

Are the horsemen supposed to be chasing her? right now it looks more like she's leading them into battle or something.

[dan liimatta]

Are the horsemen supposed to be chasing her? right now it looks more like she's leading them into battle or something.

Probably her tree servants, dawn day and night ~ but I'll let Ionic sort it out if not :P

[Ionic]

humboldt: Hmmm keen observation... yes she is leading them... read this...

Baba Yaga rules over the elements. Her faithful servants are the White Horseman, the Red Horseman and the Black Horseman.

When Vasilissa asks her who these mysterious horsemen are, she replies: 'My Bright Dawn, my Red Sun and my Dark Midnight.'

[Wiggers]

Des i love it as it is some faries and willo-the-wisp sounds like a good idea.

[blackrobin]

so many great works and so many scary hags
mattdixon, dayz, ionic, dayz, john bridges, boyo, bumskee, artina,
dan liimatta, and all others that have put so much effort in this chow
have chow been ever so delicious... im glad i didnt peek into the chow thread until my late wip

my wip
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4228/testxl0.jpg

[cubesoflard]

Here's some more of the old hag.

Blackrobin, im digging your blues. If I saw that out my window I'd piss my pants. lol

[MrAnimation]

OK i think im done...

Have a good weekend ppl :P

[Artofinca]

wips from today

[bumskee]

d@n.. loving it! :D woah!
fersteger, dayam dude. that's hell of a nice work there.. I think wasser made a great suggestion, some breathing space would be nice. but top stuff!

[doomstagg]

cubesoflard looking sweet

Here are a few costume ideas.
http://doomstagg.com/conceptart/babaCostume.jpg

I chose to develop B. Its the freshest concept of the 3. C is just weak.

Old Lady Baba lives on the outskirts of humanity's last great city as a hermit. Humanity has become a perversion to nature and she seeks to wipe this abomination off the Earth. She is protected by elemental magic and her three guardians Night, Dawn and Day.

[benu]

Started coloring.

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[Lior Schiller]

I just have to say, there are so many GREAT works this time!!!!

Some of the eye jumping critz:

John Bridges
Your sketch had a really beautiful circular movement, a bit like a warp. In your color version, it kinda lost it.

natedogler
Your pencil work is very detailed and creepy, it's losing it with the color. Maybe brighter colors for the line work will be more visible?

cubesoflard
The close up is much more interesting then the standing figure, looks more mysterious, especially with the games of focus (it looks like the skeleton and her surroundings are not in focus bot the face are).


Good luck!

[Christoffer]

Looking good, folks.:steph:


Here's my progress so far. I'm thinking of doing a foggy winter forest in daytime for the background. Would appreciate some tips on values, contrasts etc.
By the way, is the mortar part of the requirements or is it optional?

First I traced the sketch.
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2541/chow147wipcopykc3.jpg http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5904/chow147wip02sm5.jpg

Forgot to add a ref for the girl. Her expression was perfect. I was hooked on the fly.
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/49/girlscaredandwetzz0.jpg

[Venger]

Christoffer : Think about you light source, then build up your forms. Try not to get caught up in details first, just block in large areas.

[masque]

Artofinca: Excellent stylistic treatment, I really like the scratchboardish feeling the use of the white hatching gives, suits the laid-back steampunk elements very well. Only thing seems missing is her baleful glare, I think the eye could have more life to it.

Chicken-shack is classy, reminds me for some reason of the fast-food junk in Fifth Element (??).

[Tommoy]

Think its pretty much done. Now I have to sort out that attachment rule. Thanks Pixeltuner for the comment on the hand.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t19/Tommoy/CHOW147_Tommoy.jpg

[masque]

Kewel, Tommoy. Very strong Skeksis vibe goin' on. Little one must be brave as hell, I'd be runnin' for dear life before that ol' hag got within spittin' distance :D

[Artofinca]

masque - Maybe you are right, ill work on ze eye! Thanks.

[D@niel]

Noice noice!!:)

Did some more work on it. And a crop:

[trevor]

a lil update
doubt i can finish
so many good entries so far wow

[fersteger]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna add some space Wasser, not as much but show a little more ground, D@niel that's so cool, I like the webbing between her toes and fingers, that detail makes it so solid, my only crit would be her bent back arm at the elbow it seems weird anatomically.

And Tommoy that is excellent I'd love to see it finished even a little more.

