Hey I'm back. Alright! Pinkies! So in the previous part, we got Doom guy into the scene with his shieldsaw. I figured this time we'll get the pinkies done to get some action going for the scene. I've refined their shapes a little more here. I didn't using reference yet, just memory and imagination, but here's some reference if you want it.
These guys have a hunched pose and they're pretty muscular (important when it comes to shading). If we were to shade them with light coming from above, we could have something like this (without shadows yet). Although looking back at the pinky facing north, I realized I should have shaded more further down his back too since it's slanted about 45 degrees and light would still be reaching it. Since I didn't here, it looks like he's standing perfectly straight like a human. A little mistake, but easy to fix.
Before we do anything else, we need BIG HEAD MODE. Since we're doing this Zelda game vibe, these pinkies need to look a bit more chibi, which means their heads need to be bigger. So here's a revision. Be sure to eyeball Doom guy's head size to compare with.
Looks about right. Now, before we add shadows to these sprites, I want to adjust the poses so they look like they're running. Make sure the arms and leg motions "criss-cross"! That's not really what they do exactly, but they alternate. What I mean is, "right arm forward, right leg back", "left arm back, left leg forward", and vice-versa, I hope you get the idea. Pro tip: imagine or observe how you walk in real life! Anyway the result should look something like this. For the 2 pinkies facing forward, you can actually save time by just drawing one of them and then mirroring him horizontally, as you can see below.
Ok NOW we can shade in the shadows where sun light is less exposed, or whatever light source is in hell. Let's just pretend there's a big light source in the sky. We can shade under the arms, armpits, and add simple circular shadows underneath the pinkies altogether.
Now we just polish. Try your best! It took me about almost an hour to get these sprites polished because I struggled a bit with the shading and the leg/feet shapes, but you can try to observe my sprites, learn from them, and try to memorize these little details such as the shading of the muscles. It will help when it comes to drawing a Baron if we stick to that plan. I may want to place him somewhere else though. You should get something like this. Pinkies also eat HUMAN FLESH! So it makes sense that they'd have blood and guts on their mouths.
Ok that's it for now. I hope you enjoyed this read! Maybe next time we'll draw the Tomato! (Cacodemon) I'm not sure though. I don't always have a plan, but we'll figure it out!