Skeletor Concept WIP

[HordePrime]

Here is a concept I'm doing of the villain Skeletor from the 80's cartoon Masters of the Universe. The original colors I did for this piece were rather disappointing, so I decided to have another go at it. I'm rendering this painting using Photoshop 6...

First Color Attempt (http://www.rsad.edu/~mpedro/skeletorTEASE2.jpg)

New WIP:

http://www.rsad.edu/~mpedro/Images/skeletorCO.jpg


I'd like to give credit to Jason Manley and Andrew Jones -- I attended their digital painting demo at the Ringling School of Art and Design, and watching them work has been nothing short of a true inspiration.

[cucaracha]

yeah Skeletor rules!
I can remember He-Man and all the toys :)

Maybe Skeletor should be more blue-purple-black like the original, but it looks good as it is.
cu

[HordePrime]

Well, I intend on adding a hint of those colors later, but like I said, this is a WIP, and I've basically only worked on adding major lights and shadows...

Thanks for the positive feedback.:)

[Yaseck]

For me it's little too dark.

[HordePrime]

hmmm...maybe I just have the brightness on my monitor set too high, then, because to me it looked fine. I'll have to up the brightness just a tad and see if that makes any difference.

Here's an update. It's going a bit slow, due to classes and such, so pleae bear with me.

http://www.rsad.edu/~mpedro/skeletorCO2.jpg

[soupface]

i'd agree with yasek: a bit too dark.
how about bringing some light over across his arm, wrist and sword? a few highlights there would help, i think.
also, on his lower jaw - his bottom row of teeth are kinda undefined right now.

very nice - skeletor has never been so bad-ass.

[Travis_Bourbeau]

Very cool Id like to see some more creativity with the arm i know the cartoon one is basic but i think giving it a torn muscle llok or something extra to the arm would realy help the pic alot



Great stuff

[xjmaschox]

really cool, i think some more ambient lighting, where you have the tealish bounce light, would help pop him out of the background a bit more. Maybe a hint of warmth from the ground too? like a really dulled out orange...just ideas.

looks nice. ethereal and Death-like

[Da7thSamurai]

I like how you kept the line work on it. I guess it might be a little dark but good job on the piece.

[Molin]

kewl. Skeletor rocks. Im interseted in how it turns out. Looks like you got your undercoat finished. The lighting reminds alot of Brom with that pointy sunlight.

Looks to be great.
/Molin

[DragonGX]

I wish I could have gone to their painting demo. :mad:


Nice peice, I like the newer colors alot. Only crit is that it is really dark. I know you probably meant for it to be dark, but its almost straining my eyes to look at it.. other than that loosk pretty good!

[KayCustomz]

scary

[WildSpruceMoose]

OMG!!! Most inspiring piece of work for my week. What atmosphere, what action, what suspense, what skill. Wow. Just....WOW!!!

[WildSpruceMoose]

Sorry for the double post, but may I please use this as my wallpaper?

[Hardcore]

Keep going man it's lookin awesome !!! :evilbat: