BALANAR?

this sem I'm into graphic communication class by en fawaz; n one of d project is to design a superhero which emphasizes more on the eastern culture.
ive started off with a hantu penanggal (yes ppl, she's kinda demonic; treat it as if its SPAWN by todd mcfarlane), but during the last lecture en fawaz pointed out the details of eastern elementals and ornamentation.

I thought of going for an Oni (its kinda demon spirit in Japanese), but then I turn to Barongan.

why?

have u guys watch king kong vs godzilla? =)

or when the marvel superheroes were divided by the superhero acts? (forget which issue it was; mainly the act demands the superheroes to reveal their identities. so there were the pro-govt heroes vs the indipendent heroes)
so that's where the idea of penanggal vs barongan comes from (it'll be weird to have sushi squared up with a pulut periuk kera wouldn't it?)

now the ones below were some initial ideas n rough sketches. the last two were my pathetic attempt to color the images; should've inked them 1st rather than straight editing from pencilled sketch; what a mess n noob -_-


i guess im kinda influenced by fakhrul anour and puppeteer (both gempak's artist), n a bit of katsuya terada, though not much at those levels. kinda clean strokes with a misty/vague touch-up and colouring (man, I sucks at colours). n u guys should give a peek to Yoshitaka Amano as well (he's the guy behind the Final Fantasy's franchise heroes and art designs)








p/s;
a) balanar is a hero from the scourges (DotA), wait fo my reincarnated version of the scourges
b) owh. i didnt link any of my ref's above. cant access yahoo n google for the time being. I wonder what's up with UTM's network? -_-