Sketch Day

With a new year of college projects fast approaching, I figured now might be a good time to develop my sketching style a little further. And what better topic to practice with than creatures!!

So, working digitally, I mimic the techniques used in midtone paper sketching: brown pencils for line, texture and details, followed by white pencil to pick out highlights.

Sci Fi Plasma Rifle... Final Image.

So here's the final version of the digital painting I've been working on.

10 hours of work maybe went into this; all painted within Photoshop CS3, no 3D renders were used.

Sci-Fi Plasma Rifle... Work in Progress - 02

Update on my original post this week, simply to show development of the weaponry design.

Here, I'm focusing on enhancing forms and adding further detailing to the previous stage.

Sci-Fi Plasma Rifle... Work In Progress

Of late, I've been inspired by Science Fiction weaponry designs and figured I should try my hand at learning some of the techniques used by professionals in order to create my own designs in a production-ready style.

YouTube has a plethora of video tutorials on the subject, of which I found ConceptCookie's to be the most useful.

While this work in progress follows closely alongside his design in terms of colour and style, my future designs will adapt the techniques learnt to create my own original creations.

Anyhoos, enough chat. Here's what I have so far...

Brief Digital Painting Study: Sci-Fi Panelling

A quick look into what makes interesting panelling designs.

Considering mechs and weaponry, I began looking for similarities in a variety of designs. This brief study shows a few of the more popular design solutions.

This is just the first stage in my study. More will follow soon.