Thursday, September 26, 2013

September 25-26 Character Creation

I made dis...in Photoshop Elements 9.

Awwww yissss. Muthafuckin' fur gauchos.
They're main reason I'm not allowed to dress a man.
Also, I abuse the gradient tool. How many times did I use it?
Check the bottom of the post to find out!

Here are my ref pictures:

The female is based on an Antelope.

The male is based on a ram.

I also had to use a photo reference for the male because I couldn't get the anatomy right. 

I haven't really figured out any back story for these characters except that they are not adventurers or warriors. They're just regular townspeople of whatever jacked-up anthro-ungulate inhabited world they're from. I did take inspiration from ancient Grecian dance festival to use horns. The ancient Greeks had two types of dances for Dionysus; the women participated in a type of trance/ecstatic dance called Mynad, where they frolicked and danced (often drunk) in a forest wearing animal skins and antlers. The males had a dance too (dithyramb) but I didn't take any inspiration from that.

So that's that. I'm slightly proud of them and yet slightly embarrassed because they remind me of the new human-pony version of My Little Pony.

I used the gradient tool 9 times.

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