Hand Painted Bow

AlexKola

I've been working on this as my lunch time project for several weeks now. This bow is intended to accompany a rabbit archer whom I have modelled but haven't begun texturing yet. I wanted to get my feet wet on the bow before jumping into the full character.

I started designing, and mixing together a few ideas. Mostly just silhouettes.




I eventually combined C and D to get here...




I did a sculpt in Zbrush to get the design in 3d and then retopologized to get a low poly mesh..



This is where I'm at right now trying to paint with light sources in mind. I did a little bit of metal plate design on the fly to add scale and interest to the bow.



Getting there, Just a bit more to polypaint then I plan to finish everything up in photoshop. More to come soon.

Thanks

Eric Chadwick

Looking great so far! Could use a large gradient overlay to draw the eye to the middle of the bow. For example
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/GradientMapping

AlexKola

Eric Chadwick said:

Looking great so far! Could use a large gradient overlay to draw the eye to the middle of the bow. For example
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/GradientMapping

Thanks for this link Eric, I'll definitely do a gradient pass.

AlexKola

Here are the final shots, in the hi rez form.

Kid.in.the.Dark

This is very nice, love the outcome and the overall execution.

Here's just some adjustments I think would make it sparkle a tad bit more than it already is... literally haha.

- Add a bluish rim light from underneath
- Exaggerate the highlights a bit more to bring out/compliment the goldish metal parts
- Overall a small colour correction (this is a very subtle adjustment)



Hope that helps

AlexKola

Hey, That looks pretty good, I'll give that a try. Thanks.