{"id":643,"date":"2009-06-22T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T07:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:15:39","slug":"sketchbook-monday-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/sketchbook-monday-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook Monday #64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missed two weeks in a row there. I&#8217;d say I was losing it, but I often miss Sketchbook Monday. ;_;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2009-06\/2-01.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" class=\"artwork\" \/>Plenty of concept art for <cite>Project Legion<\/cite> today which, as you might guess, is primarily what I&#8217;ve been working on as of late. Here&#8217;s a sketch of the main hero. The idea was that each unit class have a unique head shape that quickly identifies them on screen, and&#8211;taking that even further&#8211;that the head shape actually be something related to that class. For example, the archers&#8217; heads would look like an arrowhead when viewed and profile and, as you can see, the hero&#8217;s head would be shaped like a star. After toying around with it awhile, I&#8217;ve largely dropped the concept. In practice a lot of the characters&#8217; heads are obscured by others in-game anyway, and honestly it would make for some pretty wild hair, hats, and head accessories that I&#8217;m not so sure I could pull off without looking completely stupid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2009-06\/2-02.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" class=\"artwork\" \/>Just to drive the point home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2009-06\/2-03.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" class=\"artwork\" \/>A more recent sketch of the hero.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2009-06\/2-04.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" class=\"artwork\" \/>An early concept sketch of a villain (perhaps <em>the<\/em> villain?). I like to try and not create the same kind of antagonist in every story I come up with, so I make this guy a lot rounder than Warlord Keaton in <cite>Swordmaster Odyssey<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2009-06\/2-05.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" class=\"artwork\" \/>And here he is, with more realistic proportions, in a close-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missed two weeks in a row there. I&#8217;d say I was losing it, but I often miss Sketchbook Monday. ;_; Plenty of concept art for Project Legion today which, as you might guess, is primarily what I&#8217;ve been working on as of late. Here&#8217;s a sketch of the main hero. The idea was that each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}