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Hey Ron here is an icky challenge for you

Hidden in some rather poor prose…which I think has been edited and rewritten…is a description of a creature that might just be up your alley…

Want to have a bash at producing the thing for the hell of it? Could be a bit of fun… If not I shall delete this post.

Poor prose from this point…

The mist locked into the few pages of it’s lair deep within the book, felt and saw the blue light invade it’s dark sanctuary. It understood the gateways inside it’s realm to the other worlds were now once again open to it, but was ignorant of the means of getting there. The swirling movement at the centre of the mist, held within it the sounds of sawing, hammering, and multiple breakfasts being cooked. The mist underwent great change, and the change underwent great change, and so on and so forth.

Inside a newly formed head, twisted, convoluted insane thought ran amuck in wild abandon. A sense of humour only a deranged duck could own floated in amongst the debris of the so-called mind, so recently acquired. Now with the mental age of a half-boiled egg, and the personality of a psychotic
rotting turnip, the lifeform stood revealed within the book. It was not a pretty sight. Surrounded by the stench of itself, the body was that of a loosely connected decomposing one ton breakfast. Every conceivable breakfast was represented, from cereals to sausages, each vying for space in and around the body in an ever moving mass of lumpy vile coloured liquid. Space, what there was of it, was at a premium, for what the lifeform lacked in height was more than compensated for by it’s girth. It stood in an unmatching pair of high-heeled shoes, one lime green, while the other was orange and two sizes too big for the foot. From the narrowness of the feet, up past the ankles, the legs grew in circumference until they reached their origins at the body, here their proportions defied belief. An over-stuffed pair of filthy ripped red pantihose fortunately covered two-thirds of both legs. As attire on the upper body the lifeform had a pink tie with yellow spots of something on it, a filthier pink shirt and a black leather vest. Apparently these articles of clothing began from one of the ample double necks, while never completed their normal fall to just past the waistline. Instead they ended in a ripped mess just south of the
massive armpits.

It’s face had every appearance of being fried in oil for the past decade only to be left half uneaten and discarded to sit crookedly on it’s green bones of support. The one good eye cut a slash of
horror in the cruel slit of red and black across the top of the left
purple and green mouldy cheek. Four white plump maggots made a home in the lime green and yellow eyeless socket, above the green bone of the fleshless right cheek. (In time the lifeform named the maggots;
Spit, Vomit, Belch, and Daphne, and fed them choice pieces of
itself.) The one and only eyebrow the face lay claim to, began at mid-nose and ran upwards at a vicious angle to end in a wild
assortment of various weeping sores, boils, and gangrenous rotting
flesh just above and past the left…ear. Black with fluorescent green tips it grew in matted clumps as the fungi it was composed of
is apt to do. The one odd thing about this eyebrow, apart from the droplets of perpetual perspiration which fell like rain from it’s tips, was the eyebrows ability to wander around the face of this
evil in a worm like fashion. Most of the nose was missing and appeared to be made up of a half eaten sausage embedded in part of a
fried egg. Two exposed nostrils leaked a profusion of yellow, green and red mucus down over the ripped fat top lip, to fall on to, and disappear into the folds of fatty leftovers, the bare bloated stomach held sway
to. The lips, while not generous or in anyway kissable, existed as the frayed edges to a face rip, which was on a slight angle. With the lips inability to seal shut, the gums and teeth of this mess were
constantly revealed. No tooth-brush had ever entered this den of halitosis. Black and broken the eight teeth grew in a cheese culture of neglect, while the wind of decay that is halitosis, liberated
gravity as it crawled out between the lips. Further back into the mouth very near the throat there was movement, barely discernible, but from time to time two yellow eyes could be seen to blink. Two
ears resembling bookends `leaned’ against both sides of the head, both lobes resting on the shoulders of the lifeform, one having the dubious distinction of being pierced by a long bone of indeterminate
origin, and still clinging tenaciously to the bone at one end was a sizeable amount of green, foul, fetid, flesh. Atop the head amongst the warts, boils, and weeping sores, were tufts of long, black, lice infected hair-like fungi.

The lifeform grunted in approval at it’s reflection in the new thought mirror it had created. In a pirouette of motion it
studied itself from all angles, losing a few pounds of unsightly loose mouldy green toast and slime as it did so. Stopping face on to
the mirror it ran a hand through one of it’s tufts of hair, ripping away toast, sphagetti, and a half eaten black sandwich.
It liked what it saw, so it
called itself Handsome Harry.

omg Ed!!! I love it!!! That will be one challenge that I will savour during the making of…handsome harry…a very descript passage to say the least…Look for something in the next few days to pop up… :slight_smile: This will get a penciling first I am sure…Thank you …and I was on my way to bed with a case of the doldrums…now I can smile in my ancient slumber :+1: :smiley: :+1:

Good one Ronster :+1: :+1:

Now the pressure…applying the thumbscrews department.

Seeing that you are interested…

Pull out all artistic stops, some criteria…no dark shadows, harry to be lit in all full glory or gory…prototype it…when happy full 3d model.

Character… interpretation of a body that has a cooked liver for a heart. A mind with an evil cunning (in this case cunning is not intelligence)all encased in a belligerent arrogant ignorance…much like me.

Optional…
Yes post results here, then with your permission, scrap it and begin again. Repost, then scrap it and begin again. Repost and you’ll have it.

