Temple Knight Final

So here's the final version of my latest piece of concept art, the Temple Knight.

I left it at this stage as I have learnt what I set out to with this piece; it was really just a test to see if I could come up with a workflow that would allow me to produce relatively well detailed characters in a short space of time. To an extent, it worked, but I have still a long way to go before I reach my personal goal.

Untitled WIP Stage 02

Today's progress: pushing the lighting in a more atmospheric direction, whilst testing myself with armour material rendering.

Untitled WIP Stage 01

Been working hard of late to try and establish a steady, reliable workflow for myself in regards to producing digital paintings. This is some progress from today's endeavors...

Flow-Bot

Took some time out of the daily grind to focus on learning a few more digi-painting techniques.

Here be the result:

Giggin' Alone pt2

Managed to get a bit of digi-paint applied to this today, so here's part 2 of the process.

Giggin' Alone

It's been a while since last I swung by these parts; we can blame that on 2nd year HND Computer Arts and Design... intense!!

Nevertheless, it was a great year all in all and I've learnt TONS from it. 

Now that I finally have a little time to focus on some personal portfolio work, here's a brief post showing some work in progress sketching of a Royal Mage I've been working on today.

Hopefully painting will commence at some point tomorrow, so stay tuned and I'll continue to post step-by-steps as I go.

Trickety-Boo

Swift artwork post:
This piece gave me nothing but problems from start to finish, but we got there in the end. Yay.

Midnight Sketch

This evening I decided to take a little time out of college projects in order to try and develop my digital painting skills a bit further.

Following the sound advice of Xia Taptara, this is the result...

Bring on the Trumpets!!

Caught in the icy embrace of another 1st semester at college, I've been hard at work producing sketch upon sketch of ideas and conceptual bliss. Having worked my way through many Great British Pounds' worth of drawing materials, I've decided that now would be as good a time as any to share a drawing or five with the cyber-people out there.

I've got a few ditties for you this evening: 3 developmentals that show my WIP design process of a main character; and 2 coloured pieces that have nothing to do with anything really, but were lying around within the vaults of my PC and deserved to at least see the light of a screen.

Alrighty then, back to the grind. I'll see you on the other side of a month or so.

Project Development

So yet again, I find myself knee-deep in a whole bunch of projects and assignments for college... loving it!!

Here be a few sketches from my workbooks for you to peruse:

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.