CGAN Nov25 - The Fungi - WIPs

The Fungi

Brief: Interpret the title as you wish into some kind of creative visual brilliance.

Deadline: Midnight on Sunday 30th of November. There will now be no voting and no eventual winner, this is just a creative exercise with a time limit.

This thread is where you post your WIPs (works in progress). Finals should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/current-c...-fungi-final-entries

Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.
 

I went with The Fungi as there wasn't mushroom for other theme ideas 

I really wanted to do this in Blender but I couldn't get the geo nodes working for all the growths on the back so I started sketching a bit...

 

...and as I blocked it in it started to feel very familiar, as if I've painted this before. Been trying to think back and I vaguely recall a statue/stone guy that may have had a similar crouching pose. And that Discworld Cohen guy was kind of hunched with his long beard. But it feels even more familiar than those.
I don't know.
I guess I just have no new ideas. Then again, I'm not sure I ever did.

And do I really want to paint more feet and hands? Do I?

Looks like a... fun guy 

The hands and feet could also be fungi I guess 

Or you can hide them behind more fungi

FEET!

If I ever manage to successfully paint one of these feet then I'm immediately flipping it to make the other one.

Grrrr!

Great concept, Valence.  Loving the character's pose and general color palette of the image!