01: Sonho

| November 2, 2013 | 2 Comments

Character Name: 
Sonho

Brief Bio/Description:
Sonho is a gender-less but male-identifying amorphous, amphibious being. His appendages, and the majority of his body, are comprised almost exclusively of muscular tissue. Lacking a proper skeleton, his body contains flexible cartilage which can be manipulated into different shapes and locations with enough muscular control. Sonho prefers to keep the majority of his cartilage in his head and torso. You could compare his abilities to a cross between those of a jelly fish and an octopus. He finds humans fascinating and loves human humor and sarcasm. He stumbled onto the website known as 4chan, and now he makes tentacle jokes all the time. His human friends often draw comparisons between Sonho and average teenage boys, despite Sonho claiming to have lived over a century already. He loves to eat sushi; not for the taste, but for the irony and reactions he gets.

Style Commentary:
In the past, I’ve had a very difficult time bogging myself down in the details. I resolved today to sit down, rough out a decent pose, and lay the character out with simple details. I’m determined to avoid plain human characters (though I may “cop out” and do a few at some point this month, if the whim strikes) so I can start broadening my skills and get some new research done. Like, for this guy! I wanted Sonho to be technically genderless, and when the tentacle appendages started happening, I wanted to keep in mind some semblance of a factual basis, so I looked up the muscular system of an octopus! Very cool! Back to technical style: I laid down a simple black outline over the pose sketch, then filled a base color, which I copied and changed to the shadow color so I could mask it away for a simple cell-shaded effect. Not my usual approach, but I had fun and didn’t bury myself in immense detail or color work, so: mission accomplished!

 

Category: 2013, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Scifi

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  1. Dan Jensen says:

    This guy and Plavalaguna need to hook it up! Make some blue tentacle babies! Really cool, it’d be fun to see what crazy shapes he could make!

    • Krash1111 says:

      Thanks, Dan! I love the possibilities of amorphous characters, so perhaps once this challenge is over, I’ll return to him and do some more work – character sheets and other poses – based on him! I dare say getting equally enamored with all of my exercises this year would require too much time, but we’ll see who wins out at the end! I’m sure I’ll be revisiting at least a few of them, for sure!

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