What a great parade, the alleged King of Hell on Earth has prepared, ready to flex his royal biceps to his audience of jubilant orcs. Too bad that rain is splashing on his parade. And this rain is Zur. Literally.
Howdy folks, back from another period of silence. Due to the fact that, after the mighty endeavor of the cat portrait, I decided to go easy with a bunch of reference sheets for characters I plan to use.
And no wonder a lot of artists are nothing but OCs, one after the other. Designing characters by yourself is in a very sweet spot on the Fun × Effort graph.
Here we have: Kaest and Doeth, the two orcs that assisted Dick in his transformation from a regular big human to an honorary orc. I'm preparing the transformation series, which will serve as a warm-up exercise before getting to the much more complex poses and composition of the comics.
Speaking of which, the character from my single-page comic now has a name. And I can give you a bunch of facts on how my double-headed characters function. Like the fact that they have a third brain between their necks that coordinates all the motor and autonomic nerve impulses, that they have two livers but just one heart, or that they can sense the emotions of each other but not the thoughts.
Thirdly, here we have Garrosh, who will fight in the next match, but also might feature in separate fan arts because he's always hot, so I needed to make for myself a separate character sheet that summarizes and simplifies all of his design features. Which varied a lot in the last 16 years.
I went with something inspired by the more cartoonish late 2000s design since it seems to be the one that stuck around the most and is also the most used for SFM animations wink wink.
My intention was to use these sheets as warm-up exercises, one pose per day, before getting back to the comic, but then my friend arrived with this commission regarding a character that sells himself as a king. I made the association king→parade→crowd and decided to rush these sheets just to give myself assets to use for the crowd. You can see here how Blender really lends itself to using external objects as props. Slap on them a bunch of filters, and you're done.
The result is still a bit clumsy: the crowd still takes away too much attention from the main subjects, but I'm confident that in the future it will come out much more fluid and discrete.