[Riot Art Contest] - Ziggs!

Cristina Jimenez

Hi everyone!!

This is my first post here, so please tell me if I´m doing sometyhing wrong The original Zigg´s Splash is quite old, so I thought it would be good to try to give him a rework.

Here there are some images I´ve used as reference, and the very first sketch.

Hope u like it guys!

Flaxor

It´s looking very good! Keep it up!

JoseVega

vverryyy cool..... looking forward to see this one!

Cristina Jimenez

Hey there peoples! Thanks for your encouragement! ^^ Here there are the next steps!


- Final Sketch -



- Lighting and colour references -



- Base colour -



- Quick lighting study -

Cristina Jimenez

Hey again! I´m slowly progressing! For now I´m cleaning edges and defining forms with base colour... This is the worst part of the process for me

Btw, feedbacks are always welcome! So leave a coment please! ;D

Hope u like it guyz!

JoseVega

This is looking great cristina. Not really any bad comments so far. Great progress!!!

AndyFisher

I am loving this one so far Christina. Nice work!

Lokii288

I'm very excited to see this finished. Amazing start! Are you just working in PS?

daemonstar

this is cool! great job

Cristina Jimenez

Lokii288 wrote: »

I'm very excited to see this finished. Amazing start! Are you just working in PS?

Thank you so much! and yep I´m working just with PS ^^

MissMaddyTaylor

Awesome composition! Can't wait to see more

Cristina Jimenez

Thank you everyone for the encouragement! ^^

Here there is today´s last Wip, centering on the glasses! I know that I shoud have finished the cleaning part before starting with the details.... but I couldn´t avoid to start rendering the lens *^*


See ya´ tomorrow!:3

poomkup

woww very nice

Cristina Jimenez

Hey hey hey! Here I go again! This time I have advenced a little more. The rendering have started!! >=)

Any comment so far??

Thank you for watching guyz!!^^

Lokii288

SO GREAT!!! I'M SO EXCITED

Cristina Jimenez

Next Wip is here! There is less left...Stil have to render some parts of metal and one of the gloves >.< I´m not totally satisfied with the leather texture and I don´t know what to do...I have never renderer that kind of material @_@

Any advice?

Thank u again people!^^

Lokii288

This may be my favorite one so far keep going!!

DiegoTeran

wow... coming along great!!!

viniciusbortoletto

Looking great so far. Really nice rendering. And for the leather texture that you're having trouble, study it first. Use some reference and practice, try new brushes, use blending options idk, go crazy. hahah

Cristina Jimenez

Thank u so much guys!:3


For now I have corrected the left lens, wich was smaller than the right one. I also finised the shoulder plate and added the two painted skulls on the bombs.

And the thing about the leather as well as the explosion... That´s what I´m doing right now, making some test and trying things, let see how it goes xD Wish me good luck! ;D


Hope to update more wips soon! ;D

Cristina Jimenez

Trying things, trying things... Still have to do the right glove and the foot >.<
And I´m not very happy with the sparks, I´ll do it again xD

Any comments? o_O

Thanks for watching!

viniciusbortoletto

looking great. did you tried using motion blur on the sparks?

Cristina Jimenez

viniciusbortoletto wrote: »

looking great. did you tried using motion blur on the sparks?

Thanks! And nop, I didn´t, but I have to try a few ways to do it anyway xD So I will try it, thank you^^

Flaxor

The step by step process on this is very neat!! can't wait to see it finished.

Cristina Jimenez

Well I had to rest the Illustration for a wild because I was too used to it and I couldn´t see the mistakes clearly...Today I have taken it up again and I managed to finish some things. Even though, I´m not satisfied with the backgound at all. There is something bad on the values or something, but I dont know what exactly...So I think it´s time to move this one away for a while and start a new one

Although, if u guys have any advice or suggestion it would be really helpful! ^^



Thank you so much for watching and for your comments!! Hope u like it anyway...

zzMedVeDzz

Awesome work! Need big explosion on background))

Lokii288

I may or may not want this as my desktop background O_O I also think it might be interesting to experiment with putting a big explosion in the background as well. Like his ult nuke or something. Just to see

Cristina Jimenez

Haha thank you guys!

