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.

Sci-Fi Lass Painted

OK, so I failed to remedy the hair situation. Next time.

Sci-Fi Lass

Rough sketch ready to be painted up...

Note to self: Remember to fix her hair!!

The Creative Project

Not a lot going on right now as far as digital painting goes - other than a few sketches which I'll probably show here soon - so I thought I'd take this opportunity to show off a couple of my abstract pieces which have been featured in the Creative Project via Behance.

Enjoy!

Norse Warrior God

Here's a look at the step-by-step process of the creation of a character I produced for one of my college classes: a mythical Norse warrior emerging from the mists of time.

Digital Painting - Face Rendering

A swift post this month; this piece is an interpretation of a Bluefley00 tutorial from YouTube.

I highly recommend you check out his channel if you, like me, are learning digital painting techniques as it is a goldmine of knowledge and tricks.

End of the Year, Ahhhhhh

I've had to take a slight break from posting anything here lately due to the influx of work that the end of the college year demands. However, to prove that I still exist, here are a couple of leftovers from my assignments.

My personal learning experience posts will resume in a week or two once I've gotten through the mountain of work before me :S