Sketchbook: sybrix

sybrix

About time I made one of these! Critiques are definitely welcome here.

I landed an environment artist internship, and while I countdown the remaining weeks and quiver in nervousness and excitement, I figure it couldn't hurt to improve as much as I can to keep from getting rusty.

Right now I'm working on a small shield prop based on a concept by Artyom Vlaskin. The goal right now is to improve my painted textures.

Here's a first pass on the texture so far.

sybrix

Making progress on this...

KennyTies

Hey great start on the wood shield and congrats on the internship. My only critique is that you could make the highlights a bit stronger, other then that it is looking very promising. Keep up the awesome work!

TonyNowak

Try to sharpen up the mental a bit, look's a bit like stone. Sharp scratches and more subtle cracks should do the trick. Get some more contrast into the wood as well. Nice start.

sybrix

Thanks guys. Your crits were really helpful. You guys were right about pushing the contrast and highlights. The metal indeed was looking like stone, so I went nuts with the lights and darks. Dunno if I pushed it too far, but here's where I'm at. Added a lot more color variation and changed the orb to green which I felt fit in better with the color scheme. Also messed around with some bronze-gold metal but I was an idiot and flattened the metal textures... So the rust looks out of place with the gold and I'm not going to repaint over it. I'll stick with the silvery steel color I guess.

sybrix

Final touches



Model/UV: Approx 3 hours
Texture: Approx 8 hours

Need to get fasterrrrr!

Fenyce

Well done!

sybrix

Thanks Fenyce

Found a neat little iPad app called Sketch Club, the brushes and layers were pretty cool. Still not used to the fat stylus you have to use with it though. Made some quick little morning commute doodles with it a while back.

sybrix

Moved into my new location, got my internet hooked up, and had my first week at my new job! Decided it was time to get back to my neglected Noob Challenge 4 environment.

sybrix

Tinkered with the lighting a bit and did about 25 quick gesture studies. Chose to post the ones that weren't just incomprehensible scribbles. :P

taytahs

nicely done. really diggin' the cut marks in your elephant.

sybrix

Thank you taytahs

Some of the 90 second gestures I did today. (spent a few minutes on the horsies)

sybrix

Moar figure studies. I feel like 60-90 second gestures force me to rush too much and gloss over the form, so this time I just loaded up some poses and took my sweet time studying the pose and forms.