alrighty then...this should be interesting

Oh Congrats by the way Jack D.

Here's my first sketch, intend putting a tree in behind him with some kind of hole down into some kind of kingdom or maybe down to the underworld! I'm enjoying drawing trees at the minute lol.

i found this wee sketch on a file that i'd done about a month ago...

im gonna try working it up into something a lot more complete - and creepy! this is about 20 mins work over the sketch...

i dont really have a plan where im going with this yet.. just enjoy the drawing process

ok...  another 20 minutes and ive drawn over most everything that i had!

i quite fancy making this a bit of a demonic skeleton - aint done much fantasy style stuff recently...  will see where it goes

and to the crits..

indeed early days! xhastex - finding it hard to see what u got coming together there.. will comment when you post more.

skullboy - again, early days... i know this is only a first sketch, but watch the anatomy.. length of her arms and the  feasability of her pose. keep posting as it progresses.

stevenK - you always have such life and brilliant body language to your poses. a real sweet pic!

eaglecaste - nice proportions. and i think the gun was a good choice. she looks really angelic, but with a big dirty mechanical gun. like it very much so far.

carly - not much to comment on yet... i want to see if thats the pose you're gonna settle on.. and in what environment? the brassy colours are nice so far. i reckon the light play and reflections are whats really gonna pull this together for you when you get more done.

foxy - do you realise how hard it is to get anatomy on 4armed creatures looking right? AND that looming/hulking pose is so hard too! i quite liked the first sketch... mainly cos it looked like a spider-creature of some sort. would be nice if the creature physicallity is influenced by his location. like the tree backdrop too - give more of a narrative quality!

actually, the environment could be such a key factor for this challenge... Guardian - of what? 

lol, i had quite a lot to say for so little being posted. looking forward to seeing these develop.

Eaglecaste:

I'm liking that a lot Chris. Well creepy.

thanks

Hi eagle.

The current WIP (if you block the lower torso/legs) look alright.

Things to consider:

• Too much detail vs overall form/gesture in the initial WIP can result in a static stance. 
• The char head/upper body >> bigger in proportion to lower body.
• Does this character have any waists? hips? lower limbs.
• For a madonna like physique.....the R arm tricep can be show to integrate with the bicep nicely. To show one structure in front of another. Whereas currently, the two muscles look disembodied.
• The lower legs, going for that storm floating like effect is fine, however It is strange/hard to delineate which is the Right or Left leg. Some balletic poses for reference might help out alot in this piece.

G luck