[Christoffer]

Here's where I am atm. Haven't decided on the colors for Baba yet. The light source is coming directly from above and is suppose to be kind of washed out since it's a cloudy day. I really want this to look natural. Crits, suggestions, anything is appreciated at this point.

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/7500/chow147wip02zz8.jpg

[D@niel]

@Christoffer

Firstly, nice drawing man:) Personally I think it would be cool to perhaps make it at night instead, and have the the girl holding a candle. It would make for an interesting light source and it would look really cool and creepy having baba's hands and part of her face encroaching on the small "capsule" of light
Up lights are also always scary :)

[Aly Fell]

I’m not going to even begin commenting on all the images here, but a few observations from a quick scan of the last page (so I am going to begin really!) In reverse order...

Trevor – You should finish if you have the time. This is looking top!

Daniel – Geat work! Has a bit of a Phil Hale vibe to it. If I have a crit, it’s the arm holding the staff (mortar?). It doesn’t quite look like it’s going backward to hold it behind her. The foreshortening seems a bit lacking. But this is a small crit of a wonderful pic! :)

Tommoy – Great image! Baba’s smashing, and very bird like. She’s very high contrast and the girl isn’t. There’s a little bit of a clash where her claw touches the chin and you realise how apparent this is, but it’s probably intentional.

Christoffer – I really like the traditional approach in costume design. The eastern European feel is very self evident. Be careful with referencing a realistic person in an image where the dominant character is less so. This is going to be very spooky! (And what Daniel says!)

Benu – She’s hideous! In a good way. Face is smashing and I enjoy the design of the legs on the ‘pestle’. Perhaps think about a portrait composition instead of landscape, unless you have plans for the sides of her.

Doomstagg – I quite like the third one, but you’re right there are more interesting possibilities with the middle one. Looking forward to where this goes!

Artofinca – Excellent drawing! Love the hut. Watch out you don’t lose too much detail in the transference to the textured background. Have you tried her with a pupil looking at the viewer?

MrAnimation – Interesting idea having her perched on the side of the pestle rather than in it. I guess the background looks a little rushed and arbitrary, and Baba doesn’t ‘pop’ out of it! Well she does a bit, but the pestle just blends in. You could perhaps give a bit more volume to it by rendering a bit more form and getting rid of that black shadow round the edge. :)

Cubesoflard – Very scary! The head-dress of skulls is a fab idea. I know it’s not finished yet but I reckon you could do a lot with moody lighting off the candle on the face...

Blackrobin – Excellent sketch. She’s a great looking demon, however I think she needs aging a bit. The off the shoulder number and her general demeanour appear younger than Baba is generally thought of. Your brush marks are full of energy and immediacy and that gives it a real spontaneity.

Sulk-Sal – Your more graphic approach is refreshing. Love the head-dress. She has a bit of a NA native Indian feel. I’m not sure yet about how the characters are going to integrate with the background yet. I’ll see where you go with it.

[D@niel]

Does this work better? A bit crazy I know!haha

[WunderDark]

I had some extra time and decided to do a total makeover.
I think the face is better now... thanks for the crits Christoffer:D
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[masque]

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Put the kid more into shadow, a few tweaks on his features, ready for the Burning, I think. How 'bout you?

[trevor]

daniel
i love the position in the earlier wips
maybe if you just make the crease between the bicep and forearm
a bit more prominent and more rounded to push the fact that her arm is going back it will stop bugging fersteger hahaha
so many amazing entries i cant stop looking throught this thread
and thanks posh
ill see if i can finish
but im leaving for new york for the weekend and may not have time
on the plane perhaps? hmmmmm

[benu]

Added the horsemen, and tried to make it all look like a nightmare but I'm not sure if this is working.

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[AsurA]

I thought I'd post some comments on a few form the last couple pages.. :)



masque: Id run from that witch too. :) Nice colours in your shading. I like that old style.

WunderDark: I like how you've changed the scene.. it's much more creepy and tells a bit of a story I find. Doesn't look like that kid knows whats going to happen.. lol

D@niel: Great movement and style in your work.. Although i liked the right arm placement better before. I thought you just need to turn her hand around and the arm would have looked fine.

Christoffer: I agree with Daniel having a candle light source from below would really make that scene scary.

trevor: I like the form and your idea of having the horseman as part of her in some way.

