Here’s how Anchor was made.
Started out with an angled pose
It didn’t work, at all, so I threw it in the trash. Just too difficult to find the right parts and adjust the clothing to fit the pose. So, switched to a symmetrical forward-facing pose.
Added the tail of the coat. Found out that the color scheme makes the coat, the sleeves and the hair a bit difficult to figure out.
Finished the clothing and figured out a close enough color scheme.
Tweaked things all around and added shading.
The pose still seemed off, the foreshortening wasn’t quite right. I decided to make the pose a little less extreme in order to fix his anatomy.
And here we are! What we learned: You might end up scrapping all your work and starting over at some point, but it can be for the best.
