Starting a new project - the Little Warriors. I'm going to be doing a series of images of kids in costume with the archetype they're dressed at behind them.

There's a couple of things I would love some feedback on:

1. I'm not sure yet whether I want to make the background figure 'ghostly' or 'tangible'. Right now I'm leaning a little more towards ghostly - with a slight shift. I was thinking about making them look more tangible the closer they are to the kid in the foreground. Any thoughts?

2. "Little Warriors" or "Lil Warriors"? Again - I have a direction that I'm leaning towards, but I don't want to sway anyone. I want all of your gut reactions.

I selected viking as the first archetype as a sorta advance fan art for gdg's Wolves of Odin. (I really can't wait.)

Oh, and no - this one is not done - not by a long shot - but it's late and I need sleep.

Just a quick heads up kids - Page 3 of 1100 is uploaded and should show up tomorrow. I'm going to try to stick to a Monday - Wednesday - Friday update schedule for a bit.

So you've probably all forgotten the little experiment that I started back in February.



Well I didn't. It was driving me nuts that I never did finish the portraits that I had promised. I had plenty of steam to do an hour on lafemmekatia's image.



I slowed down a bit and lost a bit of drive while working on theseitz's image of Rodney Dangerfield. I sucked it up and worked on him for a little over 1/2 hour. Poor Rodney. You've looked better buddy.



I have just finished (at long last) the image I promised for anisette_toast. I actually found this one coming together fairly quickly. There was a lot going on here tonight, and while I would think that should be an 'excuse' for why the image didn't turn out the way I wanted, it actually seemed to be the reverse. In just 1/2 hour (ok - maybe a touch more) I felt comfortable calling it a night.

And.... here's Stage One of lafemmekatia's image:

What do I think about it? Well, I think that it could be a LOT better. I'm going to try to not be too hard on myself since this is only stage one, but I already see a lot of things 'wrong' with the image. I've never claimed to be good at likenesses, but sometimes, after I see my most recent attempt, I get really discouraged. That's part of what this particular experiment is about though - forcing myself past the stage where I want to throw my hands in the air and say "fuck it".

This 'pushing past' is part of the reason why I broke down my efforts this way for this particular experiment. I have noticed in the past that if I set a project aside and come back to it later, there are aspects that pop out at me as being 'obviously wrong'. I think that it's because I get so engrossed in a particular part of an image - I focus on a particular problem - that I miss other stuff which should be clear to me.

Case in point? This woman has a much more full chin than I gave her. It's not plump or anything - just longer and more full - it extends below her mouth more than I have shown here. I'll be fixing that in Stage Two.