Tommoy: Great character concept! I can almost her what kind of sounds she would be making. Does remind me of the dark crystal a bit. :)

benu: Nice approach in making baba a full bird like creature.

Doomstagg: I like your idea of having the dogs as her servants. Each being different.

Artofinca: I love your concept.

MrAnimation: Nice, thats one serious mortar and pestle. ;)

Cubesoflard: The lighting is nice. I like her head and back piece.

blackrobin.. I like the colours your using.

Sulk-sal. Great head piece.

Sung-jae Kim: I like the expression on her face. A little different angle than others.. I'd like to see some more of the props and clothing your going to add with her.

Ionic. Great scene.. That expression on her face is amazing..

Venger: I enjoy your mood you've greated with your texture and colours.. great concept drawing also.


Back to work.. no more time.. ;)

[fersteger]

Yeah D@niel, what trevor said about the elbow area, and if you put the wraps on her arm in more perspective that would fix the original pic. But I like this new pose way better, she holding her thing with her head, and the placement of the arm is way more dynamic now I think, and she looks crazier hah

[Renren]

There are really impressive pieces in here ! Cant wait to see them all finished

Here is my WIP...
As you can see, I wont have the time to finish it, I'm so sad. I really need to find some tricks to work faster.
Please C&C, I need it :D

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn20/jaimelaleffe/8f36dd1a.jpg

[Jeremy Hoffman]

A made a quick one this time in a few hours and in a different style. Hope you like it.

And wow again! If you tought there were some cool entries last CHOW!? This time they are even more COOLER!! Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vorace]

aaah too much good stuff here haha!!

worked on mine again, I think I will add more costume details to make her look more like a witch rather than a big naked ogre

[Christoffer]

Thanks D@niel, Poshspice and AsurA. I will see what I can come up with. :)

[grey]

wow - great subject and great thread, I'm really blown away by all the incredible entries. Have to call out Dan, Ionic, Matt Dixon, Posh Spice, Boyo, Dan Liimatta, Tommoy, D@niel, Venger and Wiggers for blatant excellence, but everyone's looking good.

I'm very late to the game and not sure I'll be able to work up a finish in time, but this subject's just too sweet to pass up:
http://www.greystudio.com/ca/baba.jpg

[Wingedchime]

You know you've spent too much time working on an image, when you dream about Baba Yaga huts! That asides, here are few of my thoughts on some of the images.

Antne- I really like what you did with the lines in the sketches. I just love that second sepia colored one- to me it's the strongest of the 4 wips. The rendered version looks great as well, but it looses a lot of details and textures that you created with your brush strokes earlier. (and somehow the lighting feels stronger on the sepia one as well) All in all I do like your image a lot.

Blackrobin: That looks great so far, I love color choices, and the design of the mortar.

Benu: This is probably not what you'd like to hear, but I like the prior version better. I felt there was more focus on the character, and I really liked the background colors. It appears you had reflective lighting on her skin coming from the green sky below, and that was a nice and subtle touch. The black shadows in the newer version of the image are a bit overpowering in my opinion.

On the positive note, I love her birdlike figure, the design of the mortar and the feathers. Her face is great as well ( I like her nose a lot and those things that hang off her cheeks), and you created great sense of motion. I hope this is at least a bit helpful to you, and that I haven't offended you :)

Jeremy Hoffman: I really like your whimsical style and the composition!

[agnostes]

Incredible stuff from everyone. I'm sitting it out but very much enjoying the work here.

...pointless post, I know. Sorry.

:)

[Inkfish]

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5575/hag5ig7.jpg

[petitemistress]

So many cool entries this round! I got inspired and did a little sketch in my mini moleskine. I'm not sure if i'm gonna finish this one, but i think i'll polish the pencils some more (some value work in particular) then play with it in photoshop and call it done. I love playing with the tiny moleskine, i don't get bored halfway through finishing a page! :P

PS: This post was made by Slash, but under petite's name, since i'm too tired and lazy to log off then back on. ^^

[doomstagg]

Tommoy... scary as hell.

[Lammashta]

i came up with this today again in lunch, havent worked too much on my other ideas since i wasn't feeling them too much. i sorta like this one, i just have to flesh it out a bit more in pencil and not bic pen =/

[Tetrodotoxin]

Well, here's a little something from me... Got stuck with my IDW (skull-mortar) so I did this... :^^;: :nohope:
Don't really know much about the myth, but does Baba always have to be an old, fat, ugly, wrinkly hag?

