Sketchbook: dii
Hey there, most of my recent work has been 2D but I'm trying to get back into doing 3D. Most of this work was done in the last six-ish months. Critique is welcome.
Aaaand a batch of Alchemy sketches, I do lots of these.
Aaaand a batch of Alchemy sketches, I do lots of these.
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These are really great, keep it up
would you mind if I modeled the chick with the dual rapiers?
@bounch, I kinda wanted the first crack at it but you can if you want as I'm planning on doing the creature knight design before it
Great job though!
Been working on this, will hopefully get reused in the future
ZacD: It seems dii modeled the head closer to the proportions of a skull, so it's a bit smaller vertically than it would be if it had muscle and skin on top. At least that's my assumption
I use loomis proportions (which is 8 heads) and it lines up pretty much perfectly with it (though the arms are apparently too short)
I'll try to shrink it down more to the 7.5 average
Quick paint from earlier today. Let me know if these images are too big :0
Made out of an alchemy sketch earlier today
First try at polypaint, some of the results when using layers were really messed up.
Composition studies
congrats
@SupRore not sure which picture you wanted, I do iterative saves of all of my work so I have complete work history for every picture (except for the hard lit black and white alchemy sketches) start to finish (in most cases...)
Picked the armor dress chick since it seems to be everyones favorite:
Not sure if it's worth mentioning but pretty much all of my work is done with a hard edged round brush with no pressure opacity and occasionally the chalk brush/texture brush for sketches and background noise.
The far left is how this picture started, I increased the canvas to do the sloppy line sketch and from there it's just a lot of figuring out details and shapes.
Not sure why that'd be a big deal :0 if you have the brush tool selected holding alt will color pick so it's not like it's slow
I also prefer my values flattened out which is why I paint in heavy opacity and color pick.
I still struggle a bit to make alchemy do exactly what i want but its probably a good thing... leads to happy accidents.
looks painful =\
If you would rather have a nice smooth gradient I'd suggest using a large soft edged brush and quickmasks (or just make a new layer and erase the spillage) to add shadows. You'll get pictures with really clean ambient shadows that way.
@jack, thanks man! I rarely ever know what I want so alchemy is perfect :x I don't usually get clear ideas, I just sprawl some shapes out and make it into something. Even with no undo and mistakes all over the place it's infinitely faster than trying to do it in photoshop just because I can block out huge portions of the canvas with black/white. Paintin with shapes, aw yeah.
In fact, could you just tell me your entire brush setup lol?
Occasionally when I'm doing loose sketches I use one of the chalk brushes (theres like 3, I pick one at random :x)
Sorry, not very interesting heh. I've had a hard time making use of nice custom brushes.
If you turn on transfer and size dynamics your full opacity strokes are always huge. Your low opacity strokes are always thin.
If you turn on transfer without size dynamics your lines are always uniform thickness which blows ass and you will have to press hard to get full value.
If you turn on size dynamics without transfer you get a variable width line with predictable color value.
Not saying you have to do it my way man. I know dudes that paint entirely with smudge, do what you want.
ArenaNet thing