With character modelling in all genres I find that to live your creation, and to understand its reason for existence, I draw or paint it three times. Each time you do this a creation becomes more “whole” and becomes a meaning. However this isn’t necessary for all people…I just find that it works for me. Each time the creation becomes more refined.

I shall do the same with another character…there are 27 characters in total.

The description above was added for the whole picture of Harry…the newly edited version has little of the original within it, but this is what the creature could look like.

I am certainly looking forward to this.

I did a couple of sketches for possiblitlies over breakfast this morning. I came home and reread the passage again several times. I pick up some new imagery each time. This is quite fun and it’s still in the planning stage. :smiley: :+1:

Hahaha

Right here is the scary bit Ron…

You have to be able to draw (with a pencil) the contours of Harry in your sleep, lefthanded, righthanded, upside down, from any view, with your eyes shut, mirror image be able to force perspective etc.

Then work out how to move the bloke.

I see as a minimum time allocation about 1000 hours work.

My suggestions…although they may not be warrented…

Spend time initially on the contour of the whole body…understand when you have the shape (mass) of the figure…then you will be able to rattle off the shape at whim and at speed. Then 3d Model the shape of the figure. Once this is accomplished then start to work on features still in pencil all the same process as above…from there to body and facial expressions expressions (valid ones) all still in pencil…understand the validity of the shapes movement gesture mood expression etc. Then and only then start the texture work…one hell of a lot of refining to be done in this area.
While you are doing all this become the creature…understand who he is…his aches pains strengths weakness…body dynamics smell how he sees, smell of his breath, how he affects the environment about him etc etc…jot down your findings.Keep in mind what harry’s thoughts may be…Black humour may exist.

Then the creature will own you.
And on a monetary level you will own the creature…and if all is as it should be all this could well be worth something to you. :slight_smile:

Why do I think you will be able to do all this…

You live the macabre…your research has been every horror movie ever…your love for these horror effects…are all recorded inside you…it is time to release them, inside your view.

I am trying to get into character… :eek: :eek: :eek:
the wheels are still churning in my wittle brain cell

Hahahahaha :smiley: You bloody nutter :smiley:

Okay Ron good to blow some steam…
Keep them wheels churning.

You want to be a full time artist? Do as I say with this model. It is hard bloody work, frustrating, disheartening etc etc…there aint no glamour, there is tedium…like all jobs they are all the same.

However, you do this to your and my satisfaction there is a possibility (small at this point) of something eventuating from this.

Research stuff…no copying though. Look at the texture on the Frau Holli (I think) post…interesting effect.

Hell I gotta give you a decent face model…I think I may have given you the wrong one looking at that. Which reminds me Digit’s needs to be finished.

Update sketch…got home from work and went right to it…yes…I am losing sleep thinking about him…modeling him will be the easy part…I just get the sense of a gelataneous shape in my mind’s eye with regards to the description…it would have to lay in wait to kill because it is fat and probably clumbsy…somewhat of a scavenager and probably a former slave driving manager…and possibly died and was reactivated after damage to the body was done…also the panty hose give it a perverseness…fishnets came to mind…might even have been a shoesalesman …hmmmm this is fun though…I picture a Danny Devito body shape but engorged with cellulite…hope I am going on the right track…but we will see…anyhoo here is the sketch I have so far…(the ones I did before were female but the character I assume from everything is male) or a cross dressing wannabe…sad and derranged…one version of fatz…thanx again Ed

You guys are just too much… love it! :+1: :sunglasses:

I think you got into character Ron! now get on with it! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :+1: :+1: :+1:

well I got to doing a quick colored model to test the waters…I can definitely see it needed alot more refining…but I needed color for now to help with the mental images…
test renderA

still having fun though

hmmmm some interesting things beginning to happen there Ron…love the mouth area…more refining and I think you may have that bit sorted…other bits have potential. Although as a stand alone “getting there piece” it really has some flavour. Actually the hair is hitting the interesting area as well…must have a longergander at it.

Keep on trucking :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:

:slight_smile: thnx…still here mentally churning away at the moment…

The lighting on the model exactly right. At present I believe it is going to be your best monster head model to date.

As a suggestion…find shapes that resemble open 6’s and develop to that shape. The 6’s can be in any direction towards, away, horizontal etc. Gives amazing form the 6 method.

Hi Ron
I must say that your horror style is not my cup of tee :rolleyes:
But all your production is very impressive!
And your last black and white sketchting is very vividness :cool:
Have happy “horror show” :smiley:
Pilou

Ron Ed really has you churning! I like the progress you have made. AS Ed stated it may well turn out to be one of your very best monster images so far! :slight_smile: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :+1: :+1: :+1: :smiley:

You sweatin’ yet Ron? :wink: :wink:

Here is a cartoon type, type type…on a different character than Harry obviously.

We rejected it…it was thrown together from a verbal description…one of about eight quickies off the same.

I think there is one other left from that exercise somewhere on this hard drive…I’ll have a look, although one of the group did post one on Rendosity.

An example of a rejection…

Found the only other one that appears to be still about… The renderosity one I think…I can’t be bothered checking.

Done really quickly…Irises diff sizes etc.

Pressure city :wink:

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Rendered in Notepad, drawn in excel.
:smiley:

I can never get the shadding to look that good with notepad! Awesome work!