Krejuski Customs
LegoSungJin-Woo
Hey all! I hope you've been well!
Introducing... Sung Jin-Woo from Solo Leveling! And Igris, his first summon.
Bet you didn't see this coming did ya! Wanted to practice some modeling along with the LEGO theme, and ended up with this! I love Solo Leveling, and wanted to see how I could translate the property to "what if LEGO..."
The art style of Solo Leveling presented a few challenges that I had fun trying to work within. The style itself is pretty simple and sharp with a lot of focus on silhouettes and shadow instead of more explicit detail and texture, which I tried to honor. The hardest place with this was actually Ji-Woo's hair. I added only the hair strands that would affect the silhouette I wanted and beyond that just kept it smooth. Then I just messed with that balance until I was satisfied with it both under normal lighting (if it was an actual piece) and with the stylized lighting. I'm pretty happy with it!
Next, the big modeling challenge, Igris. This was so much fun! The last modeling thing that I did like this was Komamura's head piece, so it was fun to flex those muscles again. The fun part as always is adapting to LEGO. I thought about doing Igris as another normal minifig at first, but quickly decided against it, and instead thought along the lines of a General Grievous or even the Groot build from the marvel line, which gave me the liberty to model every part of his body. Then connecting them as I went. Ball joints, normal peg joints, etc.
I really like what I ended up with. Maintaining his form and silhouette while (some tips for those who want to do stuff like this too..) deliberately giving more lego-like proportions, a sufficient level of detail removal/exaggeration etc. Really happy with the result.
The sword is def the least LEGO-like part of this whole thing, not really satisfied there, but wanted to get back to bleach so I called it good enough lol.
I included a standard-lit model for a better look at the actual parts. Let me know what you think! Do you want more solo-leveling in the future??
LegoSungJin-Woo
Hey all! I hope you've been well!
Introducing... Sung Jin-Woo from Solo Leveling! And Igris, his first summon.
Bet you didn't see this coming did ya! Wanted to practice some modeling along with the LEGO theme, and ended up with this! I love Solo Leveling, and wanted to see how I could translate the property to "what if LEGO..."
The art style of Solo Leveling presented a few challenges that I had fun trying to work within. The style itself is pretty simple and sharp with a lot of focus on silhouettes and shadow instead of more explicit detail and texture, which I tried to honor. The hardest place with this was actually Ji-Woo's hair. I added only the hair strands that would affect the silhouette I wanted and beyond that just kept it smooth. Then I just messed with that balance until I was satisfied with it both under normal lighting (if it was an actual piece) and with the stylized lighting. I'm pretty happy with it!
Next, the big modeling challenge, Igris. This was so much fun! The last modeling thing that I did like this was Komamura's head piece, so it was fun to flex those muscles again. The fun part as always is adapting to LEGO. I thought about doing Igris as another normal minifig at first, but quickly decided against it, and instead thought along the lines of a General Grievous or even the Groot build from the marvel line, which gave me the liberty to model every part of his body. Then connecting them as I went. Ball joints, normal peg joints, etc.
I really like what I ended up with. Maintaining his form and silhouette while (some tips for those who want to do stuff like this too..) deliberately giving more lego-like proportions, a sufficient level of detail removal/exaggeration etc. Really happy with the result.
The sword is def the least LEGO-like part of this whole thing, not really satisfied there, but wanted to get back to bleach so I called it good enough lol.
I included a standard-lit model for a better look at the actual parts. Let me know what you think! Do you want more solo-leveling in the future??