That could be interesting I may try it just to see xD but I think that the main problem of the scene is that the backgound is totally "Eating" the character! It is keeping as much attention as Ziggs does, so the eye don´t know where to look... I don´t know if I´m explaining myselve @_@ Haha and I don´t even know very well hoy to fix that T_T Do I have to unsaturate the bg? Or maybe use cooler colors on it? Agh! Need help at this point xDD

Christouffe

I can't help you -because I'm so far behind you ^^v-, but I wanted to say that I really love what you do °0° !! It's going to be so good ^U^

Nik

I don't think the background distracts at all. You could even put a building collapsing or something fun like that back there.

If anything the ultra bright sparks on the right side of the image draw the eye off the composition. I would say darken them somehow, maybe do the same with the second bomb so that Ziggs face is the brightest and highest contrast part of the image.

...yeah both of the sparks have the highest contrast in the image and are close to the edge of the frame drawing the eye away from his face and off the composition.

other than that, awesome image and easily fixed. I think.

Mr.Nuget

I have a suggestion the bomb on his back should also be lit up. begin that in game his bomb on the back is also sparkling and every time he dies it goes off, And explodes. It would be cool to see. other than that it looks really good

Mayuki

Oh my god, this is too great!! Ziggs is one of my fav champs and I just fell in love with this painting!!! Keep rocking with this awesome work!

Lokii288

I hope you do another for this contest. I would love to see your process again!

Cristina Jimenez

Thank you so much for your comments people

Nik wrote: »

I don't think the background distracts at all. You could even put a building collapsing or something fun like that back there.

If anything the ultra bright sparks on the right side of the image draw the eye off the composition. I would say darken them somehow, maybe do the same with the second bomb so that Ziggs face is the brightest and highest contrast part of the image.

...yeah both of the sparks have the highest contrast in the image and are close to the edge of the frame drawing the eye away from his face and off the composition.

other than that, awesome image and easily fixed. I think.

Thank you so much! I never realiced about that! Maybe thats what seems strange to my eye. And as you said is really easy to fix I´ll update the changes as soon as I can. Thaks you again!!

Mr.Nuget on 11-04-2014 05:52 AM
I have a suggestion the bomb on his back should also be lit up. begin that in game his bomb on the back is also sparkling and every time he dies it goes off, And explodes. It would be cool to see. other than that it looks really good

Good suggestion! I´ll lit it up! Thanks!!

Lokii288 on 11-05-2014 02:14 AM
I hope you do another for this contest. I would love to see your process again!

I´m starting a new one with Warwick this time Here is the link:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2180499#post2180499

Cristina Jimenez

Here I go! I made some changes on the bg and on it´s colours, making them a little bit cooler so they separate more from the character. I also added some blurs to create more depth and changed the bomb´s sparks so they call less attention. I tryed to put some sparks on the rear bomb also, as someone suggested, but it was another distraction for the eye, so I decided to leave it as it is. Sorry Mr.Nuget

Well, give me your veredict people! xD How u guys see it now? Better? Thanks!!

Uhni20

I really dig the cinematic feel of the light sparks. It gives you an edge in the competition. Keep refining and adding detail to zigg's and the background. Looking foreward to seeing you progress . Also, areas of the illustration are too dark like the cast shadows from the goggles and in the trees behind him.

I think a lot of people in this competition want to do 2 illustrations, but sometimes it's better to have 1 amazing one than two that could be pushed further. Wish you luck.

Dzaka

It's really good ! But the turret in the background I find it weird ^^

Nik

Very nice, his face is definitely much more of a focal point now.

I think if you wanted too you could push the focus more towards it even by darkening other areas and lowering the contrast. Put an overlay layer or a multiply layer on top at a low opacity and draw a bit of a soft frame around the image to prevent the eye from ever leaving the inside.

A lot of LOL splash art does this (examples Veigar and Ahri) if you look at the image the further your eye moves away from the characters face the darker the image becomes. Its fun to just color pick around these images to just see how big a difference in contrast there is.

I think you could also apply this just a bit to the leg, since its not the focus, and ears, since they get very close to the frame. Now that I say that I also notice that the right ears fur touches the frame right at the point, I would push that down so that it doesn't create a tangent, or alternately extend the ear to it leaves the frame rather than intersecting right at the frames edge.

Cristina Jimenez

Thanks people!! You are really helping me a lot^^ Here you have another version with most of the changes that you told me. There are very subtle changes but they really make the diference So I leave you here both, the old and the new one so you can see the them better.


OLD



NEW

Nik

Looks great.

marcsteinmann

Looks pretty legit! Awesome work man!

anhtk07

awesome work, you're so talented.

Cristina Jimenez

Thank you guys! ^^