This one was a commission for a band called The Hovering Cube.
They asked for a wendigo(which is a sort of mythical creature/spirit characterized by being really skinny and having a head that resembles a skull of a cervid) in a lotus flower stance with an armor that had an aztec resemblance. (・・;)ゞ
I started with rough sketches.
Sketched some of the armor.
I liked this one:
So I went and sculpt it.
I didn't sculpt the feet because my aim was not to show them. I'm a lazy one (￣ρ￣)..zzZZnkd
I made a render of that sculpture and made a composition sketch to nail down what else I was going to add to the scene. Came up with this:
In my head this monster was imprisoned and isolated in an ancient galactic confinement.
I sculpted and modeled some of those confinement structures.
I moved the camera looking for a few nice angles and rendered 3:
I liked most the first and third... but client chose the second... meh ( ˘ ɜ˘) ♬♪♫ Painted on top and added textures:
Final:
Zoomz:
This wendigos thingies are known for being insatiable beings that are always hungry, no matter how much meat they've swallowed. I painted like lots of blood in its face and in the armor. It's body, in my head, was made of dense, dark, semi-coagulated blood. Also the armor in the torso depicts some kind of face that spills this stream of blood into its hands.
Body is always spilling blood. You can see part of the leg with all that melting blood. Then this little astronauts guys came to find, inadvertently, this monstrous entity which, if they're not careful, will trick'em into liberating it under false promises, so it can roam free again. They would be its first hunt in aeons.