Hello Steemians!
Today I want to share with you a design I created for @W0olf's Design a Character Contest.
For this week, we had to reimagine a given character into something else.
I picked Stimpy, from Ren and Stimpy.
I always thought this was supposed to be a dog, but Wikipedia told me otherwise when I did my research for this. . Credit: Ren and Stimpy wiki.
I tried to take a fun spin on this one and... in the end, I ended up making a Digimon... and then I thought I couldn't make just one, I had to make the complete evolution line, at least from baby to champion.
And that's how I turned Stimpy into three different Digimon at once.
At first I drew my champion-stage Digimon. I liked the pose and all so I used it as my base drawing.
After that I sketched the other two stages I had in mind. I had to adjust the designs in the final drawing to make them more "Digimon like", as the shape of the eyes and that stuff wasn't quite right. Nonetheless, it was a good starting point.
After some adjustments, I came up with the final lineart.
After I was happy with my concept I colored and painted shadows in a really simple manner, because that's how most Digimon artwork is. Obviously, I tried to keep the color palette Stimpy already had going on.
And... done! Or so I thought.
I woke up with the sudden realization that I kind of hated it so I modified the coloring. Adding more light and changing some stuff.
You can see it more clearly in this gif:
And now it's done!
Afterwords
Hi! Thanks for checking out this post. I honestly suffered all the way through it. Yesterday night I had no internet... so I thought to myself "well, I can always post in the morning, that's okay".
But it wasn't okay.
When I woke up I told myself "This is kind of awful" so I went and modified the coloring. But then, the lights went out. I forgot to save my progress and I lost all of the changes I made. It was a terrible experience.
Kids, don't forget to save your artwork all the time.
Luckily, I still managed to finish in time.
Anyways, this contest was a fun challenge to exercise my creativity. I find it fun to see how you can modify the concept of already existing characters in the most creative manner. For example, I turned Stimpy's signature strands of hair into horns to make it more Digimonesque.
Did you guys like the end result? Tell me what you think!
Enjoy your sunday.