CGAN March24 - Of Mars - WIPs

Yes, that's just a construction line or lines​​​​.

 

WIP 2:

 

WIP 3 a short time later:

 

Looking good so far.

I'm still struggling to get started. I have made four attempts so far but they all go very wrong very quickly.

*looks at deadline countdown*

*looks at final thread*

*looks at countdown clock*

 There's almost two weeks left 

Exactly my point.

After three terrible attempts at painting Tars Tarkas I had a go at a 3D model and (as mentioned in the 3D thread) I tried to do it "properly" using just quads like this...
 

...and then tried some multi-res subdivision sculpting to get this...

 

But there still isn't enough detail for the face and another subdivision slows everything down on my PC so...

I thought I'd try and pose it and maybe use that as a reference to go back to painting.
Here's the pose...
 

And here's my current attempts at painting that...
 

 

Unfortunately it's now looking like a painting of a 3D model superimposed on an unpainted landscape.

Maybe that will improve when I give him an outfit, some weapons, a bit more reflected light and some detail in the background
I was gonna have his "bottom" hands holding a leash as he restrained another martian beastie but that's not gonna get done in the time so I'm thinking of a long spear/lance with a big sword in that other non-pointy hand.

That's assuming any more progress can be made.

A wee suggestion for Val's final: that little triangular shape on his chest is very similar in colour to the sky behind him which makes it look a bit like a hole... Maybe have some of the red soil reflect on the lower half of it? Just a thought