You guys saw the pre-existing characters sketches in the email so I will not upload them here, but here's the meat of the week! (EDIT: I was poked that I should post them anyway, so there they are!) It was specified that the silhouettes should be from the same world -- I made mine the same species, even. While there are some things that are commonly associated with brainy, agile or strong characters, these qualities are not always (or even often) mutually exclusive: how would you catagorize Beast? Peter Parker is pretty smart, too. Megamind is clearly brainy, but he also moves like a dancer.
So I took my ogre people and put them in each role. They would stereotypically be portrayed as the strongman type, and not very agile or smart, but I know better. They may not be Monkey or Thing or Prof X, but neither are they limited by body type.That said ... it was actually the strong guy that gave me trouble. >.> I would rather have portrayed him in a more frontal position, but that would have been difficult to read as a silhouette. I was trying to stay away from the poses from the preexisting characters, as well, but if I did it over I might have used something like Thing's pose, just to have a different set of proportions acting the same way.
One of the things I really like here is that those fellas all really look like they are from one race, and yet through their poses you can gauge their various roles. I love the fact that you added some clothing bits to them too!
ReplyDeleteThe "Str" pose gave me the most trouble too. It seems like there are a few really generic poses (like flexing), but others are a bit trickier to "read" as a silhouette.
These definitely do feel from the same race and tribe :) I really like how even though there's a lot of black space on yours, you can still visualize the limbs clearly.
ReplyDeleteStrength gave me a decent amount of trouble too, felt like mine just wound up a big blob, I felt like I relied too much on props instead of the pose.