Hello! Here´s my second entry for the DESIGN A CHARACTER contest - Season 9 by @w0olf. You can find the rules here: https://steemit.com/designacharacter/@w0olf/design-a-character-season-9-style-challenge-win-sbd
For this entry I wanted to make the same character as the previos one but from a total different aproach as the style requires. I think I ended being not quite the same character but who knows, these supernatural beings can probably change their appearences to fool you quite easily.
In the process you´ll see how it evolved to this final piece that I don´t hate too much, but I´m not fond of it either.
I had one clear idea, I wanted to make a profile portrait.
I thought that just a face wasn´t a character design and somewhere in my head, the idea of adding a hand was the best idea to solve this problem. Clever, huh?!
Few seconds after I had completely forgotten about the character and I was already worrying about composition and shapes.
Let´s add some color, that way I´ll see the shapes more clearly! said my yet cheerful brain...
Nothing was working, nothing was looking Klimt-ish enough, so I started changing everything.
The shape of the face was more simple and I liked it more, but it was not enough.... but wait! I have the solution! let´s add a hair strand in the face!!! That´ll solve all my problems!!
But the solution was far from there.... the hand, that sometime ago looked like a good idea was not helping now, the wings were hardly reading as wings....
So I tried to fix the image one more time. At this time I was thinking to add an skull cup to the image, you know, she´s thinking... "mmm... nothing like the warm blood of my enemies in the morning..."
I tried some more things and at the end I opted for the "golden graphic" approach.
and pushed the contrast a bit, because I´m not happy if I don´t hypersaturate all the images I do....
And that´s pretty much it. I don´t know if a portrait qualifies at a character design for the contest, I´ll let @w0olf and the judges to decide it, but I won´t have time for any other entry, so here it is.
I hope you like it a little bit more than I do. At least anyone doing art should learn the valuable lesson of not getting to fond of your initial ideas. If something is not working, just drop it. Start again. It´ll save you time and headaches. :)
The conclusion is that Klimt, as Mignola and many other great artist don´t, or didn´t let anything out of control. The shapemaking is always deliberate and serves a purpouse in the overall design, and the mastery of those elements (shape and design) is something that takes a lot of practice.
Thanks for watching!
If you want :)