Sketchbook: Linda Fyen
Hi! I'm Linda Fyen, a Game Art student at The Game Assembly in Malmö, Sweden.
This is my sketchbook. Feedback is more than welcome!
Enjoy!
This is my sketchbook. Feedback is more than welcome!
Enjoy!
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To start off, I'll post a somewhat older piece. This was a study task done in the beginning of our course at school. A practice drawing of John Asaro's "Planes of the Head". Since it was a time limited task, I didn't finish the stamp on the back along with other minor details. Might finish it off properly later.
Thank you!
Further work on my toadigator. Threw some colors on it, took the concept a little further and refined some parts using the reference pictures included. Its a scavenger and thus eats dead things. When there are no dead things around, it gathers berries with its little arms. On ground, it goes flat for protection, and in water it inflates its belly to float upside down, exposing the spikes down into the water. The red belly is also a mating sign and is soft like a salamanders. Everything else is thicker and bumpier and the spikes hurt, ouch!
Now to 3D model it!
I have yet to get any further with the toad since I had trouble figuring out how to texture. Never done it before so I put the project on pause until I knew how to do it easy, quick and good. Now that I've learned more about texturing, I'll continue to finish it
Dig that Asaro study, more from a rendering point of view though. There's some big readability issues with your space-ship concepts. Before reading the description I couldn't make out what they where.
Really like the manga style face. Wanna see more of that in a refined state. The full body character is pretty nice but stagnates further down to the feet. Feet placement is very important so you'd want to look closer into that.
What will be your focus for your studies, 2d or 3d, characters or other assets?
I haven't tried my hand on spaceships since that time but will try to make them more... Spaceshipey. I have never done any mechanical things before I started on TGA but I hope to improve on them
I do agree the feet feel a bit weird, I have changed the pose of them completely as I worked a bit further with it, but I'm not sure if I have time or want to finish the image. We'll see.
I always wanted to become a character artist since I was small, but I'm not sure anymore. I am open to many possibilities right now, whether it be concepting, illustration or 3D. My focus lies on 3D right now since that's our current course at school. For now, I plan to take in as much as I can from both 2D and 3D and then see what I find most interesting so I can branch out to what I really want to do once I figure that out.
The task was to make a low-poly character for a fictional game, or that could fit in an existing game or concept for a handheld platform. I thought up a quick game concept for Nintendo DS where you play as a cute necromancer in a strategy/adventure. To get through enemies, you summon minions and customize him with different weapons and pieces of armor that boost specific stats.
We had four days in total. Our tris limit was 500 tris and a 128x128 color map with 1-bit alpha. I finished the props completely along with his model and rigg with two days to spare. I properly textured him the last day and set up some poses for him to use in my presentation.
Keep it up!
Thank you!
I really like low-poly modeling and texturing, so I'm pretty sure I will be working on more of that in the future as a personal project when I have time
Our first task was to make something technical, sketch it up and use photos to build the texture and shape. I wanted to make some kind of cute and lumpy mech. I started by dishing out the top thumbs. Some kind of tank bot, and a medic bot. The medibot is loaded with a container full of bandages. It cannons the rolls out, hits you in the head, and lowers blood pressure by knocking you out, then wraps you up and drags you off to the med tent like a spider catching a fly. It probably does more damage than good...
In the bottom ones, I simply dished out pieces of a military car to get the texture going.
Keep it up.
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Thanks! I threw them together in the last half hour so I didn't have much time to play with it. But I see what you mean. Something is lacking, and I'll try working around it next time
I'll take it to mind when working on future pieces. Thank a lot for the continuous feedback!
(And for copyright reasons, I do not own any photos used in the image. Photos (c) to the photographers and their corresponding sites.)
I get the impression this view is supposed to be pretty epic, a city placed in a vast desert landscape. A wider composition would suit this purpose better as I get the impression of tightness rather than openness.
The city needs more contrast to stand out as a focal point. The biggest contrast seems to be at the top left of the image which I feel my eye being drawn constantly, which is also empowered by the colour contrast of blue and orange.
Colour contrast is a powerful tool. Some blue on the city would make it pop instantly I think.
Nice sense of mood though. Balanced and not over the top.