Area 52's Model Designs

[Malcanthet]

Okay. I was so dissatisfied I immediately sketched something moments after I posted.

I am much happier with the rough so far.

Gotta go to work! finish it later..

[FuzzFace]

Is it wrong to sit here and say how awesome your drawings are? Just the fact that you make them so fast, with the kind of detail you put in it already, tells me that your capable of some pretty good skills. I mean, While I enjoy critiquing others peoples works, I’m horrible at critiquing drawn art.

PS. This sketch makes him look like he has more of a sturdy horse stance, a very stable, hard to push around kind of 'claw. I like it!

[trunks2585]

I agree the Second scales is looking better proportioned, the first one was looking very much on the short side. I know it's still a WIP but the face of your first scales was pretty good, i'd make sure that transfer's over to the new sketch you are working on. Also the images are getting too frontal, remember we need side views.

[Malcanthet]

Images too profile suck and are very distorted. PS scales was more 3/4, he's so damn big he needs to be in the frame more. He alone will be really hard to convey on a profile/semi profile shot.

Yeah, I was gonna make his head a bit smaller and fix it up like the first one. It was like a 5 minute sketch since I was grossed out by the body on the first one.

[prettypinkpwny]

I just gotta say "Damn good work, Mal". I really like your Fox and Wolf Link. Hell, your SharpClaw and Scales are pretty good, as well. Hope to see you stay with the team until the completion of the project. Good luck, man.

[Malcanthet]

Alrighty!

SCANNER GET!!

Its called a magic wand, it's a portable like... hand scanner that you can roll back and forth on the table. o_o It's so strange. But I have a test subject! I'm playing around editing all the old pictures I did so I can scan it in and make it look nice, I should make a bulk posting soon enough after a few modifications and a couple quick redraws.


K'rikka, my goblin Rogue/Alchemist from DnD. She's a sassy little 4ft tart of awesome..and is my must. Odd I have muses with short characters, when I'm conversely so tall! She's green and has firey tattoos, blue eyes and black hair. Enjoy my OC, I luff her to death.

[FuzzFace]

I've heard of the magic wand, Looks like it did what it's suppose too. is there any quality loss from the original?

[Malcanthet]

Incoming scans. I touched up a bunch of stuff. Will take a little bit to clear the white space and get the levels right... I will keep the original scans (I can go at a really high resolution with this thing) in case you want SUPER CLOSE UP line work to play with.

*P.S. ... no. No quality is lost. <3

[Malcanthet]

First! I was very dissatisfied with the first Fox profile.

This one is way better.

[Malcanthet]

Next we have Krystal.

[SFFan]

that fox right above me is badass. perfect facial features. hardly any flaws

[Malcanthet]

Sharpclaw lady, Lizgirl!

[Malcanthet]

Next up, Fox Mcloud! And I fixed his damn face, it was driving me crazy.

[Malcanthet]

Sharpclaw Elite!

I fixed his head/face, also added some spikes. Fixed up the triceps, and shoulder nubblies.

[Malcanthet]

Sharpclaw Regular.

I fixed some inconsistencies, tricep yadda yadda, but here it is.

[Malcanthet]

Wolf Link.

Fixed his leg, many of his toe claws and ..well, I added more line weight (as I went over some of the other drawings with.) so that you can differentiate between his fur pattern and not. I didn't clear this one because his fur pattern is important to the drawing.

[Malcanthet]

*Exhales*

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General Scales.

I'm really happy with this.

No, i'm not another artist. Yes, my linework is getting better, since I'm getting back into practice with drawing.

>:3 Thanks LoK for helping me get my draw on again.

P.S. HE'S SO HUGE. HE DIDN'T FIT ON MY PAGE.

Too big for the damn piece of paper I was drawing on. TOO BIG.

[trunks2585]

Well I'm pretty satisfied with these. The only one I can't stand (sad to say) is the regular sharpclaw. The elite looks pretty good but the regular, for one the head is pretty huge for the body, and he seems overall pretty stocky. Work on reducing the head some and extending the legs, that should clear up some of those issues, when i look at him from say waist up, it doesn't seem as bad to me.

I have no idea how easy or difficult these will be to animate with, so talk to the other team members about that, you might end up having to rotate these characters a few more degrees, most of all scales. (Or the other option is just drawing them in profile views as well so we'll have two models for each character to play around with on viewpoints.)

BTW not counting the regular sharpclaw since it needs work looks like that makes 6 so far, didn't I say I'd start taking any contributions seriously at 5 models? I'd say we have ourselves a new artist for revamping the models for sure now.

[Malcanthet]

Hmm, sorry you don't like the regular Sharpclaw. I was going for some canonical notions with the pictures. Sharpclaws are based of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, with big heads (as are the base Starfox models) and stocky bodies (as is from the games).

I've no problem making the regular model taller and less stocky, but it will look more like the elite at that point. I wanted to differentiate the two in some way without making them identical, maybe you can shoot me some ideas? (Gamewise, the sharpclaws are very stocky and have even tinier legs.)

[Blackwing]

i think the problem on the regular is the angles on your lines, if its meant to b a bad guy it should have sharp angles not round soft lines, hope this helps.