Slaine Vs Cow. finished.

[R_M]

http://roberto.webconnect.dk/gfxgallery/slaine2.jpg

According to legend Slaine was the very first King of Ireland, and he got there by practically killing anything in sight, with his trusty axe "brainbiter" :D
Pat Mills and Simonbiz made the coolest Graphic novel of him some 15teen years ago by the way, if you can get your hands on it do it!
Been studiing lots of anatomy lately, and wanted to give it a go, on some serious muscle. for some reason I get more of a Vallejo National Lampoon picture, then a Celtic saga.....
25/30 hours aprox since Sunday afternoon, that is very very fast for me, but it has been one of the most relaxing and fun pices in a long time.
I am ranting now, so you can tell I am proud! I'll trow a wip in it to.
hope you like it.

http://roberto.webconnect.dk/gfxgallery/slainewip.jpg

Ok this might be Fanart...now what?

[darkcult]

Well done!!
me like your style!


:thumbsup:

[foster]

hey bean! this has some good points. i can see where you have been learning your constructive anatomy. this is the beginning, next step is to try and add a little movement and fluidity into your poses. sometimes when building in the way you must have here, you put one block on top of the other, you get a very stable construction but not much life. it is just practice and observation from real life that will help.

hey! don't forget the legs! i know i am just as guilty, but i usually just crop them out of the painting, yours are in view and that means you have to take them a little more seriously.

i did a kind of tracing that helps illustrate my thoughts on the pose and compositional direction. hope it is legible and helps.

jon

[Slaine]

:D

[brads3d]

I see Wolverine, no?

[R_M]

Darkcult/ me happy you like :D

Foster/ Thank you for taking the time, it is the biggest motivation and help.
I see your point with dynamisn in the pose (that was probaly what gave me the statue lampoon feel). The paintover is saved in my harddisk.
If I normally leave the legs out off my pictures you are partially to blame! :D don't worry you are in good company like Jones Hale and Burns. But you are right, I looked trough my pics and there isn't one foot! if I don't do a spaceship I'll do a full body next time.
On your next image, I'll tell you what to improve :thumbsup:

Slaine/ ....I get the impression I know you...

Brads3d/ they look a lot alike, that is also why slaine has the face paint. if the made a movie they would cast hugh jackman for his part.

[brads3d]

Being Irish, I actually really appreciate the Irish theme. I don't know that I have heard a legend about Slaine, but it sounds cool.
And, being Irish, I think I'll say Nae to Hugh Jackman cast as Slaine. He did a broadway show, bad enough, where he played a homosexual. I think he should stick to Broadway roles now that he's crossed the proverbial line.
Any man who picks up cows and throws them is a real man, and shouldn't be affiliated with the more... fancy... spectrum of the gender.

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Ok,

though I like Jon´s sketch a lot, i still think the figure could be posing a little bit more, like she´s under pressure . I tried to put the arms and legs into a contradicting positions, forming an "X" so that the weight of the cow is felt in Slaine´s bodylanguage more.
As i said, nothing wrong with Jon's ideas, but the figure leaves more options for an interesting approach, and it was also a tryout for me, as this was my first computersketch ever;)
Anyhow, the cow is cool...*haha*


http://djurdjevic.de/img/slaine3.jpg.

take care
Marko

[Slaine]

brads3d - Slaine is actually a creation from the comic 2000AD - Pat Mills, the creator, always insisted he was based on an ancient celtic hero - although there is no single, popular hero with the name Slaine. It is commonly believed, as a result of further comments by Mills, that Slaine is loosly based on Cuchulain - who you probably will have heard of.

[darkcult]

Vote Foster for president !!!

I know it's not my thread ( sorry R_M ), but Jon & Marko THANKS!!)

:)

[R_M]

Brads3D/ lol, but you are right most of us settle on dwarf tossing, but only real men trow cows.

Marko/ Hej anotherpaintover Thanks man! :D
I like your pose a lot, you really get the feeling that it is heavy to lift a cow.. in Jon' but even more in my picture, Slaines body language is much more godlike, but jon added tension by moving the camera, while you did it by straining slaine himself.
at least that is how I understand it....I really need to work on my composition skills. BTW your stuff is so inspirational!

[Vaarok]

I mock your cow. It looks wrong and un-cow-like.

I have many cows. If you require an image of a cow to work from, seek some from Google or the Hoards' Dairyman website rather than approximate with such a deformed creature.

[incognito]

:rofl:

[michael see]

whoa~nicely done for the muscles..hmm..however all the messy lines on the background looks alil distracting..

pretty good overall..

me like it either ;) hehe

[R_M]

DK/ no prob man.
Varok and Incongnito/ just hope it doesn't detract to much from the image..but seriously :wtf:

Micheal See/ yeaa the lines in the bg are supposed to look like some sort of energy comming from him, but it ended looking more like a forest texture. But hey now I know how to do that!