I think I'm gonna have to vote for everybody this round, as it seems. Sooo many great entries. Don't want to change with daestwen, who has to pick out the ones that go to poll. :[

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[IanLlanas]

A little more polished + color.
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[doomstagg]

IanLlanas You sir are an evil, evil man. Very nice job.

[benu]

Benu: This is probably not what you'd like to hear, but I like the prior version better. I felt there was more focus on the character, and I really liked the background colors. It appears you had reflective lighting on her skin coming from the green sky below, and that was a nice and subtle touch. The black shadows in the newer version of the image are a bit overpowering in my opinion.

On the positive note, I love her birdlike figure, the design of the mortar and the feathers. Her face is great as well ( I like her nose a lot and those things that hang off her cheeks), and you created great sense of motion. I hope this is at least a bit helpful to you, and that I haven't offended you



No way. If I didn't want crits like this, i'd go to deviantart. ;) Yeah, it seems, i've overdone it. Maybe the cropped version works better.

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[NateShaw]

Inkfish: Really like your flesh on her face. Man she's hideous :) One thing that I noticed is that I feel like her feet and lower area in general could use a softer edge, it being so misty and all. Good work though.

my wip, having major color issues.

[doomstagg]

nateshaw try using some more greens or blues in your shadows since your ambient light seems to have a reddish hue.

[Agustin Poratti]

looking back a few pages, i love your work wiggers...
it's not that spooky, or evil, not too nightmare like or bizarre either, it's rather grey to some extent,.. it's like the real thing, if you would ever encounter it.. and that gives the whole piece a nice subtle creepy accent.

[doomstagg]

I was listening to Alice In Chains when I started this, hence the flannel.
Next is adding more detail to colors.
http://doomstagg.com/conceptart/babaYAGA2.jpg

[MJ_Alcazar]

Ok, I'm stickin to this one.

[artina]

hey everyone,
this is a truly amazing challenge. Some great pieces so far. Very inspirational work. This is an wip update. I've been busy so I haven't had time to post and whatever free time I had I used it to work on my piece. I've been trying a new method of painting for me and I'm happy with how it's coming along.
I will post my final tomorrow. Good luck to all!

[darkly]

Okay, so I wasn't going to comment until I was done, but I just got to throw out props to D@niel and Tommoy. Sheeit those are sweet!

[Wingedchime]

Benu: You know, now that I see the newest version of the image, I like where you are going with it again (so that would basically mean - disregard what I said earlier :D )

[Sulk-Sal]

Poshspice - Thanks! I'm still playing with how to do backgrounds just because I'll drive myself insane if I try to draw a tree, never mind a whole forest, and this forces me to think about the general shapes rather then each individual tree leaf.

AsurA - Thanks!

I actually think I might be done. That can't be right. I never finish anything this early. Either way, this was a lot of fun and there are some amazing entries. I can't wait to see what the Final Burning brings.

[Troubadour]

@masque : just wanted to say i like how your baba yaga's face looks much like an oni mask, nice :)

[Ionic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/Jagrello/chow_147_i.jpg

OMFG this is taking forever... I feel like I HAVE SOOO much to do and so lil time. gonna be cutting it close.

[Adam Hunter Peck]

Thanks very much for all the kind comments!

Worked it a bit farther, just about done.

[VegasMike]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v52/Vegasmike/babayagacopy.jpg

Hope I can make this in time!

[septomin]

Time to sleep

[doomstagg]

Septomin you nailed the ugly.

Just to do final tweaks. Not sure if throwing a BG in will matter at this point.
http://doomstagg.com/conceptart/babaYAGA3.jpg
...her left arm is too long...fixing

[Pixeltuner]

dammit people, I'm gone for a day and *poof*: 2.5 pages magically appear full of awesome stuff.
So many great things yet again :) Gonna be patching up mine later today to make her ready for the finals.

[bumskee]

ionic, she's looking really solid!! nice

adam, love her attitude. :D

[masque]

@masque : just wanted to say i like how your baba yaga's face looks much like an oni mask, nice :)Oh, noh! Scrambled ethnicity! :bashful:

Sorry, couldn't resist the chance for a lousy pun. :teeth: Thanks!

[daestwen]

Tommoy: Come on, don't make me cut you again. Use the attachment editor! Just click the "Go Advanced" button and then click the little paper clip icon. You can even upload them from where you are already hosting them!

But seriously, I don't want any more [*IMG] tag entries, guys!

[shannanigan]

Oh, noh! Scrambled ethnicity! :bashful:


Thats what happens when you have a Global Economy.... Hahaha!

I'm sorta glad I passed on the CHOW this week. Im really enjoying just sitting back and watching all these creepy crones emerge! :D

[IanLlanas]

daestwen - Hate to sound like the noob that I am, but what paperclip? This is what I get below when I go advanced.
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I use "manage attachments" under "additional options", is that wrong? Hate to get cut over something like that.

[Lammashta]

manage attachments is correct

[AsurA]

Well I Didn't end up colouring it. I think for my first piece I don't want to stress myself out. I need to practice with colouring i think before I attempt it. lol.

Going to ponder a bit longer to see if there's anything else I wana change..

cc please. ;)

[daestwen]

I assumed the "attchments" dropdown is the same, just you're using a different browser or something.

For everyone else who might be curious:

[NateShaw]

so I did two. I'm not sure which I should finish and submit, any ideas?

[NateShaw]

AsurA: I really like the details in yours and the lack of color doesn't bother me. What I see though is that since the right side is more chromatic it comes forward more but its the background so it flattens the image in a way I suspect you weren't intending. Maybe if you flipped the gradient it might solve this. Otherwise it looks good and I like that little cat.

[Tommoy]

AAAAAAArgh, quick now.

[openanewworld]

so many great posts this time too, awesome awesome!

this week chow I still want to focus on value practice so I did 4 b&w for this week chow,
a: normal witch try to capture child
b: a nice heart girl dress as a scary witch to save children more terrible environment
c: a witch saving child from monsters, like vampire hunter d, she jsut looks bad but she is good guy
d: a evil child eating witch

so which one and why, hopefully someone give me some advises

[Bugmeyer]

Adam Hunter Peck: I love the personality that you've put into this one. Really a standout piece.

Here's where I'm at on mine, I still have no idea if this pic started out from a good idea. If it crashes and burns, I won't feel bad about it. I just really want to break out of the vicious cycle of heavily rendered character portraits. Currently it has devolved into 25 layers of color washes, adjustment layers and filters over a doodle.

[MJ_Alcazar]

Openanewworld - really liking all the images. I'm leaning towards B or C. They're both a different approach and they cast Baba Yaga in a good light.

Bugmeyer - I'm really liking it.

Here's a start of the colors. I'm trying a slightly different approach.

Only thing, when I came up with the idea, I was going to have her Pestle and scarf as bright compared to the halfway made coat. I didn't take into consideration that I was going for a dead winter look.

Is it too glaring and tacky now?

[alesoun]

MJ, not glaring or tacky. Damn! I wish I was improving as fast as you!

[AsurA]

openanewworld: Great concepts! really well done and professional to see 4 different ideas captured like that.

a,b and c are all good.. "c" is my fav just for the comedy that you could portray with that casual back hand she's giving.. ;0

Bugmeyer: I like the feel of your baba's face.. reminds me of some Incan or Mayan figure with the prominent nose. Makes me wish i spend more time on my conept for my first attempt. ;)

MJ_Alcazar: I like the traditional style motif on the pestle and scarf.

[AhChu]

OPENANEWWORLD Those are some killer thumbs, I like (D)
I would hate to bump into that on a dark night.

Cant get over the wicked entries, stella work

[Mark Tarrisse]

openanewworld : I really like A and D, A because it's very dynamic, but I don't like the witch in it. And D for the witch concept, I think a A with the witch concept of D would be awesome ! :)

[yoitisi]

Update on my Baba Yaga. I think I'll keep it in b&w again, since trying to pull of both IDW and ChOW proved to be quite much for just a week. Having tons of fun though, and I think I'll work some more on expanding this even after the deadline.

Lots of work still to be done on her even so, though...

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Oh and I included my hut in it too, in the hope it'll encourage people to enter IDW too :D I've seen quite a couple of interesting mortar designs in here that I haven't seen in the IDW thread yet, so I'd encourage everyone to post them in there as well (as long as you show the mortar/pestle design enough in your rendering I'm fine with it, though I'd prefer seperate renders of them if possible).

[MJ_Alcazar]

An update.

[Christoffer]

Damn! Awesome progress all of you. I'd like to give some of you comments but I'm pretty behind with my own wip. Here's a my progress on D@niel's suggestion. It's getting there but I need to fix a lot of stuff like the depth and the girl's hands and...well, a lot. I fear I might not make the deadline.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/277/chow147wip02gb2.jpg

[anamirela]

My final version of Baba Yaga.
There's a Romanian version called Baba Cloanta named after her nose like a scavenger beak. :yum:
Spooohhhoooooky...

[jpedro]

here's a small wip incorporating some of the changes i said i was going to make to my second drawing i submitted a few pages back.

i don't think i'll make it in time for the deadline, but hopefully i can finish it regardless.

best,
Jan

[Venger]

All done! though I could spend a few more hours on it!
Went for a Rackham feel - lost it on the way, ah well.

A closer image than the final and the WIP

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[openanewworld]

thanks for comments yeap I nail down to b and d and try to combine them, but when I color it seems I am in a hole hopefully I can finish it in time

[Wolfentir]

Hey everyone, its awesome to see everyone's stuff coming together. I did one final piece, that strangely enough feels like a combo of the other 2, I'm not gonna comment on anyone specifically until the vote.

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[Ionic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/Jagrello/chow_147_ionic_final_framed.jpg

Alll done gigidy gigidy goo!

[cubesoflard]

She got real ugly.

[cubesoflard]

Ionic- love the lighting and how you simplified the geometry. The dynamic subject came out well. Love your warm colors.

[Faxtar]

My final.....

[Christoffer]

Here's mine. Close to finshed. It still needs some work here n there though, especially the girl and her hands. I might do some tweaks on her face and redo her hands.

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5045/chow147christofferrs9.jpg

[daestwen]

Hey guys, Quick Announcement!


As you may have noticed, Oregano decided to phase himself out of Chow in early December. He isn't gone forever, he just needs a break from this place for a while. I've been running it by myself for the last few months, but boy, you guys sure aren't making it easy! The last few weeks Chow has been ridiculously popular. :]

So, I'm enlisting a small amount of official help, from someone you know very well.

Poshspice has agreed to help me out around Chow.

I will still be doing most of it, but Posh will be helping me with doing the selection for poll, as well as helping me reply to PMs and the like (I'm starting to not be able to reply to all of them).

So please say Thank You to Posh for agreeing to help out, and treat him well! :]


THIS ALSO MEANS ALL DEADLINES ARE PUSHED TO MONDAY AT 4:00 pm, [GMT -5/Eastern Standard]

[Adam Schumpert]

Daestwen & Poshspice,

Thank you both very much for all the work that goes into putting CHOW together!
It’s such a treat to be able to see and share everyone’s different creative processes.
The weekly challenges have been a great learning experience for myself,
and I am sure that is has been for others as well.
I really feel lucky to be able to participate in such a helpful, talented, and inspiring community.
Its really great to see it becoming so popular (more artist = more possiblities to learn, greater need to push yourself to do your best work and all that :) )
Thank you so much for the work you do to help make that possible.

This has been an amazing round imo and it’s produced some awesome works good luck to everyone. :teeth:

Take care,
Adam

[IanLlanas]

Daestwen Thanks for all your work! You are a hero!
Poshspice Thanks for stepping up!

[FerrousJack]

:hatsoff: Thanks Posh for helping out. And thanks Daestwan for all the work you've been doing. You have no idea how helpful this thread has been to me. It's the kind of motivation I wish I had for the past several years.

Here is my final, it's already in the finals thread.

[yoitisi]

Aargh hate cutting it close, but I managed to finish it well enough to post as final. Going to put some more work in it for portfolio purposes later though...

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Copyright info:
Guido Kuip
Concept Art
Character
Horror
Photoshop

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[jpedro]

i'll show a quick wip even if this one is already up for voting...i think i'm definitely going to finish this one. still a long way to go...

[CCThrom]

I had a chance to do some work on this Saturday, but not Sunday or Monday... here's as far as I got.

[jmquintela]

I didn't know about this post but this is my baba yaga version:

[Venger]

@jmquintela- you probably be better posting it here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135842
In the revision/revisit thread

[daestwen]

Thanks, Venger.

Please don't bump the old threads, guys. If you finish stuff a few weeks after, put it in the Revision thread.

Closing this thread.