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El Cartografo
🕑 Added 2023-03-24 23:14:46 +0000 UTCToday in the category: "I can't believe I never posted this!" We have the actual kind of old piece I did for school from when I actually still did stuff for school.
For my second digital illustration/character design class one of my final projects was to take a character, either mine or from some other media and redesign it in another style.
So I took my character Khun the cartographer, who I drew all the time back then, and this was the result.
The style I drew him in it’s not something specific. But the idea was for it to look almost like a 3d model. Another thing that helped me and inspired to get to this style was the art of Stephanie R. Garcia: https://stephoble.tumblr.com/ And let me tell you. It was actually fun to track her art for this post because she deleted her instagram where I followed and I had forgotten the name.
This piece in particular is one of the main things that inspired me to later redesign the character to make him more iguana-like. And like I said. I can’t believe I forgot to post it anywhere before. I actually have this piece printed and on my bedroom wall because I had to print it to present it in school. I literally see it every day lol.
Another fun fact about this piece is that after making it I started trying using more “photorealistic” texturing for some other pieces I did now in my regular style. And let me tell you, those are all in the “I can totally believe I never posted this” category. I may post them one of these days. They’re part of my “artistic evolution” after all.
Besides there’s another illustration final project from my school days I’m gonna be posting soon.
Comments
Morlund
Very nice rendering of Khun in a more realistic style, very professional looking like it could be a movie screenshot! Especially since a 3d model-looking reptile against a desert backdrop immediately makes me think of the movie Rango. ;)
