@Rafaknight_rk on Twitter is a 3-D artist who does a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog and Megaman comic covers for IDW and Archie Comics. He posted a few Mario facial renders today with *gasp* expressive faces! At the moment, the post has 8.8k likes on Twitter.
Well, he said "weird" faces, but still.
This would be an amazing wind-up toy. Wind it up and Waluigi's head starts walking. No worse than teeth on legs!
Actually, no worse than those hideous noses either...
I WANT A WALUIGI NOSE ON LEGS.
I've been playing Super Mario Sunshine ever since it came out. I thought I had done all the glitches there were to do. But today, I opened up a save file with 60 Shines on it. Start at Delfino Plaza. Headed straight for the rocket nozzle. I think I took a dive into it. Somehow, somehow, I got...
OK, here's tonight's batch of work:
Clipped his tongue back, made his eye more creepy, did some all-around work, and wrote a note that there's going to be that yellow goop from World of Light spraying everywhere.
Then I flipped it around- I kinda like it better that way. Then I started...
So a lot changed today- I had a whole hour to work on it!
I like where it's going. I need to work on the lighting more and set it up so that his red eye is the crowning feature.
Also, I'm not sure about his tongue. It might get chopped or painted out altogether. I'll have to mess with it...
So I was working on some turns today, for an original character. I have a love-hate relationship with turns. Trying to get better at those.
But then I felt the need to start working on something really, really fun.
So we have the beginnings of a hopefully terrifying Bowser from World of Light-...
LGM is right, you have to practice a lot. I actually am quite obsessive about bones and muscles when it comes to understanding things, so I actually am in the process of drawing and learning hand bones. I think that helps a lot.
Having taken a class under Jason Seiler, in which we painted realistic portraits, part of the observations drawn about men's faces is that they tend to appear bluish/greenish on the chin because of the hair underneath. I generally paint dudes that way and this was not unintentional at all...