In the spirit of fantasy and game art (and challenging
myself!) I wrote up a grab-bag list of world cultures, technology periods, and
other options and broke out the 6, 10 and 20 sided dice.
I know I have certain cultures and periods I lean toward, so
I hope this will give me a fairly random selection of traits to work from. I
rolled 10 different troll options so I could see a variety. (because I still like options)
I’m doing this D&D style kids... Get ready for the Troll Roll.
After 10 Troll-Rolls, I’m between Columbian, Dark Ages, Small Village troll with Average
intelligence and a Mexican/Mayan/Inca/Aztec flavored tribes during the colonial
era with very high intelligence.
I really like the idea (and texture set!) of a South
American-ish Jungle Troll, and its an area that I haven’t researched much since
5th grade history class, so I think it’ll be a good stepping stone. I remember really loving learning about the early Mexican cultures so my instincts are leaning in that direction.
For this project I want to push myself with the drawing, to make it as solid and believable as possible, and texture, which I still struggle with.
I'll post my numbered lists in the comments if any of you would like to use it too. I thought it was a fun way to push myself out of my usual box!
~Britt
Here's what I threw together:
ReplyDeleteCulture Influence (by no means an exhaustive list! I just grabbed a broad assortment)
1- South African
2- Egyptian
3- Middle East
4- Eastern Asia
5- Southern Asia
6- Greek
7- Mayan/Incan/Aztec/mexico
8- Colombia
9- American
10- North African
11- Italian
12- Irish/Scottish/Celtic/UK
13- Indian
14- Samoan
15- Space
16- Australian
17- Northern Asia
18- Eastern Europe
19- Mainland Europe
20- Arctic
Time/technology Period
1- Prehistoric hunter/gatherers
2- Ancient
3- Dark Ages
4- Renaissance
5- Baroque
6- Industrial Revolution
7- Colonial
8- Contemporary
9- Futuristic
10- Post-Apocalyptic
Level of intelligence
1-10, 10 is very intelligent, 1 is animalistic, (check the D&D scale on this one!)
Social Habits
1-Solitary
2-Tribe
3- small family units
4- complex cities
5- small villages
6- Troll-topia! (A whole world inhabited largely by trolls)