Drednaw almost gets it. It's so damn close. I love its shell and horn, they look rugged with bumpy linework that we hardly ever see these days. The overall shape is solid, it has potential for the classic Venusaur or Rhyhorn energy of just being a big fat bastard who stomps his way through anything. And even the name is boss - DREDNAW
and yet... and yet............ that face. Ok, the mouth is cool, and the cheeks are fine even! It's really just the eyes. Now tell me, what the hell kind of shape is that for an eyeball? If it was just flattened off, or a smooth slope, or better yet that classic triangular eye, we'd be all set. But instead, it's a baffling "5/8ths of a pizza" shape. And then the arbitrary line that doesn't have any definition so it can't represent a fold or a contour, it's just a holdover unibrow line that gets broken by the horn so it's not even a unibrow anymore. It's pointless and distracting.
I don't often do this, because my job is to critique, not fix. But in this case the fix is SO simple and goes SO far, I can't resist.
Overall: 5/10 (would be a 9/10 with the fix)
But with the pointless line, it looks angry. Without it, it just looks like it's kinda dumb.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if they were angled a bit.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I noticed Dreadnaw eye situation and I agree with Pim they should be angled a bit to maintain the angry face, but even derpy Dreadnaw is better than the real one.
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