Sketchbook: JunkieKong

JunkieKong

Howdy all, you don't know me but I'm Patrick, a deadbeat student in Australia who has been studying game art for a little over a year now. I like to draw and I guess I can model and stuff.

I'm hoping if I start dumping all my stuff on here I can look back on it in years to come and realise how truly awful my work was. So by all means, critique to your heart's content. Teach me your ways.

Anyways, here is some of my more presentable stuff that I've done in the past year in no particular order:


This was one of my first pieces that I did on a wacom, so obviously I don't like it anymore. It's supposed to be Kane from the Kane & Lynch games.


I like Hotline Miami.



Those two were some pretty uninspired warrior concepts I made for my course.








This was a self portrait I attempted at the end of last year. I gave myself a moustache to make myself seem cooler.


After watching a lot of Deadwood I made a Swearengen.


Hipster zombie.

That's it for now. Hopefully more to come.

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Thought I'd throw in a few bad scans from my sketchbook.

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Last year I had an assignment to make a really simple handpainted dungeon, here are some screenshots from maya.


Here are some of the textures, everything was 512x512.

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Figured I'd dump some of the stuff that I'm working on for a current project; I'm part of a small team attempting to make a 3D platformer in the unreal engine and I'm the concept/texture guy.
So here are some various environment concepts:






And I'm closing in on a final design for the main character, here are the most recent but I'm thinking the chunkier, stouter one works better. Feedback is welcome.

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Instead of producing something important, I thought I'd try my hand at some foliage so I made this fern for my current project:


The texture was just a 512x512 with an alpha channel

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And I drew this guy recently:

Eoq

liking your black on white drawings dude, keep it up!

JunkieKong

cheers Eoq, I like black and white because I have no idea about colours. When I get some more time, I'll hopefully put some more stuff up

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This is a bark texture for the project I'm working on, it went through quite a few revisions before getting to this stage though. Also hard to find examples of good handpainted bark textures.

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I recently made this stone wall texture and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, the secret seems to be using a gradient to make it darker at the base. Still, I think I might go further with it and add some moss or something.

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concept for some big fat pigs

hamstocks

you have a really great, and unique style. also ur handpainted textures are really good! keep up the good work, cant wait to see more work on that game

JunkieKong

cheers hamstocks, I intend to keep posting progress on the game up here and pretty soon we will start getting things into engine so stay tuned.

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I've finished modeling the entire pig from my concept, next step is splitting it up into pig chunks to scatter about the level.

AllyAlbon

piggie is looking good so far!

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Thanks Ally, now I have gone and mutilated it into some chunks. This may get a little disturbing....

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Finally finished texturing the pig chunks so here they are. Can't help but feel I spent too much time on something that really isn't going to be very important in the game.

And here's the texture:

The real trick will be slipping this into something that is supposed to be PG-13...

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Spent a while painting some fancy titles for the game. Hope it was worth it.

Drayzers

hey im learning how to do stylized stone, metal and wood textures do you have and pointers or tips you could share?

JunkieKong

Well Drayzers, I'm definitely no expert and I'm still trying to find what works and what doesn't. I think the key is not making textures too noisy, just use higher contrast in areas to bring out certain details. Colour variation is pretty important and something I don't do enough of - I have a pretty bad grasp of colours so I literally make a colour or overlay layer in photoshop and muck around to see what works.
I also recently discovered that gradients can look really nice on things like my stone wall texture - just make an overlay layer on top of everything and use the gradient tool with something like 50% grey and a darker shade. You can also use a soft brush to lighten or darken certain areas for better control.
Often my textures will end up kind of blurry with not enough definiton so I sometimes use a cheap and nasty unsharp-mask filter as a last step.
If you haven't already, I suggest watching the Jamin Shoulet workshop videos they give you a pretty good basic foundation to work from. Also in the first vertex magazine there was a good tutorial on handpainted textures that I keep going back to.
Hope that was helpful in some way.

Gobliness

These hand painted textures are really awesome. Especially that pig, so well done and even comes apart into pieces.

Loving your sketchbook. Definitely subbing.

JunkieKong

Why thankyou, I should probably go to more effort to get stuff up here if people are actually spending the time to take a looksee at my stuff.

Gobliness

You definitely should keep posting, you have some really awesome work to show off!

DarrenFlowers

I really like your stuff man. I'm actually working on hand painted stuff i hope it turns out to be as good as yours.

JunkieKong

Thanks Darren, I only started dabbling in handpainted textures at the end of last year so you can get pretty far with enough practice and inspiration (there is some awesome stuff here on polycount). Let me know if you ever want comments/crits on your stuff.

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This is a plank texture that I'm ready to call done.

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I think this is the almost final farmer's hut that I textured (not my model, but based on my concept). At this stage I'm thinking I put more detail in the textures than necessary... Anyway, it is soon to be put in engine and colours will be finalised.




I have spent far too long on this.

Kdawg

These are quite impressive! This is exactly the kind of stuff I want to learn how to do, but I don't know where to start!
Your textures have such life even in the simplest objects!

