Sketchbook -Mantis-

[PrayingMantis]

Hi all,
Here is a sculpt I worked on, I did it from Walter O'Neal fabulous illustration.
I also did the same logo from the last Superman Movie, and the patterns on his suit too.



Hope you like it.

[fabianloing]

swweett! looks cooll! i would make his thigh a tiny bit more muscular.....other than that, this piece is awesome man! cool face too! great work!

-Fabian

[Etcher]

Great sculpt! His head (expression) is so well done! !

[selwy]

Great work!
Best regards, Selwy

[threetails]

really strong work, love the suit details, how do you get it so even over the whole form?

[monstermaker]

Very nice!

[industripop]

Great sculpt! I'd love to see this the next Superman movie. That cape is wonderful---any tips on how the cape was created?

[PrayingMantis]

Thanks all for the comments.

@fabianloing: Thank you. For the thigh I don't like so much when they are so muscular that they seems like ecorche, I know that's the way they do it in Comics, but I wanted to make a more realistic style.
I took picture from the movie and you don't even see as much muscle as I did.

@threetails: Thanks, for the suit it is pretty simple, I just layout the Uvs and did a seamless texture in photoshop, than use this B&W texture as alpha and apply a displacement in Tool submenu.

@monstermaker: Thanks, do I have to say that I love your last work?

@industripop: Thanks too, for the cape I don't have any special trick.
The only thing is that I started to rough it from a cube instead of a plane, because that's really difficult to deal with border edges.
Than I retopo it in 3Dcoat, took a few minute with the Slice tool, I just did a plane with retopo not the full volume.
Than I use extract to give it a volume in Zbrush, the advantage is that I did it on a plane and the newly created face are clean.
That's all I can say, but it's a bit technical.
On the sculpting side there is really no big tip, that's just about getting some references, and playing with your napkin

[Captain Sensible]

Cool sculpt! I really like the face!

[Gaboon]

Great job!

[SolidSnakexxx]

Excellent piece... I've just saved to my fav reference disk. wonderful sculpt..

[PrayingMantis]

Thanks guys!

SolidSnakexxx: I'm honnored to be in your fave ref

[PrayingMantis]

Didn't have the time to continue him for now, but I use some of my spare time to participate in Gnomon Challenge.
This month theme was Dragon Fire, and I did a dragon

But not an usual dragon, an Napoleonian officer dragoon (in French they are call Dragon like the creature because they were created while using a Dragon as an emblem, far before Napoleonian wars).

Enough word, here it is.




I spent 3 days on it, just figured out the challenge was running 3 days before the deadline.
That's why some area are not really well done, I will try to pursue it later.
Hope you like it.

[undoz]

Very cool models!

[Ichiban]

I really like your bizarro. good job man !!!