DD #95: 'Barukalek' Re-Opening

One year ago Mr. Cosmic from outer space (UK) delegated the fictive job of designing the fantasy dwarf character 'Barukalek' as a game character concept to me for simulating standard and process in a real production pipeline.

Therefore he worte me this briefing: Barukalek is a 103 years old dwarf who has fought on many battlefields and always succeeded. He is known for his mercilessness and rude brutality. As a passionate fiddler his special feature is the violin, which also helped him in lots of battles. There is something about this unique violin.

1st task: create a model sheet, the basic character design layout.
2nd task: draw portraits as him being angry, happy, victorious, wounded, fighting.
3rd task: draw poses: a) standing, victorious, arms raised b) standing, left hand on right shoulder
4th task: proportional comparison sheet with human, elf, ogre and urtangu.

Note: take heed of the consistency through all images of the dwarf, do not change attributes within process. Each attribute should be applied to his visual identity; the sum of all shown details has to tell the dwarf's story and personality wordlessly.

/ Well and today I started to reopen the unfinished project by starting with step 2, the portraits. It's funny to work on material made by oneself from such time distance.

DD #94: Hands 05

DD #93: girls

Dear Girls, I'm sorry for neglecting your beauty in the last weeks and today I prove here that the femme is still 'fatale'. The first ones I sketched without reference and then I visited good old Posemaniacs for checking my process since my last PM session. I think since I saw the Mentler studies my refless girls are quite graceful.

DD #92: Knockout Pose 01

I noticed the hyper-realistic physics on environment colliding corpses in state-of-the-art video games, called 'ragdoll' system. The results look like jointless puppets / 'dolls' - giving digital death a bizarre and slightly funny tone. In reality ragdoll-like poses appear under moments of no body control - like fainting or lifelessly moving.

DD #91: Free Poses

No concept, no initial thoughts. Again, I started with bubbles ... and human figures turned out!

DD #90: Mouths

While working on some character studies I noticed my bad face expression skills and the importance of a correct mouth area to pricesely hit the wanted expressin. Here is my warm-up with lot of photo ref.

DD #89: Sweet Non-Sense 02

DD #88: Sweet Non-Sense 01

DD #87: My Cloud-Castle

DD #86: Chaos Configurations

DD #85: Typo 03

DD #84: Typo 02

DD #83: Typo 01

I started to simply copy glyphs from a typography book and re-found my faible for black letter fonts.

DD #82: bustle hustle 05 fin

... and when they finished their work they went on journey to visit the worlds nicest places and eat the finest dishes. The results were not what they expected, but what else than such a journey could have been the price for all their work?

DD #81: bustle hustle 04

DD #80: bustle hustle 03

DD #79: bustle hustle 02

DD #78: bustle hustle 01

According to the inhomogenous look Toey's Daily Doodles casts I always search for new themes to concentrate on and persue. This time I want to fill a whole week with anything but one theme. It's not really about the visual process but about the progressive story-telling. The Idea is to show a naive world of happy, overzealous kids and to find a tale-like moral in the end.

DD #77: Vicious Circle

Friday I bought one nice scalpel to play with paper shapes. Today I cut some confractur (c) shape and used it as mask for producing this funny figure.

DD #76: Fat Chicken

That beasty white sheet in front of you.. staring.. waiting. A sudden glimpse makes you draw a circle. Another one. You see a figure. You go on. - And you end up with a wierd little fat chicken!