JunkieKong

Thanks dawg, as I said in an earlier post Jamin Shoulet did a pretty good video on handpainted textures, and in the first vertex magazine there is a tutorial that I really like - that should give you the basics to get started. It helps to look at games with nice textures/style and try to emulate those. Just start with something simple - that little dungeon scene was one of the first handpainted things I did, and it was basically just a few tiling textures to make a room.

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Pine tree that I just finished up on, not thrilled with the foliage placement as is but I just don't want it looking too much like a damn christmas tree.

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So the game that I have been working on has finally seen the light of day at AVCON, a local anime and videogame convention. Despite being at an incredibly early stage and having no real gameplay, it was pretty well received which makes me think taking it further would be a good idea.

This was the final character model for the game. I didn't model it, but I textured it and it was based off of my concept (The mushroom man didn't make it in). Unfortunately I found out later that a lot of the fine details in the texture where lost in engine, because the lighting just washed everything out.


Also I threw together this poster very quickly as we left some things pretty late. The texure on the model wasn't even finished at that stage, but it turned out okay.


I'll take some in-game screenshots and put them up soon hopefully...

Also I went back a while ago and touched up some of my concepts like this one, where I did a quick paintover on some areas so it doesn't look quite as gross.

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Here are a few screenshots from some of the more interesting areas of the level. This is in UE4 by the way.

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This semester I've made it my goal to learn ZBrush, so this is the first thing that I've made with it - I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Sometime soon I plan on doing a high-poly character sculpt to a low-poly game model for a portfolio piece, so if anyone knows of any good tutes or techniques to throw my way that would be much appreciated.

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Probably should have said this earlier, but there is a facebook page where you can follow the progress of the game I've been working on here, as we do intend on taking it further and hopefully making something closer to a finished game.

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This semester is focused on portfolio development, so I really want to do a character going from a high poly sculpt to a low poly game model, maybe even rigged and animated if I have time. So this is what I have at the moment - your run-of-the-mill, giant nautical zombie. But I'm still trying to finalise the details and not sure where to head with it, so some feedback would be awesome.

Also I'm supposed to be doing an environment this semester too, so I guess I'll post some updates on that soon.

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So thought I'd post my final assignment for my course, it's just a pretty simple 1000-tri character with diffuse-only textures. It's supposed to be a serial killer themed version of myself, though needs murder instruments to complete the effect.
The body and head have separate 256 textures, and were painted mostly in photoshop then taken to mudbox for cleaning up seams.

It is based off of this concept I spent a few minutes on:

Maybe if I can be bothered I'll finish texturing the props and it would be cool to rig him for a nicer presentation. But that seems like effort.

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I'll just leave this here.

My contract on the TV show I've been working on has ended, so hopefully this means some actual portfolio pieces coming soon.... I'll finish that zombie skipper sometime, promise http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138829

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Here's a piece I recently finished:

P.S. I'm finally on Artstation so hit me up even though this is the only thing I've put up so far https://www.artstation.com/artist/junkiekong

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I'm planning on remaking the character Mumbo from Banjo-Kazooie for a competition, and to feel productive I made this preliminary concept. Not sure if the proportions are just right, but looks good enough to me.

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Getting close to finishing my mumbo character - here is the zbrush sculpt I used to retopo and bake maps from:

And here is where I am currently from painting over the bakes in 3D coat and photoshop.... any crits?

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All finished up on my Mumbo now, check it out on artstation too for the sketchfab view

I realised that this is my most legit character so far, that I've seen through to completion - so all things considered I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

BagelHero

It turned out great, man! Fantastic job.

JunkieKong

Thanks Bagel, at the least I learnt a heap by doing this - but hopefully now I'll finally get around to finishing off the skipper  (which had been put on hold)

Sketchfab

@JunkieKong : The recent Polycount update broke our integration here, but it should be fixed soon. We'll provide updates here:
http://polycount.com/discussion/160887/sketchfab-integration-on-polycount-is-broken#latest
^bart

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For some reason I had the urge to chuck this pig head into 3D coat and make a better texture, so I did. It was an enjoyable couple hours. Sketchfab viewer and texture can be found on my artstation.

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Still alive and plugging away on stuff - had plenty of time recently to make this derpy little guy. Any crits on texture would be good before I move on further. I want to push the presentation, so I even went to the effort of rigging it and the plan is to show it off with some animations and maybe a little environment in the end. We'll see.

Eric Chadwick

I love the level of detail you have going on with the pig. The forehead, nose, ears, raw meat.

It would help the dino to have that same level of texture loving.  Like along its flanks, the detail level is very flat. The spine doesn't seem to blend well with the skin, maybe the skin needs to be more puckered. Might help to question: what are the dino surface materials made of? Leather? Scales? Velvet?

Love the pig!

JunkieKong

Cheers for the feedback Eric, you're right about the skin - I wanted to keep fine details to a minimum but it makes it look like velvet or something. I'll have to find a good way of making it look more like glossy scales without it getting too noisy,

Eric Chadwick

You could try just detailing a few scales where the most essential highlights would hit.

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A very WIP first attempt at some animation on this guy. I also mucked around with adding some scales to texture, but it still needs some love.