Pose extension

I have been having fun doing these pose extensions. You extend your character with various poses, to try out at an early stage before painting. So here you see my figures upper body composited on to someone elses body behind it. Each one takes about 1-5 min to do, and its meant to be done on a small thumbnail size, so I could get the illusion of final piece. I scale rotate the upper body and past it into the photo i think it could work, and just erase, clone, paint and integrate the two. While doing these I do favor some particular composites, I try to give them same about of attention and detail.

At the end I lay them out in Bridge, and stand far away and squint my eyes and rate them. See which ones I like, and find the ones that could work. I judge these based on the pose that is working with the upper and lower half, and based on the actually pose that i like, and things that makes sense, like what the character is doing. In general if the character as a whole is very believable then that gets my vote, you can see my rating here below

~ by yinako on April 1, 2007.