Lately, I was looking at my #holozing art gallery, and I realized that I had basically already drawn all the characters or creatures of the game, however, there was the space for the earth element, so as you can imagine I have chosen "Wrackoo" in its original version to take...
And speaking of references during my creative process, you will see that I have used for myself, I draw some references from one of my favorite movies, "Pinocchio" (by Guillermo del Toro). And maybe you were wondering what they have about referential similarities, well you'll see it in me step by step.
As this time we are talking about earth element, so I wanted to capture something natural and wild at the same time, because of this the grass raccoon has these characteristic qualities, which helped me to start my drawing.
The face was the first thing I drew, little by little I was giving it the shape of a raccoon, because at first it didn't look like one of them at all.
I gave him a penetrating and a little scary look, because in the end I want that, so I will give a mysterious appearance to the creature that inhabits the forests somewhere.
Finally, a good hairstyle for your head would not hurt, so I drew a little high hair...
And this is where the references to the aforementioned movie come in, because when I was about to do the design or composure of the body I decided to make it thin and a little disturbing, with thin and long limbs.
What I did to merge two totally different characters like "Wrackoo" from Holozing and "Pinocchio" (by Guillermo del Toro) was simple, because both belong to nature, the raccoon is basically made of herbs and pinocchio of branches.
So there are the creative resources that I set out to combine. Like, you can see in the screenshots, I made the legs and arms thin, because they resemble branches a little, so that it makes more sense, then I will paint their hands and feet brown.
The first layers of color were clear and simple, for the hair and for some farms of his tail I also used the same color.
For the hands and feet, I used a light brown color, because remember that these are assimilated to branches.
Create more added layers on top of the original ones of the hair, where I started to give highlights with light green color and more shadows with dark green.
The little legs of branches I have painted with even more details with darker brown color and with a water brush I painted a few orange tones.
With light and bright green color, I made some sparkles to give life to the tail of the grass raccoon!
When I had my drawing ready I proceeded to create a background that had similarity to the element.
As it was a natural background at the same time, how captivating I wanted to give a majestic and magical appearance to the trees, and that's what I did from giving bright and intense lines of red and fuchsia colors.
Has ta in fact while coloring its branches reminded me a bit of the style of peach trees that appear in kung-fu Panda, they simply convey serenity to me...
The vegetation was one of the most difficult parts for me due to the textures and colors that I had to constantly mix, however, the effort of my work paid off when I realized that there were some textures that I could add to my brushes such as the watercolor texture in its maximum density to make those striking aspects to the bushes.
And well, guys, at last you will be able to see the result of my art, I hope it will be to your liking and above all I hope I have achieved my proposal, in the mixture between the wild and the wonderful of the natural environment.
Final version:
PNG version:
Working tools:
Program: paint to sai 2.
PC: with Windows 7.
Photoshop:Color retouching.
Imagination and creativity XD...
Te quedo muy bien el diseño del personaje amigo!
Saludos
Al final el estilo del personaje quedo un poco aterrador, pero me alegra que aun así te haya gustado gracias, amigo por comentar mi arte.
Wow, this is a very cool concept
the arms and feet of branches, and the fur in the form of vegetation, I like the mix of dried and vivid leaves as colors on the body.
And it arouses a certain level of intimidation
it looks like a forest creature with plans to take revenge on whoever misbehaves with the flora and fauna of the place.
VERSION ESPAÑOLExactly!, that the concept of my inspiration, friend, I'm glad you noticed, although the character intimidates the natural and colorful background, I help a lot to soften the purposes of the raccoon. By the way, I also made those branch feet with cinematic inspiration from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio movie. Thank you for commenting, happy day!
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