SILCO (ARCANE)
I may be a little late with this, did some fan art of Silco from the animated show Arcane. If you haven't watched it I highly recommend it. This all started as a way of tasking myself with painting realistic skin in ZBrush (originally) which quickly snowballed. What I was trying to preserve was a realistic result for Silco while staying true to the original design. Hope you dig it, it was a fun project.
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I used a mix of XYZ and polypaint for the skin details. Grooming is all done with Xgen
Baking, texturing and lighting all done in Marmoset toolbag
Some quick gesture paintings. This helps me understand the shape language before diving into a full sculpt of a character. Always a good idea, even if it's rough