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In a previous post I said I was working on a new splash art - here it is : The minotaur

Hope you like

: Minotaur Splash art; minotaur-final.png (40.01 KiB) Viewed 3221 times

I like the idea! I think there are a few areas you can focus on to improve it:

First, his head. Vis this; bulls have protruding brows, buge foreheads, long snouts, and their eyes are way out on the sides of their head. The horns come out of a distinctive cylindrical thing on top of the head, not out of the sides. Obviously it's fine if you mix it around a little since he is a fantasy human-cow, but the closer you can get to the real thing, the better.

Secondly, the muscles. It's cartoony, and that's great, but you should still pay attention to where the muscles are going to lay. This charming guy would make a good reference. (Our giant/mino tiles really suffer from noodle-arm-syndrome, I need to fix that).

Try using spheres to lump out the shape of the various parts, that'll help you improve the shading.

You should probably also get rid of the hooves. Looking good, I'm sure it'll be great!

ontoclasm wrote:I like the idea! I think there are a few areas you can focus on to improve it:

First, his head. Vis this; bulls have protruding brows, buge foreheads, long snouts, and their eyes are way out on the sides of their head. The horns come out of a distinctive cylindrical thing on top of the head, not out of the sides. Obviously it's fine if you mix it around a little since he is a fantasy human-cow, but the closer you can get to the real thing, the better.

Secondly, the muscles. It's cartoony, and that's great, but you should still pay attention to where the muscles are going to lay. This charming guy would make a good reference. (Our giant/mino tiles really suffer from noodle-arm-syndrome, I need to fix that).

Try using spheres to lump out the shape of the various parts, that'll help you improve the shading.

The cartoony look was absolutely intentional, my process to make the art was similar with the previous one (the Eye of Draining) I start with the icon 32x32 and enlarge it and then I have fun until it looks good enough.
If you are the author of the minotaur tiles - I think it looks really fun and that's the look I wanted to achieve but obviously bigger.

Here is a comparison of the 32x32 pixels version (enlarge to 64px) and mine reduced :

: comparison at 64x64 pixels; minotaur-comparison.png (2.13 KiB) Viewed 3094 times

As for the head, I didn't want to have a standard bull head - and got my inspiration from other Minotaurs drawing or painting ...
Good point for the shading, though, and thanks for the feedback

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