CHOW #311:: Post-Apocalyptic Santa

[Pkun]

I'm back to thinking a little more in the character design, here you have some ideas.

[onez]

First sketch.
Trying to give him the old hippy vagabond look that has a certain 70s feel to it.
He'd probably be thinner from starvation



and other sketches

[Axec]

made significant progress on mine, you guys are looking great



Might take a little break since I spearheaded this overnight, first time painting a character with a specific design process

[mcreation]

thanks for all the comments, i redesigned my santa, and as i have some problems conjucting man and machine, hes off the bike!

[Axec]

Aaaand that's the end of today's painting efforts, pretty happy with where its going

[El_Khan]

i personally think you can fix the fucking sleigh in one second with magic ...
thats why i took it out of the window ...
but if you find some cool post apocaliptic way to show magic ... that would be interesting ...
just my opinion anyway

[El_Khan]

ArtbyAntB : BADASS SANTA ROCKS !!!!

Migsta: he looks kinda "clean". some scratch and some dirt migth look nice on both of them *the sleight and santa.

Ninja Adi : maybe some battery fot the lights ...
and something to make him looking more santalike ... key stuff .. colours ...
some accesories ,,, etc ... maybe more presents too ..

PhilipO : not sure.. maybe you can find a better angle for it

Pkun : im digging santa motero .. (the second one)

onez : the "second" one .. the one with the glasses .. he looks cool to me.

mcreation: is a nice concept, i will just say if you really want to go for the sleigh-reindeer idea, push it forward

[mcreation]

thanks el khan, ill push it...i hope...
onez- the second one look good to me also, has more of a santas feel
Pkun- dont know why butt i digg the top right figures better, even if he looks somewhat dfferent from santa, but hey its a new aproach we re trying here
Ninja Adi- watch out the perspective on the shopping cart looks weird
migsta- looks awesome, really nice cartoony aproach
bjulvar- thast a badass santa, really nice, but i feel he needs a bit more santa feel, right now if i remove the red cloak and the title on this thread it doesnt read to me as santa, but hey nonetheless its amazing

[Bjulvar]

Here's what I've cooked up so far. Not sure if I can squeeze in some more of that almost nonexistent sleigh! And yeah it's pretty dark. I'll drop some comments later!

[Veshkau]

Bjulvar - love the reindeer carcass clothing.

[Bnoch]

I really like this time of the year. It's intended to be a cheerful reflection of the past year with family, but it turns out to be a clusterfuck of frantic housewives and work consumed businessmen out in droves willing to kill for a christmas gift. Awesome.

My Santa would never rock a Sleigh. He burned that long ago for firewood and supplies, then killed all his deer to survive the next 2 winters... except Rudolph. Rudolph became his flashlight.

[sony]

EPIC TOPIC

[JanJager]

Bjuvar
Very nice. I would ether make the background a bit lighter or put some more light on him to get him to pop out more.
Vershkau
Good sketches especial the last. like the look in his eyes. At this point I think you could ad some more santa stuff to him
Bnoch
Your great concept. your technic is so brilliant.

Couldn't resist going for this santa

[PhilipO]

After today's painting

[Axec]

Is there a reason my post was removed?? Sorry if my images were too big, here's a smaller two part wip of my first two days, I'll wait to post in the finals now

[Quinn Simoes]

Great ideas so far guys! Love the stories behind your ideas too!

We still have another week on this so keep them coming!

[j.zhang]

Wow, really cool stuff in here guys =] God damn Bnoch and veshkau... just wicked

[Aonegamer]

Santa after Zombie apocalypse.
After ZA Santa carry both a Gun and Gift.

First Santa say Ho ho ho, and if the reply is kkkkkkkkkhhhhhhaaahhhhhhhaaa... Santa shoots back.
Else gives gift.

[Havok Reed]

Man, Bnoch, I would love to see your process. You should take some screen shots of your work as your are making it and throw them in here with your images.

[z01ks]

on a rooftop wit a minigun

[Marker-Inc]

couple of sketches, not much yet but I didnt want to miss this opportunity to jump in.







forgive me for nthe poor quality, phone cam shots of my paper sketches


Dave

[Marker-Inc]

worked one of the sketches out into a rough composition;



merry christmas and enjoy the holidays

Dave

[Mark Tarrisse]

Second page yet so many awesome posts !
As usual probably won't finish it, but just to start something
Anyway... because someone has to bring gifts to the kids... but this time there are no toys, only food.

[scorge]

Some sweet takes so far. Haven't made a Christmas card in a while. This'll do. I'm assuming there will be zombies to deal with after the apocalypse? You know Santa will deliver to survivors if he has to.

[darklogik]

This is SICK!

[El_Khan]

Another WIP ...
put some base colours and started detailing a bit.

[Mark Tarrisse]

Scorge, the mouth seems a little low and the shotgun could be a little bigger, except that, it looks really cool

[Axec]

Second attempt at making a post that isnt too large, sorry fellas

[z01ks]

having trouble thinking of post-apocalyptic elements for the character...

[Mark Tarrisse]

Update...