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Tag: concept art

body shape studies 3

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Cal

some people get a lot more extreme with shapes than I do. I’m not necessarily sure that’s a negative for me, but I do want to get more confident in going ‘all out’ than I feel like I currently am.
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Nations and shape language

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Cal

been working on this for a while now. Since there are a variety of people groups and nations in the story, I am doing my best to work on making each nation have shapes (roughly) specific to them. not last
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the flag mafia has a gun to my head send help

Posted on February 4, 2023 by Cal

i may have a problem. or maybe it’s only a problem if I address it?? but the might I wielded before was nothing compared to this new dark power I have discovered. behold! it’s really interesting how many flags are
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mens suits are a proven cure for insomnia

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Cal

i understand that this blog is becoming a fashion one more with each passing day but what are you gonna do I suppose. mens suits suck. they are the same thing over and over again with nearly no variety. in
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, boring, character, clothes, color, concept, concept art, design, history, men, outfit, suit, suits
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Kiddos

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Cal

kiddos! kids exist. and in the same space as adults, no less! shocking. i find kids a little bit more limited of a canvas to experiment with body shapes compared to adults, but it is still possible to make some
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The unexplainable

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Cal

Legends of old and tales of tomorrow. what frightens is that most legends have some truth to them.

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Heroes of old

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Cal

something i’ve enjoyed doing as of late are these little thumbnail exercises. heroes of old, tales true and exaggerated. gives me ideas for possible scenarios in the comic world at times and i enjoy the process. some of them may
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Gulf phenotypes and ethnicities

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Cal

thought i’d share something i was playing around with. getting the look of different ethnicities of the region where I want them. at the end of the day, this is at most a glorified easter egg. I will not expect
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Character concepts 3 – armor

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Cal

(click to view larger) some armor design concepts. on the whole metal is rarely used in Motherland due to a variety of factors, but the majority of regions have access to substitute materials. these alien ‘resin’ compounds are mass-produced from
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Character concepts 2 – helmets

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Cal

this is close enough to a character concept in my opinion. it can be pretty tough sometimes but it’s always fun to have to design clothes and armor and such with non-human parameters. Of course the motherlanders aren’t that different
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