Diablo 3 Crusader WIP

Heather_Bea · Nov 2014

Hi there! I have decided to do a fan art painting of the Diablo 3 Crusader in the Akkans Set with a Phalanx Shield and Flail.

Here are some reference photos-
Armor-

Sheild-

Flail-

Human reference-

And this is what I have so far-

Any feedback/critiques are very welcome!
I'll update and respond when I can : )

Heather_Bea · Nov 2014

Did a skew to get it to look better and threw on some color.

Avanthera · Dec 2014

The body and gear is coming along nicely, but one thing that stands out to me is the face. I did a little paintover to show what I mean.

The main things I changed were:

smoothing out the side of the face, as the divot from your eye socket wouldn't show up at that angle,
I moved the chin so it is in perspective and shortened it,
I also moved the hairline down to cut off more of the face, and then raised the eyebrows, reducing the size of the forehead.

Mostly, some things like the eyes and nose was drawn as if the face was looking straight forward, as the face was turned away, making it look odd. The eyes are a bit small and the head overall was a bit tall.

Some changes are my own personal taste, but the perspective issues and overall proportions I feel are legit problems.

Also, some of the features don't go into perspective like it should, I drew a little box face on the right to show what I mean, kind of hard to put into words. As the features wrap around the face, and move off into perspective, they bend, shrink, and skew a little bit since they are located on a slight curve. (your face is the curve)

Hopefully this all makes sense!

Diablo 3 Crusader WIP

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