Two thirds of the way through the challenge, now, and I’m starting to feel pretty good about my progress. I’m still very far from amazing, but I at least feel like I’m not entirely awful.
So today’s practice was a bit of an off the cuff, no live references (I glanced over some images beforehand), no real plan version of a studio Ghibli style tree spirit inspired… thing. Wow, is that enough qualifiers?
He’s both kind of cute and utterly hideous at the same time. But, I think I’m getting better at the tools and the strategies involved, and I managed to have some fun putting together the materials for him.
Eventually I want to use something along these lines for some characters in Runic Alchemy, but I want to find my own design variation. I don’t think this one will be the winner, but that does mean that I’ll probably end up making a few more of these before I’m done.