Creative Mondays 14 – The Bare-Knuckle Boxer

“What is Creative Mondays?

Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.

So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”

This week’s Creative Mondays piece provided a chance for me to experiment with some 3D graphics software. I was alerted on Twitter about an offer that DAZ 3D announced where they were giving away three products for free for a limited time. Not one to throw away a bargain I took the opportunity to download the software and get stuck in. The first program that caught my eye was DAZ Studio 4 which gives you the ability to create a variety of three dimensional characters. The poses and expressions along with the lighting and texture capabilities are pretty impressive and soon enough I had an idea to create a mock poster of which you see in this post!

After a bit of tweaking I set the character into the pose I wanted, gave him a bit of a tough expression and tried to light him realistically. I then rendered the subject and imported him into Photoshop where I did a bit more colour work and added blood/bruising along with some drops of sweat for realism. As far as this first attempt goes it’s a fairly simplistic concept but with more time and practice the 3D software could work out to be a very handy tool!