Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Child Stealing Ogress

This is the first of eight Arctic Trolls I will be rendering in colour for the Arctic Myths project I'm currently working on. She is a nasty child stealer whom we have decided should have longs arms and short legs in an effort to make her appearance unique and also give her a cool silhouette. She has the usual Inuit tattoos on her arms and face and wears tokens of power around her neck. The problem I am going to have here is to make each of these eight characters different. One of the best ways I can think of is to start with the body shape as we've done here.

9 comments:

  1. "Wow" Larry, she's a lovely Ogress, in her own way. I am sure you will come up with new shapes and looks for your other ones. Good luck, and love what you are doing. xxx

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  2. Wonderful! I like the colors and her head!

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  3. In order to cause that the children take their soup

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  4. Thanks Tiny Pearl. We are indeed looking for ways to make all these mythic beings unique.

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  5. Thanks Charlene and Pablo. The children will definitely do what they are told if they think this creature is close by.

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  6. Hi Larry, love the Ogre, the colours are excellent, as usual. How long did this take you to do? My guess would be about 3-4 hours?

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  7. Hi Jay

    It actually took a bit longer than that because I got bogged down with a lot of finicky opaque rendering on her face. That wasn't the plan, it just sort of went that way.

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  8. It shows, that face has a very nice depth to it. It's funny how some areas need just the slightest dab of paint, where others can bog you down for ages. I can't talk though, this piece took me upward of 40 hours to do! http://theartofjaypenn.blogspot.com/2010/05/labyrinth.html

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