Sketching Shen Style

shenious

Hello all,

I am an artist just reaching a point in my art where I am comfortable sharing some pieces and looking for critique. I have a long way to go but I am slowly working on it. I will post areas that I am trying to improve on I guess?
Anyways, here have some art.

My concept art needs a lot of work:


I made this panel of wood and haven't been able to recreate it:


Style and color studies:


And some pieces I will probably never finish because my art progresses faster than I work on them:
Street Fighter X Tekken Heihachi VS Vega


Random eastern dragon (he's holding a head of cabbage)


Sejuani from League of Legends

shenious

haha... just read the sketchbook rules after posting this apparently there's a naming convention? woops?

US Claire Force

The Shen-Long style dragon and warrior show a lot of promise. The floating island looks really neat, but it'd be more interesting if you developed the concept further. All I can really say is that it's too bad that you don't want to finish some of these- they could be some solid portfolio pieces if you finished them.

shenious

Yeah, they're still up on the worktable but I have a hard time remaining focused on digital painting unless I'm painting in 3D. I don't know what it is about painting in 3D but I can remain focused on the project for much longer than when I'm working on a flat surface. I hope to eventually get them done but that SXT pic was started a few years ago now so that should give you some ideas on how slow my 2D painting is. I am trying to speed it up and I'm getting better at it so I hope to get at least one of those pieces finished soon.

shenious

I am challenging myself to up my speed so I am seeing how far I can get on a hand painted character in 3 days.

Magihat

shenious wrote: »

I am challenging myself to up my speed so I am seeing how far I can get on a hand painted character in 3 days.

Interesting, FFIX is my all-time favorite game so I will be eagerly looking forward to the results

shenious

Magihat wrote: »

Interesting, FFIX is my all-time favorite game so I will be eagerly looking forward to the results

It's definitely my fave out of the Final Fantasy series

shenious

OK! So I lost half of my work day yesterday but I have finished the model for now. I had to cut out adding in the weapons and sheaths due to lack of time for now but here's progress!

Current poly count is just under 2k.

shenious

wires and ref.

edit: woops i see an engon on the forehead...

shenious

Between Max crashing and Zbrush crashing (I lost all of the color info except for the layer I was currently working on) this is as far as I got in 3 days. If I hadnt run into those 2 crashes I probably could have gotten done on time lol. Oh well, you live and you learn!

StephLee

were you going to finish him?

shenious

StephLee wrote: »

were you going to finish him?

Yeah, im finishing up the base texture today.

shenious

I decided to hop onto the monthly character challenge train cause this month looked interesting http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140524. I started a little late so I am going to focus on adding the finishing details to Zidane and the Soothsayer next month while I am going to focus on getting the base mesh/colors down this month. Zidane is ready for finishing details to start going on but the soothsayer is only 25% sculpted right now.

shenious

Got some progress done today since I don't go into work till later.

shenious

So yeah, it's been a while. Update. I lost my Last hard drive and most of the art on it so now I'm starting my art portfolio fresh since it wasn't very good to begin with. Currently working on a Zbrush sculpt and paint of Bulbasaur. Next I will be working on either a hand painted character or some kind or prop.

Bulbasaur progress:
about 1/2 way done with the paint. Just finishing up the base and going to be adding in all the details after that.

shenious

Didn't get much progress done so far. Today I blocked out most of the spots. They were more difficult to position than expected.

StephLee

He's looking good Shen. I'd say for the next time. You're sculpt would be easier to do and a little cleaner if you broke the claws off the body and gave them their own geo. Then you can bake them down on a low-poly. IF that's where you were going with it. Otherwise that may have been unwanted crit lol.

Just a suggestion. Looking forward to the texture work!