Sketches and Studies - Zeno Face & Body
I mentioned the face/body studies I did of him a while ago, so I'm finally posting them; it might help other artists or just be generally interesting.
my mentor taught me to break everything down in shapes to get someone's likeness, but we do have very different drawing styles - she's more stylized and I'm more realistic. even so, it's a valuable lesson for all styles, and I learned how to do these studies.
added some notes of what I think is important to keep in mind with his design - Zeno is very interesting because, as noted, he has a lot of square shapes, suggesting strength and reliability, and rounder ones, suggesting an edge of softness; both quite unlikely for villain/evil characters. his design is very, very interesting to me; quite intentionally contradictory, I think.
(someday I'll add Wesker's, and he is a lot sharper than Zeno; all his edges are very sharp and he lacks the roundness Zeno has, which I think is very noteworthy as a difference between them - Wesker is more of a "conventional" villain/evil character design, in my opinion)
