Ninja archer wip
 

Well I was inspired to make this. It took a little while, its not done yet. Tell me what you think so far. I have not colored it yet, but I will.

Heres a colored version, sorry about double posting.

Question
What inspired you?

First thoughts
Plastic-esque
Gradient
****ing brushes

Deep thought
The hat has a nice look to it in general. The overall design is nice, how you have the "Shingles" type things, or whatever. Looks more like a roof than a straw hat, but that's okay. However, that hat itself doesn't quite look like it has dimension. Yes, it has shading. No, it doesn't look like it's sitting on somones head. This is just a quick sketch addon, but you should get what I mean:
http://www.phosphyr.com/five/up/ninjaarcherwip1.png
Or you could have it so the hat leans down.

Regarding the face, and the mask. How the hell can you tell where the scarf/facemask and the skin collide? It looks like either;
A) His mask was melted into his skin.
B) He has ALOT of loose skin on his face, botox anyone?

That's easy to fix ofcourse, just add a border design on the top ending before the skin.

Where's his ears? Also, his eyes looke quite drowsy. He just wake up from a hangover or perhaps back from a quick visit to "Mary Jane?" :frown:

The shoulder pads are hard to decide on. They look too smooth for my taste. Assuming they are made of some metal, I've never seen ninjas with metal pads like that. Usually they wear light clothe, it's that whole mobility thing. You don't see crusaders being very agile, or climbing on roofs, do you? ;) I have seen clothe shoulder pads, which resemble power ranger outfits. Ghar.
Examples of what I'm saying:
http://lautenbachillustrations.homes...iles/ninja.jpg
http://www.neverhorst.de/uploads/ninja.jpg

Nothing, I guess I wasnt inspired persay, I came up with it in my head. I was inspired by what I came up with in my head. I did get some of the idea from the horse archer from aoe. http://www.fictionalworlds.com/Anigi...rse-Archer.gif

So?


Yeah, Its supposed to be one of those japanese pesent hats that go over the head and the head is in hte middle of the cone thats why the curve goes downard instead of upward.


You can tell in the colored version, at least I can.


LOL, his ears are covered by the mask and the eyes have dark circles under them because of the hat and the mask.

Yeah well I wanted to make him a bit different from the generic ninja, by adding some shoulder pads and maybe some shin armor later.

Eh, it's too plastic-like for my liking.

That's one damn tight mask if it can suck his ears all the way inside his head. I agree with scott on the hat too, it looks flat.

You cant see ears in scotts second ninja picture can you? The hat looks fine to me...

Yes, actually I can... Perhaps you're seeing it from a different perspective than me, but it still looks flat.

Donalds hat is just fine.. z.z

Err, coloring looks fancy but it's kind of ugly :x

And my assain!

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfold...read_sucks.png

Note: the text was for another thread ;O

Looks cool, but you need to make the bottom of the hat more curved, and you need to recolor it ._. It looks like it was made of metal (yes, colored version) Hmm.. i guess it's ok that the mask looks kinda like plastic, seeing it could be made of silk, which kinda reflect light as plastic ;O
Hmm.. his eyes look... dead, either have them covered by the hat or add some more color to them, and make them look angry ;|

Maybe youl like this better

looks cool =]
made it with a wacom tablet?

He looks sad :( The sad Ninja! You should make the folds on his neck less symmetric.

yah its better..