Outsider Art for Bad Moon Rising

[doofus-01]

Thanks, em3.
Sur.nhm - It's always possible I got it wrong, but check whether you are expecting "fly-swatted" proportions. Jetrel weighed in on this a little while ago, in this thread. That it is an issue means I'm not that convincing, but it's still worth thinking about, on the critic's side

Update to the seeress, and first draft of runner.

[AI]

There's a tangent with her ring/iron knuckles and the staff. I first thought the former was part of the latter.

[doofus-01]

Hrm, I guess there is. Not sure how to avoid that, aside from completely removing the strap.

Revision to Athanta, her current portrait is a bit dull & cartoonish for a leader and frequent character. No, I don't think I quite have the hang of potrace. But the shrunken, in-game images don't look as chunky, so maybe it's all for the best.

[AI]

The current shrunken images are a bug, just so you know.

[doofus-01]

Well then, it is not worth worrying about for now. Thanks.
I'll just leave the lines in their natural, speckled, and wobbly state.

EDIT: some revisions. More in character, to my mind at least.
EDIT2: The image disappeared, maybe I hit a data usage limit. Let's see.

[Boldek]

little off topic question: why is this called outsider art? is there a secret thread we don't know about?

[doofus-01]

little off topic question: why is this called outsider art? is there a secret thread we don't know about?

You mean the "Insider Art for BMR" thread? I can't disclose that. But I can say this thread's title came from an observation by kitty that this thread was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art . I can't disagree, and it made the title less boring, so there it is.

[doofus-01]

I'm starting to work on Trinity again, and some portraits in there bother me. This will replace the partially healed Nemesis, supposed to have some recognizable connection to the her portrait in BMR (which is probably posted somewhere in here, but I gave up looking for it), aside from having wings. Intentionally skinny, she's not at full health yet.

[doofus-01]

Finishing this off, for now.

[doofus-01]

Posting this WIP before I go too far in shading, in case fresh eyes see anything.

[averyimaginativename]

Something about the front legs bothers me. Not sure exactly what.

At first, it looked as though the right leg is aligned asymmetrically with the left leg, but comparing it with real rams, it seems about right. Then I thought maybe the knee was a bit too low, but again, it looks right compared to real rams.

Not very useful, but maybe enough to point you in the right direction.

[doofus-01]

Thanks, I futzed with the legs a bit, hopefully it looks better. I can change this later (some more love could certainly be given to the body fur), but for now I'm calling this done. Mostly because I want to update Archaic Era today.

[Boldek]

Armadillo goat? Aw, now I really gotta play this....

[Great_Mage_Atari]

It seems to me that the front legs are pushed too far back. Bringing them forward a tiny bit will seriously improve your outcome of a good portrait. At the moment the legs are too centered on the animal.

[homunculus]

Not only the legs ending at a different level, but more generally in many parts of the image, wicked doofus-01 seems to be deliberately messing with the viewers expectations here, drawing an 'almost but not quite' side view.
And I am somewhat confused about the highlights.

Only thing that I might suggest here is to draw a more recognizable stereotypical goat head with characteristic ears and all.
There are quite a few goat species and some might have this kind of head, but as far as the expected stereotype goes, I would say it currently looks a bit like a stereotypical dog head.
Googled for some images, 'goat woodcut' and 'goat copperplate' produced some nice results.
That is, if you consider experimenting more with the head (to my knowledge, the creature should actually be a bull, so if it already has a goat head it might not matter if the goat head looks like a dog head).

Edit: If the correct word is 'ram', just replace the word 'goat' with 'ram' : )