For this assignment, I quickly sketched some silhouettes using a thick "scratchboard" brush. I chose the figure in the top right corner. I then duplicated it three times. For the "Drummer Monkey Man" I found really disgusting images of people who inject oil into their arms to make them look bigger. It's a very unpleasant, unnatural look, and I don't know why people do it. The quads were from a very steroid-y bodybuilder and the feet are from someone suffering some kind of foot edema. The helmet is a leather old-school football helmet. Added a baldric and drum. Adding all this nonsense changed my initial pose to make it look like he's slightly bending over. The mummy pharaoh started out with my initial sketch pose, but the beefiness of my initial sketch didn't sit well with me, so he went on a diet. I also added a skeleton cat by his side. The zombie is something like The Borg and Silent Hill.

Hi, I tried my hand at this process, it was really fun. I've always struggled with shape carving method, but adding photobashing helps me a lot in creating more interesting shapes. Between the top right and top left, I felt like I didn’t explore enough, so I tried doing more exploring on the third one. Lokmen