Choice Art

This picture is based off of a character from Overwatch named Zenyatta. He is basically a robot Gandhi. He basically is an incarnation of peace and harmony which intrigued me and he was always so symmetrical so i wanted to draw a picture of this character as balanced and symmetrical as i could.

I started off by drawing a line to try and create equal proportions of the body on both sides of the line. Once i started that i looked at reference pictures to get all his mechanical body accessories down which also helped in my symmetry. I also added cracking or a shattering effect to his body which also involved the shards having to fit like a puzzle together if they were placed together. I outlined the main part of his body darker than the other six arms to emphasize his true body instead of his spiritual form. I also gave him colors that a robot would have, metallic colors of course such as grey and gold with hints of blue for his lights. I darkened the coloring by the outlines to give him a shine and rounded effect. His orbs were also colored to become rounded looking and share the same color palette as his Lotus flower which i added symmetry to the petals to make it balance directly behind him.

This character is a peacemaker, so I figured that if he died his teaching would pass to his disciples. However if his disciples began to ignore and forget his teachings, his rememberance would begin to shatter and fade away over time as he is lost within the thoughts of war instead of peace.

If i could change anything I would add more Hindi symbols to help represent him as a character and his beliefs.

Charcoal

When I was thinking of what to do for my charcoal piece I was trying to think of what could be easily found as black and white. A zebra had crossed my mind but I thought of something more sinister and monster like, The Slenderman.

I had seen various pictures of him. Some had depicted he had Regular arms, some displayed blades, some showed him with regular arms and gooey tendrils and some just displayed him with Tendril arms. I had gone with a mix of both the blade and tendrils for both his arms and legs. I gave him a more defined face for having no face by darkening areas where his cheeks would be. I had used shadow as a way to tell where his brow or eyes would be if he had those. I darkened the trees around him to make it defined with the dark mist i had applied around the Slenderman. I darkened his suit and tendrils to also make him stand out from the rest of the region. I made him a bit hunched to give him a hunting position for movement as if he were hunting for something or someone.

I never really had a story for him as much as trying to make him sisnister and look as if he was lurking within the woods. I would imagine that if his mouth was ripped open he would be agitated and persistent on trying to find his prey who hides amongst his forest.

I would probably add more detail to his mouth or arms to give him a more fierce look that makes him look as if hes going to terrify anybody that sees him. Maybe make a more blended look with the grey background to make it look foggy.

Art and soul

For this one I love the idea of how life is created between the forces of life and death. So i wanted to create a scene of where life and death combine their powers to create a new life.

I wanted the main point of focus to be the heart and the auras swarming around it. so i tried to give it a circular shape with the arms of both entities almost creating a circle. I added depth to the heart and its ventricles to make it look like its rounded and not just flat on a page, same goes for the two arms. I added shading to the skeleton hand to make it appear as if the bones are also rounded.
I used A LOT of color for this, mostly in the heart with various Purple, Pink, and red. I also used proportion in the fingers so the human hand didn't have gross sausage fingers. In the auras I had placed a dark line first and had exaggerated lines to form the swirl effect so it wasn't just strings swirling around the heart. I also added a bit of light effects to the droplets of blood going up to the skeletal hand.

I wanted to tell almost a story with this. To create life you must also give that life a death curfew. So with the powers of both life and death you can create a new being. So with Life giving the heart its ability to beat, Death infuses it own personal poison coils to wrap around the heart and slowly harm it until the point to where it can no longer beat and hold that life.

If i were to fix this i would definitely add a background color, maybe a fading color from dark to symbolize death to a white or lighter color to symbolize life. So like a Yin and Yang background without the circle.