Draw character design tutorial Horus the guardian

Draw character design tutorial Horus the guardian. This tutorial shows you how to draw and paint a character design of Horus the guardian character. This tutorial shows you from drawing step to rough semi-finished painting. You can scroll down further to see step by step images with instruction.

In this tutorial I start with a rough idea of a Ancient Egyptian guardian Horus. I first explore with human shapes with the head of a falcon in mind. I am using the texture to convey materials and also light and shadow. Then I explore what kind of lighting direction do I want. At this stage, I only focus on big shapes, lighting and base to get the overall look and feel of the character first before I can design the detail of the costume. Once you have a good silhouette with lighting and good form then we can start doing more detail.
You have to first take care of the big shape then you can think about adding design and little detail.
I use a lot of normal layer and just paint like I would paint traditionally in this video. But with a lot of help from custom brushes. Hopefully this can be really helpful to you all.
This time though I struggle a bit in the beginning because I only have vague idea of what I want. But sometime, I will just let the visual shapes and color guide me as I go.
Again I usually start my image from shapes and build those shape up along with composition in mind. The lighting and value.

horus character concept art