this is the 2nd big project that i bailed on and a LOT of the work went into several crappy unusable pieces but i keep going back to the head...theres a lot of weird proportional stuff going on but i think i did a good job of making the skin details like the wrinkles and edges flow in a nice way without totally overpowering the entire character. though he is a like a supersolider type character he literally is supposed to have a mask on the whole time so i was just fucking around for no reason HAHA. point of this post though is to say that i DID learn from this failure in ways i didnt before :pointingup: i failed to stick to a set style and sort of jumped around a billion references and that pulled me in too many directions. having a proper concept like FINALIZED before even working on it wouldve been a huge deal and saved me some heartarche. i also need to learn how to organize my time when working on larger projects so all the parts have the same detail parity. annnnnnnd i need to make sure to keep the Character Art Basics in my head while im working on this stuff. like making sure im paying attention to the overall shapes of the character...

the body in particular is pretty bad and you can tell i had to frankenstein it through several revisions. the arms just dont look right even though i spent all this time trying to get it anatomically correct while not adding bony landmakrs so i can actually tell where the muscles go...PLUS the shapes look all weird. i made everything so pillowy and didnt add any pleasing curves. and hes SUPERNATUALLY HUGE so the arms look to small even if i was double checking against an ecorche.